Editorial & Source Policy

Editorial & Source Policy

Source hierarchy

For current software functionality, Practice Systems Journal prioritizes:

1. current AccountantsWorld documentation;
2. current IRIS Software Group documentation;
3. official help centers and release documentation;
4. official company announcements;
5. authoritative accounting, tax or government sources where required;
6. reputable independent reporting for additional context.

Anonymous comments can help identify questions worth researching but are not treated as proof of product functionality.

Current versus historical information

AccountantsWorld was acquired in 2021, while AccountantsWorld-branded product pages remain active in 2026.

For that reason, pages should distinguish:

historic corporate information

from:

current product availability

from:

current IRIS branding.

A statement that was correct immediately after the acquisition may not describe IRIS’s present product organization.

Product claims

We do not assume features are shared among products.

Payroll Relief functionality is not automatically attributed to After-the-Fact Payroll.

Accounting Power features are not automatically attributed to Practice Relief.

Each claim should be checked against documentation for the specific product.

Pricing

Prices and commercial arrangements can change.

If reliable current first-party pricing is unavailable, an article should explain the factors a firm should evaluate rather than publishing an old third-party price as though it were permanent.

Login and support

This publication may explain how to identify an official destination.

It will not reproduce third-party login forms.

Current AccountantsWorld instructions tell existing customers seeking support to work through support functions inside their application rather than the general sales contact form.

AI-assisted work

Automated tools can assist research organization and drafting, but factual product statements must remain source-grounded.

Google’s current spam policy states that using generative tools to produce large quantities of low-value pages primarily for search manipulation can constitute scaled content abuse.

Our content map exists specifically to prevent that pattern.