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CCH Axcess

Score6.6 out of 10

24 Reviews and Ratings

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What is CCH Axcess?

Wolters Kluwer offers CCH Axcess, a modular cloud-based tax preparation, compliance, and workflow management solution.

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A legitimate best in class enterprise tool.

Incentivized
Verified User
Director in Information Technology (5001-10,000 employees employees)

Pros

  • Client Engagement.
  • Documentation
  • Milestone Coordination.
  • Go-Live Assistance.

Cons

  • More robust regression analysis.
  • Easier engagement long-term post conversion.
  • reference partner access.

Alternatives Considered

Intuit Lacerte, Drake Tax, Wolters Kluwer ATX and Vertex

DO NOT BUY ACCESS TAX

Verified User
Partner in Finance and Accounting (1-10 employees employees)

Pros

  • Software

Cons

  • terrible support
  • lack of implementation support(they expect you to watch 40+ videos
  • NOT USER FRIENDLY!

Alternatives Considered

Wolters Kluwer ATX

Complicated system but does the job

Incentivized
Verified User
Partner in Finance and Accounting (11-50 employees employees)

Pros

  • The integration between modules is great
  • Their solutions website is pretty good
  • They have a very robust system when you buy all modules.

Cons

  • Their implementation team is very siloed
  • They could do better about how to rollover CCH Engagement mappings with the tool so you don't have to redo all Engagement to tax program mappings.
  • Sometimes the tax software is very complicated to find the right "button" to make things work correctly.

Alternatives Considered

Canopy, Drake Tax and Intuit Lacerte

Horrible customer support!

Jason Bovell
Partner in Corporate at Bovell Financial Inc (11-50 employees employees)

Pros

  • Good Tax Program
  • Implementation of previous tax software
  • Nothing else

Cons

  • Customer support does not know their own product!
  • Rep for the company does not know their own product!
  • Hidden add-ons that they deceive prospect into believe is apart of the system.

Alternatives Considered

Wolters Kluwer ATX

Must need for medium to large firms

Incentivized
Justin GippView profile
Senior Accountant in Finance and Accounting at Ryan & Wetmore, PC (11-50 employees employees)

Pros

  • Customer Service
  • Organization
  • Knowledge

Cons

  • Flexibility

Alternatives Considered

Thomson Reuters CS Professional Suite