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  • Provide Payroll Services with Drake Accounting

    Welcome to the second in our three-part series highlighting Drake Accounting features that can help you better serve clients! This week, we are focusing on payroll features in our integrated, full-scale accounting software. Many tax offices first dabble in accounting services by providing payroll for existing business clients. This transition is built upon the trust…

  • E-File Employer Forms with Drake Accounting

    Welcome to the first in our three-part series highlighting Drake Accounting features that can help you better serve clients! This week, we are focusing on how our integrated, full-scale accounting software supports electronic filing for employer forms. Small-business clients are the cornerstones of many tax and accounting practices across the country. Having efficient, feature-rich accounting…

  • Drake Tax Feature Spotlight: Search Data Entry with the Selector Field

    In this series, learn about a few popular Drake Tax features and navigation tools that help you save time and stay productive.   Preparing tax returns is hardly a linear process. With data cross-referencing itself throughout both current and prior-year returns, navigation tools are vital to an efficient tax-prep workflow. The Drake Tax Selector Field…

  • Drake Software and Area Schools Send Christmas Cards to Local Veterans, Law Enforcement

    Drake Software and Macon County schools produced more than 3,000 Christmas cards for the American Red Cross (ARC) Holiday for Heroes project and more than 100 cards for the second annual Holiday Cards for Cops program. For both projects, Drake Software distributed supplies to participating schools, where faculty and staff held card-creating events for students.…

  • Meta Financial Group Acquires EPS Financial

    Last week, Meta Financial Group, Inc. and its subsidiary, MetaBank, announced the acquisition of EPS Financial LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Drake Enterprises, Ltd.

  • Drake Software Classroom Training and CPE Opportunities

    April 18 – or April 19 for preparers in Maine and Massachusetts – doesn’t actually mean the end of tax-related work.

  • Tax Update Classes

    Every year it seems like Congress waits until the last minute to make changes to the tax code. Lately, many of the changes are retroactive, as changes are made in December that affect the current tax year, only to expire a few days later, on December 31.  This environment of uncertainly and change makes it…

  • Annual Federal Tax Refresher (AFTR) Course Now Available

    Drake now offers everything you need to earn your Record of Completion through the IRS’s voluntary Annual Filing Season Program (AFSP). You can complete the Annual Federal Tax Refresher (AFTR) course and all the other training needed to satisfy the continuing education requirements of the AFSP through Drake’s e-Training Center, DrakeETC.com. To register for the…

  • Drake Update Schools…

    It’s been an active year of change for tax preparers, with a new voluntary certification program for tax preparers, the effects of the Affordable Care Act, and substantial other changes to tax laws. To keep pace with these changes, Drake Software recommends that you attend one of our annual update schools. In addition to the…

  • IRS Releases Draft Versions of New Affordable Care Act Forms

    As a tax software company, we get excited when the IRS releases a new form for the upcoming season.  Forms drive our development cycle, and the earlier we can get our hands on them, the better. The Affordable Care Act forms have created heightened anticipation this year, and when the draft versions were finally posted…