Tue.Mar 11, 2025

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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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How much tax do you pay in a lifetime?

Accounting Today

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

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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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New bill calls for tax preparer regulation

Accounting Today

Rep. Steve Cohen has re-introduced a bill that would give the IRS the authority to set and enforce standards for tax pros.

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Are Robots Replacing You? Keeping Humans in the Loop in Automated Environments

Speaker: Erroll Amacker

As businesses increasingly adopt automation, finance leaders must navigate the delicate balance between technology and human expertise. This webinar explores the critical role of human oversight in accounts payable (AP) automation and how a people-centric approach can drive better financial performance. Join us for an insightful discussion on how integrating human expertise into automated workflows enhances decision-making, reduces fraud risks, strengthens vendor relationships, and accelerates R

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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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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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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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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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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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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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Book of Secrets on the Month-End Close

Based off SkyStem's popular e-Book, the book of secrets to the month-end close will be revealed in this one-hour webinar. Learn leading practices when it comes to building a strong and sustainable month-end close that has room to grow and evolve. Learn about the power of precise estimates, why reconciliations are critical to closing the books, how and when to automate, and how the chart of accounts play into your close process.

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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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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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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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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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How To Break Digital Transformation Barriers And Accelerate AI Adoption

Speaker: Anna Tiomina, MBA

AI is reshaping industries, yet finance remains one of the slowest adopters. Concerns over compliance, legacy systems, and data silos have made finance teams hesitant to embrace AI-driven transformation. But delaying adoption isn’t just about efficiency—it’s about staying competitive in a rapidly evolving landscape. How can finance leaders overcome these challenges and start leveraging AI effectively?

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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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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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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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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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Demo SkyStem’s Award Winning Month-End Close Solution & Earn $100

Is your finance team bogged down by endless data requests and disorganized spreadsheets during the month-end close? It’s time to consider a better option – automate with ART! SkyStem’s solution works alongside your ERP to transform the close and account reconciliation process and speed up month-end work. Explore SkyStem’s ART - the award-winning account reconciliation automation platform - and receive a $100 Amazon gift card as a thank you for your time.

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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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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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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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The Human Side of Finance: The Intersectionality of People, Culture, Adaptability, and Resilience

Speaker: Melissa Hurrington

Finance isn’t just about the numbers. It’s about the people behind them. In a world of constant disruption, resilient finance teams aren’t just operationally efficient. They are adaptable, engaged, and deeply connected to a strong organizational culture. Success lies at the intersection of people, culture, adaptability, and resilience. Finance leaders who master this balance will build teams that thrive through uncertainty and drive long-term business impact.

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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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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.

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