Doors Still Open For ITA Conference: There’s still time to register to attend the Information Technology Alliance’s "Fall Collaborative" meeting Nov. 3-5 in Charleston, S.C.

With the Oct. 15 tax filing extension deadline now behind us and firms starting to plan for 2003, firms should take a serious look at the processes and policies that pertain to individual income tax return preparation.

More Wheeling And Dealing By Intuit: The developer of QuickBooks has acquired Management Reports Inc., a provider of business management software solutions for commercial and residential property managers. Intuit called its fourth key acquisition of fiscal 2002 another step in its Right for My Business strategy.

In many industries, document management is a mature technology. It is now time to move on to knowledge management.

by Wayne Schulz

by Art Nathan

by John M. Covaleski

Moore Stephens Network Consolidates Tech Ops: The Moore Stephens North America network of accounting firms has consolidated the technology consulting practices of its member firms under one umbrella organization that, according to its leader, could someday resemble a national IT company.

by L. Gary Boomer

by Dan Vuksanovich

by L. Gary Boomer

by John M. Covaleski

by L. Gary Boomer

by Peyton Burch

by John M. Covaleski

Microsoft Completes Navision Deal, Drops Great Plains Name: Microsoft Corp. has completed its acquisition of Navision and has put that accounting software developer in an organization that has been renamed Microsoft Business Solutions from Microsoft/Great Plains Business Solutions.

by Ted Needleman

As I am preparing this column, the Overture pay-per-click search engine has discovered that three consulting firms are willing to pay in excess of $6 for any user who searches for the keyword "MAS90" and subsequently clicks on their advertisement, which brings them to their Web site.

Software bugs cost $59.5B annually: Software bugs cost the U.S. economy about $59.5 billion a year, with more than half of that borne by software users..... and the remainder paid by vendors and developers, according to research funded by the U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology.

by L. Gary Boomer