Industry News

SOS: Save Our Staff! Relieve Accounting Stress With Tax Automation
Thursday, Mar 16, 2023
Tax season can feel overwhelming. However, “Abandon ship!” is not what you want to hear from your staff during the busiest time of the year. What’s the answer to an admin staff drowning in paperwork, tech-stack overload, or countless steps and procedures? Addressing tax and accounting stress with automated solutions alleviates stress and eliminates repetitive manual processes. Automation Lifeline...

Pitch Paper and Make Tax Workflow Automation Wishes a Reality
Friday, Feb 17, 2023
Paper processes are tedious and inefficient. As a result, tax workflow automation has become an increasingly popular solution for tax and accounting firms. Many of the manual steps traditionally associated with preparing and filing taxes can be simplified through automation. Workflow in a firm –...

Hiring Tax and Accounting Interns Who Know Tech
Monday, Jan 23, 2023
Many tax and accounting firms are investing in software and other tools to optimize their processes. When staffing up for busy season, firms can benefit greatly from having interns who understand the latest technologies and can make the most of them. They acclimate quickly...

SafeSend Announces Leadership Expansion as Company Growth Continues
Monday, Dec 19, 2022
Growth continued throughout 2022 at SafeSend®, a market-leading provider of tax workflow automation and client collaboration technology solutions for tax and accounting professionals. Every area of the comp...

Two Top Solutions That Help Firms Prepare for Busy Season Accounting Work
Friday, Dec 16, 2022
Anticipating busy season, accounting firms spend time preparing and printing engagement letters and client organizers. Gathering the information and signed documentation required to prepare taxes is an important and necessary step which often monopolizes a significant amount of staffing time. In addition to this...

Address Stress: Don’t Let Accounting Burnout Lead to Quiet Quitting
Wednesday, Nov 30, 2022
While stress may historically be a seasonal expectation in the tax and accounting profession, continuously being overworked can lead to accounting burnout. Implement automation solutions to reduce manual tasks and prevent the feelings that could result in low productivity, quiet quitting, or even resignations. It may seem as though ...

Product News: SafeSend Exchange is Now Part of the SafeSend Suite
Tuesday, Nov 01, 2022
SafeSend® announced the addition of SafeSend Exchange™ secure file transfer solution to the SafeSend Suite™ tax workflow automation platform. Now available within the Suite Preferred Pricing Tier, the new SafeSend Exchange release has a completely redesigned look and feel and has brought the power of secure file transfer to the SafeSend Suite, giving clients another consistent experience. “The SafeSend Sui...

5 Funny Reasons Firms Still Use Paper in Their Tax Preparation
Monday, Oct 24, 2022
In the age of technology and e-filing, why is paper still a tax preparation standard in some firms? When systems and procedures have been around forever, it can be hard to embrace change. If you recognize any o...

SafeSend Embraces Remote and Hybrid Workforce & Values Employees
Friday, Sep 30, 2022
SafeSend has recognized the need to attract and retain talent without geographic boundaries since the company’s founding in 2008. SafeSend’s authentic culture is felt throughout the organization both by the remote and hybrid employees. In a recent company-wi...

The Best Way to Prepare for Tax Season & Avoid Preparation Paradox
Friday, Sep 23, 2022
How does your firm prepare for tax season? Are you doing the same thing as last year, pulling out that dog-eared checklist and ordering boxes and boxes of paper to print your organizers? Have you considered how processes can be improved? Maybe your firm has taken so many steps to try and improve upon old ways that preparing for tax season feels like a juggling act with the number of tools you are using to address each step of the tax engagement. How can you avoid this preparation paradox and best prepare for tax seas...