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Tools for tax season
ated while reading this paragraph.
As last year drew to a close, vendors released
a host of new and more powerful tools to help
tax preparers with the many complexities of
the 2011 filing season. Some highlights:
Copanion Inc. released a beefed-up version of
its Grunt Worx tax workflow solution, with
a simpler user interface, extended reporting options, greater document capacity,
and the option to have multiple administrators and multiple accounts within a firm. ...
BMG CPAs created a version of its iDonatedIt
charitable donation calculator app for the
iPad ... CCH released CCH Carryover Basis
Answers, with guidance, practice aids and
decision-support tools to help tax advisors
unravel the complexities of the latest estate
tax legislation. The company also boosted
its IntelliConnect research platform with
greater ease of use, stronger search and research tools, enhanced linking to related information, and simplified citation searches.
... BNA Software released Version 2010.5 of
its BNA Income Tax Planner to reflect the
many legislative changes made by Congress
at the end of 2010. ... Greatland launched
an updated version of its Winfiler W- 2 and
1099 software, with enhanced data import
and export capabilities, the ability to e-file
1099 corrections through Winfiler’s E-file
Center, and more. ... The Tax & Accounting
business of Thomson Reuters made it easier
for firms to manage and deploy staff and client portals through its NetClient CS, SaaS for
CS Professional Suite and Virtual Client CS
products with increased automation and a
streamlined interface. ... New River Innovation launched easyIRS, an online solution for
solving problems with the Internal Revenue
Service that uses a short interview process to
compare a customer’s situation to as many
as 47 IRS programs, and then create a plan
with personalized IRS-ready forms, phone
call scripts and coaching points.
tion onslaught. Developed by experts at the
Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales, the 36 interactive learning
modules teach you to: understand and apply IFRS principles and concepts; assess
the standards’ impact on your clients’ businesses; produce and interpret IFRS financial
statements; and even develop new business
niches. The learning materials are available
through an interactive online learning environment 24/7, so you can study up on the
new juggernaut of IFRS in between bouts of
applying the old juggernaut of GAAP.
The course of true love
CCH Mobile
CCH, a Wolters Kluwer business
http://cchgroup.com/mobile
It happens all the time: You’re on the dance
floor, or on the bus, or running with the bulls
in Pamplona, and suddenly through the
crowd you spot the gorgeous stranger who
just might be your soul mate, struggling to
determine the proper tax treatment of a 1031
like-kind exchange. If you head back to your
office to look it up, you know you’ll never see
them again. But how else are you supposed
to do tax research in a crowded nightclub
or blood-slicked Spanish street? Enter CCH
Mobile, an app that lets you access content
from the IntelliConnect platform on your
BlackBerry or iPhone. Currently in a free introductory version, CCH Mobile lets you see
Tax Tracker News, primary materials like the
Internal Revenue Code, tax tools and calculators, and SmartCharts, depending on your
IntelliConnect subscription.
Business school
Checkpoint Learning Corporate Curriculum
The Tax & Accounting business of Thomson
Reuters
https://checkpointlearning.thomsonreuters.
com
Thomson Reuters has added a Corporate
Curriculum to its Checkpoint Learning CPE
platform. It’s a bundle of over 65 interactive
online courses for accounting, tax, audit
and finance professionals on a wide variety
of topics affecting corporations today, with
courses geared to the development needs of
all levels of the corporate hierarchy. As it lives
on the Checkpoint Learning platform, users
can track their CPE needs and in-progress
courses, as well as managing the learning
requirements of staff.
Security levels
docLock
Large Software
www.largesoftware.com
While we all want to have our secrets protected by a fancy and expensive web of laser motion detectors, just like in the movies,
sometimes all you need is a simple padlock.
At $29.95, Large Software’s docLock lets you
easily encrypt and password-protect individual documents and files so that you can
store and e-mail them securely, offering mili-tary-grade protection that’s simple to install
and use.
Join the new juggernaut
IFRS Learning and Certification Program
CCH, a Wolters Kluwer business
http://cchgroup.com/ifrs
Despite the delays, it still looks like IFRS is
coming, ready or not — so you might as well
be ready. CCH has rolled out a new IFRS
Learning and Certification Program to help
U.S. accountants prepare for the slow-mo-
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Daniel Hood at Daniel.Hood@SourceMedia.
com.
Another 195 million
Presto! PageManager 9 Professional
NewSoft Technology Corp.
www.newsoftinc.com
We’d be willing to bet that accountants at
small firms produce just as many documents
as accountants at large firms (
approximately 9.75 million per second, at last count)
— they just don’t have the super-powered
enterprise-level document management
systems and giant technical staff to help
manage them. The reasonably priced Presto!
PageManager 9 Professional offers an option
for accountants at smaller firms, with strong
capabilities for creating and managing PDFs,
sharing and distributing documents, scanning and routing documents quickly and
easily, and much more. At $99.95, it should
make smaller firms much more comfortable
about the 195 million documents they gener-
New and improved!
Emerging Information Systems Inc.
released new versions of its NaviPlan Select,
Profiles Professional and Profiles Forecaster
financial planning products. ... TI W Technology has released a cloud version of its ALERE
Accounting and ALERE Manufacturing products. ... CCH has added a new title to its Pro-System fx Knowledge Coach auditing tool,
Knowledge-Based Audits of Public Entities: A
Guide to PCAOB Standards and SEC Rules, to
allow it to support public company audits. ...
The Tax Foundation has added a VAT calculator to its Web site, www.mytaxburden.org,
so taxpayers can see how much they’d have
to pay if the U.S. introduced a value-added
tax. ... Microdasys has launched GeoShield,
a security plug-in that adds a layer to Microsoft Forefront TMG to let users set security
policies to restrict access from particular geographic regions and countries.
