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Xero Simple is here for small businesses

Xero

From April 2026, small businesses, sole traders and landlords will need to change how they report income tax to HMRC. New legislation, known as Making Tax Digital for Income Tax (MTD for IT ), is set to be introduced, sparking a shift in financial reporting requirements. To comply with MTD for IT requirements, businesses will need to do three things: send quarterly updates on business income and expenses, keep digital records, and submit returns annually using MTD-compatible software.

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Accounting firms' tech goals for 2025

Accounting Today

Generative AI is the top tech tool that accountants are interested in, based on a report from Wolters Kluwer.

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Introducing FOCUS 1.2: SaaS/PaaS Support, Invoice Reconciliation, and Deeper Cloud Allocation

FinOps Foundation

Introducing FOCUS™ 1.2: Now practitioners can report on SaaS and PaaS cost and usage data in the same schema as other FOCUS-supported data. Also learn more about improved invoice reconciliation and granular, deeper cloud cost allocation.

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The 2025 Wealth Magnets: Mastering the puzzle

Accounting Today

This year's collection of top CPA financial planners are focused on every different part of the puzzle.

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Why Tech-Forward Tax and Accounting Firms Have the Inside Track to the Future

Speaker: Joe Wroblewski, Sales Engineer Manager

Automating time-consuming manual tasks can save your firm hundreds of hours–and thousands of dollars. But it can also have longer-lasting benefits, like helping you attract and retain the next generation of CPAs, and we don’t need to tell you how important that is amid the current generational staffing crisis in the tax and accounting profession. You'll want to save your seat for this new webinar with industry expert Joe Wroblewski, where we'll explore how to: Maximize ROI with Cost-Effective Te

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Thomson Reuters Debuts Agentic AI Tax and Accounting Platform

Insightful Accountant

Thomson Reuters (TSX/Nasdaq: TRI), a global content and technology company, has just unveiled its next major leap forward agentic AI systems.

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Interim guidance simplifies corporate AMT

Accounting Today

Notice 2025-27 from the IRS offers an optional method for determining an applicable corporation for the corporate alternative minimum tax.

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Withum acquires PKF Texas

Accounting Today

WithumSmith+Brown acquired Pannel Kerr Forster of Texas, expanding its geographic reach into Texas and adding energy and oil-field expertise to its practice.

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Moving Sage Fixed Assets to the Cloud – What You Need To Know?

Ace Cloud Hosting

Sage Fixed Assets is a specialized solution designed to manage an organization’s fixed assets, including property, machinery, and equipment. It includes built-in accounting modules and automates depreciation tracking, helping streamline.

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In the blogs: Whiplash

Accounting Today

Conquering tariffs; bracing for notices; FBAR penalty timing; and other highlights from our favorite tax bloggers.

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Best Accounting Services for Small Business Minneapolis (Reviews / Ratings)

CSI Accounting & Payroll

You own a small business in the Twin Cities area, and you’ve been swamped trying to handle your accounting in-house - or you’ve gone through the same experience that so many others have with online accounting services.

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Live Demo - Supercharge your Month End Close

Automation generally supercharges any process and brings its value to the forefront. See how infusing automation such as ART (our month-end close solution), into your close can get you to the next level of closing. We will share a live demo of SkyStem's solution, ART and share the key elements of month-end close automation. Through ART, we'll take a look at: What month-end close automation entails Which process steps can and should be automated Benefits of achieving process automation, and Why i

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Xero Enables US Customers with Stripe Tap to Pay on iPhone

Insightful Accountant

Xero, a global small business platform, has launched Tap To Pay on iPhone, enabling Xero customers in the US with a Stripe account to seamlessly and securely accept in-person contactless payments with their iPhone and the Xero Accounting app.

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What the House gave the Senate: Inside the 'Big Beautiful' bill

Accounting Today

One sector that the bill is particularly positive for is real estate, experts say.

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Sage's New "High-Performance Finance Software" Empowers Finance Leaders

Insightful Accountant

Sage, a leader in accounting, financial, HR, and payroll technology for small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs), unveiled High-Performance Finance Software, a new brand mission to empower modern CFOs.

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Total college enrollment rose 3.2%

Accounting Today

The National Student Clearinghouse Research Center published the latest edition of its Current Term Enrollment Estimates series.

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Mid-Year Review: How to Ignite Employee Potential Through Meaningful Feedback

Mid-year performance reviews aren’t just boxes for HR to check. Paycor’s toolkit empowers leaders to: Identify high-potential team members. Boost engagement with meaningful feedback. Support struggling employees. Nurture top talent to drive results. Learn how to ignite employee potential through meaningful feedback. When you nurture top talent, everybody wins.

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FinOps X 2025 Day 1 Keynote: Evolution of FinOps: Cloud+ Scopes, SaaS, FOCUS 1.2, Cloud VP Panel

FinOps Foundation

FinOps X 2025, the home of FinOps, kicks off its first main day of content with our Keynote, covering the Evolution of FinOps: Cloud+ Scopes, FinOps-enabled Executive Decisions, Optimization, SaaS, FOCUS 1.2 Launch, and feature our annual Cloud VP Panel (AWS, Microsoft, Google, Oracle).

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AI boosts productivity, wages

Accounting Today

PwC's 2025 Global AI Jobs Barometer report found that artificial intelligence is making workers more productive, valuable and able to demand higher wage premiums.

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Decoding AP Complexity: What Makes Enterprise Invoice Workflows So Hard to Automate?

Ascend Software blog

Inconsistent Formats, Unstructured Data Invoices show up in every format imaginable PDFs, scanned paper, email attachments, structured EDI, you name it. And most of them are anything but standardized. Supplier invoices often vary wildly in layout, content, or even quality.

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Cherry Bekaert acquires Spicer Jeffries

Accounting Today

The Top 25 Firm based in Raleigh, North Carolina, has acquired a Denver-based firm with an extensive business in fund audits.

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Your Accounting Expertise Will Only Get You So Far: What Really Matters

Speaker: Victor C. Barnes, CPA, MBA

In the climb from contributor to leader, the rules quietly change. If you’re aiming for the summit, the air gets thinner—and what got you here won’t be enough to get you to the top (a concept first popularized by Marshall Goldsmith in his book What Got You Here Won’t Get You There ). What made you successful early in your finance career—technical accuracy, sharp analysis, flawless execution—won’t be what carries you to the next level.

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Understand, Interpret, and Improve Collection Effectiveness Index

oAppsNet

The Collection Effectiveness Index (CEI) is a critical metric for evaluating the performance of an organization’s collections process. Whether you’re managing a small business or a large enterprise, the CEI helps determine how well your company is collecting payments and converting outstanding receivables into cash. In todays rapidly evolving business environment, optimizing collections is vital for maintaining healthy cash flow, reducing bad debts, and ensuring financial stability.

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Be Our Next Top ProAdvisor in Profile

Insightful Accountant

Insightful Accountant has already announced the 2025 Top 100 ProAdvisors, the Top 25 Up-n-coming ProAdvisors, and the Top 50 International ProAdvisors. Very soon, we will be announcing the various "Best of the Best" awards.