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7 Tips for Navigating Budget Season

Accounting Department

Budgeting is a vital process that enables small and medium-sized businesses to effectively allocate resources, plan for the future, and achieve financial stability. However, navigating the budgeting process can be challenging without a clear roadmap.

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Introducing Intuit Assist

Intuit

Intuit Assist delivers personalized recommendations and does the hard work for you. Today, we introduced Intuit Assist, a new generative AI (GenAI)-powered assistant that will provide personalized, intelligent recommendations to help consumer and small business customers make smart financial decisions with less work and complete confidence, enabling them to put more money in their pockets.

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IRS announces aggressive enforcement focus

Accounting Today

Following a top-to-bottom review of enforcement efforts, the agency is shifting more attention from working-class taxpayers to high-income earners, partnerships, large corporations and promoters of abusive tax shelters.

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Xero wins Canstar’s Most Satisfied Customer Award in New Zealand

Xero

For the fifth year in a row, Xero has taken out Canstar’s Most Satisfied Customer Award for small business accounting software. This is an incredible achievement, showcasing our value to small businesses across Aotearoa New Zealand. Canstar Blue is a customer satisfaction research and ratings business aimed at helping consumers make better purchasing decisions.

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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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Contribution Margin Explained

Accounting Department

Business owners face many financial challenges, so understanding contribution margin is crucial to success. Contribution margin is an essential financial metric for any business striving to increase growth and revenue.

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Top 100 2024 Certification Clues: QuickBooks Point-of-Sale

Insightful Accountant

Murph clues you in on why the Top 100 2024 process will still award points for QuickBooks Desktop Point-of-sale ProAdvisor Certification even if Intuit drops the certification after it stops supporting QBPOS on Oct. 3, 2023.

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Xero Beautiful Business Fund: Not-for-profit? You’re a small business too, so apply today!

Xero

Applications are quickly coming in for the Xero Beautiful Business Fund – thank you to all those who’ve entered so far. If you’re an organisation that operates on a not-for-profit basis, you might be wondering whether you’re eligible to apply. The short answer in most cases is yes (just make sure to double check the rest of our eligibility criteria here ) – because in our eyes, not-for-profit organisations are small businesses too.

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7 Funding & Business Resources for SMBs Affected by Hurricane Idalia

FundThrough

In the wake of Hurricane Idalia, the devastation faced by entrepreneurs is deeply felt. As business owners ourselves, the very thought of watching years of hard work being swept away overnight is heart-wrenching. Understanding the importance of rebuilding and getting back on your feet as soon as possible, we’ve compiled a few useful resources.

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Intuit Ups QuickBooks Payments Rates for QBO Users

Insightful Accountant

Intuit increased QuickBooks Payments rates for QuickBooks Desktop users this past June. Now, it is making increases for Payments Customers using QBO effective in October.

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IRS uses AI to step up audits of large partnerships

Accounting Today

The Internal Revenue Service is leveraging artificial intelligence to detect tax evasion as it uses the extra funding from the Inflation Reduction Act to ramp up compliance efforts.

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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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Small Business Financing: Which Type Is Best? 

AvidXchange

“It takes money to make money.” We’ve all heard the phrase. It’s especially true for small businesses. But it’s harder than ever for small businesses to secure the financing they need to operate. Interest rates are the highest they’ve been in decades and banks are tightening lending standards. Small businesses are feeling the crunch as inflation drives up prices and supply chain challenges persist.

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Introducing: Cash Application, Credit Application Management, Integrated AI and Much More

Gaviti

At Gaviti, we are committed to providing you with the most cutting-edge solutions to streamline your accounts receivable management processes. We’re excited to unveil the incredible lineup of new modules and features we’ve added to our platform in the last few weeks. These additions have been carefully crafted to address the evolving needs of businesses, ensuring you have the tools to minimize errors, maximize efficiency, and optimize your cash flow like never before.

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Workforce News Minute: Small Businesses Go Big

Insightful Accountant

Check out APD's Kristen Appleman take on the latest trend helping today's small business owners get an edge—Going Big. You can listen to the Workforce News Minute here.

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Tax departments go through transformation

Accounting Today

Corporate tax departments are going through major transformation in response to the challenging legal and regulatory environment, according to a new survey from Deloitte.

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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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Invoice Processing Time: Why Does It Matter? 

AvidXchange

In today’s uncertain economic environment, organizations are putting extra emphasis on spend management – monitoring and maximizing company spend. The accounts payable (AP) department plays a critical role in this expenditure cycle, with success tightly linked to the efficiency and accuracy of the team and their processes. The payables process generally involves several steps: Receiving and validating invoices Capturing and coding the data on the invoice (indexing) Matching the invoice to p

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The difference between financial and managerial accounting

Accounting Tools

Related Courses Accountants' Guidebook Bookkeeping Guidebook New Controller Guidebook Most accounting tasks can be divided into financial accounting and managerial accounting. It is useful to describe the differences between these two aspects of accounting, since each one describes a distinctly different career path. In general, financial accounting refers to the aggregation of accounting information into financial statements , while managerial accounting refers to the internal processes used to

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Meet "Intuit Assist"

Insightful Accountant

Intuit’s new Generative AI-Powered Assistant for consumers and small businesses was introduced during its Innovation Day Event on Sept. 6, 2023.

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FASB approves crypto asset standard

Accounting Today

The Financial Accounting Standards Board voted to adopt its eagerly awaited standard for cryptocurrency like Bitcoin held by companies.

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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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Audits Under Fire: Ex-Big Four Partner Responds to Criticisms

Cloud Accounting Podcast

Join us for an in-depth conversation with Jerry Maginnis, a retired Big Four audit partner, about the value and criticisms of financial statement audits. Jerry draws on his decades of experience auditing public companies to respond to issues around audit quality, staff work conditions, complexity in accounting standards, and whether audits truly protect investors.

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The difference between gross and net income

Accounting Tools

Related Courses The Income Statement The Interpretation of Financial Statements Gross vs. Net Income for a Business The concepts of gross and net income have different meanings, depending on whether a business or a wage earner is being discussed. For a company, gross income equates to gross margin , which is sales minus the cost of goods sold. Thus, gross income is the amount that a business earns from the sale of goods or services, before selling, administrative, tax, and other expenses have be

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Intuit Reports Strong Fourth Quarter and Full Year Results

Insightful Accountant

Intuit had a very strong fourth quarter, ending the year with momentum by growing total revenue to $14.4-billion, up 13% year-over-year. Their Small Business & Self-Employed Group revenue grew 24%.

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IRS agents probing high-income taxpayers need better training

Accounting Today

The service's LB&I Division has expertise in training agents on examining high-income taxpayers, but the IRS doesn't appear to be leveraging this expertise.

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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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GCP Security Command Center : Leveraging AI for CSPM

Economize

According to Fortinet’s report, one in five organizations now hosts 75% of their workloads in the cloud. As a majority of IT organizations move to public cloud services, which often involves storing sensitive and personally identifiable information (PII), cloud security has skyrocketed to the forefront of concern.

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The difference between ledger balance and available balance

Accounting Tools

Related Courses Bookkeeping Guidebook Corporate Cash Management How to Audit Cash The ledger balance and available balance are terms used by a bank for the cash position of a checking account. The ledger balance is the balance available as of the beginning of the day. The available balance may be defined in two different ways, which are as follows: The ledger balance, plus or minus any subsequent activity during the day; essentially, it is the ending balance at any point in time during the day;

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John Roman on the Digital Transformation Journey

Insightful Accountant

No matter what size your firm is, keeping in step with technology is critical. Insightful Accountant's Gary DeHart and The Bonadio Group's John Roman explain why in this episode of Accounting Insiders.

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Embracing AI in accounting: A journey of discovery

Accounting Today

Despite the tremendous buzz, it is crucial to recognize that AI's true role in accounting will likely be to augment human capabilities and streamline processes.

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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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Accounting specialists Azets and Dext combine forces to spearhead technology adoption

Dext

The strategic partnership will drive the digitalisation of accounting workflows Azets, the UK outsourcing, compliance and advisory group, has today announced its strategic partnership with cloud accounting platform provider Dext to underpin and support the implementation of its Digital strategy. Dext and Azets share a common goal of digitising the accounting workflow.

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Is accounts receivable an asset or revenue?

Accounting Tools

Related Courses Bookkeeping Guidebook How to Audit Receivables New Controller Guidebook Accounts receivable is the amount owed to a seller by a customer. As such, it is an asset , since it is convertible to cash on a future date. Accounts receivable is listed as a current asset on the balance sheet , since it is usually convertible into cash in less than one year.

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Let's Talk 'QuickBooks Desktop' at September's 'QB Talks'

Insightful Accountant

Murph is hosting 'QB Talks' on Sept. 20, where he hopes to discuss "QuickBooks Desktop 2024." He has put his chips on the table and is gambling that Intuit will have released the product and its embargo prior to his opening remarks.

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Navigating AI before the busy season crunch

Accounting Today

There is no doubt generative artificial intelligence is gaining popularity as industries, including accounting, debate how it can be adopted into workflows.

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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.