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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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Firm Management

2016 Review of Thomson Reuters - Practice CS

Designed to be used with other Thomson Reuters products, Practice CS is an easily navigated, scalable product that can be customized to suit the needs of all firms. The product offers three deployment options; SaaS, Virtual Office CS, which combines ...

Firm Management

2016 Review of WSG Systems - Empire Suite

Empire Suite, from WSG Systems Corp. offers complete practice management functionality. Available in four versions, small users can start with the Basic version that offers Time and Expense entry and move forward to a more robust version that contains ...

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Firm Management

2016 Review of Office Tools - Practice Management Workspace

Practice Management Workspace from Office Tools is a time and billing software designed for small to mid-sized firms. The product uses a simplified user entry screen and offers excellent client management tools along with an intuitive time and billing ...

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Firm Management

2016 Review of Commercial Logic PowerPM Suite

Designed for accountants, PowerPM is a scalable, hosted practice management solution that offers a variety of modules in addition to PowerPM Practice Management, including PowerPM Reporting, Automated Reporting, PowerView/PowerImport, TrakTime Web ...

Firm Management

2016 Review of CCH Axcess Practice

Users can quickly log into the user dashboard to access time entry features as well as access to a weekly calendar, with a list of related reports to the right of the screen. Users can launch the timer function directly from the user dashboard, or ...

Firm Management

2016 Review of ProSystem fx Suite - Practice Management

ProSystem fx Practice Management is part of the ProSystem fx Suite of products designed to manage every aspect of an accounting firm. The product offers time entry capability, AR management, excellent contact management capability and solid reporting func

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Firm Management

2016 Review of TaxWorkFlow Practice Management

TaxWorkFlow is designed for a Windows platform, and offers firms of all sizes comprehensive work flow management, document management, and time management capabilities, as well as a client portal that facilitates communication between firm and client.

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Firm Management

2016 Review of Xero Practice Manger

Cloud-based, Xero Practice Manager offers easy integration with Xero’s complete line of accounting and related products, but also integrates with over 450 business apps to increase program functionality tremendously.

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Firm Management

Practice Management Systems Offer Key To Competitiveness

Even the smallest firms have seen the benefits provided by having a solid practice management solution in their office. Time and Expense tracking is the backbone of good practice management software, and the products reviewed in this issue make it ...

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Firm Management

2016 Review of Commercial Logic Inc. - APS Advance Practice Management

APS Advance Practice Management is an Australian practice management solution that is offered in the United States exclusively by Commercial Logic, Inc. APS is fully customizable and offers excellent analytic functions including pivot tables and ...

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Accounting

2016 Reviews of Small Business Point of Sale Systems

I have always had a strange fascination with cash registers. Simple nine-button registers, custom-designed registers, the antique register from the early 20th century, I love them all. My obsession aside, the cash register served as the main tool in ...

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Accounting

2016 Review of AddSum Advanced Accounting Point-of-Sale

Advanced Accounting offers industry specific features, an easily navigated user interface, and the purchase of the multiple user versions allows retailers to add additional users at any time without incurring any additional cost. While the product has ...