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INCPAS outlines 3 strategies to grow talent pipeline in colleges and universities

Accounting Today

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Where to start on your Xero education journey

Xero

We know it’s not enough to just create really #beautiful accounting software – we also need to teach you to use it. Spending time educating yourself on Xero can help you get time back once you’ve built up your confidence. . You probably know by now that when you have a question about Xero, Xero Central is your first stop. But did you know it’s also your home for proactively learning about Xero?

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How SaaS CFOs Use Financial Data to Boost Profits

Sage Intacct

For many people, finance could be mistakenly viewed as playing a passive, historical role in the company. A common misconception thinks it is about number-crunching and accurately reporting past transactions and financial events.

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6 Examples Of FinOps KPIs That Will Improve Your Margins

CloudZero

Setting FinOps KPIs helps keep your whole organization aligned toward the same financial goals.

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Your Accounting Expertise Will Only Get You So Far: The New Way To Lead

Speaker: Victor C. Barnes, CPA, MBA

In the climb from contributor to leader, the rules quietly change. But 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. 🗻 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. The higher you go, the more your effectiveness depends on how you connect, adapt, and communicate.

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Tax planning in an unpredictable political and financial climate

Accounting Today

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Latest product news — November 2022

Xero

Over the past month, we’ve made updates to support the transition to Single Touch Payroll Phase 2 in Australia, improvements to eInvoicing, changes to multi-factor authentication, and more. Read on for more details about these and other product updates in Xero. New features. Enjoy more beautiful reports — Global. We’ve made a number of enhancements to new reports in Xero over the past month.

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How To Ensure Healthy SaaS Metrics As Your Cloud Costs Grow

CloudZero

Typically, startup founders and executives must meet with their board of directors each quarter to review the progress of the company. They may talk about broad topics such as total costs and total revenue, and use these numbers as a guide to determine which moves the company should make in the near future.

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IRS drafts new K-2. K-3 instructions

Accounting Today

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What’s next for new invoicing? Here’s a sneak peek

Xero

Invoicing is one of the most critical parts of running a business or practice. That’s why we’re committed to providing you with a smart and simple way to create and send an invoice, so you can work more efficiently, get paid on time and give your customers a better experience. We have two invoicing experiences in Xero right now: the older version (known as ‘classic’ invoicing) and ‘new’ invoicing.

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How AvidAscend Created Efficiencies for a Community Credit Union

AvidXchange

Dawn Palmer with Brazos Valley Schools Credit Union shares how AvidXchange helped automate their accounts payable process Brazos Valley Schools Credit Union (BVSCU) was chartered in 1954 in Katy, TX as a teacher’s credit union. Now, BVSCU serves much more than educators – the credit union has evolved to serve an entire community, operating across thirteen counties with more than 60,000 members.

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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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Essential Tips for Effective Inventory Management

Remote Quality Bookkeeping

Effective inventory management is vital for any business to function sustainably. Everything has to be recorded, from raw materials to finished products, to ensure you don’t face any delays that could’ve been avoided. At Remote Quality Bookkeeping, we offer a range of convenient, reliable, and cost-effective bookkeeping services to help small and medium-sized businesses improve their processes.

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The accountant shortage threatens capitalism's future

Accounting Today

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We’re making changes to some fields in our practice tools

Xero

From early November 2022, we’ll be updating some fields in Xero Practice Manager (XPM) and Xero HQ. This is all part of our work to provide you with a more unified client record in the future, so you can enjoy a seamless connection between our practice tools. . What’s changing in XPM and Xero HQ. Over the coming weeks, the fields in your practice tools will look a little different.

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Podcasting From The Pumpkin Patch

Cloud Accounting Podcast

Sponsors Canopy: [link] Zoho: [link] Liscio: [link] Need CPE? Subscribe to the Earmark Accounting Podcast: [link] Get CPE for listening to podcasts with Earmark CPE: [link] Show Notes 14:30 – Matt Foreman on Twitter: "Say you don’t know how “ordinary and necessary” is defined by tax law without saying you don’t know how “ordinary and necessary” is defined by tax law.

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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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Tips for Hiring a Corporate Debt Collections Agency

Enterprise Recovery: Accounts Receivable

If you're reading this, it's more than likely because you've done everything you can to get a client to pay, including asking nicely , and they're simply. not paying. You may be wondering if you have any recourse at all and you really, REALLY, need to get back to running your business. Hiring a professional debt collection agency seems complex and a little uncertain.

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Ransomware attacks doubled from 2020 to 2021

Accounting Today

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How you can protect yourself as fraudsters target UK taxpayers

Xero

‘Tis the season for, well, lots of things. Get trick or treating out of the way, and then it’s time for the holidays. Finish unwrapping your presents, and get ready for New Year’s Eve. Once you’ve caught up on your sleep, it’s arguably the most exciting time of all – that’s right, tax season. . In all seriousness, tax season can be an extremely stressful time for taxpayers and accountants alike – perhaps even more so this year, with HMRC’s monumental change, Making Tax Digital (MTD) for VAT , fu

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Kubernetes Best Practices For 2023 (To Implement ASAP)

CloudZero

Kubernetes (K8s) packs a ton of benefits as a container orchestration platform. For instance, K8s is big on automation. This includes automating workload discovery, self-healing, and scaling containerized applications.

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8 Pillars of Leadership Development

Great leadership development is the key to sustainable business growth. Are you ready to design an effective program? HR can use Paycor’s framework to: Set achievable goals. Align employee and company needs. Support different learning styles. Empower the next generation of leaders. Invest in your company’s future with a strong leadership development program.

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Nov 3, CRA News for Home Based Business Owners

Bookkeeping Essentials

CRA news to help Canadian business owners doing their own bookkeeping keep abreast of relevant changes and announcements. You can stop worrying now whether you are up-to-date with government updates!

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Meet the 2022 Best Firms for Young Accountants

Accounting Today

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How PreviewMe is changing the hiring game for job seekers and businesses

Xero

When job hunting, how do you summarise yourself in a single page? Your experience, from school to jobs to hobbies. Your personality, the way you’d fit into a team. Same goes for businesses – how do you neatly compose a job listing that tells a potential hire exactly what makes you so special? . This is where tech startup PreviewMe comes in. PreviewMe is a video-led platform, enabling businesses to streamline the hiring process, and job seekers to put their best foot forward. .

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6 Strategies for Your Small Business to Save Money

Remote Quality Bookkeeping

With the economy’s ups and downs, every small business owner is looking for ways to cut costs and stay afloat. Luckily there are creative ways to do just that. Here are some suggestions from the professionals at Remote Quality Bookkeeping you should try: Go Paperless On average, a company spends around $180 to create a one-page document. As most business owners know, costs can add up quickly, so why not try going paperless?

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How to Modernize Manufacturing Without Losing Control

Speaker: Andrew Skoog, Founder of MachinistX & President of Hexis Representatives

Manufacturing is evolving, and the right technology can empower—not replace—your workforce. Smart automation and AI-driven software are revolutionizing decision-making, optimizing processes, and improving efficiency. But how do you implement these tools with confidence and ensure they complement human expertise rather than override it? Join industry expert Andrew Skoog as he explores how manufacturers can leverage automation to enhance operations, streamline workflows, and make smarter, data-dri

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Nov 3, Canadian Corporate Minute Book

Bookkeeping Essentials

Basic information on maintaining the corporate minute book and your annual registration requirements. also referred to as The Annual Report.

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Private equity firms expand their reach into accounting, with legal help

Accounting Today

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7 Steps to Create a Company Expense Reimbursement Policy

Spenmo

Employees will occasionally spend their own money to pay for work-related expenses—office supplies, sales calls, and meals and lodging during business trips and company events, among others. These costs are an extension of your business expenditures and should be part of your company expense reimbursement policy. Having a fair and effective expense reimbursement policy enables you to treat your employees fairly and show respect for the effort they put into their work.

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How Your AP Team Can Help Fight Recession

MineralTree

Today’s business landscape has economists on their toes: the lingering impacts of COVID-19 along with supply chain disruptions has restricted economic output and driven up costs. These higher costs have led to widespread inflation and prompted the Fed to hike up interest rates, thereby driving up the cost of capital for businesses and borrowing costs for consumers.

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Protect What Matters: Rethinking Finance Ops In A Digital World

Speaker: Cheryl J. Muldrew-McMurtry

Distributed finance teams are rewriting how the back-office runs, and attackers are taking notes. Disconnected workflows, process blind spots, and rising cyber threats are more than just growing pains—they’re liabilities. The challenge isn’t just going remote. It’s building resilient systems that protect accuracy, control, and speed across every transaction and touchpoint.

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Benefits of GAAP

SMB Accounting and Consulting

The benefits of following GAAP for Small Business: Many small business owners shy away from anything associated with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (otherwise known as GAAP) thinking they apply only to large publicly held organizations. This thinking is far from true, however. GAAP was created to be a standard "rule book" for organizations to follow, and was intended to be used by all businesses -- small and large, private and public.

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QBO Advanced, and other tech stories you may have missed

Accounting Today

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How to Catch Up on Your Bookkeeping

Remote Quality Bookkeeping

Are you worried about catching up on your bookkeeping as the year comes to an end? If it’s any consolation, you are not the only one. You’re supposed to update your books consistently throughout the year, but few small businesses and individuals actually do that. Still, you can catch up in time if you’re smart about it. Remote Quality Bookkeeping is a nationally leading outsourced bookkeeping company in the US that routinely helps businesses with bookkeeping at competitive rat

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Getting a Virtual Credit Card: A Detailed Guide for Business Owners

Spenmo

Virtual corporate cards offer various benefits. Having one helps build business credit, mitigate cash flow issues, and delegate spending to employees. In addition, the cards come with exciting rewards. But how do you apply for a virtual corporate card? Read on to learn the step-by-step process of getting a virtual credit card and its benefits. 4 Business Benefits of Having a Virtual Credit Card Having a virtual credit card has advantages, especially for business owners.

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Automation, Evolved: Your New Playbook for Smarter Knowledge Work

Speaker: Frank Taliano

Documents are the backbone of enterprise operations, but they are also a common source of inefficiency. From buried insights to manual handoffs, document-based workflows can quietly stall decision-making and drain resources. For large, complex organizations, legacy systems and siloed processes create friction that AI is uniquely positioned to resolve.