After an initial launch was publicized, the product was delayed more than two years before its official unveiling at the California Accounting and Business Show and Conference a year ago.

An Intuit spokesperson declined comment about the reason for the absense of any information. Intuit also recently declined to participate in providing information for a story about practice management software. All information previously available about the application at www.Intuit.com is no longer there.

The online product integrates with Lacerte and QuickBooks and was the company's first practice management product at a time when it is trying to reach full-service CPA firms. The integration is designed to dramatically reduce the amount of data that must be entered in applications used by firms.

In the unusually long test period, the company said thousands of firms used the product on a trial basis. That was later narrowed down to 125 firms with Intuit commented the test was too large.

Intuit had also turned to Big Time Software, which makes time and billing applications, for getting the product to market. Late in 2011, it agreed to embed Big Time's core time, billing and practice management functionality into the Intuit software package.

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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