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Mary Girsch-Bock

Contributing Writer

mary.girschbock@cpapracticeadvisor.com

Mary grew up in Chicago, graduating from the University of Illinois-Chicago. She began her career as accountant and later made the switch to writing full time, concentrating on business and technology, with a focus on small business. A former QuickBooks beta tester, Mary’s work has appeared in The Motley Fool, The Blueprint, and Property Manager.com. She currently writes a monthly accounting and technology-related blog for PLANERGY, and ghostwrites several blogs for various software companies.

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Accounting

2016 Review of Hosting Providers for Accounting Firms

No longer do business owners have to choose between an online version and a desktop version of a product. Using an application hosting service, users can access their favorite products remotely.

Firm Management

2016 Review of Cloudnine Realtime Hosting Services

Cloudnine Realtime is an excellent solution for accounting firms as well as other businesses including law firms and consulting groups. The product is scalable; offering 4 editions of the product, making it suitable for the ...

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Firm Management

2016 Review of Xcentric Cloud Hosted Solutions

Xcentric offers convenient system access from any location, and also offers access to the network using a variety of devices, such as Windows tablets, Blackberry devices, Apple and Android devices, and smartphones. There is a slight fee associated ...

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Firm Management

2016 Review of InsynQ Cloud Hosting

InsynQ hosts a variety of popular applications and can host all editions of QuickBooks, including QuickBooks Pro, QuickBooks Premier, and QuickBooks Enterprise. InsynQ can also host Sage products such as Sage 50, Sage 100, and Sage 300.

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Firm Management

2016 Review of Right Networks Hosting

Right Networks easily hosts both QuickBooks as well as numerous applications. Multiple QuickBooks versions are supported by the product, and users can use additional versions of QuickBooks at no additional charge. All data is securely encrypted ...

Accounting

2016 Review of AccountantsWorld Client Portals

AccountantsWorld Client Portals are part of AccountantsWorld suite of products making it a good fit for firms looking for a comprehensive accounting and tax management product, or those already using AccountantsWorld applications.

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Accounting

2016 Review of Thomson Reuters NetClient CS Portals

NetClient Portals, part of the NetClient CS Suite allows accounting firms to offer clients easy access to tax documents, invoices, and payroll information. The product works best in an environment where other Thomson Reuters applications are being used.

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Accounting

2016 Review of Wolters Kluwer CCH Axcess Portal

CCH Axcess Portal contains bi-directional capability, making it easy to both send and receive files. The product supports a variety of file types, including Web Pages, Word documents, Excel files, PDF’s, PowerPoint presentations, and hyperlinks, as ...

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Firm Management

2016 Review of Client Portals for Accounting Firms

Although accounting firms have typically used email to send files to their clients, stricter confidentiality requirements and difficulty in transmitting large files have made email usage difficult, if not impossible in most situations. Portals offer a ...

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Accounting

2016 Review of SmartVault

A great solution for firms using QuickBooks, SmartVault offers both bi-direction portal capability as well as complete document storage capability. A QuickBooks plug-in is available that allows users to scan a document into the system and sync the ...

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Financial Reporting

2016 Review of W2 Mate from Real Business Solutions

W2 Mate is an easily affordable product from Real Business Solutions that provides accountants and businesses with the ability to prepare, import, file and print both W-2’s and 1099 forms. The vendor also offers a long-list of add-on modules to ...

Payroll

2016 Review of AccountantsWorld After-the-Fact Payroll

After-the-Fact Payroll from AccountantsWorld is designed specifically for professional accountants as a payroll system that offers excellent year-end tax reporting capability as well.