New Award-Winning Accountant Connect from ADP Can Dramatically Increase an Accounting Professional's Most Valuable Asset

Time

ROSELAND, NJ--(Marketwired - Feb 7, 2017) - Tax season has arrived for the thousands of accounting professionals who each year manage the workforce payroll data of their clients. If there's any period when time was in short supply and the list of tasks far too long, it's now! In fact, time is precious all year long, forcing accountants to find more and more ways to literally beat the clock.

Accountant Connect(SM) from ADP^® is changing all that -- and changing the way accounting professionals connect with their clients. Designed by accountants for accountants, Accountant Connect is a free, easy-to-use dashboard. It includes single sign-on access to RUN Powered by ADP^® client payroll reports, tax forms and essential practice management tools, including complimentary Continuing Professional Education (CPE) courses. RUN Powered by ADP is a cloud-based solution that provides accountants and their clients with innovative payroll processing supported by a 24/7 customer service team.

"ADP asked accounting professionals what they needed. We listened and then built a unique solution that combines all of their client information, reporting functions and practice management tools on one platform," said Maria Black, president of Small Business Solutions and Human Resources Outsourcing at ADP. "They now can save valuable time with authorized access to one view of multiple clients that use RUN for their payroll information, reporting and tax forms."

Michael Barbera, CPA, a member of the Boston accounting firm Edelstein & Company, LLP, is one of the clients who helped ADP shape the features of this new solution. He talks about his experiences with Accountant Connect in a video that appears on ADP's website.

"Whether it's extension time, estimate time or during tax season, an accounting professional has to do three hours of work in one hour," said Barbera. "Our most valuable asset is time. What makes Accountant Connect unique is the ability to access all client information at once, as well as having the resource information within the payroll function. ADP took all of our input -- easy sign-on, streamlined reporting, practice management resources -- and made our wish list come true. I can see all of my clients' information, access it, batch it, and share it with colleagues. It's all there. It's amazing."