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New York passes licensure changes bill

Accounting Today

The New York State Legislature passed a bill establishing an additional pathway to CPA licensure, and another bill authorizing the use of electronic signatures.

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Finance Automation for MATs: Why Summer Is the Smart Time to Start

Compleatable

Introduction: Summer Is the Smart Season for Change For multi-academy trusts , summer brings a much-needed lull. With schools closed and fewer day-to-day pressures, it’s the ideal time to step back and tackle improvements that are hard to prioritise during the academic year. One of the most valuable changes you can make? Automating your purchasing and accounts payable processes.

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SEC taps new chief accountant

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The ROI of Automating Financial Workflows: What CFOs Should Expect

NextProcess

As companies decide to invest their tech budgets , one of the key questions to answer is what the return on investment will be for different options. Automating financial workflows with Business Process Automation (BPA) software is often described as a way to cut costs and improve efficiency. But what kind of ROI can you reasonably expect? Break Even in Less Than A Year People often ask what BPA software will cost, but a better question is how much will automation save.

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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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Tech news: TaxPlanIQ adds new features

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Agentic AI in Finance: Transforming Credit Risk Assessment and A/R

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In the fast-paced world of finance, businesses are under constant pressure to make smarter, faster, and more accurate decisions. From managing liquidity and evaluating creditworthiness to optimizing collections and forecasting risk, finance teams rely on data to power their every move. Despite this fast pace, traditional approaches to financial management, often rule-based and reactive, are beginning to show their limitations in a dynamic global economy.

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Little known laws of accountancy clients

Accounting Fun

The Law of Disappearing Clients The closer it gets to the filing deadline, the harder it is to contact them. The Law of Last-Minute Miracles Clients will always “find” a vital document within seconds of you submitting the accounts. The Law of Shoebox Expansion No matter how small the original box, its contents will multiply under scrutiny. Murphy’s Ledger Law The client who insists their records are immaculate will have at least one year missing.

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What PE means for the future of accounting

Accounting Today

How will private equity consolidation affect the accounting business, and what do firms and their clients need to look out for as the marketplace evolves?

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IRD Kilometre Rates released for 2025 year

Ontrack Bookkeeping

The Commissioner of Inland Revenue conducted a review and has released their Operational Statement in relation to the Kilometre rates for the business use of vehicles for the 2025 year. The rates actually relate to last financial year, the 2024/2025 year, and are used to determine a business tax deduction for motor vehicles used by a self employed business owner or close company.

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How AI is redefining roles, creating new value in accounting and tax

Accounting Today

AI is no longer just a distant concept, as we're already seeing it reshape day-to-day functions within accounting.

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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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The Death of the Financial Close: Aaron Harris on AI's Accounting Revolution

Cloud Accounting Podcast

Live from the Sage Future conference in Atlanta, Aaron Harris, CTO of Sage, joins Blake and David to explain why he wants to completely eliminate the financial close rather than just make it faster. Harris breaks down the three waves of AI transformation in accounting—from task-based automation to generative AI to fully autonomous agents—and reveals how Sage is building custom language models trained specifically on accounting principles with the AICPA.

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On the move: KPMG elects next Americas chair

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We Want Your Top ProAdvisor Profile

Insightful Accountant

We are a little more than a week away from announcement of the ProAdvisor Categorical Awards, the ProAdvisor of the Year, the Up-n-coming ProAdvisor of the Year, and the International ProAdvisor of the Year at Scaling New Heights 2025.

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Trump tax bill would help the richest, hurt the poorest, CBO says

Accounting Today

The House version of the massive tax and spending bill would deliver a financial blow to the poorest Americans but be a boon for higher-income households.

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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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App Aware - Erplain and Stockpit

Insightful Accountant

Today, you get "two, two, two App Aware (features) in one." You might remember a similar chime from 'certs.' Yes, I am going to strive to make you 'app aware' of both Erplain and Stockpit.

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Investor anxiety over 'revenge tax' is overblown, Barclays says

Accounting Today

A controversial provision in Trump's tax bill aimed at penalizing countries with "unfair" tax regimes is unlikely to disrupt U.S. bond and stock markets.

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