Cloud Technology

The small business owner continues to be at the heart of the QuickBooks ecosystem. With every product, service and feature released, Intuit seems to be determined to make the next step even easier than the previous. So, it was no surprise when Intuit launched QuickBooks Financing to help with what remains a big challenge for […]

Peter Karpas, the CEO of UNorth American and U.S. operations for online small business management and accounting software developer Xero has left the company, according to the company's top executive, Rod Drury.

Cloud document storage provider FileThis has released its new FileThis Document Portal for Professional Services system, which is designed to help streamline the gathering, organizing and sharing of financial documents from clients for time-crunched accountants, CPAs, bookkeepers, and other busy tax and finance professionals.

As I write this article, I’m on a flight to the California Accounting & Business Show & Conference — the venue for announcing this year’s Innovation Award winners. In addition to the awards presentation, we will also be recording a series of interviews with software executives and industry thought leaders. Our team has been working […]

The majority of tax and accounting firm partners spent the last few months focused on tax, audit and accounting production, but with the busy season behind us, there is an opportunity to take a look at how processes can be improved during the slower summer months. Partners should use this time to meet with IT […]

Regardless of how disruptive new innovations are, they are an inevitable characteristic of our evolving business environment, just as innovation is fundamental to human evolution. And it’s smart business to seize opportunities created by these new innovations. Twenty-five years ago, it was a revolutionary idea for a small business owner to purchase a computer and […]

Whether you use an iPhone or not, you cannot escape the impact it is having on the accounting profession. While the iPhone is slick, it’s not the user interface that has been the catalyst. Rather, it is the App Store. And that, in combination with SaaS applications designed for accountants, has and will change your […]

Giving you practical, leading-edge technical guidance is one of the key reasons for this column’s existence. As you have noted from other columns and features in this issue, there are several topics that affect document and accounting access: Document Management products, SaaS Small Business Accounting products, Small Business Specialty products, and Workflow, which is one […]