Blackbaud CEO Mike Gianoni earned $4.8 million in 2014 as the executive completed his first full year with the Charleston-S.C.-based nonprofit software vendor. The biggest portion of Gianoni's compensation came via a stock award valued at $2.6 million. Gianoni, hired in November 2013, also received a bonus of $864,277 to offset a lost bonus and equity at his prior job and to assist with relocation.

Tracking paper through an accounting firm can resemble the historic search for the origin of the Nile River—everyone knows that information into the firm and comes out, but nobody is exactly sure how it finds its way from one end to the other. Processes can be a tangle of partner quirks and things that have developed by accident. Workflow cannot be that way if firms want to maximize profits. They need to determine how paper moves from one person to another and what tasks each performs. This special report discusses how modern software can provide a well-lit trail.

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The number of individual tax returns prepared by H&R Block during the recent tax season was down by .9 percent from the 2014 tax return. The tax services company said this week that the number of assisted returns through April 16 fell by 4.6 percent from the prior year. However, Block said the number prepared through its software products—including online, desktop and mobile—rose by 8.2 percent.