CCH TAX RESEARCH NETWORK The FIN 48 Manager serves as an online resource for professionals looking for FIN 48 support materials to help them ensure compliance, offering answers to 80 common questions, official documents and practice aids as part of the CCH Tax Research Network.

Roughly 30 State Smart Charts chart state tax issues in single or multiple jurisdictions. Topics include apportionment rules and tax rates going back 10 years. Tools include compliance and tax position checklists, client evaluation forms, implementation actions plans, decisions trees.

Price: $595 (single user, one-year subscription). CCH: (800) 449-8114.

TRAVERSE 10.5

Flags on the Check Batching feature in Traverse 10.5 allow for posting without printing, an Aged Trial Balance report contains interactive-style drill-down features, and users can email, fax and print invoices.

The General Ledger contains unlimited budgets and forecasts and each user can be assigned unique roles.

Sales Order entry now has drilldowns to provide the ability to see transaction details. A Landed Cost feature in the Purchase Order module distributes indirect costs to inventory.

Price: Starts at $500. Open Systems: (800) 328-2276.

ACT FOR FINANCIAL PROFESSIONALS

Act for Financial Professionals 9.0 centralizes client data in a single database and captures key contact, account investment and financial planning information.

The system also offers dynamic labels that track information most important to users and clients, and label it accordingly. It also flags and updates missing information for each contact by providing a quick view of fields that require more data. Complete fields are automatically updated on the contact record upon exiting the missing info screen.

Price: $519.99 suggested retail price. Sage Software: (888) 855-2222.

ADAGIO FX

Classes and sub-classes from QuickBooks are automatically available for departmental reporting in version 8.0 G of Softrak's Adagio FX software.

Users also can retrieve last year's data from Simply Accounting if the current data has been rolled forward. Accounts missing account numbers are alerted when retrieving information from QuickBooks. Dragging and dropping on a ColSpec row freezes the top rows of statements within the Financial Reporter and act as a statement header to print on every page.

An ExcelDirect button forces values in a financial statement to an Excel spreadsheet.

Price: $199 (single database); $475 (multiple database). Softrak Systems: (800) 663-9798.

RED WING TURNINGPOINT

TurningPoint Version 5.0 expands the accounting system's reporting capabilities, improves sales order processes, simplifies the vendor check-writing process and adds additional security to check writing.

Version 5.0 offers the ability to combine customers and vendors in Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable and Inventory. In-Process status for sales orders show which orders are filled but not yet posted.

Expanded Hold status excludes orders from the posting and auto-fill process. Serial numbers and inventory labels can be generated automatically. Bank Reconciliation sorting and General Ledger posting processes have been improved.

Price: Starts at $895 per module. Red Wing Software: (800) 732-9464.

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