Case Study: Powerful Accounting Solutions achieves secure, anytime-anywhere file access with SmartVault

Dawn Brolin on making a secure move to the cloud

Powerful Accounting LLC, led by CPA MSA Dawn Brolin, is an outsourced CFO and small-business accounting firm that needed to operate completely mobile. Before launching the firm in 2011, Brolin was tied to desktop computers and an onsite server, which limited remote access, created after-hours catch-up work, and left her hesitant to move to the Cloud due to security concerns.

Brolin adopted hosted QuickBooks, WebEx for training, and SmartVault for online document management—an intuitive, encrypted, authenticated solution that lets her create client vaults and share version-controlled files instantly. The result: secure, anytime-anywhere access to documents, faster client exchanges, eliminated office catch-up time, and confidence that cloud-based security exceeds email and legacy desktop approaches.

Powerful Accounting Solutions

Dawn W. Brolin

CPA, MSA