Accounting Technology articles from March 2007

Accounting Technology archives from March 2007

The Invasion of the Hand-helds.(personal digital assistants)(Editorial)
March 1, 2007... I've learned a lot about Jennifer. Her wireless carrier is after her for past-due bills. A local police force wants her for leaving the scene of an accident. Her pharmacy has a prescription she hasn't picked up. A collection agency is trying to...

Budgeting for IT.(accounting services)(Brief article)
March 1, 2007... How much to spend on technology has been a subject of debate, discussion, theories, and a lot of angst. But budgeting for IT has gotten tougher as telephones have become part of the budget in many areas, as so many things have a computer...

Street Talk: Reader Views.(data security devices and software)
March 1, 2007... What is the most effective technology security measure-whether software, hardware, or policy-that your organization has implemented in the last year? We recently established a policy to have all laptops and workstations audited monthly to...

Practice Development News.
March 1, 2007... PLANTE MORAN BUYS TECH FIRM Plante Moran, the Southfield, Mich.-based accounting firm, has acquired Innovate Technology Consulting, which designs and manages technology projects for educational entities, libraries, and municipalities. ...

Accounting News.
March 1, 2007... SAGE NAMES R&D VP Sage Software has chosen a former Oracle manager, Alok Tyagi, as vice president of research and development for its mid-market accounting software lines. Tyagi is responsible for the MAS, BusinessWorks, and PFW...

Tax & Financial Planning News.
March 1, 2007... SABBATIS GETS NEW CCH POST Mike Sabbatis, a CCH executive, has been promoted to the newly created position of president, CCH tax and accounting, U.S. Sabbatis and the presidents of CCH Asia/Pacific, CCH Canada, and CCH Small Firm...

Show Calendar.
March 1, 2007... March 2-4 AccuFund Annual Reseller Meeting, Coronado Springs Resort, Orlando, Fla. March 3-6 Synergy 2007. AccountMate reseller conference, Embassy Suites in South San Francisco. www.accountmate.com March 11-14 Engage...

Accounting Technology April's Coming Attractions.
March 1, 2007... STATE OF THE VAR MARKET Whether big is better remains to be proven, as consolidation is creating a channel with larger players. VAR 100 Accounting Technology ranks accounting software reselling firms in a contest where size is the...

Paying for IT: If the kitchen sink plugs in, it belongs in the IT budget.
March 1, 2007... It used to be relatively simple for people like Jeff Hapeman to list what ought to be in a technology budget: computers, printers, software, some assorted peripherals, and networking. Now, with the advent of Voice over Internet Protocol...

Andersen: IT Budgets Are for Small Fry, Too.
March 1, 2007... While small firms may not have to worry about which department bears the cost of budgeting for different kinds of technology, they still have to worry about the impact of IT spending on their operations. That's because the purchase of one...

The Boomer Formula.
March 1, 2007... In some ways, Gary Boomer defined the process for determining what accounting firms should spend on technology and how they should pay for it. More than 15 years ago, Boomer made a name for himself talking about what successful firms were...

In Search of Document Management: Applications are bringing the goal closer.(Product/service evaluation)
March 1, 2007... It has failed to materialize so often that the "paperless office" achieved the kind of stature usually reserved for the Lost City of El Dorado or the Holy Grail. Yet in the last two years, a quiet revolution has taken place in the field of...

Accounts Together: Aggregation lives! But in a more limited role.(Editorial)
March 1, 2007... In the late 1990s, account aggregation was all the rage as it promised to revolutionize the way consumers managed their finances online and the way their financial advisors collected the data needed to create a holistic view of an investor's...

A More Limited Role for Aggregation.
March 1, 2007... Account aggregation didn't catch fire years ago, as many expected, but some advisors do still see value in such a service-they are just more selective when it comes to the clients they serve. When it comes to account aggregation today, many...

XBRL Grows Up: The reporting language has made global strides, but the waiting game continues.(Extensible Business Reporting Language)(Editorial)
March 1, 2007... Every technology goes through a "hype cycle," which shoots up to a peak of inflated expectations, drops down to a trough of disillusionment, climbs the slope of enlightenment, and ultimately reaches a plateau of productivity. That's a...

XBRL Roster: The Players.
March 1, 2007... A growing number of companies are offering XBRL-enabled applications, many these enterprise-level products primarily aimed at helping public companies with financial reporting. Several work with that corporate favorite, Microsoft Excel. ...

A Business Reporting Glossary.(technical terminology)(Glossary)
March 1, 2007... The terminology associated with eXtensible Business Reporting Language is a combination of computer and financial expressions. XBRL itself describes a way for companies to electronically communicate business and financial information in a...

New Products.(accounting software and document management software)(Buyers guide)
March 1, 2007... CASEWARE TIME CaseWare Time 2006 integrates with Working Papers 2006 Engagement Properties (formerly called the Client Profile) with two new fields, Client and Project, added to integrate a Time Project to the engagement file. ...

XBRL's Father Sees a Long Road Ahead.
March 1, 2007... Nearly a decade ago, a Tacoma, Wash., CPA named Charles Hoffman, conceived the idea of an XML-based extensible business reporting language. He introduced it to the American Institute of CPAs, which ultimately voted to fund the effort and...

Cyma Swaps Size for Personal Attention.(CYMA Systems Inc.)(Company overview)
March 1, 2007... When resellers want personal attention, larger vendors don't tend to make the short list. Smaller companies like Cyma Systems, which has provided accounting software for 25 years and only has 20 employees, stand out. Many of Cyma's 81...

Advertisers' Index 3/07.
March 1, 2007... Ad Appears Advertiser on page CCH, a Wolters Kluwer business SR7, C4 CYMA Systems, Inc. 27 Drake Software 5 Fujitsu ...