Accounting Technology articles from June 2008

Accounting Technology archives from June 2008

Lead with Your Best.
June 1, 2008... Last year, the company realized that it was promoting its products incorrectly. Instead of advertising the least-expensive offer, it led with the most expensive. The company is a community pool, and I have been a board member for the last...

Practically Paperless.(Brief article)
June 1, 2008... Nobody really expects to eliminate all paper in a tax and accounting practice. But getting those documents turned into digital images is important. In Practically Paperless, Associate Editor Alexandra DeFelice discusses how document...

Practice Development News.(Qurius)
June 1, 2008... CAMDEN EXITS CIO JOB Matt Camden, who served as chief information officer for UHY Advisors, has switched jobs, joining Moss Adams to become director of business intelligence and enterprise solutions. Camden spent 13 years at Clifton...

Accounting News.
June 1, 2008... DELTEK EARNINGS DROP Deltek, which makes financial software for project-oriented businesses, reported net income fell to $4 million for the first quarter ended March 31, down 18 percent from $5.1 million a year earlier. Revenue rose to...

Vendors' March Quarter Shows Some Weakness.(Brief article)
June 1, 2008... March Quarter Percent Revenue Change Net income Percent Change Deltek $69.4 11 $4 million -18 percent Epicor 91 million 4.4 (7) (See Note) ...

Tax & Financial Planning News.
June 1, 2008... ORRTAX CHANGES NAME Tax software vendor Orrtax Software Solutions has adopted Intellitax, the name of its preparation software line, as the company name. The company, which named Matt Scheuing as president in September, has also...

Show Calendar.(Calendar)
June 1, 2008... JUNE 9-11 AICPA TechConference The Bellagio, Las Vegas. www.cpa2biz.com JUNE 11-13 Partners in Profit Conference, Open Systems reseller conference. Marriott City Center Minneapolis, www.osas.com JUNE 12-13 California...

Accounting Technology July Coming Attractions.
June 1, 2008... Educating Your Clients A smarter client is a better business person and better business people buy more services. How can you turn your client into someone with more to spend with your firm? Tax Software Preview Every year, tax...

Practically Paperless: Firms ease into document management systems.
June 1, 2008... A few years ago, a city water pipe broke, pouring 800,000 gallons of water into the basement of Sansiveri, Kimball & McNamee on a Saturday night, forcing John McNamees firm to freeze dry the six years worth of documents that were piled to the...

Don't Skimp on Scanning.
June 1, 2008... One of the biggest concerns people have when it comes to going paperless is the quality of scanners. After all, if staff members cannot read scanned documents, the information cannot be used. Scanners are gaining functionality,...

Tips for Paperless Success.(Brief article)
June 1, 2008... Reducing the amount of paper in a firms office takes time, and there are many lessons to be learned along the way. Here are some tips for success, and some pitfalls to avoid: * Document the firms business processes first to understand...

What's New in Document Management?
June 1, 2008... As firms develop their paperless processes, they demand more features and functionality from their document management vendors. Following are some developments: Acct1st Added an Adobe Acrobat toolbar that includes a calculator, tick...

Online Dominates CPE: But learning still involves a wide range of media.
June 1, 2008... Curt A. Bartlett, a CPA with Ajilon Consulting in Jersey City, N.J., has been using Bisk CPEasy, a division of Bisk Education, for the past three or four years to fulfill his CPE requirements. While he still prefers text-based courses, he...

CPE Moving to Streaming Video?
June 1, 2008... CPA Vern Hoven is a tax lecturer who does about 100 live seminars a year nationwide, mostly for CPA societies. While live seminars are his passion, Hoven says he found himself faced with more requests than he could accommodate so he is...

Thomson Ramps Up its Lineup.
June 1, 2008... In the last few years, Thomson Reuters, which tacked on the name Reuters from its most recent acquisition, has dramatically increased it education line. The company pulled the well-known MicroMash operations out of the former Thomson...

Low-cost Products With Punch: Less expensive accounting packages have more and more to offer.
June 1, 2008... Over the last five years, the number of accounting packages for small to midsize businesses has shrunk as products have been bought up and consolidated or just squeezed out of the market. However, the products that have remained have a lot...

Putting Data to Work: Getting information to move between job sites and construction HQs is starting to get easier.
June 1, 2008... Software may be more sophisticated and the Internet has revolutionized communication. But the needs of the construction industry are about the same as they have been for decades. The things that people want has really changed a whole lot in...

Nine KPIs for Construction Firms.
June 1, 2008... With Microsoft providing support for construction firms via its Dynamics SL package, it is also offering information on performance for the wide range of businesses that operate in the construction space. The following key performance...

Construction and Mobile Data Collection: All Hot or All Talk?
June 1, 2008... The use of mobile voice and data devices for construction job sites seems like a natural. After all, workers need to get numbers from the sites back to financial software at headquarters. Everybody is talking about it. Very few companies...

New Products.(Deacom and ImagineTime )
June 1, 2008... PEACHTREE 2009 Sage Softwares Peachtree by Sage 2009 product line features an expanded Cash Manager Tool that enables small businesses anticipate cash needs. They also can run what-if scenarios to see the impact of certain activities on...

Pervasive's Tailor-made System.(Company overview)
June 1, 2008... When companies approach Pervasive Software about becoming partners, they dont receive pamphlets outlining whats required of them or even how much margin they will receive. Thats because every relationship is tailor-made. The company...

Advertisers' Index 6/08.
June 1, 2008... Ad Appears Advertiser on page ADP Small Business Services 5 AT&T Wired 3 CCH, a Wolters Kluwer business C4 Doc.It 17 Fuji ...

Swenson Calls for Change at Sage.(Sage Software's Sue Swenson )(Interview)
June 1, 2008... Before Sue Swenson took the reins at Sage Software, she had never heard of the company. So when she gave a keynote presentation at the Insights partner conference in May, roughly a month after starting the job as president and CEO of Sage...