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The highest paid jobs in corporate accounting

Accounting Today

The average annual salary for the six highest paid positions in corporate accounting is $193,722, according to data from Surgent.

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AI-powered experiences take ‌center stage at Intuit’s Global Engineering Days

Intuit

Intuits Global Engineering Days (GED) is a weeklong code-a-thon that brings together Intuit technologists from all corners of the globe twice a year for a festival of innovation. Engineers, product managers, and designers form teams to work on projects of their choosinga new idea for propelling business growth, addressing customer pain points, or streamlining work for each other.

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Is private equity bringing accounting down or lifting it up?

Accounting Today

Consolidation, when done right and with clients and people at the forefront, is not about sacrificing quality for profit.

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Introducing Pay by Bank for UK Small businesses: More payment options, healthier cash flow

Xero

Late payments pose a significant hurdle for small businesses, frequently disrupting cash flow and complicating the management of daily operations. Recognising this challenge, we’re dedicated to helping you receive payments more efficiently by expanding your payment options. Building on our existing support for credit cards, debit cards, Apple Pay, and Google Pay, we’re excited to announce the addition of Pay by Bank.

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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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COSO, NACD propose corporate governance framework

Accounting Today

The Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission and the National Association of Corporate Directors released an exposure draft of their Corporate Governance Framework.

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Half of Australians fear making a mistake on their tax return this year

Xero

If the thought of lodging your tax return makes your palms sweaty and you find yourself procrastinating to avoid the inevitable, youre not alone. Xeros latest research has found nearly three quarters of Australians are worried or anxious about tax time this year. This end of financial year (EOFY), we wanted to uncover the universal challenges that Aussies face and common knowledge gaps when it comes to tax time, and provide easy-to-understand information to reduce confusion and anxiety at this t

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Teacher Pay Rises: How to Fund the 1%

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Understanding the Pay Boost and Its Financial Ripple Effects The UK government’s recent announcement of a 4% pay increase for teachers in England, effective from September 2025, marks a significant step towards recognising the contributions of educators. This decision, aligning with recommendations from the School Teachers Review Body (STRB), aims to elevate the median salary for classroom teachers to over 51,000 annually.

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Finding the right state and local credits and incentives

Accounting Today

When a company considers adding new jobs or making new investments, many state and local authorities offer tax incentives to support that growth.

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Invest in Strategic Customer Visits and Meetings

Trade Credit & Liquidity Management

Maintaining strong relationships with key customers is an essential element of credit and collection management as well as customer care, more so in today’s frenetic economic environment. A strategic customer visit is more than just a meet-and-greet; it’s an opportunity to gain insight, address concerns, and reinforce trust. For credit professionals, choosing which customers to visit and when is the first step towards realizing valuable payback in both relationship-building and busin

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Inventor patents variation on double-entry accounting

Accounting Today

Edward Kellman, CEO and chief design engineer of Trakker Apps, holds two U.S. patents for an innovative take on double-entry 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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Enrolled Agent vs. CPA: Which Is Right for Your Small Business?

Remote Quality Bookkeeping

Choosing the right financial professional can make a big difference in the success of your business, especially when it comes to taxes. For many small business owners, the choice often comes down to two roles: Enrolled Agent (EA) or Certified Public Accountant (CPA). While both can help with taxes, their qualifications, services, and pricing structures differ.

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Major QuickBooks Price Increases Coming in 2025 – What You Need to Know with Gary DeHart

Insightful Accountant

In this episode of the Accounting Insiders Podcast, Gary DeHart breaks down the upcoming QuickBooks price increases set to take effect between July 1 and August 1, 2025. These changes impact a wide range of QuickBooks products.

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Xero AI: How to improve AP and invoice tasks

Nanonets

Accounting work has always been tedious. Every day, we spend hours on tasks that should be simpler. We are forced to manually enter data, reconcile transactions, and sift through files trying to locate financial information we need.  But artificial intelligence is starting to change this reality. Xero, one of the leading cloud accounting platforms, has integrated AI features that are streamlining these daily tasks.

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Protecting Profitability: How Accountants Can Safeguard SMBs in 2025

Insightful Accountant

Accountants have always played a key role in helping businesses weather uncertainty. Today, their counsel is more critical than ever.

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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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From Spreadsheet Nightmares to Strategic Insights

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The Shared Cost Puzzle That Haunts Every FinOps Team 5 years ago, it was 2 AM. I was staring at yet another complex spreadsheet, trying to make sense of our cloud costs. As a Cost Analyst at a "born in the cloud" tech company (before "FinOps" was even a thing), I was drowning in numbers.

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QuickBooks Price Hikes

Insightful Accountant

Intuit has just announced price increases impacting QuickBooks Online, QuickBooks Online Payroll, QuickBooks Desktop and QuickBooks Desktop Payroll.

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FinOps for AI: From Magic to Metrics

finout

AI is having its cloud moment. Whether you're building copilots with GPT-4, integrating Anthropic via Bedrock, or exploring Gemini on GCP, one thing is clear: everyone wants in on the AI gold rush.

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Keeping the Power On: How a Leading Utility Strengthened Supply Chain Resilience

GEP - Accounts Payable

Keeping the Power On: How a Leading Utility Strengthened Supply Chain Resilience Pranil Wed, 05/28/2025 - 22:43 Faced with rising inventory costs and frequent weather disruptions, a major U.S. utility turned to GEP to build a supply chain that could withstand the unexpected, help control spend, modernize operations and improve emergency response. GEP delivered a strategy blending short-term agility with long-term efficiency.

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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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FinOps at a Crossroads: Your Platform Is Either Driving Change- or Dragging You Down

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Youre Not Scaling FinOps- Youre Choosing a Direction As the FinOps community gathers for FinOps X in San Diego, nows a good time to ask: Are we making real progress, or just inflating complexity?

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AI Margins Depend on How You Maintain the Data Center

GEP - Accounts Payable

AI Margins Depend on How You Maintain the Data Center Vijendra Wed, 05/28/2025 - 16:58 As generative AI usage explodes, data center infrastructure is reaching a breaking point. Each prompt adds power load, compute strain and bandwidth demand. Multiply that across billions of queries, and even small inefficiencies become major cost drivers. Data center maintenance is emerging as the most controllable variable in the AI cost equation.

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How to Track Invoices in Excel [+Free Template]

Fit Small Business

If you want to track customer invoices and payments in Excel, the first step is to set up an invoice tracker. Just start a spreadsheet with columns like invoice number, customer name, due date, and amount owed. From there, you can use Excel tools like formulas, data validation, and conditional formatting to stay organized and. The post How to Track Invoices in Excel [+Free Template] appeared first on Fit Small Business.

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Wall Street's rush to launch Vanguard-style funds draws warnings

Accounting Today

At the heart of the concern is a tax dynamic that ETFs were built to avoid.

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The Hidden Science Behind Why Finance Teams Resist Change—And How to Fix It

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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Should Your Firm Still Invest in SEO?

Future Firm

SEO helped me grow two 7-figure businesses. With AI changing how people search, heres my take on whether it still works today. The post Should Your Firm Still Invest in SEO? appeared first on Future Firm.

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Musk says he's 'disappointed' that Trump tax bill raises deficit

Accounting Today

Elon Musk expressed dissatisfaction with President Donald Trump's giant tax bill, saying it undercut his efforts to slash government spending.

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One Big Beautiful Podcast Episode: Taxes, QuickBooks, & Tesla

Cloud Accounting Podcast

What happens when Congress passes a $3.8 trillion deficit-increasing bill by just one vote while promising fiscal responsibility? Blake and David break down the "Big Beautiful Bill" and reveal who really benefitsspoiler alert: it's not the middle class or the national debt. They explore QuickBooks' aggressive new AI agents rollout with price hikes up to 17%, examine why Tesla's CPA CFO earned $139 million in one year, and uncover how tariff-stressed businesses are weaponizing invoice rejections

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Trump to pardon stars of reality show 'Chrisley Knows Best'

Accounting Today

President Donald Trump is granting pardons to reality television stars Todd and Julie Chrisley, who were convicted of fraud and tax evasion.

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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.

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House Passes Sweeping Tax Bill: Key Changes for Tax Practitioners

Insightful Accountant

The Republican-controlled House narrowly passed President Trump's comprehensive tax and spending legislation on May 22 by a razor-thin 215-214 margin, setting the stage for what could be the most significant tax overhaul since 2017.

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IRS backs off Biden-era rule on partnership basis-shifting

Accounting Today

The Trump administration is changing many prior policies, but supporters of this proposal are calling for further action to protect the complex tax savings maneuver.

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