Accounting and Accounting Technology discussion forums
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Web-based forums: (Some of these will require
you to complete their user application forms:)
Electronic
Accountant (Faulkner & Gray) -a whole set of forums.
Reasonably active; they have half-dozen magazines generating hits onto their
webpage, running Net.Thread: PCMag
Byte
AICPA (American Institute of CPAs ) Forums
Reasonably active. Bugs have been fixed.
Uses the forums component within a whole integrated web/commerce/content
solution from NetCreate
ASP Island Forums (Running
ASP pages, probably IIS server/Frontpage forums)
ASP News Forums (outsourced
at Paradise Web running on Powerforum Plus Pro, an incredibly great service
provider that allows the poster to use HTML, edit his posts later etc.)
WebHarbor Forums
(a leading ASP information website. running DCForum
not much content yet at this time)
UK AccountingWeb http://forum.accountingweb.co.uk/~AccountingWEB
(good content; slow moving; uses OriellyWebBoard platform.)
Accountants World http://www.accountantsworld.com (this is an NT-IIS-ASP board; active, good accounting discussion and VERY good website.)
AccountantingSoftWorld http://accountingsoftwarenews.com/discussion_toc.htm(board based on webbot software; active accounting software discussion and good website!)
Flashcommerce ASP discussion (custom perl web board, no threading, zillions of topic boards. Hopelessly too slow; good "news" but little interaction. Big integrated marketing site with lots of click & cookie tracking)
e-Company.com discussions http://www.ecompany.com/discussions/ASP board; slow. semiactive.
Financial Systems Forum (custom perl web board, for enterprise/high end - slow turnover)
WebTrust Alliance Discussion Area (WebCrossing (old v2) Hosted by PlanetCast; nice multi-message pages show the messages in sequence--very usable, but not threaded. Not much interaction here- slow turnover)
Michael Rappa's
Managing
the Digital Enterprise Forum another
UltimateBBS; good!
Online Management IOMA Discussion
Groups (active. Good content,
especially Accounts Payable issues. Running
UltimateBBS. Nice multiple message views. Extreme moderators
however.)
CPANet old CF Forums
and new ASP Forums
(good volume, good treeview threaded
webboard 4)
BizProWeb's Accounting
& Finance Forum (active! good
stuff. Standard UBB style webboard)
California Society of CPAs http://www.egroups.com/search?query=california+cpas
and http://www.egroups.com/group/ASKnow
and http://www.egroups.com/group/RAMsession
Peachtree group http://www.egroups.com/group/peachtree
(slow moving; specific
pt questions)
Quickbooks groups http://www.egroups.com/search?query=quickbooks
(lots of messages)
Pro2Net
- new, empty set of
forums. Running ASP pages, probably IIS server/Frontpage forums.
ERP Fans' Baan User Discussion
Forums (all of these are native cgi
script, threaded listings,
ERP Fan's Oracle User
Discussion Forums multiple
topic categories, high performance, and
ERP Fan's PeopleSoft User
Discussion Forums have
very interesting topics but mostly on
ERP Fan's SAP User Discussion Forums
systems-related questions.)
ERP Fan's "everybody-else's ERP
User Discussion Forums
Systems Union SunAccounts forum http://www.delphi.com/sunsystems/start
(this is an NT-IIS-ASP based board;
very low volume. maybe dead.)
The Red Herring Think Tank (WebCrossing
platform. all business topics. thin volume but interesting.)
Excite's Unmoderated: alt.biz.accounting (actually
ReMarq interface onto usenet.)
Excite's ever-changing assortment of Accounting
Forum Links (ReMarq interface.)
Ernst & Young's Threaded
Discussions (pitiful. A good
example of "open discussion" in a button-down culture. It's been
there so long their meta keyword is "big six" but still has only 50
messages.)
CFO Magazine Discussions
(another heavy-duty webcrossing
discussion--good reading!)
Accounting.com http://www.accounting.com
(offline? empty.)
Accounting Discussion http://www.accountingdiscussion@egroups.com
AccountingWeb http://www.accountingweb.com
(custom/cgi, light traffic, tidbit
messages)
Champion products forum
(wwwboard, very simple message list; vendor
support questions/answrs)
CPA Online (The
Accountant's Ledger) (perl? custom,
threaded single message list, very light traffic)
AEC Management Software
(perl? custom,
threaded, multiple messages per page; very pleasant; good.)
CIO Magazine discussion area (wellengaged.com
hosted. active but content has gone "downmarket".)
Real Estate Accounting
Professionals (wwwboard,
active! RE software questions/answers)
Harry Pottol's Quickbooks Help Forum
Jack Burson's CPA website Forums
Dun & Bradstreets' Outsourcing Forum.
Professional Pricing Society Forums
Asia Pacific Management
Forums
ISP-Invoicing
Malaysia Ecommerce Hub
OneList AccountingDiscussion
Visual Basic Forums
Harvard Business Review forums
Career Magazine http://www.careermag.com/ubb-cgi-bin/Ultimate.cgi
Byte forums deserve mention http://www.byte.com/nntp/joncon
TWiki Webs!
http://twiki.sourceforge.net/
WikiWiki clones: Sourceforge
and C2
e-commerce web discussion boards:
XML.com's XML
discussions mainpage
XML.org's list archives includes
ebXML list archives
eCommerceTimes http://www.ecommercetimes.com/wwwboard/wwwboard.shtml
Search these for "accounting" or other topics:
eGroups http://www.egroups.com
About.com http://www.about.com
SparkLists directory http://sparklist.net/
Mailing lists, too numerous to list them all
Forensic accounting at: http://www.elmengineering.com/fas
Link Site - Tax Resources.com
Did I miss anything? Please email me if you find a busted
link or want to add something.
Todd Boyle, CPA
Kirkland, WA
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