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Thomson Reuters is planning an as-yet-unnamed mobile application that would enable firms to interact both with client business and with those organizations' employees. The new capability follows the push by the company's Tax & Accounting business into the mobile market with an application to links to its Practice CS database.
The app is likely to hit the market before year's end, with Thomson also planning an app that will bring its long-running ARNE service to the mobile world, according to Scott Fleszar, VP of strategic marketing for the Thomson unit that handles the CS Professional suite.
The pending app "will be a way for a firm to push out things like tax return status updates," says Fleszar. They would also be able to pay the firm and clients could submit receipts by taking a picture of receipts. Functionality that could be provided to client employees, including access to payroll, direct deposit and personnel records.
ARNE, the Accountants Resource Network, was stems originally from a CompuServe bulletin board. Over the year, however, Thomson has starting referring to it as a community and it was been web-based for several years.
Bob Scott has provided information to the tax and accounting community since 1991, first as technology editor of Accounting Today, and from 1997 through 2009 as editor of its sister publication, Accounting Technology. He is known throughout the industry for his depth of knowledge and for his high journalistic standards. Scott has made frequent appearances as a speaker, moderator and panelist and events serving tax and accounting professionals. He has a strong background in computer journalism as an editor with two former trade publications, Computer+Software News and MIS Week and spent several years with weekly and daily newspapers in Morris County New Jersey prior to that. A graduate of Indiana University with a degree in journalism, Bob is a native of Madison, Ind