The American Institute of CPAs plans to replace its annual Top Ten Technologies list with two lists, one for CPAs in public practice, and the other for accountants industry, according to the chair of the task force that has decided on the change. However, Chairman Ron Box said the committee immediately plans to work on the 2011 list so that this year's delay in publishing the list won't be repeated.

CBIZ has decided that it can't make enough money in its technology business and will wind down the operations over the next six months as client projects are completed. The company has concluded that after two money-losing years, it can't effectively compete and generate a profit it can live with. The decision that it has effectively exited the business at the end of 2009 was announced this week during the Webcast of the company's fourth-quarter financial results.

Version 3.09 of the AccuFund Accounting Suite adds General Ledger Allocations and email capabilities to the Financial and Standard Report Writers while the Client Accounting module now includes Client Invoicing. The enhancements to the report writers mean users emailing reports directly from the system can break out a selected page or pages and automatically distribute them via email to selected recipients.

Competitors H&R Block and Jackson Hewitt Tax Services will experience declines in number of tax returns prepared in the 2010 tax season, with the latter tax preparation facing challenges because of its inability to get full funding for its Refund Anticipation Loan program, John Hewitt, CEO of Liberty Tax, predicted this week. Hewitt also said that mom-and-pop stores, which have been grabbing market share "for most of the Twenty-First Century" would at least break even this year.