Executives, board members and donors increasingly want better ways to visualize the performance of nonprofits. That is in terms of both being able to see key performance indicators and to have a measurement of the impact of fundraising, according to Erika McNichol, senior product for nonprofit software vendor, Abila, said this week in explaining the accounting trends her company sees as important in the NFP world in 2015.

Intuit is holding a 15-city tour this month under the name, QuickBooks Connect Local. The free events use the Connect name from the company's first QuickBooks conference last fall. Events will offer training and certification and there will be presentations by software vendors and well-known industry speakers.

Three individuals, whose previous employers were barred from preparing federal income tax returns from offers have themselves gotten the boot. The court action against  Shandon Allen, Tabitha Tunstall, and Shewanda Hamilton said the three started business as Southern King Taxes 2012 in the Memphis, Tenn., area after the owners of their previous employer, Mo' Money Taxes, were barred from the business

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