July 1, 2009
2009 Review of eTEK International Inc. — eTEK for Microsoft Office
800-888-6894 or 303-488-3499www.etek.net
July 1, 2009
Sage — Peachtree Premium Accounting For Construction 2010
800-544-8900www.peachtree.com
June 23, 2009
Online Professional Tax Prep… Is it time, yet?
In the upcoming July issue of The CPA Technology Advisor, I’ve written a column that discusses why few tax and accounting professionals are using an online tax preparation system for their client returns. Considering how popular online tax prep is for do-it-yourselfers, I think it’s a curious situation. Some might blame it on the old...…
June 10, 2009
New Tax Vendor for the Professional Market? No.
A few weeks ago, I posted an article here about the possibility of a new professional tax prep vendor coming to the market (www.cpatechviews.com/2009/04/is-a-new-tax-vendor-coming-to-town). That was after I discovered that CLI, Inc., a long-time vendor of practice management systems for accounting firms, had become the U.S. distributor of the APS suite of professional products. The...…
June 2, 2009
Intuit Acquiring PayCycle
Intuit has reached an agreement to acquire PayCycle for $170 million. The company will be integrated into Intuit’s Payroll division. PayCycle’s simple-but-thorough online payroll compliance system, geared generally toward smaller small businesses (although they claim to be able to support up to 150 employees). The system offers automated reminders on federal and state tax payments...…
June 2, 2009
2009 Innovation Award Winners Announced!
Hey, CPATechViews followers… the 2009 Tax & Accounting Technology Innovation Awards were just announced at the California Accounting and Business Show & Conference in Los Angeles on Monday evening. We Tweeted the results live during the presentation ceremony (www.Twitter.com/cpatechadvisor). This year’s winners are Bill.com for its self-branded online payables management system; Capital Confirmation, Inc. for...…
May 22, 2009
What Web 2.0, SaaS and Cloud Computing Mean for Tax & Accounting Professionals
Imagine a world with no computers. We might be there again someday soon, but not in the 1850s pastoral sense of “no computers.” Instead, more along the line that we won’t need boxes near or around our desks to perform all of the tasks that we currently rely on such boxes to do. With the...…
April 25, 2009
Is a new tax vendor coming to town?
A couple of weeks ago, I received a press release from Commercial Logic, Inc., a company that’s been around the accounting space since 1981, mostly offering practice management systems and such. The gist of the announcement is that they’ve partnered with Advanced Professional Solutions (APS), which apparently has had a strong user base in the...…
April 16, 2009
Welcome to CPATechViews.com
Welcome to CPATechViews.com, a blog covering technologies that affect tax and accounting professionals. CPATechViews.com features posts by practicing professionals, technology consultants and the editorial staff of The CPA Technology Advisor, the profession’s most trusted source for technology information. While this is the first blog entry for CPATechViews.com, The CPA Technology Advisor has long enjoyed a...…
Contributors
Amy Vetter
CPA, CITP, CGMA
Becky Livingston
Accounting & AI Marketing Consultant
Brian Tankersley
CPA, CITP, CGMA
Garrett Wagner
CPA, CITP, CEO and Founder of C3 Evolution Group
Jim Boomer
CPA, CITP, CEO
Ken Berry, JD
CPA Practice Advisor Tax Correspondent
Kristy Short, Ed.D.
Accounting Content Specialist
Mary Girsch-Bock
Contributing Writer
Randy Johnston
MCS, MCP
Roman Kepczyk
CPA, CITP, CGMA
