IRC/Multistate Personal and Corporate Income Tax Comparison Smart Charts can compare at a glance the federal and state treatments of items such as net operating losses; pass-through entities; depreciation, state and federal deductions and state and federal credits.

Microsoft ended an initiative that it appeared to torpedo from the day it hit the market by announcing that it will stop sales of Office Accounting, originally known as Small Business Accounting, on November 16. It marked yet another Microsoft failure in the low-cost financial application market and a sign that even Microsoft can't move a significant share of the market from QuickBooks. Microsoft will support the installed base for five years. Office Accounting had very little visibility in the market over the last two years.

Intuit's board of directors slashed the bonus of CEO Brad Smithby 51 percent for the year ended July 31, but more than made up for that drop with increases in stock and options awards. The result was that Smith's total compensation crept up 3.4 percent from the 2008 total. His compensation rose to $4.81 million from $4.65 million. And the compensation committee praised Smith's overall performance saying it had "determined that Mr. Smith had delivered outstanding progress toward the following longer-term goals which were established by the Committee earlier in fiscal 2009." 

CaseWare Time 2009 uses SQL database tables with users able to select from a variety of Microsoft databases to create tables. The new version also features CaseWare Time Websheet which can access the time file, enabling staff to input, view and edit their time-and-expense entries via the Internet.