The CPA Technology Advisor is a technology magazine for accounting and tax professionals. The magazine has eight print issues per year (Jan-Mar, Apr-May, Jun-Jul, Aug, Sep, Oct, Nov, Dec), geared around the annual workflow cycle of tax and accounting professionals. The magazine was founded in 1991 as The CPA Software News; the name change to The CPA Technology Advisor was implemented in 2004. The magazine is also printed for professional organizations under the title The NSA Technology Advisor (for the National Society of Accountants

National Society of Accountants

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). The magazine is a part of Cygnus Business Media

Cygnus business media

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Overview

Along with its online portal www.cpatechadvisor.com, The CPA Technology Advisor is a print and online technology media outlet for practicing public accountants and tax professionals. It covers technology issues as they relate to those professionals and their accounting practices, and to their interaction with small business and individual clients.

The publication's online and print content is centered around reviews and comparisons of technology products and services, which follow a 1-5 Star format, with 5 stars representing the top ranking a product may receive. Additional content includes topical features, implementation guides and serial columns contributed by members of the professional accounting community. The magazine has an audited circulation of approximately 41,000 tax and accounting professionals, including credentialed Certified Public Accountants (CPA), Enrolled Agents (EA), Professional Accountants (PA) and others in the professional tax preparation and accounting spaces.

The CPA Technology Advisor's review

Review

A review is an evaluation of a publication, a product or a service, such as a movie , video game, musical composition , book ; a piece of hardware like a car, home appliance, or computer; or an event or performance, such as a live music concert, a play, musical theater show or dance show...

s include coverage of the latest technologies offered by companies such as Thomson Reuters

Thomson Reuters

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, CCH, a Wolters Kluwer business, Microsoft

Microsoft

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, Sage Software, AccountantsWorld, Emochila

Emochila

Emochila, Inc. is a Web 2.0 company that operates a custom website development service for Certified Public Accountants and lawyers. As of mid-year 2011, the company represents over 2600 individual, private firms throughout the United States, Canada, Puerto Rico, and the Bahamas...

 and Intuit. Articles are written by leading accounting technology thought leaders, including Executive Editor M. Darren Root, CPA.CITP, a practicing public accountant and technology consultant for more than 20 years. Regular columns include:

• Business in Practice (by Rene Lacerte),
• The Bleeding Edge (by Dave McClure
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  Dave McClure is an entrepreneur and prominent angel investor based in the San Francisco Bay Area, who founded and runs the business incubator "500 Startups". He is often described as one of the super angel investors.-Bio:...
  
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• Tricks & Tips (by Technology Editor Isaac M. O'Bannon),
• From the Trenches (by Randy Johnston, MCS, MCP),
• Better Technology for Better Clients (by Lisa Kianoff, CPA.CITP),
• Technology IN Practice (by Roman Kepczyk, CPA.CITP),
• MarketingWorks (by Scott Cytron, ABC),
• The QuickBooks Advisor (by Doug Sleeter), and
• My Perspective (by M. Darren Root, CPA.CITP).

The CPA Technology Advisor sponsors several special events and programs, including its annual Tax & Accounting Technology Innovation Awards, which were founded in 2004 to recognize advances in technologies that benefit the tax and accounting space. Honors are also presented annually to professionals in the field through the publication's 40 Under 40 program.

In addition to its print magazine and website, the publication maintains a blog at www.cpatechviews.com.