June, 2019

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6 Tips for Accounts Payable Interview Success

AP Association

If you’ve recently lost your job , or are looking for a new role, and you have finally been able to get an interview at a great company, in the accounts payable department, and now it is time to prepare yourself. Preparation really is the key to success, especially when it comes to interviews. If you have some pre-thought out answers up your sleeve, you won’t feel put on-the-spot when a difficult question comes up.

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5 Tips on ASC 606 From a Fast-growth SaaS Peer

Sage Intacct

I recently led a best practices webinar on ASC 606. Our panel of ASC 606 experts shared fantastic insights that would benefit growing subscription and SaaS companies who haven’t yet tackled or are still struggling to comply with the accounting, financial reporting, and revenue recognition from ASC 606. Let me introduce the panelists and share a few of the fantastic insights from the discussion.

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What’s New In Receipt Bank: May 2019

Dext

Ready for what’s new in Receipt Bank? This month, we brought the full power of Match and Missing Paperwork for Sage users, released Bank Accounts and made the look and feel of line items just that little bit better.

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Advantages of Using Bookkeeping Service for Your Business

Billah and Associates

Should you Hire a Bookkeeper or Accountant? Owning a huge enterprise and running it smoothly are two completely different concepts. Even if you are lucky enough to have a huge amount of capital and plenty of loyal customers, you would not be able to take it forward without efficient bookkeeping skills. 5 Top Advantages of Using Bookkeeping Service for Business Bookkeeping is an inseparable part of a business and every entrepreneur should be aware of it.

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Elevating Accounting Practices: The Power of Outsourcing and Automation in the Digital Age

Speaker: Nancy Wu, Head of Sales and Customer Success at SkyStem

Join us for an enlightening webinar as we delve into the transformative realm of modern accounting practices. In today's digital age, the convergence of outsourcing and automation has revolutionized how businesses manage their financial operations. In this webinar we will explore the synergistic potential of these two strategies to streamline processes, enhance accuracy, save cost and drive strategic decision-making.

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[Slide Share]: There's no GPS to help your patients on their financial journey through healthcare

MediRevv

Imagine if your patients were armed with all the tools and resources they needed to make informed decisions on their healthcare choices and billing options. The focus on surprise medical bills and patient loyalty has been in the news recently, along with how high-deductible health policies are linked to delayed diagnosis and treatment.

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#Xerocon: Tony Ward, President of the Americas at Xero

Cloud Accounting Podcast

Sponsors Halon Tax: [link] TOA Global: [link] LivePlan: [link] Show Notes 00:53 - Welcome to the Cloud Accounting Podcast! 01:49 - What made you want to join Xero? 02:38 - Tony's background in software 02:55 - How do you respond to the observation that another non-American is taking over for Xero Americas? 03:31 - You think you have a long commute? Try Sydney to Denver!

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4 Ways to Reinvest Found Money from Your Cloud Bill

CloudZero

These days, a major part of most IT budgets is the cloud bill. But unlike server-bound infrastructure budgeting, cloud bills can be unpredictable and highly variable from month to month. However, if organizations embrace cloud cost optimization to regulate cloud bills and avoid surprises, they’ll find themselves with considerable found money that can be reinvested into other areas.

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Ep. 3: Andy Burrows - Strategic Business Innovation

IMA's Count Me

Andy's Finance Training Website: [link] Contact Andy Burrows: [link] FULL EPISODE TRANSCRIPT Adam: (00:03) Welcome back for another episode of count me in Adam Larson here along with my cohost Mitch Roshong. As we look to cover all things affecting the accounting and finance world, our topic for today is highly relevant. We had a great speaker, join us from the K and talk to you, Mitch, about strategic business innovation.

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5 Ways to Make the Most of Scaling New Heights 2019

Dext

Next month, Scaling New Heights (SNH) is set to arrive in Salt Lake City, Utah. This four-day conference is the best in the business for accountants and bookkeepers wanting to sharpen up their skills and get more from their life and practice. This year’s theme is the Transformative Advisor.

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SNH19: Rich Preece of Intuit talks QuickBooks Live and how customer demand is driving industry transformation

Cloud Accounting Podcast

Sponsors Halon Tax: [link] TOA Global: [link] LivePlan: [link] Show Notes Coming Soon! Get in Touch Thanks for listening! Follow and tweet @BlakeTOliver and @DavidLeary. Find us on Facebook and, if you like what you hear, do us a favor and write a review on iTunes. Interested in sponsoring the Cloud Accounting Podcast? For details, read the prospectus.

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Predictions You Can Rely On: How Data Drives Successful Financial Forecasting

Speaker: Robbie Bhathal, Founder & CEO, and Matthew Acalin, Head of Credit Intelligence

In today's volatile financial environment, how confident are you in your company’s financial forecasting? To get the most accurate cash predictions that will lead to long-term financial survival, real-time data is critical. Innovative cash management strategies can lead to better credit opportunities, more sustainable growth, and long-term financial prosperity.

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#Xerocon San Diego: Xero and Stripe Join Forces

Cloud Accounting Podcast

Sponsors Halon Tax: [link] TOA Global: [link] LivePlan: [link] Show Notes 00:58 - Welcome to the Cloud Accounting Podcast! 01:40 - David observes folks are starting to get upset with “fetching” because it’s becoming an uncontrolled process … “it’s easier to build a stable process to get paper bank statements then manually scan them” 04:25 - Blake fills in David on Day 1 of Xerocon 06:18 - Xero announces smarter tools to help accountants and bookkeepers manage their digital practice — Including T

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SNH19: Right Networks Challenges QuickBooks Online

Cloud Accounting Podcast

Sponsors Halon Tax: [link] TOA Global: [link] LivePlan: [link] Show Notes 00:58 - Welcome to the Cloud Accounting Podcast! 02:08 - Woodard Network is rebranded to Woodard Alliance 02:55 - Right Networks turns QuickBooks Desktop to 'Always On' | Accounting Today 06:45 - David's observation at SNH19: The vast majority of accountants/bookkeepers are turning away business 08:18 - David's observation at SNH19: Many ProAdvisors have not yet heard about QuickBooks Live 09:24 - QBO keynote highlights: B

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How to Decode Your AWS Bill (and What's within DevOps' Control)

CloudZero

The typical AWS bill, otherwise known as the AWS Cost and Usage Report , includes line items that are useful to both finance and DevOps. However, many of the metrics that are within engineers’ and cloud architects’ control aren’t so simple to discover. To make cost a first-class operational metric for DevOps, teams need visibility into the data that’s relevant to engineering activity.

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Is the CPA Worth it in 2019, 2020, 2021…? Also, H&R Block Acquires Wave and Xero Appoints Jamie McDonald to Lead Accounting & Global Services

Cloud Accounting Podcast

Sponsor Xero: [link] Show Notes 3:36 — AICPA to Oversee New Internet Domain for CPAs | AICPA 7:36 — Given the change in the profession, what's the value of the CPA license in 2019 and beyond? 8:42 — A listener asks if the CPA is worth it. Blake responds. 11:36 — CPA numbers have stagnated according to NASBA data 12:56 — How much is the CPA Exam worth in 2019?

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The Definitive Guide to Spend Management

The status quo for AP in small and mid-market companies is broken. It consists of messy tech stacks of siloed solutions that give rise to manual work, a lack of control, wasted spend, and unnecessary risks. The benefits of shifting to spend management are tangible, measurable, and are felt across the whole organization. Spend management is a different way of thinking and an innovation whose time has come.

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Interview and Demo of CORE with BQE Software CEO Shafat Qazi on Facebook Live

Cloud Accounting Podcast

Sponsor BQE Software: [link] Show Notes Click here to download the slides from the Facebook Live event. 00:58 - Welcome to the Cloud Accounting Podcast! 02:04 - Background on Shafat Qazi and BQE Software 13:11 - Background on BQE Core 25:25 - Live demo of BQE Core 34:31 - Demo of BQE Business Intelligence 44:23 - Demo of Core Intelligence 56:21 - Visit BQE and see Core Intelligence in action at Booth 64 at Scaling New Heights 57:48 - Learn more about BQE Core at bqe.com Connect with Shafat Twitt

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AICPA ENGAGE: Megan Lewczyk, CPA & Ryan Lazanis, CPA, CA

Cloud Accounting Podcast

Sponsor FloQast: [link] Show Notes This episode is sponsored by FloQast. Closing the books is a manual, error-prone, and time-consuming process. There has to be a better way than Outlook emails, Excel checklists, and endless status update meetings. FloQast was built by accountants for accountants to help them close faster and more accurately. The bottom line: Teams relying on FloQast on average close three days faster.

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Accounting Salon Interviews: Clint Bowers of Smart Business Concepts

Cloud Accounting Podcast

Sponsor Elefant: [link] Show Notes 00:24 - About Clint's firm Smart Business Concepts 01:50 - What's your tech stack? 04:16 - On premises versus cloud for manufacturing 05:45 - What were you doing before owning your own firm? 06:20 - Do your employees work remotely? 07:35 - Clint is hiring! 08:23 - What was your big takeaway from last year's Accounting Salon?

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Why Your Cloud Costs Might Be so High?—and What to Do About It

CloudZero

Recent headlines surrounding big-name IPOs, such as that of Slack and Lyft , have highlighted the very real costs of operating in the cloud. Companies like these are on the hook to pay AWS and other public cloud vendors tens or hundreds of millions of dollars every year, just to run their services.

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Navigating Financial Storms: Strategies for Building Resilient Balance Sheets

Speaker: Carolina Aponte - Owner and CEO, Caja Holdings LLC

In today's rapidly changing business environment, building a resilient balance sheet is crucial to the survival of any business. A resilient balance sheet allows a company to withstand financial shocks and adapt to changing market conditions. To achieve this, companies need to focus on key strategies such as maintaining adequate liquidity, managing debt levels, diversifying revenue streams, and prioritizing profitability over growth.

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Another AI Startup Aims to Eliminate Accountants

Cloud Accounting Podcast

Sponsor Xero: [link] Show Notes 00:34 -- Welcome to the Cloud Accounting Podcast, and our guest, Lorilyn Wilson, CPA ! 02:29 -- We got another review! Click here to leave a review on iTunes. 03:25 -- Canopy releases professional tax prep software | Accounting Today — Practice management software developer Canopy announced general availability Tuesday of Tax Prep, its professional tax preparation software. 08:10 -- Poll: What Percentage of your Firm’s Revenue Comes From Advisory Services?

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It’s a Bot! Live Interview and Demo of Gappify Alan with Founder & CEO Jotham Ty

Cloud Accounting Podcast

Sponsor CPA.com: [link] Show Notes 00:16 - Welcome to the Cloud Accounting Podcast! 01:02 - Correction: Gappify is true automation (not fake bots) 03:09 - Jotham's background in the Big Four and then SOX compliance consulting 04:06 - What is Gappify Alan and what does it do? 07:13 - How does Alan work behind the scenes? 11:00 - The value proposition of Gappify for a midsize company 13:16 - About Gappify, including their participation in the AICPA startup accelerator 16:48 - Live demo of Gappify

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Ep. 2: Dr. Sean Stein Smith - Types of Blockchain

IMA's Count Me

Contact Dr. Sean Stein Smith: [link] FULL EPISODE TRANSCRIPT Adam : (00:00) Welcome back Count Me In. I'm your host, Adam Larson joined as always by my cohost Mitch Roshong. Today we have another episode about the captivating topic of blockchain and who better to listen to about this topic than Dr. Sean Stein Smith. Mitch, you talked to Sean. How did the conversation go?

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Accounting Salon Interviews: Amanda Aguillard of Elefant Training

Cloud Accounting Podcast

Sponsor Elefant: [link] Show Notes 00:48 - Why start your own accounting conference? 01:47 - What is an "Accounting Salon"? 02:47 - What makes the Accounting Salon different 04:08 - Agenda for 2019 06:04 - How to nominate yourself (or another) to be invited next year 07:01 - Thank you to this year's sponsors! 07:38 - Visit AccountingSalon.com for more information Get in Touch Thanks for listening!

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Putting the ‘Tech’ in Spend Management Techniques

Speaker: Wayne Spivak, President and CFO of SBA * Consulting Ltd., Industry Writer, Public Speaker

If you’re lost in the world of spend management needs and your GAP analysis is lacking perspective on the future state of your business performance, listen up! With the advancement of technology, the implementation of spend management best practices and concrete GAP analyses is more streamlined and accessible than ever before. And while this may sound like great news for you and your clients, it won’t be worthwhile unless you have the latest techniques to back up your ambitions!

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Ep. 1: Pierce Kohls - The Deceptive Allure of Emerging Technologies

IMA's Count Me

FULL EPISODE TRANSCRIPT Mitch : (00:03) Welcome to Count Me In, IMA's podcast about all things affecting the accounting and finance world. I am Mitch Roshong and with me, as always is my cohost Adam Larson. The topic of this week's episode is the deceptive allure of emerging technologies. Adam, can you tell us a little bit more about this? Adam : (00:17) Sure can Mitch!

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QuickBooks Live Could be a Top 100 Firm by 2020, Fake Bots from Google, Roger Raises $7.35M to Automate Accounting with AI, and Why the NSA Might be to Blame for the CCH Malware Attack

Cloud Accounting Podcast

Sponsor Xero: [link] Show Notes 02:34 -- Blake crunches the numbers and figures that if Intuit meets its publicly stated goals, QuickBooks Live will likely be a $60 million per year accounting firm by 2020, putting it at 73 on Accounting Today’s Top 100 Accounting Firms list. 06:56 -- Sholto Macpherson asks, is QuickBooks Live a "Watershed moment or BAU?

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How to Empower DevOps to Make Better Cloud Cost Decisions

CloudZero

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Ep. 4: Daniel Smith - Opportunities Created by Data and Technology

IMA's Count Me

Contact Dan Smith: [link] [link] Dan's Work: [link] Visit Dan Smith's work on Github: [link] #datapossible FULL EPISODE TRANSCRIPT Adam : (00:03) Hey everybody! Welcome to Count Me In, IMA's podcast about all things affecting the accounting and finance world. I'm Adam Larson here with Mitch Roshong. And this week we covered the topic of data analytics and emerging technologies in accounting and finance.

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Your New & Improved Month-End Close Process Is Not So Far Out of Reach!

All accounting teams know what it is like to dread the inevitable month-end scaries. If there was a way to feel less burdened and maybe even a little enthusiastic to work on your month-end close and reconciliation process, would you do it? No, don't answer that, of course you would! Automate your month-end close process by up to 40% with SkyStem's ART and see how much more alive you feel!