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ClientRelate is an innovative productivity tool for accounting firms that integrates the strength of Tax Research Network with the power of ProSystem fx Tax and Global fx Tax. ClientRelate helps you manage your resources and easily integrates with your daily workflow – allowing you to save time and money, generate revenue, and focus on the most important element of your practice – your clients.

  • Alerts you to new tax developments and quickly identifies affected clients
  • Targets clients that may benefit from additional services
  • Identifies new client service areas and opportunities for your practice

With ClientRelate, you'll have all the expert analytical research support and professionally developed tools you'll need to improve your efficiency and complete your client services.

Available Formats/Update Frequency:
Tax Research NetWork – Weekly Updates

Bulletins offer you timely coverage of new developments in federal and state tax law.

  • Summary: Highlights the new tax development, notes follow-up actions required, indicates taxpayers that may be affected, and describes the ClientRelate search of your tax return database.
  • Client Letter: Communicates the new development in non-technical language so that you can quickly mail or e-mail your clients.

Services provide comprehensive analysis of step-by-step procedures for tax planning engagements.

  • Summary: Highlights the benefit of the service, indicates taxpayers that may benefit from the service, and describes the ClientRelate search of your tax return database.
  • Explanations of the Law: Provides a detailed explanation of the tax law behind the service so that you have a better basis for providing the service to your clients.
  • Step-by-Step Analysis: Details actions required to provide the service so that junior staff can perform the service with less supervision.
  • Practice Aids: Downloadable tools that shorten the time required to complete the service. These include sample spreadsheets, checklists, questionnaires, and filled-in forms.
  • Client Letter: Describes the potential benefit of the service in non-technical language so that you can quickly mail or e-mail your clients.

Perform three types of searches for added flexibility – ClientRelate allows you to perform three types of searches that provide you with fast answers to your clients' tax questions:

  • Search by Tax Bulletin: Check across your entire client base to see which clients are impacted by specific developments.
  • Search by Service: Check across your entire client base to see which clients might benefit from specific services or engagements.
  • Search by Client: Determine which services or bulletins might be most beneficial to a particular client.

Modify the search criteria based on your needs – Most searches are created based upon general practice needs. With ClientRelate, however, we enable you to modify the searches to meet your practice composition. Adjust the threshold amounts if the threshold value is too low for your practice. Or, change a search term if your firm uses “Research Expenditures” rather than “Research & Development Expenses”.

Create your own search categories – ClientRelate provides general categories for searches to assist in finding relevant searches. You can create more specific searches that meet your practice needs. For example, if your firm specializes in retail clients, create a “Retail” category to use for your clients. Searches can be set to run at a specific time of the day to maximize resources.

Identify targeted clients – ClientRelate allows you to generate a list of clients that could be impacted by new tax developments or benefit from tax planning strategies. Just launch the ClientRelate Wizard from any bulletin or service to initiate a search against your database of federal and state tax returns in ProSystem fx or Global fx. At the conclusion of your search, you will be presented with a list of targeted clients.

Create client letters with mail merge tool – Once you get your results, you can easily send out client letters with our mail merge tool. The client letters within ClientRelate are pre-formatted to work with Microsoft Word mail merge or e-mail merge functionality, so you can easily communicate important issues with your clients.

  • Review the letter and personalize it to fit your style.
  • Verify that all the clients on the results list should receive the letter.
  • Then, simply click on the Merge to a New Document icon to produce a personalized
  • letter for each client on the list.
  • The integration with your ProSystem fx or Global fx Tax Preparation software continues as the client contact information is extracted from your tax preparation client files.

Spreadsheets – Most ClientRelate Services and some Bulletins contain downloadable spreadsheet files that assist you in performing calculations for your clients. These spreadsheets are built and tested by our editors, so that you can save time in performing the service or communicating the impact of a new law.

Assumptions – Most spreadsheets have a data collection page for you to enter the relevant data.

Client ready output – And, the spreadsheets contain a customer presentation page, formatted with a professional look.

Filled-in forms – When a form that is not used frequently is required, ClientRelate provides sample filled-in forms and supporting statements to provide guidance when you complete the form for your clients.

ClientRelate easily integrates into your daily workflow:

  • Review Tax Tracker News to stay abreast of ClientRelate releases
  • Determine whether new ClientRelate Bulletins or Services may be applicable to your clients
  • Simplify year-end tax planning by using ClientRelate's annual year-end tax planning bulletins, including client letters
  • Mark your modifications to the search, if any, on the Search Customization sheet
  • Run search, making modifications as indicated on the Search Customization sheet and print Results List
  • Review Results List and delete clients as necessary (e.g., no longer a client of the firm)
  • Review client letter and modify if you wish
  • Create letters using Microsoft® Word mail or email merge
  • Perform selected Service by following ClientRelate's Step-by-Step guidelines and using pre-prepared Practice Aids
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