The Security Risk Behind AI Bookkeeping Tools
The security risk with AI bookkeeping tools is rarely the tool itself. It is what a staff member quietly does with one: open an unapproved assistant, paste in a client’s bank data or a payroll …
QuoteWerks on SQL Server 17: What Hosted Users Should Know
QuoteWerks 26 added support for Microsoft SQL Server 2017, which QuoteWerks labels version 17, and it now checks your SQL version when it starts up. If you run QuoteWerks Corporate Edition on a SQL …
QuoteWerks on SQL Server 17: What Hosted Users Should Know
QuoteWerks 26 added support for Microsoft SQL Server 2017, which QuoteWerks labels version 17, and it now checks your SQL version when it starts up. If you run QuoteWerks Corporate Edition on a SQL …
WISP and PTIN Renewal: Why Your Attestation Now Has Teeth
PTIN renewal opens in mid-October, and part of it asks you to acknowledge a data-security obligation. That is the WISP question, and it is the reason WISP and PTIN renewal get talked about together. …
QuickBooks Hosting for Bookkeepers
A bookkeeper’s setup tends to grow by accretion. One client’s file lives on the office desktop, another on the laptop you carry to meetings, a third you open by remoting into the …
Windows 11 for Firms Running QuickBooks or Act!
With Windows 10 support over as of October 2025, Windows 11 is where current QuickBooks and Act! are meant to run. Current QuickBooks Desktop, including Enterprise, and Act! Premium Desktop v27 both …
QuickBooks Hosting for Real Estate Brokerages and Property Management
QuickBooks hosting for real estate puts a brokerage’s books, commissions, agent records, and trust accounts, on one cloud file the broker, the bookkeeper, and the office can all reach. Brokerage …
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 …