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LARSONALLEN SIGNS ON
AS INTACCT VAR
MINNEAPOLIS — Regional CPA
firm LarsonAllen has joined the
Intacct Business Partner Program, marking the first time the
firm has entered the reseller
business. The move extends a
long-time relationship with the
cloud-based accounting and
financial management vendor,
as LarsonAllen has used Intacct
for business process outsourcing purposes for a decade.
LarsonAllen said that it is also in
the process of building a cloud
application consulting group to
better serve its clients’ needs for
such applications and services.
SCS CREATES MAS 500
ARGENTINE TAX ADD-ON
MIAMI — Sage reseller Southeast
Computer Solutions has written
an add-on program, Payables
Retention Management, for the
Sage ERP MAS 500 Spanish Edition to manage local tax requirements in Argentina, where tax
law requires “retention agents”
to withhold taxes on a payable
invoice to later be paid to the
government. The PRM program
works with all contributors and
handles multiple retention
types. The program also retains
taxes to all suppliers when a
payment is made, prints the
necessary legal certificates to be
given to suppliers, logs all the
information into the general ledger program of Sage MAS 500,
and allows users to determine
what needs to be paid to the
government.
about an industry, and this is some-
thing we could never do before.”
Bourke also said that WS+B uses
ProfitCents to review financial
statements and when conducting
reviews for clients. Today, the firm
uses it for nearly every audit and
review it has, particularly when it
wants to look for unusual trends
in data, detect irregularities, and
advise clients on areas where they
differ dramatically from their com-
petition.
“Just last week we had a large
engineering client, and compared
their data over several years. We
conducted a board presentation
using ProfitCents information in
a PowerPoint to help explain the
company’s financial information,”
said Bourke. “We didn’t even have
to open up the financial statements.
Too many CPA firms don’t use BI
tools — they just go through balance statements, and the client isn’t
really getting the true value of what
you can do for them.”
Next steps: The firm is looking for
better ways to get more data out of
its T&B system to help better manage and measure growth and past
performance. At present, the firm
uses Excel and Case Ware’s IDEA
to pull this data out, and it wants
a better way to help its new niche
development teams “take their performance to the next level.”
Case Studies
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HABAÑERO TO RESELL
SERENIC NAVIGATOR
EDMONTON, ALBERTA — Habañero
Consulting Group has joined
the Serenic partner network and
will deliver Serenic Navigator
to nonprofit customers across
North America. The company
has been a reseller of Serenic’s
Human Capital Management
Solutions for the past year, and
now as a Serenic Navigator
partner it also can offer Serenic’s
financial management suite.
Defining challenges
Firm: Armanino McKenna / San
Ramon, Calif.
Size: 285 people
Product: CCH ProSystem fx Practice Intelligence (CCH)
Commencement date: 2010
On record: Chief operating officer
Matt Armanino
Challenge/objective: The firm
realized that it faced the same challenges as its clients, and wanted to
know more about particular practice areas. But it had been spending
too much time trying to aggregate
information for monthly partner
meetings. The firm decided it was
time to build a BI dashboard that
everyone in the firm could use.
Amount spent: Pricing is $10,500
for five users, and $25,463 for 25 us-
ers, which includes: one production
server license and first-year main-
tenance, user licenses for a desig-
nated number of users, the Prac-
tice Intelligence dashboard, the
Practice Intelligence deployment
service, and training sessions.
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