Accounting Technology articles from November 2008

Accounting Technology archives from November 2008

Good Times Ahead?(Editor's Note)(trends in accounting services)
November 1, 2008... Byline: Robert W. Scott Years ago, a wise man said that the tax and accounting profession is counter-cyclical. The wise man was Rick Telberg, editor of Accounting Technology when it was a relative upstart and considered a rabble...

HKMP Plays with the Heavy Weights.(Cover Story)
November 1, 2008... Byline: Robert W. Scott Large firms have different needs just by virtue of being large and serving larger clients. And accounting firm HKMP, based in Manhattan, N.Y., plays the work flow game with a different set of tools. On the other...

Stocks for Managing Portfolios; In tough times, software can help stretch out holdings.(Features: Software Review)
November 1, 2008... Byline: Dave McClure For most Americans, the federal bailout of the banking industry over bad mortgage loans was the end of a long and stressful financial crisis. For accountants, it was only the beginning. From this point forward,...

Time to Plan the Taxes; Uncertainty makes tax planning software even more useful.(Features)(Company overview)
November 1, 2008... Byline: Antoinette Alexander Michael Deutsch, president of Michael S. Deutsch & Associates in Walworth, Wis., a longtime user of Intuit's Lacerte Tax Planner, views tax planning as a tremendous revenue opportunity for tax professionals....

Opt In; Opt Out Tax Planning.(Features)
November 1, 2008... Byline: Antoinette Alexander Those tax professionals who are looking to bolster their tax planning service may want to consider how best to approach it-on an "opt-in" or an "opt-out" basis-suggests Jorge Olavarrieta, group product manager...

Digesting SALT; Resources abound to help clients make sense of state and local tax.(Features)
November 1, 2008... Byline: Alexandra DeFelice When state auditors called Brian Terrell wanting to see his firm's books, he thought he had nothing to hide. "There's absolutely no reason I should have stood out. We were small, maybe $400,000 in revenue, I...

Compliance Checkup.(Features)
November 1, 2008... Byline: Alexandra DeFelice Sales tax compliance is a tricky business and a bulk of firms may never hear their clients utter the phrase until they are audited. Software vendor SpeedTax has put together a free CPA Questionnaire online...

New Products.(AccuCount Inventory Management)(Artsyl Document Capture)(UBCC Payroll and Write-up)
November 1, 2008... AccuCount Inventory Management Attitude POSitive's AccuCount inventory management software enables retailers to receive items from vendors and quickly compare physical counts with the quantity on hand as shown in their existing accounting...

MISys Means Manufacturing.(Channels)
November 1, 2008... Byline: Alexandra DeFelice Manufacturing matters above all else to MISys, founded in the early 1980s as Manufacturing Information Systems. MISys formed as a vertical application designed to work hand in hand with Sage's Accpac ERP...

Account Aggregation Panel Weighs Benefits.(On The Scene)
November 1, 2008... Byline: Alexandra DeFelice Let's face it, clients forget things. They forget to turn in documents. They forget their account numbers. Sometimes they even forget about bank accounts they opened eons ago in cities far, far away. ...

Hands Off.(Editor's Note)
November 1, 2008... Byline: Robert W. Scott Technically, workflow software is aimed at providing a clear path for the route documents take through the office. But since they are making their way electronically, it's also about removing the need to actually...

Show Calendar.(Calendar)
November 1, 2008... NOVEMBER 5-8. Thomson (Creative Solutions users), Gaylord Texan Resort and Convention Center, Grapevine, Texas. http://cs.thomson.com/uc/ NOVEMBER 9-12 Sabrix User Group Conference, Sonoma, Calif. www.sabrix.com ...

Accounting Technology December Coming Attractions.
November 1, 2008... A Tough Sell? It's too early to predict the impact of economic woes on the technology market. But it's got to be getting tougher to sell products and services. This story looks at ways to fight the economic current. Pacesetters 2008...

Practice Development News.
November 1, 2008... BLytheco Tops Sage Again Blytheco, a Sage Software reseller based in Laguna Hills, Calif. that has grown rapidly through acquisition, has been named the top Sage reseller for yet another time. Blytheco, headed by Steve Blythe, was also...

Accounting News.
November 1, 2008... Fund Bids for Epicor Elliott Associates, a major shareholder, has launched a tender offer to buy all share of Irvine, Calif.-based Epicor Software for $529 million. Epicor's board rejected a $9.50 per share offer from Elliott, which...

Tax & Financial Planning News.
November 1, 2008... CCH Readies New Research Tool CCH is preparing to launch a new research platform called IntelliConnect, which is designed to work with the company's tax and accounting research systems, which are currently separate. CCH President Mike...

Hands Off; Workflow software doesn't just turn documents into images, it takes professionals out of the paper handling business.(Cover Story)
November 1, 2008... Byline: Robert W. Scott Barry Picker has a clear idea about what workflow products are supposed to accomplish in his firm's tax office. "The goal is to do as little possible with the keyboard when you are working with a tax return,"...

Workflow: Savings by the Clock.(Cover Story)
November 1, 2008... Byline: Robert W. Scott Mathew Patrick has a pretty good idea what using GruntWorx during the past tax season has done for his firm. His Cordorva, Tenn.-based firm was about half-way into the last filing season when it decided to...