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The appetite for detailed commentary on the Chancellor’s Pre-Budget Report on 9 December meant unprecedented demand for rapid and simplified analysis, according to CCH, the leading information provider in the tax and accounting sector, part of Wolters Kluwer.

CCH’s annual Pre-Budget Report summary this year saw a seven-fold increase in demand for its service, which was available within five and a half hours of the Chancellor sitting down.

CCH software has announced the successful sign-off and launch of all three Personal tax software products to their clients for the start of the 2008/09 tax year.

The launches are exactly one year on from the acquisition of MYOB and the timely delivery of the products is a testament to the smooth transition that has taken place.

CCH are continuing to update and support both CCH Taxpoint and CCH PerTAX whilst migrating sites to the go-forward CCH Personal Tax product.

CCH’s Tax Factory software has been shortlisted for Best Technology Innovation at the prestigious Taxation Awards.

The award by Taxation magazine, one of the UK’s leading dedicated tax publications, is in recognition of significant technology developments in the past year that benefit tax professionals.

CCH’s Tax Factory was shortlisted because it allows practices to operate a best of breed policy without compromising practice efficiency, which normally occurs due to the inefficient management of data held in the different applications.

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Following a review of the market place and their business requirements, Willis Scott has chosen to move from Digita to CCH Personal Tax.

With over 50 staff of accountants and business advisors, the dynamic north east practice made the decision to adopt CCH Personal Tax after identifying that the current market conditions meant they needed to put more focus on value added services.

CCH Software has announced a series of nationwide seminars to help accountants ensure they have the knowledge, skills and tools in place to be prepared for the emerging opportunities offered from the turbulent marketplace.

Each event will explore a single aspect of the work of an accounting practice, taking advantage of CCH’s 100 years experience of working with accountants and lawyers and 40 years of experience producing tax and accounting software to offer a unique perspective on the professional market.

Starting from the end of March, the free events will focus on a variety of topics,

CCH software, part of Wolters Kluwer UK, has appointed Bob Atkins as Business Development Manager to support the company’s ambitious growth plans.

Accounting firms are increasingly channelling their investment into technology to help their clients survive and grow in difficult economic conditions. Technology helps streamline and automate accountants’ processes.

Following an exhaustive market review, Whitchurch practice Teasdale & Co have announced their return to CCH’s Tax software.

Gary Hewitt, Partner, comments: “We historically used the PerTAX product before switching to the Digita product 2 years ago.

We’d missed the support and training that CCH had provided, so with the release of the new CCH Personal Tax software we decided to review the product for our needs.

CCH has announced that another Top 10 practice, PKF is to implement the new CCH Personal Tax software.

Launched last year, CCH Personal Tax has set a benchmark in Tax software, providing its users with market leading automated workflow and real-time exception reporting that simplifies the tax return preparation and administration process.

Talking about PKF’s decision to rollout CCH Personal Tax, Chris Martin, Tax IT manager explained: “Having spent a great deal of time reviewing the products available in the marketplace, we are very happy that we have made the right decision to select

CCH are delighted to announce that Top 25 practice Johnston Carmichael have chosen to implement the new CCH Personal Tax software for the new 2008/09 tax season.

Partner Douglas Rintoul commented, “We have a very strong relationship with the CCH Team and we have been very pleased with how CCH have listened and worked with us. We believe they have delivered an excellent new taxation product.”

Douglas goes on to explain, "It was very important for us to ensure that CCH had got it right, so we have spent substantial time reviewing CCH against other competitive products.

CCH Professional Development, in association with the ICAEW, has been in the business of professional development training for over 18 years.

Their ever popular CCH Seminars Online service has been replaced with a state of the art e-learning platform which leaves others in its wake.

CCH e-CPD launches in August 2005 and will provide a balance of all the old desk-based training benefits with a good dose of innovation in an area of learning that is finally coming of age.

With compulsory CPD for all UK accountants now a reality, e-CPD is the perfect solution for the busy professional; inter