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Simply Accounting 2011
Sage North America
http://us.simplyaccounting.com
or http://es.simplyaccounting.com
Forward-thinking businesses have noted the
explosive growth of Hispanic-owned business
in the U.S., and begun brushing up on their
Spanish. As an example, the recently released
Simply Accounting 2011 is fully bilingual, allowing users to toggle between Spanish and
English, generate reports and documents in
either one, and manage transactions and invoices in their customers’ language of choice.
It also offers support for multiple curren-cies. Really forward-thinking businesses, of
course, are brushing up on their Mandarin.
Work 24/7
Mobile CS
Thomson Reuters
http://cs.thomsonreuters.com/mobilecs
You’re rapidly running out of excuses, you
know. Now that the Tax & Accounting busi-
BOOKS
Get professional
The Art of Managing Professional
Services: Insights from the Leaders
of the World’s Top Firms
Wharton School Publishing; $34.99
The interesting thing about professional services firms is that their management is often
anything but professional. While other businesses have been extensively studied and
subjected to a flood of management theo-ries, professional services organizations are
relatively under-examined. The Art of Managing Professional Services aims to change that,
with in-depth research with dozens of highly
successful firms, including a number of high-profile accounting firms, to determine a set
of best practices. Packed with specific takeaways, it should help you bring the same level
of professionalism to managing your firm as
you do to serving your clients.
Hook ’em young
The Inside Track to Careers
in Accounting
AICPA; $73.75 ($59 for members)
Accounting oscillates between two image
problems: When scandals are rife, the per-
ception is that accountants are either neg-
ligent or corrupt; when times are good, the
ness of Thomson Reuters has released Mobile
CS, an iPhone app that gives you anywhere/
anytime access to the data in your firm’s Prac-
tice CS practice management system, you
have one less reason not to work all the time.
You can view client and staff data, check on
work in progress, determine staff availability
and more — all the time. You might consider
ditching your iPhone, but Thomson Reuters
is already considering versions of the app for
Android phones and BlackBerries.
Getting smaller
NetSuite One World 2010
NetSuite Inc.
www.netsuite.com
Here’s a conundrum for you: One of the
things making the world smaller is the fact
that companies are getting bigger, and tying
the globe together with their far-flung operations. But even as companies are getting bigger, NetSuite One World is helping make them
smaller — or at least more manageable. The
latest release of the cloud-based ERP solution
includes enhanced inventory management;
perception is that they’re boring. Neither is
accurate (or at least not wholly), but they are
prevalent, which means the profession has
to put its best foot forward to attract students
and young employees. The Inside Track to
Careers in Accounting is a good
start — it’s a clear, concise introduction to the profession,
full of useful information to help
potential CPAs decide if the field
is right for them, and if it is, which
career path to take, and how to
follow it. It highlights some of the
more exciting aspects of accounting without over-hyping them, and
addresses some of the more pernicious
myths about CPAs with good humor.
With advice like this …
It’s Okay to Manage Your Boss:
The Step-by-Step Program for Making
the Best of Your Most Important
Relationship at Work
Jossey-Bass (Wiley); $23.95
We never get the advice we want. When we
opened It’s Okay to Manage Your Boss, we
were hoping for a sort of corporate version of
the Vulcan nerve pinch — a quick, painless
way to get our boss out of our hair. Instead,
we got an impeccably reasoned, multi-step
simplified tax reporting in more countries;
accounting standards compliance in Austria,
Switzerland, Germany, the U.K. and Japan;
expanded currency options; integration
with Google’s cloud applications; and an
enhanced user interface.
And still smaller
ONESOURCE Global Tax Workstation
Thomson Reuters
http://onesource.thomsonreuters.com
Another thing making the world smaller —
and even a little claustrophobic — is the fact
that, no matter where a company goes, it will
find a tax authority demanding compliance.
To manage this worldwide headache, Thomson Reuters has launched its new onesource
global tax workstation. Building on its onesource platform, the workstation is a “
one-stop” workflow solution for multinational
corporations and large accounting firms, with
local compliance tools for a growing number
of countries for tax planning, transfer pricing,
tax returns and tax reporting.
Separately, the company also launched
program for handling all the different forms
of mis- and under-management. It calls for us
to be more disciplined and detail-oriented, to
work harder, and to generally be more professional. Making our boss better, it seems,
No euphemism
Phased Retirement
in the New Economy
Lorman Education Services;
$159.20 (with WebCPA discount)
“Phased retirement” might sound like a euphemism for working until you drop dead
at your desk, but it’s a real and useful way
to ease into the golden years, allowing employees to maintain some income, while
employers hang onto their experience and
knowledge. Like all good things, it is surrounded by a thicket of government rules and
regulations, which this audio-conference and
the associated manual cover in depth, from
the applicable legislation and its impact on
other employee benefits issues, to phased
retirement’s applicability and viability in the
current economy.
onesource Unclaimed Property, a set of
consulting and compliance services to help
companies handle the increasingly complex
laws in this area, as states step up enforcement in their desperate search for revenue.
Better doc management
CNG-Web and CNG-SAFE
Cabinet NG
www.cabinetng.com
Cabinet NG has released the latest versions
of its CNG-Web and CNG-SAFE document
management solutions. Version 6. 5 of CNG-Web now offers multiple ways to locate documents, and supports scanning documents via
the browser, so users can send them directly
into the DM system, rather than to their local
PC. The new release of CNG-SAFE now lets
users bookmark important cabinets, folders and documents; directly incorporates
manual batch scanning; and has enhanced
search functions.
Monitor gap
Minideck USB to DVI Display Adapter and
vDeck USB Adapters
Sewell Direct
It’s just like the Cold War: If the firm across
the street gives its staff dual monitors, you
need to give your staff dual monitors. Next
thing you know, they’ve given their staff triple
monitors. How did they do it? Possibly with
Sewell Direct’s Minideck and vDeck display
adapters, which let you turn a computer’s
USB ports into monitor connections quickly
and easily. They act like high-end video cards,
and let you connect up to six monitors at a
time. If the firm across the street hears about
them, though, you’ll end up having to adopt
the Cold War’s MAD doctrine: Monitor Assured Destruction.
New and improved!
For those who still receive faxes, MyFax has
released a free mobile access app for the
BlackBerry, so users can access their faxes
without having to open a browser or launch
an e-mail application. … Seeburger Inc. has
released a version of its 4invoice invoice automation solution for users of SAP Finance
and SAP Materials Management. … Wolters
Kluwer Law & Business’ ftwilliam.com has
released new enhancements to its integrated
1099 Service Bureau. … SharePoint Solutions has released Alert Manager for SharePoint Server 2010 and SharePoint Foundation 2010, an add-on for customizing and
managing SharePoint alerts.
