Technology

Payroll Relief AC from AccountantsWorld is a web-based payroll service bureau offering, offered through an ASP (Application Service Provider) model. This gives you the benefits of anytime, anywhere access and the ability to outsource the IT infrastructure and system administration responsibilities as a part of the solution. The charges for the sample firm defined on […]

UltraTax is the professional tax compliance suite from Creative Solutions (CSI), which also offers professional and client accounting applications, digital document management, practice management and an extensive array of web site services. All of CSI’s products feed to and from a common database, helping to ensure data consistency and automatically transferring it between various applications […]

Although primarily known for its fixed asset management and tax planning products, BNA Software produces two preparation solutions: BNA 706 Preparer and BNA 709 Preparer. The programs support the calculations and forms for federal estate and gift tax compliance, as well as calculations for all 50 states and D.C. Single-user licenses of the software cost […]

Orrtax Software Solutions offers individual preparation through its IntelliTax for Windows and corporate, S-Corp, partnership and fiduciary filing, through the IntelliTax SuperSystem. The company also produces a character-based version of its individual preparation software. Orrtax also offers several marketing packages and other productivity bundles. The business and individual versions of the software are sold separately […]

FastFund is a relatively young product (first released in 2000), but already boasts a nice feature set that includes integrated accounting, fundraising and payroll applications. Version 2 was released in June 2003 and is scheduled for another upgrade (version 2.1) by the time this article goes to print. New features in version 2 included a […]

CPAsites.com is a web site development solution for accounting firms that provides all design, creation, development and management of web sites and provides financial calculators, newsletters and additional updated content and tools. AUTOMATED CONTENT – 4.5 Stars CPAsites.com provides web sites with content ranging from several newsletters and a federal tax summary page, to a […]

Please fasten your seat belts. Use of a helmet is strongly advised. We have discussed platform-independence, but the owner of Accountant’s Relief offers us the promise of what they call the “anytime-anywhere world.” Desktop or Internet – you decide. The landscape called telecommuting and the remote office is about to evolve big time! Accountant’s Relief […]

Search is the New OS By Gregory L. LaFollette, CPA.CITP, Executive Editor From the January 2005 Issue& In the ’90s it was all about operating systems (OS). Microsoft led us through a dizzying parade of “new and better” OS, from all the flavors of DOS into Windows 3.1, 95, 98, SE, ME, NT, 2000 and […]