Sage North America has updated its Sage FAS Fixed Assets Software with the latest tax rules, rates and Internal Revenue Service forms.

Sage North America has released an upgraded version of its customer relationship management software for small and midsized businesses with new branding and e-mail campaign features.

“Mom, you’re a Facebook snob.”

There are a number of ways that your clients can outgrow their entry-level accounting software. One of the more common instances is that a growing client totally embraces the accounting system to a degree where it has more people that want to use it than the software can support.Most entry-level accounting applications are built on proprietary databases and limit access to five or so simultaneous users.

MYOB UPGRADES PREMIERMYOB has released the 2009 version of its MYOB Premier Accounting software, with extra payroll, security, search, print and spell check features for small businesses.

Technology plays an increasingly critical role in all firms, yet information technology departments are generally the last to know when a firm is merging with another - or being merged.Why?

CCH has added a state tax citation capability to its state tax research products.

Tax and accounting software vendor Intuit made BusinessWeek's list of the World's Most Influential Companies.

Figtree Software has released Figtree Sales Analysis, a management decision-making tool for businesses that use AccountMate software.

Is your firm using its engagement tools in the best way possible?

Let's face it - the economy is in bad shape. Investment houses are going out of business, banks are failing, and many investments have lost an incredible amount of value.If anything good has come out of this financial mess, it might be that it underscores the fact that financial planning and investment strategies almost always have some element of risk, and that the process has to be a dynamic one, with strategies changing as needs and risk aversion on the part of the investor change.

COUGAR MOUNTAIN INTRODUCES E-COMMERCE SOFTWARE

'Ready, fire, aim" is not a strategy most firms follow in good times, much less in uncertain times.

FIRMS NEED MORE WOMEN PARTNERS

I'm always amazed at how previews of anything command rapt attention. Who, for instance, when watching their favorite television program, doesn't suffer through the credits just to catch a sneak peak of next week's episode?

Accounting Today polled several of the profession's high-profile technology experts and consultants to elicit their advice on what technologies CPA firms should be investing in, as well as to gauge their predictions on what current tech trends will impact the accounting landscape in 2009.

High-End and Mid-Market Accounting

Two of the qualities that make for a Top 100 Product are longevity and the sort of patient accrual of incremental improvements that go with it. But most of our Top 100 started as brash innovations - and the past few years have seen the rise of a wealth of exciting new products that, while not yet established enough to join the Top 100, are definitely worth your attention. We call them the Ones to Watch, and this year we're watching more products than ever, in almost every conceivable practice area and specialty.

H&R Block said it would offer the ability to electronically file up to five federal tax returns in its TaxCut software next tax season, as Intuit also offered the ability for TurboTax users to prepare and print multiple returns at no extra cost along with free e-filing of up to five federal returns.

On the heels of weak results for its North American operations, Sage has laid off 150 out of its 5,000 North American workers, citing the move as a response to the economic climate.