Author Archive - Irish McIntyre

How Saving 20 Hours During Their 7-Day Close is Getting the Tax Team More Exposure When the US tax department of AstraZeneca was under the microscope of new management, they knew that incorporating software into their tax processses would help to gain effiencies around data managment and reporting out globally. In our recent Data Management Podcast series, Linda ...

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Want to reduce manual data manipulation? Or how to free up hours during your compliance process? Learn about the latest initiatives progressive tax departments are taking to manage their data in our podcast series on data management.   This week, Rich Heller at Bayer Corporation shares how his tax department dramatically changed how they ...

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Chuck Kamen, Tax Manager from Lehigh Hanson kicks off our best practice data management podcast series with a look at how a very large cement and aggregates company is improving its data collection process and on track to file two months early with fewer resources. Listen here. In this series, some ...

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4 Days, 500 tax professionals and 35 breakout sessions presented by dozens of industry leaders – together they’re a recipe for success at this week’s 62nd Midyear Conference in Washington, DC. Check out my video recap from the event. The conference kicked off with an engaging general session led by keynote speaker ...

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From catching up with clients to attending some great break-out sessions, I'm really looking forward to being at the TEI Midyear Conference in Washington, DC in a few short days. This year's 62nd Midyear Conference, will mark the 15th year that Thomson Reuters has been the exclusive partner on tax research with ...

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After reading through hundreds of suggestions on ways to improve our global provision product,  data collection tools and user communities...we've been able to make some big improvements in our product offerings. As we wrap up this quarter's “We’re Listening @ ONESOURCE” series, we'd like to emphasize this campaign is not a one-time ...

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A big part of what we do is ask "How can we make the products easier for our customers to use? How are we designing products for our customers?"  Those are the kind of questions at the core of how we engage feedback and set the direction of our products from our user communities.  For years,  we've ...

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 Say good-bye to the days of files being stored in different areas, under different names and on c-drives. One of the top process management questions raised at the 2011 ONESOURCE User Conference was:  Are you doing anything to improve document management across the ONESOURCE products? We’ve been listening to customers who’ve ...

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Do you have nightmares about your data being held hostage? If so, no need to worry anymore. This year, our main focus is all around improving our client’s experience when managing data. In our third update for the  “We’re Listening @ ONESOURCE” series, we’ll focus on one of our customer’s biggest headaches...data collection. One ...

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Welcome the second update from our "We're Listening @ ONESOURCE" series...the official series dedicated to addressing our ONESOURCE customers' feedback. Do you have insights on how we can better serve our customers? We want to hear from you! Check back throughout the next seven weeks for more blog posts on how we've been able ...

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You asked...we're delivering. At the 2011 ONESOURCE User Conference,  we heard feedback from our 1500+ clients in attendance via a new program launched so that we could hear everything our customers care  about most.  See updates from the We’re Listening @ ONESOURCE campaign.  In this series, I'll share with you how we're ...

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As the year winds down, it's important to understand how the world of tax technology has changed, how to prioritize making your resources more valuable, as well as the telltale signs that your processes should be automated. Listen to the first Corporate Tax Corner podcast, to hear key tactics you can implement ...

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226 tweets, 204 written comments, 10 listening sessions and dozens of ONESOURCE client interviews were all captured in just three days at the recent ONESOURCE User Conference in Miami. By allowing our clients to tweet (#ONESOURCEuc), stop by the “We’re Listening” booth to speak directly with Thomson Reuters executives, leave an ...

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We're fresh on the heals of closing sessions at 2011 ONESOURCE User Conference in Miami. Watch final running commentary from Day 4  to learn how we wrapped up this year's festivities. The final moments of this one-of-a-kind global experience include a discussion led by me on  plans for the future of ONESOURCE WorkFlow Manager and how it will integrate ...

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