Stories Collection

  1. Pat Lavine will go a long distance for a nonprofit deal-to the other side of the worl...
  2. 10-K Lookup CCH, a provider of tax and accounting software and services, has, via a ...
  3. Internet-based applications and the words application service provider have a bad sou...
  4. Skakopee, Minn.-based Open Systems has teamed up with its 22 not-for-profit partners ...
  5. Business Performance Management Cartesis has unveiled its ES Magnitude, a leading-e...
  6. Although Ryan McCowan had been using portals to let clients access information for so...
  7. PowerAdvisor Cornerstone Revolutions' PowerAdvisor, built on PowerBroker's audit/co...
  8. Many female clients may be caught up in what I call 'the cheesecake syndrome,'" says ...
  9. What if all you had to do was think and work got done? No more typing, no more 10-key...
  10. It is hard not to be exposed to the phrase Wi-Fi when Wi-Fi hot spots-places where a ...
  11. The end-point of gathering financial data and organizing it is to make sense of the n...
  12. Wealth management is a term that has become as common a branding statement for financ...
  13. Even though Interdyn AKA has been growing, the company has not hired a consultant sin...
  14. Defining an accounting software VAR is as much a part of the process of compiling a l...
  15. Even though Stan Kania prizes a relaxed work environment in which all employees have ...
  16. In many ways, there is nothing new about the requirements that Sarbanes-Oxley imposes...
  17. After being let go after six months as a comptroller for a small ambulance company Jo...
  18. In the 1980s and early 1990s, there was a category of business called computer specia...
  19. Forrest Koch left public accounting behind in 1995,when he left a firm in San Jose, C...
  20. Wi-Fi, the wireless communication technology, is popular. Sit down in coffee shop or ...
  21. When clients of Gordon J. Wiber visit him annually for tax preparation, audits, and f...
  22. Back to the Web Remember Internet-based applications and how they were going to cha...
  23. The electronic components available today to help organizations migrate to knowledge ...
  24. In another lifetime, I once met Lawrence Berra, affectionately known as Yogi. Of cour...
  25. Ray Tetlow liked the way NetSuite's online applications ran his business so much, he ...
  26. GRANT SELLS IT GROUP Grant Thornton has sold its Application Software Group, which ...
  27. Using the power and speed of the Internet to your competitive advantage is no longer ...
  28. TER BUSH MOVES TO LEXISNEXIS Charles Ter Bush, an industry veteran who has been pre...
  29. June 15-17 Florida Accounting & Business Show 2005. Florida Institute of CPAs. ...
  30. With tax season over, the planning season has begun. Gaze into the crystal ball and s...
  31. The dominant forces that will shape the accounting firm of the future are already upo...
  32. Whether he is on the beach or coaching a baseball game, James Bourke will always answ...
  33. Gene Marks has no doubts that he could be a lot more successful and make a lot more m...
  34. What computing innovations will the accounting firm of the future use? How will they ...
  35. Some vendors that market analytical software are relying heavily on their customers t...
  36. The accounting firm of the future will be a blend of two or three professional specia...
  37. Technology makes it possible to do work from anywhere. So how are accounting firms us...
  38. One of the big buzz words in accounting circles today is outsourcing. Anything that c...
  39. Scott Swarts guarantees tax savings for his customers by uncovering assets they didn'...
  40. TENDIGITS WIRELESS CRM TenDigits Software's Mobile Access gives Blackberry users im...
  41. Mike Silver has the opportunity to serve a diverse customer base in the Chicago regio...
  42. Most companies look at the initial costs associated with an inventory service and sof...
  43. Fears about the lack of security of wireless technologies and other mobile technologi...
  44. The elegantly ambiguous phrase, "May you live in interesting times," certainly applie...
  45. A key question for the firm of the future will be how best to leverage technology to ...
  46. Fixed Assets software represents only 10 percent of John Francis' business. But wit...
  47. The biggest issue with Sarbanes-Oxley regulations when it comes to accounting softwar...
  48. Our challenge was how to securely interconnect 52 locations in seven countries to imp...
  49. TAD Accounting in 2005 is not the same business that we were in 2000. In 2000, we saw...
  50. AccuFund entices resellers with the leeway to sell its accounting software and module...
  51. Faster, sooner, better, more. The Internet gives consumers a rising benchmark by whic...
  52. Kevin Stroud decided it was a good idea to be near the Chamber of Commerce and the Ec...
  53. Each year, we are introduced to many tools that make our job easier. And who can comp...
  54. Robinson Grimes isn't just using wireless systems to run its own business. It is offe...
  55. The accounting software market is full of big companies trying to get larger. Avayle ...
  56. It's surprising. Although most accountants earn their livelihood by analyzing histori...
  57. The average firm of the future will look like the average firm of the present. It wil...
  58. Despite the current surge in accounting majors at universities, the supply of account...
  59. Paperless is here, except it isn't. What's causing the hold-up? Costs, for one thing....
  60. Perhaps the most important thing to Jan Goodman in growing her business at Forepoint'...
  61. The requirements of Sarbanes-Oxley span a wide range of financial systems, informatio...
  62. No, I am not on drugs or anything else for that matter. In this era of post-Enron, Wo...
  63. Capital Business Solutions has a simple rule for serving not-for-profits and governme...
  64. I don't claim to be a futurist, but feel my following predictions have a better than ...
  65. Vancouver, B.C.-based TenDigits saw an opportunity for CRM to exist on handhelds and ...
  66. A recent Microsoft survey found that lack of team communication and ineffective meeti...
  67. For years, LexisNexis has been selling data culled from numerous information sources ...
  68. For the past 19 years, I have been in the business of helping accountants grow their ...
  69. Is paying for training worth the effort? Gary Boomer says that the gains that stem fr...
  70. Becoming a member of Wind2 Software's channels program is on par with joining a priva...
  71. CSI REBRANDS Creative Solutions has begun rebranding its tax and accounting softwar...
  72. Small manufacturers are hurting, says David Bilbrey, "Their inventory is not under co...
  73. Sarbanes/Oxley reforms have upended a formerly predictable cosmos. Today, significant...
  74. Microsoft's Office Small Business Accounting (scheduled for release late in 2005) is ...
  75. Payroll is no longer something to fear or loathe as a CPA professional. In fact, payr...
  76. New hires at Capital Business Solutions have to study Government 101 - and not-for-pr...
  77. CPA firms that devote time, money, and resources to one-shot marketing campaigns ofte...
  78. The pie chart in the 2004 Wolters Kluwer annual report should not surprise anybody. T...
  79. A large hedge fund company found that as its assets under management grew, it became ...
  80. The words Intuit, QuickBooks ProAdvisor, and manufacturing software haven't been asso...
  81. Peyton Burch considers the rigorous training he received while at a Big Eight firm as...
  82. CPA firms are starting to embrace marketing as a vital component for driving growth. ...
  83. I started my career as an attorney at a large law firm, and almost a decade later, I ...
  84. AICPA OPENS IT SITE The American Institution of CPAs has established an Information...
  85. FUNDRAISING GT PRO The address maintenance tool in GT Pro 4.0 verifies an address a...
  86. I'm old enough to have known Groucho Marx who passed away at the age of 87 in 1977. H...
  87. Have you noticed a slump in your sales? Are you having trouble establishing your new ...
  88. To implement an effective training program, firms must go beyond simply establishing ...
  89. For vendors of tax research tools it's all about selling their products' content, pri...
  90. It is absolutely true that all businesses, including professional service firms, need...
  91. BLYTHECO GOES NATIONAL Blytheco, one of Best Software's largest resellers, has open...
  92. Revenue for Tectura exploded last year with its purchase of several accounting softwa...
  93. A study conducted by Decipher for Intuit predicts the construction industry will cont...
  94. As the confluence of regulatory, technological and financial factors continues to evo...
  95. Things have changed in the last year since Accounting Technology published its first ...
  96. Those new fangled, integrated, full-of-bells-and-whistles wealth management packages ...
  97. What does it take to be a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional? Outside of the extens...
  98. According to the Money Management Institute, the separately managed account industry ...
  99. DOLLAR HURTS EXACT TOTALS Revenue for Exact Software's North American operations ro...
  100. Web-based accounting software didn't used to be amazing stuff-but it's getting to be ...
  101. A rebounding economy throughout the year, both at the national and regional levels, h...
  102. Paper could be cluttering, confusing, and costing your business more than you think, ...
  103. INTUIT TAX REVS DROP Revenue for Intuit's professional tax operations, primarily sa...
  104. For those readers who have been with us since the beginning, believe it or not, this ...
  105. MyStockOption.com has built online calculators and portfolio-tracker for employees wh...
  106. Defining an accounting software VAR is as much a part of the process of compiling a l...
  107. NetSuite ERP NetSuite has introduced revenue recognition, allocations, advanced bud...
  108. Inviting your clients to consider a gifting program means more than generating additi...
  109. Most sporting events, or other forms of competition (e.g., a chess match, a game of c...
  110. The numbers tell the Tectura story. By 2007, CEO Terry Petrzelka plans that the compa...
  111. After years of preaching the need for firms to understand how much they are spending ...
  112. * American Express Tax & Business Services: In August, unveiled three-office Private ...
  113. Bernard M. Kiely is the founder and owner of Kiely Capital Management, Inc. in Morris...
  114. With Tectura outstripping the growth of all other resellers as it buys other VARs and...
  115. Membership in the Top 100 is a fluid thing - a good year, a bad one, a small merger, ...
  116. April 4-5 Information Technology Alliance Spring Members Meeting. The Peninsula, ...
  117. Low-interest rates have fueled a construction boom for several years, especially for ...
  118. Donald Duncan says he can create a comparable financial plan and portfolio management...
  119. Softrak Systems has spent most of the last 20 years living off a product from another...
  120. A lack of enthusiasm for domestic investments in the current economic situation may f...
  121. Finding qualified people has not been an easy process at reasonable salaries, but we ...
  122. My first job out of college was working as an assistant to a very powerful literary a...
  123. Tiburon Strategic Advisors, a market research and strategy-consulting firm based in T...
  124. Brian Delphia agrees that there is a lot of opportunity to computerize HR departments...
  125. Office Tools Pro 2005 Office Tools Pro, a practice management package, incorporates...
  126. The majority of D-Liteful Baking Company's rank-and-file employees speak Spanish, whe...
  127. Post offices, grocery stores and retail giant Home Depot offer self-service checkout....
  128. For my practice, I am trying out document management again. I think it has come of ag...
  129. Document management systems are moving into the mainstream. In the sci-fi thriller ...
  130. It's been said many times, but it's still true, going vertical is a way to profits. a...
  131. MYOB, best known for its presence in the Mac accounting market, is hitting the street...
  132. Just a couple of years ago, it looked like the write-up market was going to turn into...
  133. The Web page for CBiz Technologies, an arm of Century Business Solutions, proudly pro...
  134. Carol Ann Barnaby baffles her competition. "When serving a niche, it's important to...
  135. JMT Consulting has gone through explosive growth over the past three months, keeping ...
  136. Dave Ligotti serves up accounting functions ranging from payroll and payables to fina...
  137. Best Software is joining the bandwagon of companies that let accountants offer payrol...
  138. Some 40 years ago, Yogi Berra was appointed manager of the New York Yankees. A young ...
  139. In my two decades of working as a financial advisor, I have read and written countles...
  140. 1st Global Dallas, Tex. In 2004, 1st Global achieved record revenue and received a ...
  141. Newkirk has made available two Retirement Payout Estimators, one in a slide and the o...
  142. What's in store for 2005? Accounting Technology turned to some leaders in the profess...
  143. Just a few years ago, when clients asked their accountants about payroll services, mo...
  144. Even the national payroll processors see the need to offer accountant-specific option...
  145. There's a major shift in the philanthropic wind. For decades, a big misconception sha...
  146. The point that technology is too complicated has been made by users and technology le...
  147. Accountants like to do things their own way. And Peter Kaufman thinks that his e-Anal...
  148. Are you interested in more portfolio diversification than is available in the United ...
  149. The following firms received honorable mentions and were cited for their own achievem...
  150. Professional financial planning may have started with the life insurance industry, bu...
  151. Sure, Kennedy & Coe has a document management system. Over the last three years, the ...
  152. Double the revenue with just a 50 percent increase in staff-that's just what M. Darre...
  153. Although not part of the original nominating process for the three previous categorie...
  154. Maybe the fact that a $49 product like Simply Accounting 2005 offers 30 key performan...
  155. January 10-12, 2005 Blackbaud Partner Summit. Charleston Place Hotel, Charleston, S...
  156. Several years ago, a Microsoft marketing team visited the offices of Accounting Today...
  157. Microsoft once again plans to attempt to enter the low-end accounting software market...
  158. AccountantsWorld Hauppauge, N.Y. The company takes a true leadership role in soft...
  159. Ernst & Young (UK) warns of potentially catastrophic results stemming from new accoun...
  160. TAXWISE FIXED ASSETS TaxWise has integrated asset manager and trial balance softwar...
  161. The Memphis, Tenn.-based company has been selling retail management software through ...
  162. Every year, software vendors bring a variety of new products to market. Here is Accou...
  163. Fiducial, an international; provider of professional business outsourcing services to...
  164. Accounting firms have been nervous about client reaction to the use of offshore outso...
  165. Outsourcing may be a topic of discussion, but for most tax preparers, the features of...
  166. In this issue, CPA Wealth Provider presents the second annual financial planning awar...
  167. As the peak of the 2004 income tax season nears, a growing number of accounting firms...
  168. Each year, the American Institute of CPAs chooses a list of the top technologies for ...
  169. Creative Solutions is keeping it in the family as it extends the integration between ...
  170. After 18 years in business, Lisa Kianoff, CITP, CPA, founder and president of L. Kian...
  171. Richard Boyle always liked the concept of being able to benchmark data for one client...
  172. Trial balance software is very much a niche product. That's really saying something...
  173. Intuit (Mountain View, Calif.) has introduced 22 new and enhanced products and servic...
  174. Maybe it's time to stop talking about tax research or accounting research products an...
  175. We recognize more than ever how important accountants are to us, not only as users of...
  176. The software pendulum is swinging and many non-profit organizations are flocking to a...
  177. ATX is hoping to solve what it considers the twenty-first century accounting practice...
  178. This may not be the Year of Document Management. Rather, it may be the Year of Talkin...
  179. The last two years have been busy ones for Nelco, entering the market and then making...
  180. There's a new kid on the tax planning software block. Well, sort of, but not really. ...
  181. Transitioning to a Paperless Office. We are just starting the process and believe it ...
  182. ATX's tax season started out a little bumpy last year with a server failure. Because ...
  183. It's hard to miss the biggest change in Drake's tax preparation software-a 30 percent...
  184. Open Systems, of Shakopee, MN, has announced six new reseller programs (three "non-se...
  185. The Florida Institute of CPAs was on the front lines during the hurricanes. The FICPA...
  186. Michelle Scheffki was working her firm's booth at this summer's Midwest Business and ...
  187. Best Software has a successful 30-year history of helping accountants' clients succee...
  188. No doubt you didn't get to this page too fast having lingered somewhat over the cover...
  189. For a software vendor, moving a product from the desktop to the World Wide Web can br...
  190. The face of tax preparation software is changing. In fact, the face of desktop softwa...
  191. The accounting software market for the small-to-midsized business is getting worse an...
  192. The solid foundation of any CPA firm rests squarely on the shoulders of management. A...
  193. Immediatech Corporation, in Englewood Cliffs, NJ, has a Web-hosted document managemen...
  194. Orrtax's primary focus has always been tax preparation. But now it wants to take it t...
  195. AccountantsWorld simply does not have a need for a traditional partnership program fo...
  196. Women have became a majority among CPAs in the United States and are heavily represen...
  197. CCH will be offering a familiar face in its new interface for its ProSystem fx Tax so...
  198. The opening years of the decade have been hard on not-for-profit organizations. Throu...
  199. It was 2001, and it was a three-person race to gain the top position at Schenck Techn...