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

Accounting Today

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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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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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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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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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Tax planning in an unpredictable political and financial climate

Accounting Today

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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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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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IRS drafts new K-2. K-3 instructions

Accounting Today

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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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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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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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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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The accountant shortage threatens capitalism's future

Accounting Today

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Tips for Hiring a Corporate Debt Collections Agency

Enterprise Recovery

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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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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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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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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Ransomware attacks doubled from 2020 to 2021

Accounting Today

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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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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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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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Meet the 2022 Best Firms for Young Accountants

Accounting Today

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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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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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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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6 Ways Business Virtual Cards Can Be Used for Enterprises

Spenmo

Many companies rely on credit cards to facilitate business transactions because they are faster and easier to use than physical cash or checks. However, exposing the company's credit card details online or to suppliers may invite fraud that can take a toll on the company's coffers. An alternative to avoid this issue is using business virtual cards. These virtual cards comprise a temporary 16-digit number, a CVC, and an expiry date.

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

Accounting Today

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The Best Black Friday Deals for Small Business Owners (2022 Update)

FreshBooks

Have you been planning to invest in some new tools for your business but just couldn’t bring yourself to pay full price (especially in this economy)? If you can wait, it’s definitely worth holding out for Black Friday or Cyber Monday deals. For small business owners, the U.S. Thanksgiving shopping season is a perfect opportunity […] The post The Best Black Friday Deals for Small Business Owners (2022 Update) appeared first on FreshBooks Blog - Resources & Advice for Small Business Owne

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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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SuiteWorld #1: The Suiteness of Integrated Financials with Evan Goldberg

Cloud Accounting Podcast

Meet Our Guest: Evan Goldberg, Executive Vice President and Founder, NetSuite LinkedIn : [link] Learn more about NetSuite Website: [link] Need CPE? Subscribe to the Earmark Accounting Podcast: [link] Get CPE for listening to podcasts with Earmark CPE: [link] Get in Touch Thanks for listening and for the great reviews! We appreciate you! Follow and tweet @BlakeTOliver and @DavidLeary.

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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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QBO Advanced, and other tech stories you may have missed

Accounting Today

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Finding an Outsourced Accountant: Tips Before You Choose

Remote Quality Bookkeeping

Traditionally, accounting wasn’t something businesses would outsource – in many manufacturing companies, it still isn’t. However, in the current digital sphere, especially one that focuses heavily on services, there are various ways a business can outsource its accounting operations. Here are some tips that will help you choose an outsourced accountant.

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Global Accounting Principles and Commission Capitalization

Speaker: Ryan Dillard, Chief of Staff Director at CBIZ ARC Consulting LLC; Kelly Hicks, Global Controller at Airbase

ASC 606 is the revenue recognition standard that sets global accounting principles for all private or public companies that enter sales agreements or contracts with customers. Along with ASC 606, ASC 340-40 was added to address accounting costs to obtain a contact and costs to fulfill a contract. Join us for this webinar when Airbase Controller Kelly Hicks and Ryan Dillard, a Director at CBIZ ARC Consulting explore how to approach capitalizing sales commissions under ASC 340-40.