The 2014 T1 season is almost upon us, so it's time for tax return preparers to get updated again on all the current issues that may impact their clients' tax returns. This webinar will get you in position to prepare your clients' 2014 personal tax returns, and will review some of the more commonly experienced issues faced by tax preparers.

Join Erin Swint, a tax partner with Squire and Company, for a thorough overview of the key changes from the past year that will impact personal tax return filing including the 2013 Federal Budget, CRA announcements and relevant court cases. Erin will also discuss some other tax matters that are integral to personal taxation as well as administrative issues related to filing returns.

Available Sessions for this Seminar:

ipwebinar.aspx?tab=1&smid=1708, January 20, 2015

This Webinar will focus on how to prepare and submit your T-Slips using the new interface with FormMaster. Plus how to navigate around in the program when searching for extraneous forms.

Available Sessions for this Seminar:

ipwebinar.aspx?tab=1&smid=1699, January 14, 2015
ipwebinar.aspx?tab=1&smid=1699, January 21, 2015

This webinar provides an overview of the Corporate Taxprep interface and explains the basic operations of the program, navigating the tax return and entering data.

While this webinar is designed primarily for new users, it may also be helpful to users that would like a refresher on the operation of the program.

Available Sessions for this Seminar:

ipwebinar.aspx?tab=1&smid=1563, January 13, 2015
ipwebinar.aspx?tab=1&smid=1563, March 23, 2015
ipwebinar.aspx?tab=1&smid=1563, May 11, 2015

CCH Portal



The CCH Portal's bi-directional file exchange capabilities make it easy for you to securely deliver and receive client documents, facilitating collaboration and supporting the upload of even the largest files. In this webinar, we will show you how CCH Portal can help you and your clients to:

• Access vital documents immediately from any location with internet access via a secure, private repository.
• Organize documents electronically in cabinets and folders that mirror the way you store paper documents.
• Easily upload documents of all sizes without relying on an FTP server.
• Designate files as read-only or read/write for easier access and greater security.
• Check out documents to prevent other users from editing them while they are being updated.
• Maintain previous file versions in the document history.
• Search, filter, and display documents by file type, title, creator, keyword and more.

Register now for this FREE webinar and discover how CCH Portal can help you protect your clients' privacy and gain a competitive edge by delivering a new level of client service.

Available Sessions for this Seminar:

, December 17, 2014
, January 07, 2015
, January 14, 2015
, January 21, 2015
, January 28, 2015

In this 90-minute webinar, we will show you how to get around in the software and what functions are available to make you more productive. Includes an in depth look at Family Coupling, File attachments and the Pathfinder, what they are and how to use them to improve your productivity. This session is intended for those who are new to the Cantax software and those who would like a refresher of all the menu items and their function.

Available Sessions for this Seminar:

ipwebinar.aspx?tab=1&smid=1698, December 17, 2014
ipwebinar.aspx?tab=1&smid=1698, January 16, 2015
ipwebinar.aspx?tab=1&smid=1698, January 23, 2015
ipwebinar.aspx?tab=1&smid=1698, January 28, 2015

CCH Scan is a paperless software solution that effortlessly and electronically takes all of the disorganized and unsorted client information, determines what each item is, and outputs the organized documents to a single, organized, and bookmarked PDF file.

This webinar will provide an overview on the use of the product and illustrate how it:

• Delegates the work required to organize T1 source documents to an admin person
• Improves the tax preparation workflow by automatically retrieving the PDF related to the return.
• Speeds up the data entry and review process
• Reduces the risk of errors
• Reduces office space required to store paper documents.
• Reduces time required to retrieve work papers (eg. CRA’s EFILE requests in the summer).
• Saves money - no need to buy additional expensive software to improve scanning image.
• Reduces time for manual bookmarking process for those who are currently scanning.
• Can be used for all source document scanning (front-end scanning)

Available Sessions for this Seminar:

, December 17, 2014
, January 07, 2015
, January 14, 2015
, January 21, 2015
, January 28, 2015

Leganes coach Javier Aguirre had said that the Spanish football season will re-start on June 20.

When it comes to side projects, micro-sites and one-off experiments, you don't need much to get started.

I re-learned an old design lesson from the humble toilet flusher. As new features are added to existing technologies, careful design is required to make their usage clear.

What’s typically involved in an npm version release? How can you determine the release process for an existing project? Can project maintainers do anything to make it easier for new contributors?

The responsive images spec is fantastic and covers a lot of use cases, but most of the time you’ll only need one: resolution switching using the `srcset` and `sizes` attributes.

If you’ve ever had to review a PR where the only code change is adding a wrapper element, you’ll be familiar with the pain of reviewing what appears to be a massive change but is actually trivial.

As the number of asymptomatic Covid-19 patients is increasing across the country, two professors from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Goa, are in the process of devising a rapid test to detect such cases.

Health minister Vishwajit Rane on Thursday visited the Panaji urban health centre to assess the situation since resumption of services at the out patient department (OPD), which began on Tuesday along with OPDs at government hospitals and other centres.

Taking cognisance of the photo published by TOI on Wednesday showing shacks operating at Ozran beach in North Goa in violation of lockdown norms, Goa police on Thursday booked the shack owner.

While many other parts of the country are bracing for a heatwave, India Meteorological Department (IMD), Goa, has said the state may be spared of the phenomenon and may only face a slight increase in temperature.

The Goan Seamen Association of India on Friday met governor Satya Pal Malik over their demand of repatriating seafarers back to India.

The Goa government has extended the working hours in factories to 12 hours with certain conditions till July-end.

Goa waste management corporation (GWMC) has finalized the tender document to set up the over Rs 200cr garbage treatment plant at Bainguinim, Old Goa on a build own operate and transfer (BOOT) basis.

Health minister Vishwajit Rane on Friday directed all 26 OPDs to be operational at the new south Goa district hospital from Monday. After inspecting the infrastructure and facilities at the 500-bedded hospital, Rane said that though the hospital is not complete, whatever parts have been handed over to the health services would be put to maximum use.

Over a thousand migrant workers heaved a collective sigh of relief as the first Shramik special train rolled out of Thivim railway station on Friday. The train, with 1,196 labourers and stranded tourists, is headed for Gwalior in Madhya Pradesh.

It’s been fascinating to see how television programmes have adapted to The Situation. It’s like there’s been a weird inversion with the YouTube asthetic. Instead of YouTubers doing their utmost to emulate the look of professional television, now everyone on professional television looks like a YouTuber.

No more lighting or audio technicians. No more studio audiences. Heck, no more studios.

There are some kinds of TV programmes that are showing the strain. A lot of comedy formats just fall flat without the usual production values. But a lot of programmes work just fine. In fact, some of them might be better. Watching Mary Beard present Front Row Late from her house is an absolute delight. It feels more direct and honest without the artiface of a television studio. It kind of makes you wonder whether expensive production costs are really necessary when what you really care about is the content.

All of this is one big belaboured metaphor for websites.

In times of crisis, informational websites sometimes offer a “lite” version. Max has even made an emergency website kit:

The site contains only the bare minimum - no webfonts, no tracking, no unnecessary images. The entire thing should fit in a single HTTP request. It’s basically just a small, ultra-lean blog focused on maximum resilience and accessibility. The Service Worker takes it a step further from there so if you’ve visited the site once, the information is still accessible even if you lose network coverage.

Eric emphasises the importance of performance in his post Get Static:

I’m thinking here of sites for places like health departments (and pretty much all government services), hospitals and clinics, utility services, food delivery and ordering, and I’m sure there are more that haven’t occurred to me.  As much as you possibly can, get it down to static HTML and CSS and maybe a tiny bit of enhancing JS, and pare away every byte you can.

Tom Loosemore offers this advice to teams building new coronavirus services:

1. Get a 4 year-old Android phone, and use it as your test/demo device.
2. https://design-system.service.gov.uk is your friend.
3. Full React isn’t your friend if it makes your service slow & inaccessible

Remember: This is for everyone.

Indeed, Gov.uk are usually a paragon of best practices in just about any situation. But they dropped the ball recently, as Matthew attests:

coronavirus.data.gov.uk is a static site, fetching and displaying remote data. It is also a 100% client-side JavaScript React site.

http://dracos.co.uk/made/coronavirus.data.gov.uk/ is 238K vs 770K (basics) on load. I’ve removed about 550K of JavaScript. It seems to work the same.

As Tom says:

One sign that your website isn’t meeting the needs of all your users is when Matthew Somerville gets sufficiently grumpy about it to do a proper version himself.

It’s true enough that Matthew excels at creating lightweight, accessible versions of services that are too bloated or buggy to use. His accessible Odeon project from back in the day is legendary. And I use his slimline version of the National Rail website all the time: traintimes.org.uk—it’s a terrificly performant progressive web app.

It’s thankless work though. It flies in the face of everything considered “modern” web development. (If you want to know the cost of “modern” framework-driven JavaScript-first web development, Tim has the numbers.) But Matthew is kind of a hero to me. I wish more developers would follow his example.

Maybe now, with this rush to make lightweight versions of valuable services, we might stop and reflect on whether we ever really needed all those added extras in the first place.

Hope springs eternal.

Update: Matthew has written about his process in Looking at coronavirus.data.gov.uk.

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