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AWS re:Invent 2024 FinOps Updates

FinOps Foundation

Key Insight: At re:Invent 2024, AWS announced numerous product enhancements that help FinOps Practitioners and their organizations optimize their cloud usage. The FinOps Foundation caught up with several AWS Product Managers at re:Invent and asked them what their teams have delivered and how these updates will impact Practitioners.

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Is your firm overpaying for external hires?

Accounting Today

With accounting talent in short supply, many firms are paying a premium for external hires instead of promoting their internal talent. My firms compensation data, collected in 2024 and 2025, shows that accounting firms paid 7% more to bring in outside senior analysts in tax and audit than they paid internal staff in the same positions.

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Introducing US online bill payments, powered by BILL

Xero

Our I want to pay that way report (2024) found that over half (58%) of US small businesses spend more than 4 hours managing accounts payable per month. So we want to make this process easier and more efficient for small businesses by simplifying the end-to-end accounts payable workflow.

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What is the CPA Exam? A complete guide.

Intuit

Business Analysis and Reporting (BAR): The BAR section covers concepts such as data analytics, some financial planning methods, and financial risk management in 50 multiple-choice questions and 7 task-based simulations. The AICPA updates these release dates every two years. The AICPA offers anyone taking the CPA Exam unlimited retakes.

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The next generation's view of risk management: career or steppingstone?

Accounting Today

Its Employer Tenure in 2024 report found the median number of years that wage and salary workers had been at their current jobs dropped to 3.9 years in January 2024, the lowest since 2002. This observation is backed up by longer-term data collected by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. years compared to 4.6 years for those 55-64.

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Tax Fraud Blotter: Negative waves

Accounting Today

Yager used clients information to present false returns to the IRS from November 2023 through March of 2024, submitting returns in the name of her clients without their knowledge or approval. Nixa, Missouri: Tax preparer Tina Louise Yager has pleaded guilty to making false and fictitious claims against the U.S. and to wire fraud.

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Avoid These Costly, Yet Common Small Business Bookkeeping Mistakes

Remote Quality Bookkeeping

As of 2024, there are approximately 34.8 And while it may feel manageable at first, handling small business bookkeeping without the right system or experience can quickly lead to costly missteps. Small businesses are the backbone of the U.S. million small businesses nationwide, making up 99.9% of all U.S.