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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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CCH Axcess Engagement Essentials will increase productivity, create more uniform workpapers, and create a better experience for your clients and your staff.
Elaine Marquez
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Integration between CCH Axcess Engagement Essentials and QuickBooks Online is pretty seamliess, probably saving me 2 hours per return on workpaper preparation.
Daniel Kaufman
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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.
Jason Ackerman, CPA
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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.
Pat Generis, CPA, EA
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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.
Christina Stewart, CPA 

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