Accounting Technology articles from December 2008

Accounting Technology archives from December 2008

Workflow a Different Way.(Editor's Note)
December 1, 2008... Byline: Robert W A funny thing happened on the way to workflow tools in the Thomson Reuters CS Professional Suite. CS Engagement, which has been primarily a application for audits, turned into the tax and accounting unit's best-selling...

Choosing Pacesetters.(Features)
December 1, 2008... Byline: Robert W. Scott How are the 100 Pacesetters selected? The goal of Pacesetters is to honor firms of quality that carry accounting software as the central part of their product line regardless of the size of the firm. Some...

Tough Times for Even Top Guys.(Features)
December 1, 2008... Byline: Robert W. Scott Business is getting tougher, even for the cream of the reseller crop. Consider, IBIS, a Microsoft Dynamics reseller that was Microsoft's Partner of the Year for 2007. "We're surviving and we're profitable and...

NFPs Need Accountability; Tough times mean nonprofits need better controls.(Features: Software Review)(Company overview)
December 1, 2008... Byline: Wayne Schulz Accountability will be the buzzword (and goal) for most organizations over the next several years. The worldwide slowdown in economies means each dollar earned not only must go farther, but it must be properly spent...

A Good Outlook on Outlook; Making applications resemble the Microsoft standard pays.(Features)(Company overview)
December 1, 2008... Byline: Antoinette Alexander The key to a well functioning practice is having software systems that are integrated for an efficient workflow process, according to M. Darren Root, president of Root Associates And essential to that is...

SMBs Can Profit from Outlookability.(Features)
December 1, 2008... Byline: Antoinette Alexander Large firms with robust ERP or CRM solutions aren't the only professionals who can bolster productivity through enhanced Outlook integration. As Intuit has recognized, small businesses using QuickBooks also...

New Products.(Adaptive Planning Kit)(Morningstar Principia ETF)(Quantrix Financial Modeling)
December 1, 2008... Adaptive Planning Kit Adaptive Planning's Recession Survival Kit gives companies tools to evaluate strategic and tactical actions and their overall cash impact. The tools can capture collaborative inputs from company managers to...

CCH Showcases Sales Tax Suite.(Channels)(CCH Inc.)
December 1, 2008... Byline: Alexandra DeFelice CCH spent nearly a century selling direct only. But two years ago, the vendor decided to turn things around with a 100 percent indirect model for its sales tax application suite - CorpSystem Sales Tax Solutions....

Peter Sheahan Demystifies Gen Y.(Executive Spotlight)(CCH Inc.)
December 1, 2008... Byline: Alexandra DeFelice When Peter Sheahan took the stage at CCH's user conference this fall, he knew many of the Boomer accountants in the audience were going to flat-out hate him. Fresh out of high school in 1998, Sheehan started...

Actions for Tough Times.(Editor's Note)(Brief article)
December 1, 2008... Byline: Robert W. Scott The economy has become the story of 2008: of politics, of business, of consumer financial planning. So what's happening with those who sell technology products and services? In "Tough Sell," senior editor...

Show Calendar.
December 1, 2008... DECEMBER 3-5 Tax & Tech Update 2008, SourceMedia. Bally's Las Vegas. www.sourcemediaconferences.com/TAX08/ DECEMBER 7-9 2008 ITA Fall Collaborative Westin Kierland Resort & Spa, Scottsdale, Ariz. www.italliance.com ...

Accounting Technology January/February Coming Attractions.
December 1, 2008... Specialized Accounting The message from companies selling general ledger accounting packages has been for resellers to go vertical. But there are also vertically focused companies in the market. Handling Your Clients' Technology Needs...

Practice Development News.
December 1, 2008... Henry & Horne Joins Facebook Henry & Horne, a Phoenix area CPA firm, has created a group page and a business page on Facebook. The group page provides information about obtaining a job at Henry & Horne, areas to ask questions and start...

Accounting News.
December 1, 2008... NetSuite Loss Widens The loss for NetSuite, which markets online applications, increased to $6.2 million for the third quarter ended Sept. 30, up sharply from the $1.7 million it lost in last year's corresponding period. The loss rose...

Tax & Financial Planning News.
December 1, 2008... CCH Buys IntelliTax CCH Small Firm Services has acquired IntelliTax, the Bellevue, Wash,-based tax software company formerly known as Orrtax. Terms were not disclosed. CCH will discontinue the IntelliTax line and is offering its users...

Tough Sell; Technology consultants find creative ways to survive the economic downturn.(Cover Story)(Company overview)
December 1, 2008... Byline: Alexandra DeFelice Steven Birdwell started to worry this summer when things got so bad for his Los Angeles-area reselling company he thought everyone was on vacation. Some of Incortech's clients that typically spend $30,000 to...

The 2008 Pacesetters.(Features)
December 1, 2008... Byline: Robert W. Scott From the year 2000 on, when the Sage Group turned the company that had been State of the Art into Sage Software and Great Plains acquired the former Solomon Software, the number of financial software vendors...