Special Reports (145)
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REVIEW: Overdue Upgrade - New QuickBooks Interface
- Tuesday, 11 September 2012
- Special Reports
- Written by Kathy Yakal
If you've been involved in accounting technology for a couple of decades, you remember what a pleasure QuickBooks was to use at first. That graphical flowchart on the home page. Those pretty icons. That uniform look and simplicity.
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REVIEW: CRM Software 2012
- Thursday, 16 August 2012
- Special Reports
- Written by Dave McClure
Customer relationship management software has never been more critical for accounting firms - and never more confusing. Literally dozens of solutions are available in the marketplace, at price points that range from a hundred dollars to many thousands. And yet, most are useless for accounting firms because their focus is less on relationship management than on sales force automation. Read more...
REVIEW: Client Write-Up Software
- Tuesday, 24 July 2012
- Special Reports
- Written by Dave McClure
REVIEW: Nonprofit Accounting Software
- Wednesday, 27 June 2012
- Special Reports
- Written by John Hedtke
The market for fund accounting software for not-for-profit organizations is considerably smaller than the market for commercial accounting software, but it is no less varied. Unlike standard commercial accounting, fund accounting lets you identify and separate your financial resources in separate funds. This lets you track the source and the use of the funds.
Read more...REVIEW: Payroll Systems 2012
- Wednesday, 13 June 2012
- Special Reports
- Written by Dave McClure
It is becoming harder to find payroll systems for accountants that are not based either online or in a service bureau. The reasons for this are obvious, in terms of efficiency and costs. Still, there are situations in which it may make more sense for an accounting firm to have a desktop-based payroll solution with which to serve clients.
Read more...REVIEW: Document Management Software
- Wednesday, 06 June 2012
- Special Reports
- Written by John Hedtke
If your firm hasn't moved to a document management system (DMS), it may be time to do so. DMSs are increasingly affordable and practical even for the smallest accounting firms. A DMS lets you go "paperless," or as paperless as anything is. The system stores documents-records, accounting files, tax returns and reports-and then helps manage their access and distribution on a centralized online system. A DMS makes your documents compact and instantly accessible, which saves you time and effort.
REVIEW: Sage 50 and Sage One
- Saturday, 26 May 2012
- Special Reports
- Written by Kathy Yakal
Sage may not have added much functionality to its small business desktop accounting software this year, but it's changed the product names and expanded its line of solutions. All of the company's small business applications now go under the name Sage 50-US (Simply Accounting is Sage 50-Canada). The old lineup stays the same, but it now ranges from Sage 50 First Accounting 2013 through Sage 50 Quantum Accounting 2013.
REVIEW: Online Payroll Software
- Tuesday, 22 May 2012
- Special Reports
- Written by Dave McClure
A dozen years after the first SaaS versions of payroll software were introduced, it is no longer a question of why you would use them, but rather why any accounting practice would not. Hey: Fast, scalable and designed to meet the needs of accounting professionals and their clients in a mobile world, online payroll has four primary advantages over desktop versions of the same software system:
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REVIEW: Workflow Software
- Wednesday, 09 May 2012
- Special Reports
- Written by Julie Lepper, EA
REVIEW: Scanners and Rules for Picking Them
- Tuesday, 24 April 2012
- Special Reports
- Written by Dave McClure
At the dawn of office automation some 20 years ago, scanners arose as an essential office business tool to help transition paper files into digital formats. Large, expensive and taking up an inordinate amount of desk space, the scanner was an investment for the office that sometimes exceeded what was spent on a computer and printer. Not so today.
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