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IRS Appeals forms new resolution office

Accounting Today

The IRS has long offered alternative dispute resolution, but says use has declined in recent years, and it hopes to make it more attractive and accessible.

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Reasons to come and visit Xero at Accountex London 2024

Xero

Nothing beats an in-person event. Especially one like Accountex, where the curated speakers, exhibits, and masterclasses mean you can build both your knowledge and industry friendships – all in one place. This year, we’re bringing our popular masterclasses back, along with a whole team of Xero experts to help you cultivate an efficient and rewarding practice.

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IRS unveils draft Form 1099-DA for crypto reporting

Accounting Today

The Internal Revenue Service previewed a draft version of the Form 1099-DA on Friday for reporting on the proceeds of digital asset transactions for crypto brokers.

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Optimizing Cash Flow Management for E-Commerce Businesses

Accounting Department

In a dynamic industry where change is the only constant, good cash flow management stands as one of the most critical factors for the success of e-commerce businesses. Navigating the online retail waters is often turbulent, with fast-paced transactions and a myriad of financial nuances that demand efficiency and foresight. Poor cash flow management could capsize even the most promising ventures, while a firm grasp on financial inflows and outflows can propel your e-commerce business forward, ens

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Elevating Accounting Practices: The Power of Outsourcing and Automation in the Digital Age

Speaker: Nancy Wu, Head of Sales and Customer Success at SkyStem

Join us for an enlightening webinar as we delve into the transformative realm of modern accounting practices. In today's digital age, the convergence of outsourcing and automation has revolutionized how businesses manage their financial operations. In this webinar we will explore the synergistic potential of these two strategies to streamline processes, enhance accuracy, save cost and drive strategic decision-making.

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Small businesses are hiring: what to consider when growing your workforce

Xero

The latest Xero Small Business Insights (XSBI) data is a good reminder about the important contribution your small business makes to your local community, particularly around job opportunities. There are more people working in small businesses than a year ago in the three countries where we track jobs (Australia, New Zealand and the UK). In fact, jobs growth is either already well above average, as seen in New Zealand, or accelerating.

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Purchasing & AP Automation for Schools and MATs Like Yours

Compleatable

Join Compleat Education as we run through our purchasing and accounts payable automation software especially for schools and multi-academy trusts. We’ll go over ways to save your school/s time, money, and increase visibility on every purchase. The post Purchasing & AP Automation for Schools and MATs Like Yours first appeared on Compleat Software.

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Tap overlooked tax breaks to help small business owners

Accounting Today

Experts say that busy entrepreneurs often miss incentives and advantages available to them. Financial advisors and tax professionals can give them a nudge.

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Making the Switch to Outsourced Client Accounting Services

Accounting Department

When you have a small or mid-size business, one of the issues you can run into is not having all the departments a larger company would have. In other words, you might not have dedicated employees for HR, accounting, and other areas.

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What is RouteWise? Accounts Payable Tools

Fidesic blog

What is RoueWise? RouteWise by Fidesic is a visual workflow editor that makes it easy to setup and maintain invoice approval processes within your accounts payable department.

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Save money on every invoice you process with automated accounts payable software

Cevinio

Automated accounts payable software transforms your business by cutting costs and boosting efficiency.

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Predictions You Can Rely On: How Data Drives Successful Financial Forecasting

Speaker: Robbie Bhathal, Founder & CEO, and Matthew Acalin, Head of Credit Intelligence

In today's volatile financial environment, how confident are you in your company’s financial forecasting? To get the most accurate cash predictions that will lead to long-term financial survival, real-time data is critical. Innovative cash management strategies can lead to better credit opportunities, more sustainable growth, and long-term financial prosperity.

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Unlocking Summer Success: Inside A Typical Summer at ADC | Beyond the Books Podcast by AccountingDepartment.com

Accounting Department

We are thrilled to announce that Episode 17 of our podcast, Beyond the Books , is now live and ready for your listening pleasure.

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Why you should be very skeptical of that auditor’s report

Blake Oliver

I'm honored to be quoted by Gene Marks, CPA , in his latest piece on The Hill, in which he brilliantly unpacks why investors should approach audit reports with a healthy dose of skepticism. Read it here.

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QuickBooks "Live Experts" May Not Be So Bad

Insightful Accountant

A lot of ProAdvisors and Accountants voiced their opinions at the April 24th QuickBooks Live Strategy (briefing) webinar. a lot of those opinions were negative, but this might not be as bad as your thinking.

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Importance of Cybersecurity Awareness Training for Employees in Tax Season [2024]

Ace Cloud Hosting

Tax season 2024 is ongoing, and the tax firms are busy handling their clients’ taxes. However, cybersecurity is one aspect most tax firms ignore during the tax season. Like tax.

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The Definitive Guide to Spend Management

The status quo for AP in small and mid-market companies is broken. It consists of messy tech stacks of siloed solutions that give rise to manual work, a lack of control, wasted spend, and unnecessary risks. The benefits of shifting to spend management are tangible, measurable, and are felt across the whole organization. Spend management is a different way of thinking and an innovation whose time has come.

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Submissions open for 2024 Top Firms by AUM

Accounting Today

Accounting Today is in the midst of surveying CPA firms with wealth management practices for this year's 'Wealth Magnets' ranking.

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The Human Side of Healthcare Debt Collection

RevCycle

Summary Healthcare debt is a growing concern in the United States, placing a significant burden on both patients and providers. While Artificial Intelligence (AI) is making waves in the debt collection industry, this paper argues that a human-centric approach focused on empathy, understanding, and flexible solutions can achieve higher netback for healthcare providers while treating patients with dignity and respect.

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How Small Businesses Can Thrive Under Singapore’s New Flexible Work Arrangements (FWA)

Counto

How Small Businesses Can Thrive Under Singapore’s New Flexible Work Arrangements (FWA) As of December 1, 2024, all employers in Singapore, including small businesses, will be required to fairly consider formal requests for flexible work arrangements (FWAs) as per the new Tripartite Guidelines. This significant update aims to enhance work-life balance but brings several challenges for small business owners.

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Understanding Reportable Transactions: What Tax Preparers Need to Know

Insightful Accountant

While rare, tax preparers must disclose reportable transactions on most returns. Understanding which transactions require disclosure is crucial for all preparers to ensure compliance.

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Navigating Financial Storms: Strategies for Building Resilient Balance Sheets

Speaker: Carolina Aponte - Owner and CEO, Caja Holdings LLC

In today's rapidly changing business environment, building a resilient balance sheet is crucial to the survival of any business. A resilient balance sheet allows a company to withstand financial shocks and adapt to changing market conditions. To achieve this, companies need to focus on key strategies such as maintaining adequate liquidity, managing debt levels, diversifying revenue streams, and prioritizing profitability over growth.

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Loan shark definition

Accounting Tools

What is a Loan Shark? A loan shark is a person or business that charges a higher interest rate for loans than is allowed by law. Maximum interest rates are typically set at the state level, so an entity is considered a loan shark if it lends above the legal interest rate in the state in which it does business. Loan sharks use threats of various kinds to obtain repayment.

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PCAOB finds auditor evaluation deficiencies

Accounting Today

Seventeen percent of comment forms in 2021 and 2022 contained auditor evaluation deficiencies, according to the PCAOB.

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AWS VPC: 5 Essential Strategies to Optimize your VPC Network

Economize

An Overview of AWS VPC AWS VPC or Amazon Virtual Private Cloud is a logically isolated virtual network in the cloud where you can securely launch your AWS resources. It creates a private network within the cloud environment where you can securely deploy your applications and data centers.

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8 Key Features to Look for in a QuickBooks Enterprise Hosting Provider

Ace Cloud Hosting

One of the most popular desktop-based accounting and financing management software, QuickBooks Enterprise, is a game changer for many. From invoicing to payroll and inventory management, QuickBooks Enterprise helps you.

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Putting the ‘Tech’ in Spend Management Techniques

Speaker: Wayne Spivak, President and CFO of SBA * Consulting Ltd., Industry Writer, Public Speaker

If you’re lost in the world of spend management needs and your GAP analysis is lacking perspective on the future state of your business performance, listen up! With the advancement of technology, the implementation of spend management best practices and concrete GAP analyses is more streamlined and accessible than ever before. And while this may sound like great news for you and your clients, it won’t be worthwhile unless you have the latest techniques to back up your ambitions!

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Workforce Wednesday: QBO Expense Claims - Part 2

Insightful Accountant

In this edition of Workforce Wednesday, Murph finishes up his two-part mini-series on QBO Expense claims by inviting employees to submit expenses, capturing and submitting expense claims, and reviewing and approving expense claims.

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Liquidity ratio analysis

Accounting Tools

What is Liquidity Ratio Analysis? Liquidity ratio analysis is the use of several ratios to determine the ability of an organization to pay its bills in a timely manner. This analysis is important for lenders and creditors , who want to gain some idea of the financial situation of a borrower or customer before granting them credit. There are several ratios available for this analysis, all of which use the same concept of comparing liquid assets to short-term liabilities.

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ISSB to research nature and human capital risks, opportunities

Accounting Today

The research will focus on investor needs and build on relevant preexisting initiatives when possible.

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Hitting $1.5M in 36 months (And Selling the Firm)

Jetpack Workflow

Podcast Summary In this episode of Growing Your Firm, host David Cristello interviews Jordan Sublette, the CEO and founder of Cloud Accounting Staffing. Jordan shares his journey of building and selling his firm, and dives into the world of outsourcing talent. They discuss the challenges of talent crunches and how Jordan navigated through them. Tune in to gain insights on building a successful firm and leveraging outsourcing effectively.

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Your New & Improved Month-End Close Process Is Not So Far Out of Reach!

All accounting teams know what it is like to dread the inevitable month-end scaries. If there was a way to feel less burdened and maybe even a little enthusiastic to work on your month-end close and reconciliation process, would you do it? No, don't answer that, of course you would! Automate your month-end close process by up to 40% with SkyStem's ART and see how much more alive you feel!

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How the Procurement Function Can Save Your Company Money

Tipalti

Procurement has emerged as a critical function that can help organizations save costs in an ever-changing business landscape.

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QB Talks is Today, Wednesday April 24th at 2PM EDST

Insightful Accountant

Today's QB Talks (April 24, 2024) at 2:00 PM (EDST) is all about the new 'Modern View' Reports that Intuit is rolling out into QuickBooks Online. It's not too late to register.

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Semi-fixed cost definition

Accounting Tools

What is a Semi-Fixed Cost? A semi-fixed cost is a cost that contains both fixed and variable elements. As a result, the minimum cost level that will be experienced is greater than zero; once a certain activity level is surpassed, the cost will begin to increase beyond the base level, since the variable component of the cost has been triggered. A cost that is classified as semi-fixed does not have to contain a certain proportion of fixed costs or variable costs to be classified as such.

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Thomson Reuters adds generative AI tax research to Checkpoint Edge

Accounting Today

Thomson Reuters announced the release of CoCounsel, a generative solution within Checkpoint Edge meant to help tax professionals with complex research.

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Book of Secrets for the Month-End Close

Developing a consistent month-end close doesn’t need to be a mystery. We’re sharing our top 10 secrets (plus one bonus!) for streamlining your close.