The reviews are in

AuditWatch Productivity Locator for Review Engagements

Thomson Reuters

www.auditwatch.com

Good reviews can make all the difference to a movie, book, play - or accounting firm. The new Productivity Locator for Review Engagements consulting program from AuditWatch aims to gauge the strength of your firm's review engagements, and identify ways to improve their quality, efficiency and consistency. And while the average movie, book or theater reviewer is a failed director, author or playwright, AuditWatch's consultants are experienced experts who will examine two of your review engagement files, and then give your practitioners feedback through a Web-based conference call on areas including planning and risk assessment, engagement management, performing inquiries, performing strong analytical procedures, avoiding unnecessary procedures, reviewing evidence and documentation, differentiating between bookkeeping procedures and review procedures, and more. Not only will it help youmake your firm's engagements better and more profitable, it'll help make sure you're complying with the new and significantly revised requirements of SSARS 19, which makes the service a lot more useful than the average five-star review or thumbs-up/down.

Know thy firm

ProSystem fx Practice Intelligence

CCH, a Wolters Kluwer business

http://cchgroup.com

Numbers don't lie, but if the numbers aren't around, they can't tell you the cold, hard truth. That's why, if you're worried what the numbers buried in your firm systems might reveal, you should steer clear of CCH's new ProSystem fx Practice Intelligence, which drills deep into that data to quickly and unflinchingly report all sorts of data on your firm's performance, from who your most profitable clients are to (gulp) who your most productive partners are. This type of analysis gives proactive firms the information they need to hone their operations, prune their client (and partner) lists, and boost overall productivity and profitability, but for those that are, shall we say, less forward-thinking, it may lead to nothing more than fear and squabbling among the partners. Best to know what kind of firm you are, before you find out what kind of firm you are.

Where is everyone?

TripIt for Business

TripIt Inc.

www.tripit.com

Hectic travel schedules and the growing reach of mobile computing mean that the average office is increasingly empty. Although those of us who are left behind enjoy the peace and quiet, things can get complicated when we need to find one of our more mobile colleagues to answer a client question, attend an important meeting, or lend us money for lunch. TripIt for Business is an online tool that lets the office-bound keep track of gadabouts simply and easily - administrators just forward flight and other travel confirmation e-mails to TripIt, and it creates itineraries that travelers can view any time and anywhere; at the same time, the TripIt for Business dashboard lets the administrator see at a glance exactly where everybody is at any given time - and if they're ever coming back. How much they have to lend us, however, is not tracked.

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