Tue.Mar 11, 2025

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Top 7 Credit Risk Management Tools in 2025

Gaviti

In the realm of B2B transactions, it’s easy to assume that securing a sale signifies the culmination of your efforts. However, the real challenge lies in ensuring that the customer fulfills their payment obligations. Without proper credit assessments and checks, businesses expose themselves to significant financial risks, including cash flow disruptions and potential bad debts.

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6 Steps to Winning as a Finance Leader in 2025

Compleatable

The role of finance leader is evolving rapidly in 2025, driven by advancements in technology, regulatory shifts, and changing business expectations. To stay ahead, finance professionals must adopt new strategies, embrace automation, and enhance their decision-making capabilities. Here are six essential steps to thriving as a finance leader in 2025. 1.

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We heard you: Making payroll more affordable for Australian small businesses

Xero

Last year we introduced a new line up of plans for our Australian customers to simplify our offering and make it easier to choose the right plan. As part of this, we made some changes to how payroll was included in our plans. Since then, we’ve heard from you, our community, that we didn’t quite get it right for everyone particularly those with a few employees, or small business owners who need to pay themselves.

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IRS to Lay Off 50%, How Trump's Tariffs Are Working

Cloud Accounting Podcast

How does a profession revitalize itself when salaries haven't budged since 2007? In this episode, Blake and David examine the shocking reality that Big Four audit associates in Chicago earn the same salary range today as they did nearly two decades ago. They also explore why accounting's value proposition has stagnated in a world where financial statements fail to capture what truly matters to modern investors, and you'll hear their take on the IRS's plan to cut 50% of its workforce, Social Secu

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8 Ways to Torture Your CFO

The office of the CFO is rapidly evolving, with more and more demands being placed upon the finance and accounting team each year. Join us in this webinar, where we share 8 things to NOT do when it comes to helping the CFO office advance in supporting the business. Learning Objectives: This course objective is to understand how best to support an organization's finance leadership.

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How much tax do you pay in a lifetime?

Accounting Today

The total lifetime tax amount in the highest-paying state is $755,493.

Tax
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Intuit QuickBooks Enables Tap to Pay on iPhone

Insightful Accountant

With Tap to Pay on iPhone, Intuit is giving customers a competitive advantage that accelerates cash flow, business growth, and customer loyalty

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What Is SWIFT? A Guide to Global Bank Transfers

Tipalti

SWIFT (Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunications) is a global member-owned cooperative that functions as a huge messaging system.

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Digits announces Autonomous General Ledger

Accounting Today

Accounting automation solutions provider Digits released its Autonomous Digital Ledger solution, intended to directly challenge competitors such as QuickBooks.

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QuickBooks Desktop Enterprise: Step-by-Step through the Item Profitability Report

Insightful Accountant

Murph takes you step-by-step through the Item Profitability Report found only in QuickBooks Desktop Enterprise v24 R13 (and above).

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Internal audit staffs and budgets rise

Accounting Today

Internal auditors are taking on more responsibilities, leveraging generative AI for tasks such as audit planning and reporting, says a new IIA report

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How to Streamline Payment Applications & Lien Waivers Through Innovative Construction Technology

Speaker: Dylan Secrest, Founder of Alamo Innovation and Construction Digital Transformation Consultant

Construction payment workflows are notoriously complex when you consider juggling multiple stakeholders, compliance requirements, and evolving project scopes. Delays in approvals or misaligned data between budgets, lien waivers, and pay applications can grind progress to a halt. The good news? It doesn't have to be this way! Join expert Dylan Secrest to discover how leading contractors are turning payment chaos into clarity using digital workflows, integrated systems, and automation strategies.

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The Future of Tax Accounting: Will Hill on Productivity & Firm Growth

Insightful Accountant

In this episode of the Accounting Insiders Podcast, host Gary DeHart sits down with tax accounting expert Will Hill, who brings 24 years of experience in optimizing accounting firm operations.

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PCAOB sanctions KPMG network firms in 9 countries

Accounting Today

The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board imposed $3.375 million in fines on KPMG firms in Australia, Brazil, Canada, Israel, Italy, Mexico, South Korea, Switzerland and the U.K.

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Keys to Successfully Adopting an Integrated Risk Strategy

Oversight

Connecting finance teams through a spend monitoring platform enhances risk monitoring, prevents financial loss, and drives operational efficiency.

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How AI-X firms will redefine accounting

Accounting Today

Excellence in artificial intelligence is going to be a key differentiator for accounting firms in the near future.

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You upgrade everything else. Why not your close process?

You wouldn’t keep using a 2009 flip phone - so why settle for outdated close processes? It’s time for an upgrade. SkyStem's Guide to Month-End Close Software walks you through what today’s best tools can do (and what your team shouldn’t have to deal with anymore). Get smart, fast, and a whole lot less stressed when it’s time to close the books.

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Account Reconciliation: Types, Processes, and Common Pitfalls​

Tipalti

What is account reconciliation, and how do you most effectively implement it in your business? Explore step-by-step processes and best practices.

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QuickBooks announces Recurring Payments

Accounting Today

QuickBooks announced a new Recurring Payments feature to enhance invoicing management for small- and mid-market businesses.

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The Future of Accounting: How Automation is Transforming Finance

Tipalti

Having an automated accounting system is now considered a must-have for larger companies that deal with thousands of transactions a day, but its a relatively well-kept secret when it comes to smaller and medium-sized businesses.

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In the blogs: Nothing doing

Accounting Today

Familiar fears for firms; 10 reminders for the season; new blog on the block; and other highlights from our favorite tax bloggers.

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Precision in Motion: Why Process Optimization Is the Future of Manufacturing

Speaker: Jason Chester, Director, Product Management

In today’s manufacturing landscape, staying competitive means moving beyond reactive quality checks and toward real-time, data-driven process control. But what does true manufacturing process optimization look like—and why is it more urgent now than ever? Join Jason Chester in this new, thought-provoking session on how modern manufacturers are rethinking quality operations from the ground up.

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List Cost in Action: Why Public Cloud Pricing is a Game Changer

finout

Written by Hadas (Avni) Massad, Finout Product Manager What is List Cost? List Cost is the public pricing or retail price published by cloud providers (for example, the on-demand price in AWS). Its the sticker price before any discounts, commitments, or private pricing agreements. Its the cost that any organization would pay if they had no special agreements in place.

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How AI will change lease accounting and auditing

Accounting Today

AI is transforming the way businesses manage their lease portfolios, bringing automation, accuracy and strategic insights to lease accounting and auditing.

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Desperate Times Invite Business Fraud

Trade Credit & Liquidity Management

As inflation continues to rise and lending practices evolve, small to mid-sized businesses are facing unprecedented financial pressures. In an effort to retain customers and pursue revenue opportunities, some companies may find themselves loosening credit standards or approving higher lines of credit. Unfortunately, this environment can create fertile ground for business fraud.

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Fighting systemic racism with estate planning — one client at a time

Accounting Today

The authors of a new study explaining the specific significance of trusts for building Black wealth used the analogy of a beach filled with starfish.

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AI In Accounting: A Practical Roadmap For Smarter AP

Speaker: Gerald Ratigan

The accounts payable (AP) function is evolving and AI is leading the charge. As finance teams face rising invoice volumes and expectations for speed and accuracy, AI-powered automation has shifted from a futuristic concept to the most practical solution. But for finance leaders, success isn’t just about selecting the right tools, it’s about implementing the right strategy.

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Order Management Data Entry Automation: Streamlining Efficiency with AI

oAppsNet

In the fast-paced world of modern business, seamless order management is critical to ensuring customer satisfaction and operational efficiency. Yet, for many enterprises, data entry remains one of the most cumbersome and error-prone aspects of the order management process. With the growing demand for speed, accuracy, and cost-effectiveness, businesses are turning to data entry automation to optimize their order management processes.

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DOGE set to hamstring IRS

Accounting Today

With tax season in full swing, the Internal Revenue Service is being severely hampered by cutting staff.

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Tariff worries pressure Trump to speed up tax cuts

Accounting Today

Tax cuts could help soften the tariffs' impact on the economy, and allies would ideally like to pass a bill by July though there are plenty of hurdles.

Tax