David Bergstein of Intuit’s Accounting and Advisory group, speaks with Bob Scott, executive editor, of The Progressive Accountant, about the group’s goal to assist accountants with firm growth and help clients become more profitable and efficient. Bergstein discusses cloud technology as a means for increasing practice efficiency and cites third party “add-on” applications, such as Finigraph, Spotlight Reporting and Qvinci, as key components in helping accounting practices reach their overall business objectives when used with Intuit’s products.

Jorge Olavarrieta, group product manager for Intuit Tax Online, speaks with Bob Scott, executive editor of The Progressive Accountant about how the fast growing, web-based tax product is serving the professional market. With a focus on eliminating data entry, Olavarrieta shares how Intuit Link, which focuses on eliminating data entry, enables accountants to collaborate digitally with taxpayers and connect their entire practices via a single platform.

Kurt Kunselman, AccountingSuite sits down with Bob Scott, executive editor, The Progressive Accountant to discuss the company’s cloud accounting and inventory product. The new product offers start-ups and growing businesses multiple inventory options that range from handling consignment to simple and sub assembly to waste and residuals. Kunselman also explains how the “all in one” offering eliminates the need for costly add-ons, allowing companies to grow to $20 million.

Declines in option and stock awards held down executive compensation at Paychex for the year ended May 31. The totals at the payroll provider rose slightly for two of the executives while those for two others fell by single digits with CEO Martin Mucci seeing his compensation to $5.9 million, a decline of 1.6 percent from slightly more than $6 million for fiscal 2014.