FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

October 1, 2014 – K2 Enterprises has released their annual technology awards for 2014.  “It was quite interesting this year as there were no unanimous winners.  There were votes for many solutions.  We did have some repeat winners this year but no unanimous winners” said Val Steed, CEO K2 Enterprises.  K2 has been providing the K2 Quality Awards now for thirteen years. “The products represented by K2 quality awards are among the best of class available today. Our instructors and attendees recognize the merits of the offering and the benefits that users enjoy.” said Randy Johnston, Executive V.P. “Anyone who can sway over our team members really deserves the recognition.  Congratulations to all.” added Brian Tankersley, Director of Strategic Relationships.

K2 Enterprises Annual Quality Awards are determined by a voting poll of the K2 Enterprises instructor team. The polling members of this team are Randy Johnston, Will Fleenor, Val Steed, Brian Tankersley, Tommy Stephens, Bob Spencer, Lawrence (Mac) McClelland, and John Keegan.

2014 Categories and Winners:

•Best Overall Mobile Strategy –  Sage North America

•Best New Mobile App – Intuit

•Reseller Program – ADP

•CPA Program – QuickBooks Pro Advisor – Intuit

•Reseller Channel – Open Systems

•New Product –  AdvanceFlow – Thomson Reuters

•New Module – Point of Sale – Open Systems

•Management Strategy –  Biznet

•Technical Support – eFileCabinet

•Customer Satisfaction – BillQuick

•Ease of Use – Wave Accounting

•Marketing Communications – Avalara

•Overall Quality – Doc.It

•Tax Technology – UltraTax – Thomson Reuters

•Audit Technology – Engagement – Wolters Kluwer

•Business Intelligence Solution – Power BI Suite – Microsoft

•Workflow Solution – XCM Workflow – XCM Solutions

•Small Business Accounting Solution – QuickBooks Online

•Small CPA Firm Solution – Office Tools Professional

•Entry-Level Accounting Upgrade Solution – CYMA

•Top Hosting Provider – Cloud9 Real Time

•Social Media – Jennifer Warawa – Sage North America

•Cloud Power Solution – AccountantsWorld

•Cloud Ease of Use – Sage One – Sage North America

•Cloud Top Shelf Award – Office 365 – Microsoft

•Cloud New Product – Microsoft Online – Microsoft

•Cloud Portal – ShareFile – Citrix

K2 Enterprises is a Hammond, Louisiana based organization that provides continuing professional education services to the accounting profession and marketing consulting services to technology providers in the accounting market. K2 Enterprises delivers approximately 900 educational programs to over 40,000 professional accountants on an annual basis throughout the United States and Canada.

K2 team votes are influenced by end user feedback and experience from consulting and extensive teaching. Detailed biographies on each of the polled members can be found at http://www.k2e.com/team.

Contact: Caron Choate

Telephone: (888) 542-9390

Email:  caron@k2e.com