The IRS Security Six, Explained for Small Firms
The IRS Security Six are the six baseline security controls the IRS expects every tax and accounting firm to have in place. They are not complicated, and you do not need an IT department to put them …
Act! Premium Desktop v27: Features You Only Get Outside Web
Act! Premium Desktop v27, with its v27.1 update, added a set of features that Act! says are available only to Premium Desktop subscribers, not to Act! Premium for Web. If you use the web edition for …
Intuit Enterprise Suite vs Hosted QuickBooks Desktop
Comparing Intuit Enterprise Suite vs hosted QuickBooks Desktop sounds like picking between two versions of the same thing. They are not. One is a new cloud platform built for mid-market businesses …
98% of Accountants Now Use AI: Where Hosted Desktop Fits
Ninety-eight percent of accounting professionals say they now use AI. That figure, from Karbon’s 2026 survey, is up about fifteen points in a year, and it is the kind of number that ends up in a …
QuoteWerks 26 Single Monitor Mode: Why Hosted Users Benefit
QuoteWerks 26 added Single Monitor Mode, a setting that keeps every QuoteWerks window on the same screen as the main Quote Workbook instead of letting them open on another monitor. QuoteWerks built it …
QuickBooks Desktop Renewals Jumped ~35%: Is Hosting Cheaper Than Staying?
The 2026 QuickBooks Desktop price increase has firms asking a fair question: now that renewals cost more, is it cheaper to host QuickBooks or to stay put? The honest starting point is that hosting is …
QuickBooks Hosting for Construction Subcontractors
QuickBooks hosting for subcontractors puts your job-costed books, your pay applications, and your payroll on one cloud file the office, the field, and your bookkeeper can all reach, so the paperwork …
Can You Run AI Bookkeeping Tools Inside Hosted QuickBooks?
Short answer: yes, you can run AI bookkeeping tools inside hosted QuickBooks Desktop, as long as the tool actually supports Desktop, and a hosted environment is a sensible place to do it. The tool and …