March, 2022

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Accounts payable skills and responsibilities

AP Association

If you are considering embarking on a career as an Accounts Payable professional, it is essential to make sure that you have a full understanding of the key skills and responsibilities required. Let us take a closer look: Accounts Payable responsibilities As an Accounts Payable professional, you will have similar responsibilities to a junior accountant.

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Atlassian stands with Ukraine

Atlassian

To our customers, vendors, partners, and investors: We are appalled by the actions of the Russian Government in its invasion of Ukraine. We condemn the actions of the Russian Government, and we stand with Ukraine and its people in their fight to maintain their freedom and sovereignty. This attack is unprovoked and a clear breach of the Geneva Convention.

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Unlocking Digital Transformation in SaaS Organizations

Sage Intacct

SaaS companies are benefiting from digital transformation initiatives as catalysts to improve business performance, achieve scale and continually innovate to grow. More than most, finance leaders at these companies know the value of cloud-native platforms as both a supplier and consumer.

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The 9 Best AWS Management Tools You Can Use Right Now

CloudZero

Amazon Web Services (AWS) provides over 200 fully-featured services, that aim to make the cloud affordable and cost-efficient for the companies that use the popular cloud provider.

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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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The biggest lessons I’ve learned from firing bookkeeping clients

5 Minute Bookkeeping

Breaking up with bookkeeping clients is hard to do, as the song goes. Since I’ve worked with hundreds of clients, I’ve certainly ‘fired’ or parted ways with my share of bookkeeping clients, but it’s not all bad news. Every breakup is a valuable lesson. Today I want to share the biggest lessons I’ve learned from firing bookkeeping clients.

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How to Reduce Manual Invoice Data Entry

IPS

If it feels like you are working longer hours these days, you are not alone.

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Introducing the Atlassian Migration Program

Atlassian

Subscribe to Work Life Get stories about tech and teams in your inbox Subscribe. Over the last few years, we’ve witnessed and been a part of the SaaS transformation that has changed the way teams work and how we communicate and collaborate with each other. Atlassian announced that we’ll be simplifying our server and Data Center offerings to focus on delivering a world-class cloud experience and support for our Server products will end in February 2024.

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AI and Automation are Key to FCPA Compliance Monitoring

Oversight

C corruption and bribery can be complicated to understand. When framed within the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), the rules and regulations become even more complex. It’s important to realize just how serious this subject is, and how vital it is for companies to have sufficient programs in place to mitigate the risk of violation.

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The 7 Best Cloud Financial Planning Solutions For Managing Costs

CloudZero

Making better decisions doesn’t always require more data. Finding the right data and making sure the right people have it at the right time does. This is particularly important for companies that use the cloud.

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My scariest QuickBooks cleanup horror stories

5 Minute Bookkeeping

After doing hundreds of of cleanups, I have seen it all. I’ve seen undeposited funds, uncategorized income, uncategorized expenses, unapplied income and expenses, reconciliation discrepancies, comingling. And the list goes on. Over the course of all these cleanup situations, I have come across some that defy all of our expectations for a “normal” cleanup.

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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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Tips to Optimize Your Order to Cash (O2C) Process Flow & Cycle

AvidXchange

In business, order to cash (O2C) encompasses the processes used to get paid from a customer order. This can seem like a straightforward process, but anyone who has been involved in sales at a large company knows that the operation is not so simple. In this blog we provide an overview of the order to cash cycle and fresh ideas about how to cut down the process time.

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Marketing for Bookkeepers

Bookkeeping Side Hustle

How to Market Your Bookkeeping Business Kristen Corey from ProAdvisor Marketing presented Marketing for Bookkeepers 101 and 201. The videos reviewed basic steps to begin your business marketing (101) and then more detail on how to elevate your marketing (201). These 2 videos will benefit a lot of you – really smart and motivated bookkeepers who are ready to create a business that changes your family’s life.

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7 icebreaker games to help your team build authentic connections

Atlassian

Subscribe to Work Life Get stories like this in your inbox Subscribe. 5-second summary. Strong team cohesion – how bonded people feel to one another – is a key element for success in distributed teams. Icebreakers can be an effective way to help teams get to know each other and feel more comfortable collaborating. It’s important to choose the right icebreaker for your team.

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Spend Risk: What you might be missing using audit sampling.

Oversight

Life is full of choices and opportunities, and let’s face it – we humans don’t always make the best decisions. While there might be a few skeletons in my closet, an auditor would never find a questionable purchase on one of my expense reports when conducting a travel and expense audit.

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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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AWS Budgets Vs. AWS Cost Explorer: The Ultimate Comparison Guide

CloudZero

AWS currently offers over 200 services. Some of those make up the AWS Cost Management suite. This group comprises AWS Cost and Usage Report (CUR), AWS Budgets, AWS Cost Explorer, AWS Cost Categories, and AWS Cost Anomaly Detection.

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Toast POS Accounting With QuickBooks Online

SLC Bookkeeping

Toast is a very popular restaurant point of sale (POS) system. If you have Toast you obviously want to know how to extract the relevant data and efficiently get it into your accounting system. From an accounting perspective I only look for two things from a restaurant POS system: Is it a cloud-based system? Does it properly integrate with QuickBooks Online?

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How Does Bridging Software for Making Tax Digital Work?

EasyBooks

You are probably already aware of the British Government’s move towards easier and more advanced tax management via the Making Tax Digital (MTD) program. But if you are a small business and are still wondering how and when to migrate to the digital way of things, you might need to make haste.

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Accounting 101: The Basics you Should Know

XY Bean Counters

Welcome to Accounting 101! Let's go over the different types of accounting, financial statements, value chains, types of costs, and more.

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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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Humor boosts your credibility at work (and that’s no joke)

Atlassian

Subscribe to Work Life Get stories like this in your inbox Subscribe. 5-second summary. Research shows that using humor can help encourage others to want interact with you in the future. People who incorporate levity in presentations are more likely to be seen as competent and confident. You don’t have to be naturally hilarious to use humor at work.

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The Path to Advisory in Client Accounting Services (Part 3 of 3)

Earmark Accounting Podcast

Thank you to our sponsors! Botkeeper Win a free year of Botkeeper services!: [link] LiveFlow Get 20% off your first 3 months of LiveFlow : [link] Sign up to get free CPE for listening to this podcast: [link] Download the Earmark CPE App: Apple: [link] Android: [link] Connect with Our Guest, Dan Gertrudes LinkedIn: [link] Twitter: [link] Learn more about GrowthLab: Website: [link] Connect with Blake Oliver, CPA: LinkedIn: [link] Twitter: [link] We all want to add advisory services to our outsourc

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The Best Engineering OKRs: 5 Real Examples That Get Results

CloudZero

As a framework for goal-setting, the Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) methodology is an incredibly useful tool when implemented properly. It can help your engineering team better plan and stay aligned toward common objectives through the duration of the development process.

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Is QuickBooks Reporting App Digits Worth Half-A-Billion

Cloud Accounting Podcast

Sponsors Dark Horse: [link] Synder: [link] Relay: [link] Need CPE? Subscribe to the Earmark Accounting Podcast: [link] Get CPE for listening to podcasts with Earmark CPE: [link] Show Notes 03:29 – Mister Car Wash Finding Loyalty Among Increasing Customer Base [link] 05:51 – Voicemail from Nikole – Thank you! 13:08 – Intuit Rate Survey: COVID-19’s impact on accounting professionals and their clients [link] 18:00 – Half of Remote Professionals Say They Would Quit if R

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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. 176: Paul Ruppert - Creating Strategic Partnerships

IMA's Count Me

Contact Paul Ruppert: [link] Full Transcript: Adam: (00:05) Hey everyone. Thank you for coming back to listen to another episode of Count Me In, I am your host Adam Larson, and this is episode 176 of our series. As we hold conversations about various topics impacting the accounting and finance world, one of the underlying themes across most is strategy.

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Accounting 101: The Basics you Should Know

XY Bean Counters

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Using Jira Service Management to improve HR

Atlassian

Subscribe to Work Life Get stories like this in your inbox Subscribe. Jira Service Management promises to unlock high-velocity teams. And both technical teams and the business departments they work with can benefit from Jira Service Management, especially HR teams. Atlassian’s People Technology IT team partners with the People Team (which is what we call our HR department) to find creative ways to unlock speed and value.

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How to Save the CPA with Todd Shapiro

Earmark Accounting Podcast

Sign up to get free CPE for listening to this podcast [link] Download the Earmark CPE App Apple: [link] Android: [link] Connect with Our Guest, Todd Shapiro LinkedIn: [link] Learn more about the Illinois CPA Society Official website: [link] Connect with Blake Oliver, CPA LinkedIn: [link] Twitter: [link] Is the CPA profession fading away? What can we do to fix it?

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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!

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AWS Cost Categories Vs. Tags: How To Get True Cloud Cost Visibility

CloudZero

Although Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced cost categories a few years ago, many people still struggle to understand the difference between them and AWS tags. If this sounds familiar to you, you are not alone.

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IRS to Clear Backlog by End of Year

Cloud Accounting Podcast

Sponsors Keeper: [link] Synder: [link] Scribe [link] Need CPE? Subscribe to the Earmark Accounting Podcast: [link] Get CPE for listening to podcasts with Earmark CPE: [link] Show Notes 01:02 – Talking Disney and Bars. 15:37 – Commissioner to Congress: IRS will clear backlog by year’s end [link] 16:18 – IRS plans to hire thousands likely to fall short [link] 19:50 – IRS Struggles Allow Secret Election Spending To Flourish [link] 20:43 – IRS Starts Using Chatbots for Calls

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Ep. 174: Pedro Barros - Scaling and Managing a Successful Global Finance Team

IMA's Count Me

Contact Pedro Barros: [link] Remote: [link] FULL EPISODE TRANSCRIPT: Adam: (00:04) Welcome back to Count Me In, IMA's podcast about all things affecting the accounting and finance world. This is your host Adam Larson and today you are listening to episode 174 of our series. In this episode, you'll hear from Pedro Barros, VP of Finance at Remote. At Remote, Pedro was responsible for analyzing financial performance for budgeting and forecasting, managing all accounting operations and providing str

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5 best practices to optimise accounts payable in 2022

AP Association

For any business that regularly receives and pays invoices, the Accounts Payable department is an indispensable component of its transaction cycle. A well-optimised AP department will ensure a business pays its invoices as soon as possible after receiving them and confirming that they are genuine and accurate. But a more efficient and reliable process for paying invoices is only one benefit of optimising an accounts payable department.

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Book of Secrets for the Month-End Close

Developing a consistent month-end close doesn’t need to be a mystery. We’re sharing our top 10 secrets (plus one bonus!) for streamlining your close.