CCH Axcess Engagement Essentials streamlines the preparation of business tax returns, while also supporting preparation and compilation engagements. Designed specifically with the needs of sole practitioners and firms with four or less staff, you'll have tools at your disposal that provide efficient data import, seamless tax workflow integration, and basic workpaper management and reporting. This empowers you to save time, streamline collaboration, and deliver value to your clients with every engagement.
- Effortless data import and flexible access
- Seamless integration with tax workflows
- Simplify engagement workflows
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Effortless data import and flexible access
No more tedious steps to group trial balance accounts, assign tax codes, and create financial statements. AI-enabled machine learning makes these processes easy, letting you focus on higher-value work. Upload trial balances from QuickBooks Online and Xero directly into the software, and securely access engagement data anytime, whether in the office or remotely. This combination of automation and flexibility ensures efficiency for your team.
Seamless integration with tax workflows
Eliminate duplicate processes and improve productivity with the seamless integration of CCH Axcess™ Engagement Essentials and any CCH Tax solution. The common client database ensures data consistency while enabling multiple staff to collaborate on the same engagement. The power of the CCH Axcess platform streamlines workflows, automates data transfers, and reduces errors, saving time and delivering accurate results for business tax returns.
Simplify engagement workflows
CCH Axcess Engagement Essentials reduces manual effort and improves accuracy by automating trial balance management, tax code assignments and financial statement creation. Integrated with the CCH Axcess platform, it delivers efficiency and consistency, helping your team complete business tax returns effortlessly, as well as preparation and compilation engagements, and with more confidence.
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What firms are saying about CCH Axcess Engagement Essentials
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CCH Axcess Engagement Essentials will increase productivity, create more uniform workpapers, and create a better experience for your clients and your staff.
Integration between CCH Axcess Engagement Essentials and QuickBooks Online is pretty seamliess, probably saving me 2 hours per return on workpaper preparation.
CCH Axcess Engagement Essentials has the best integration with tax as far as trial balance. It’s one click. All other competitors, you have to do a manual upload with a text file or something. If you’re using a CCH Tax solution then you should be using Engagement Essentials. It’s a no-brainer and saves you a bunch of time.
Now, our focus gets put back on the client, since we're saving 30-60 minutes per return. With CCH Axcess Engagement Essentials, there's no data entry. Plus, we use Xero so the solution directly pulls the ledger. It does the same with QBOnline, too. Then, all we do is review for accuracy and simply push a button to send it to CCH Axcess Tax. The tax team gets to start with a draft tax return! All of that creates a huge time savings for improved productivity. The quality of our work is also improved.
CCH Axcess Engagement Essentials is so easy, efficient and user friendly. It is amazing how it automatically assigns groups and easily creates journal entries. Everything is there. We will save about 25% of time, and that is a huge time-saver.
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