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IRS leveraging AI for audits amid layoffs

Accounting Today

The Internal Revenue Service is expected to lean more heavily on artificial intelligence technology to select cases as it carries out widespread layoffs.

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2025 Xero US Roadshow: What You Need to Know

Xero

The 2025 Xero US Roadshow is set to deliver a day packed with innovation, networking, and inspiration. Let’s explore what’s on the agenda and why you should care. Spotlighting Innovation: AI and Advisory Services The accounting industry isn’t what it used to be; it’s smarter, faster, and more efficient, thanks to AI and advisory services.

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Tax Fraud Blotter: Wholesale fraud

Accounting Today

Book'im; out of Service; what a pill; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

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From Mary Kay to Value Pricing: Debra Kilsheimer’s Bold Pivot in Accounting

Insightful Accountant

In this episode of the Accounting Insiders Podcast, host Gary DeHart speaks with Debra Kilsheimer of Behind the Scenes Financials Inc., who shares her inspiring and unconventional journey through the world of accounting.

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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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AICPA's Carl Peterson to retire

Accounting Today

Peterson will retire on June 30 after serving as vice president of small firm interests at the American Institute of CPAs for 11 years.

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An Evening to Remember – Open to Everyone – First Come, First Served: Join the Top 100 Celebration at SNH 2025

Insightful Accountant

This event is open to any attendee registered at Scaling New Heights 2025. On the evening of Monday, June 23, 2025, something extraordinary is happening at Howl at the Moon in Orlando.

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13 Mobile Business Ideas to Start in 2025

Fit Small Business

Starting a mobile business is a smart, low-risk way to become your own boss, even without any storefront or large team. The most unique mobile business ideas to launch include food trucks, coffee carts, mobile pet grooming, tech repair, and pop-up retail shops. In this guide, I discuss profitable options across food, service, tech, and. The post 13 Mobile Business Ideas to Start in 2025 appeared first on Fit Small Business.

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Know Your Customer as Well as They Know You

Trade Credit & Liquidity Management

In today’s global and fast-paced business environment, fraudsters have multiple ways to identify and exploit your company’s vulnerabilities. That makes knowing details about who you are doing business with critically important. By having well-thought-out processes in place, you can mitigate the risk of being victimized by fraud and help prevent your company from violating critical compliance requirements.

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Resale Made Easy: How to Start a Resale Program Today

Fit Small Business

A resale program lets you take back gently used or unsold products, either from customers or your own inventory, and resell them through your store, website, or a third-party platform. More retailers are using resale to extend product life, build customer loyalty, and meet growing demand for sustainable shopping. To launch your own program, youll. The post Resale Made Easy: How to Start a Resale Program Today appeared first on Fit Small Business.

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Commercial Fraud Prevention in the Digital Age

Trade Credit & Liquidity Management

Fraud is no longer confined to shadowy backrooms or elaborate paper trails. Today, it is a fast-moving, digital threat that adapts as quickly as the technology designed to stop it. As the global marketplace grows more interconnected and transactions shift online, businesses face an unprecedented wave of commercial fraud attempts, from sophisticated “bust-out” schemes to synthetic identity fraud that blends real and fabricated data.

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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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Tax pros need to double down on due diligence

Accounting Today

Practitioners are working to get clients in line so they can fulfill IRS requirements to prove their clients qualify for particular credits.

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We're Off To The Races with the 2025 ADC Summer Challenge!

Accounting Department

It's summertime at AccountingDepartment.com and we have all sorts of fun things happening! To kick off the summer season this past Memorial Day weekend, we launched our 14th annual ADC Summer Challenge.

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Illinois passes licensure changes bill

Accounting Today

The bill creates two additional pathways to CPA licensure and preserves the 150-hour path.

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Avalara Sales Tax Trip Tuesday for May 2025

Insightful Accountant

"On the road again, paying sales tax, on the road again." Yes, we are climbing back into our SUV and are ready to head out on the second leg of this scenic Avalara Sales Tax 'Trip' Tuesday mini-series.

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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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US prosecutors sought Builder.ai data after sales overstated

Accounting Today

The artificial intelligence company was facing legal scrutiny in the weeks before it went bust.

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Expanding the Talent Stack: AI, Innovation, and the Future of Accounting

accountingfly

The accounting profession is transforming, and firms that embrace new staffing strategies are coming out ahead. In a recent podcast, Jeff Phillips discussed how firms are rethinking their workforce strategies and talent stack by integrating remote talent, freelancers, and outsourced teams to stay competitive in todays market. If you missed it, check out Embracing the New Talent Stack to take a deep dive into it and how its reshaping accounting teams.

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When tech fails, accountants prevail

Accounting Today

With their critical eye and technical knowledge, accountants can interpret when a number doesn't match reality, anticipating failures before they become scandals.

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QuickBooks Cloud Hosting Pricing Guide: Comprehensive Overview

Ace Cloud Hosting

81% of the people say that price is the top consideration when buying, according to a survey by EML Wildfire. Understanding QuickBooks cloud hosting pricing can feel overwhelminglike trying to.

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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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Charles Rangel, a voice for the poor in tax debates, dies at 94

Accounting Today

The dapper, voluble congressman from Harlem used his perch on the House tax-writing committee to advocate for inner cities and the people who live there.

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Tax bill to end US reliance on China solar will slow green shift

Accounting Today

The measure would clamp down on energy tax credits created or expanded by the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act by imposing a slew of new restrictions.

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'Revenge tax': US bill hits allies that have tax rules Trump doesn't like

Accounting Today

Investors in nations with tax regimes that the U.S. deems unfair would face higher tax rates on income earned in the U.S. if the tax bill becomes law.

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