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RSM announces $1B agentic AI investment

Accounting Today

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Outsourced Accounting vs. In-House: What’s the Right Move for 2025

Accounting Department

Financial management is the backbone of any business, enabling owners to steer toward growth, stability, and long-term success. However, as businesses evolve and financial complexities escalate, choosing the right accounting model becomes a pressing decision. Should you rely on in-house expertise or entrust an outsourced accounting service? With rapid advancements in technology, talent shortages, and the rise of remote work, this decision is even more significant as we approach 2025.

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Climate risk could slash earnings 7% by 2035

Accounting Today

Extreme weather events like wildfires and hurricanes could drop corporate earnings up to 7.3% by 2035, KPMG's 2025 Futures Report found.

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No Template Needed: Why Custom AP Workflows Are the Future of Enterprise Finance

Ascend Software blog

The Legacy Automation Problem Enterprise finance has outpaced the platforms built to support it. Automation was supposed to simplify invoice processing — faster approvals, fewer errors, cleaner workflows. But for many organizations, it’s introduced a different kind of inefficiency. Most AP automation tools are built on fixed templates, rigid routing paths, and logic that assumes your business will operate the same way tomorrow as it does today.

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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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3 Ds for better decision-making

Accounting Today

Many times in professional services firms — and in our own lives — we spend a lot of time talking about doing something, but don't actually do it. Why?

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How the Intuit Food Truck Program shaped this graduate’s dreams

Intuit

Giovani, a Polytechnic High School senior, is graduating high school with a spatula in one hand and big dreams in the other. He’s part of the Intuit Food Truck Program at his school in Los Angeles, CA. This free program provides students with hands-on business experience using an Intuit donated food truck, curriculum, grants, and Intuit’s QuickBooks Online and Mailchimp products.

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What is DuPont Analysis?

oAppsNet

Understanding key performance indicators (KPIs) like return on equity (ROE) is essential for finance professionals, especially those in the CFO’s office. DuPont Analysis is one of the most effective methods for breaking down ROE into its components and uncovering the drivers behind a company’s profitability. Originally developed by DuPont in the 1920s, this robust analytical framework helps businesses see the bigger picture of their financial health and understand where to focus their effo

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Pricing lessons: What the winners do differently

Accounting Today

When you protect your staff from problematic clients through higher pricing or firing clients who can't work well with the firm, you send a strong message.

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Ensure Your Credit & Collection Policy Aligns With Your Company’s Objectives

Trade Credit & Liquidity Management

The Credit and Collections function plays a major role in your company’s ability to generate the liquidity and working capital needed to meet its sales and financial objectives. This is even more critical for supporting company growth and remaining competitive in today’s dynamic marketplace and uncertain economy. The collectability of your accounts receivable (AR) portfolio also impacts your company’s operational and financial performance as well as borrowing capacity and costs

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Miley Cyrus hid drug purchases from accountant

Accounting Today

Miley Cyrus shared about her past drug use and how she hid those purchases from her accountant by calling them "vintage clothes.

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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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Inside the Numbers: How Inflation and Interest Rates Are Reshaping U.S. Industries

Trade Credit & Liquidity Management

Welcome to another episode of the Credit on the Go podcast, brought to you by the Trade Credit and Liquidity Management (TCLM) newsletter. In this episode, we’re continuing the discussion of how shifting consumer spending trends are shaping the financial performance of companies across industries in the United States. Joining Bob Shultz is Paul Hill, CEO of JSI Analytics, whose expertise and proprietary data suite offer a uniquely granular look at how inflation, interest rates, and income

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AICPA, NASBA recognize top CPA exam performers

Accounting Today

Eleven accountants were given the Elijah Watt Sells Award, granted to those who earn a cumulative average score above 95.50 across four sections of the exam.

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The $400 Million Question: Should Congress Eliminate the PCAOB?(From the Earmark Podcast)

Cloud Accounting Podcast

Earmark Media Presents a bonus episode of Earmark Podcast: What happens when Congress votes to eliminate the watchdog that's overseen public company audits for two decades? In this episode, Blake Oliver sits down with three leading accounting academics—Maureen McNichols from Stanford, Nemit Shroff from MIT, and Daniel Aobdia from Penn State—to examine the research behind the PCAOB's effectiveness and what elimination could mean for audit quality.

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M&A roundup: Plante Moran, Sax and GHJ expand

Accounting Today

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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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Pure Cremation – One CFO, Four Career Successes

Compleatable

Over 15 years and across four career moves, Brett Flowers has chosen Compleat as his trusted provider. “Compleats’ robust structure around implementation, is stronger than many other system providers I looked at.” Download Testimonial The post Pure Cremation – One CFO, Four Career Successes first appeared on Compleat Software.

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IRS updates procedures list for accounting changes

Accounting Today

Rev. Proc. 2025-23 updates the list of 'automatic procedures' for changes in methods of accounting.

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How To Get a Startup Business Loan With No Money

Fit Small Business

Are you an entrepreneur looking for startup business loans with no revenue requirements? Look no further, as I’m here to guide you through the process, from understanding your financing needs to preparing your application. While securing funding with limited financial resources or credit history can be challenging, it isn’t impossible if you prepare accordingly and.

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Recertify This Week - Exam Prep Webinar Tomorrow

Insightful Accountant

June 30, 2025, at 11:59 PM Pacific time is the deadline for QuickBooks ProAdvisor recertification. If your Level 1 or Level 2 certification was issued prior to November 1, 2024, you must recertify by June 30th.

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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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A Complete Guide to Digital Accounting for Firm Owners

Future Firm

If you’re still buried in paper documents and manual tasks, this guide’s for you. In this article, I’ll show you […] The post A Complete Guide to Digital Accounting for Firm Owners appeared first on Future Firm.

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The Evolution of Accounting Education: How One University is Taking On the Talent Gap

Insightful Accountant

For too many years, the accounting profession has been defined by its barriers to entry. From the 150-hour-rule to a notoriously difficult exam, it seems accounting education was designed with exclusivity in mind.

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In the blogs: Making choices

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Master ChatGPT Prompts for Accounting Firms | Diane Gilson on AI in Practice (Part 2)

Insightful Accountant

In Part 2 of our 6-part AI series, host Gary DeHart welcomes back Diane Gilson—Top 100 ProAdvisor and founder of BuildYourNumbers.com—to explore “The Art of the Prompt” using ChatGPT.

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How To Overcome Change Fatigue In Finance With Neuroscience-Backed Strategies

Speaker: Kim Beynon, CPA, CGMA, PMP

The most overlooked, yet most critical, element of transformation is preparing people for change. Automation and AI aren't just technical upgrades, they’re cultural shifts which can challenge identities. That’s why change management isn’t a side project—it’s the foundation. In finance, where precision and process rule, navigating change can feel especially disruptive.

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Johnson urges Senate to minimize changes to $40K SALT deal

Accounting Today

House Speaker Mike Johnson said he's pressuring Senate Republicans to refrain from changing a deal to increase the state and local tax deduction cap to $40,000.

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How did Trump's ambitious tax bill get to where it is today?

Accounting Today

The much-debated tax and spending legislation could be finalized next month, giving answers to debates on the state and local tax deduction, Medicaid and more.

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'Big Beautiful Bill' elicits opposition, but will likely pass

Accounting Today

A look at what's likely to stay in the Trump administration's tax bill, including pay-fors.

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Senate plans to deliver Trump-backed tip, overtime tax breaks

Accounting Today

Senate Majority Leader John Thune said Republicans in his chamber expect to deliver on President Donald Trump's campaign promises.

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Doing More With Less: The Modern Finance Miracle

Speaker: Mark Gilham, FCCA, CPP

Finance used to be the function that counted, now it's the one that’s counted on. 📊 For accounting firms, controllers, and finance leaders, expectations are rising faster than headcount. Businesses want agile forecasts, granular analysis, seamless reporting, and smart automation—often without added resources while demanding uncompromised accuracy and compliance.