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Xero Assistance Programme extends to all small businesses in Auckland, Northland, Waikato

Xero

In the wake of extreme weather events, the Xero Assistance Programme (XAP) is being extended to all small businesses in the Auckland, Northland and Waikato regions. From Wednesday 1st February through to Friday 31st March, any small business owner, employee or their families in Auckland, Northland and Waikato regions can access three confidential and free telephone, live chat, online or face-to-face counselling sessions.

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It's 1099 Season at ADC!

Accounting Department

It is that time of the year again, tax season. Many businesses dread this time of the year - it's tough. But thankfully not as tough when you have the unrivaled support of AccountingDepartment.com. "1099 Season" spans from the beginning of the year until January 31st, and during this time, the team at AccountingDepartment.com is hard at work to prepare and review over 6,000 1099's for our clients.

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Global Media Company

ProsperOps

CASE STUDY Global Media Company Discover how ProsperOps helped a global media company's FinOps team increase their Effective Savings Rate by over 50% within six months of adoption. Challenge Despite a mature cost optimization program, use of Reserved Instances (RIs), and support from a third-party RI commitment broker, the company was only achieving a 26% ESR (85th percentile) for its $17 million per month AWS compute spend.

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How to Automate Accounts Payable with Multi Entity Management

Fidesic blog

What is Multi Entity Accounting Software? For CFO's and other financial executives with multiple financial entities under a single umbrella multi-entity accounting software enables automated processes to improve accuracy and efficiency of accounting across entities--whether various departments or lines of business within a holding company, franchising organization or conglomerate.

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8 Ways to Torture Your CFO

The office of the CFO is rapidly evolving, with more and more demands being placed upon the finance and accounting team each year. Join us in this webinar, where we share 8 things to NOT do when it comes to helping the CFO office advance in supporting the business. Learning Objectives: This course objective is to understand how best to support an organization's finance leadership.

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Latest product news — February 2023

Xero

It’s time to switch to new reports If you haven’t made the switch to new reports, we urge you to start moving your work across now , so you have plenty of time to get used to them before the older versions are retired. Here are the latest features we’ve introduced to new reports: The current column in Aged reports is now automatically hidden when it’s not needed (such as when ageing by invoice date) or if it’s empty You can now run aged reports at the end of the current month by default, instead

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AccountingDepartment.com Attends Vistage ChairWorld 2023

Accounting Department

This week, AccountingDepartment.com Business Development Representative, Luke Backus, attended Vistage ChairWorld in Nashville, TN! ChairWorld is a place for Vistage Chairs to come together and attend various breakout sessions, networking opportunities, and evening fun to learn new strategies, improve leadership skills, and more.

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Insightful Accountant Expanding ProAdvisor Awards Program for 2023

Insightful Accountant

Insightful Accountant will recognize a new list of up to 25 Up-n-Coming ProAdvisors, and a Top Up-n-Coming ProAdvisor for 2023.

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Why you should connect with your community this summer

Xero

The summer months are some of the busiest of the year for small business owners. As the peak period for gifting, festivities and tourism, many entrepreneurs aim to make the most of the seasonal buzz. But for some, this comes at a cost. Increased demand can equal longer hours and higher overheads in wages and supply costs (which is particularly prevalent in today’s economic environment).

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Proven Strategies to Help Your Accounting Firm Retain, Attract Clients

Plooto

If you have any doubts about the importance of customer service and building solid client relations, consider the following statistic from a Harvard Business Review study: Increasing customer retention by 5% can increase profits from 25 to 95%.

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4 Ways To Help Engineers Understand How Their Choices Affect Cloud Costs

CloudZero

When it comes to cloud costs, engineers have a particular reputation. The executive suite and finance department often share perplexing frustration about why engineers appear not to care about budgets and costs at all.

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How to Streamline Payment Applications & Lien Waivers Through Innovative Construction Technology

Speaker: Dylan Secrest, Founder of Alamo Innovation and Construction Digital Transformation Consultant

Construction payment workflows are notoriously complex when you consider juggling multiple stakeholders, compliance requirements, and evolving project scopes. Delays in approvals or misaligned data between budgets, lien waivers, and pay applications can grind progress to a halt. The good news? It doesn't have to be this way! Join expert Dylan Secrest to discover how leading contractors are turning payment chaos into clarity using digital workflows, integrated systems, and automation strategies.

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Getting Ready for Top 100 – Tips & Tricks Part 2

Insightful Accountant

Murph spills the beans on criteria for the new QBO-Advanced and QuickBooks Enterprise Categories—what defines each bloodline, so to speak.

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Xero included in 2023 Bloomberg Gender-Equality Index

Xero

Xero’s commitment to diversity, inclusion and belonging has driven our inclusion in the Bloomberg Gender-Equality Index for the fourth consecutive year. Like last year, Xero is the one and only company headquartered in New Zealand to be included in the index, which is made up of 484 companies across 45 countries and regions. Our scores have improved each of the four years we’ve been included in the index, and we’re pleased to see our progress demonstrated in such a tangible way.

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Non-Dilutive Funding: Your Guide to Getting Funded and Growing Your Business

FundThrough

For many of the small business owners, CEOs, and finance leads we work with, they need funding but don’t want to lose ownership by giving away equity in exchange for capital. They want to stay in control of the business they’ve worked so hard to build – completely understandable. The next step is to look […] The post Non-Dilutive Funding: Your Guide to Getting Funded and Growing Your Business appeared first on FundThrough.

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SRE Vs. DevOps: A Simple Breakdown Of The Differences

CloudZero

You know this already. Regardless of your size, you must keep up with technological developments in your industry — and, increasingly, in other industries, even those that seem unrelated. Embracing disruption can enable you to increase your market share, revenue, and profit margins.

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Precision in Motion: Why Process Optimization Is the Future of Manufacturing

Speaker: Jason Chester, Director, Product Management

In today’s manufacturing landscape, staying competitive means moving beyond reactive quality checks and toward real-time, data-driven process control. But what does true manufacturing process optimization look like—and why is it more urgent now than ever? Join Jason Chester in this new, thought-provoking session on how modern manufacturers are rethinking quality operations from the ground up.

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Ignition Appoints Drew Woodcock as Global VP of Sales

Insightful Accountant

The hire brings extensive experience in building, optimizing and leading high performing sales teams across vertical SaaS businesses in the US.

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MHH Practice boosts efficiency with new invoicing

Xero

Accounting has changed dramatically over the last few years. Automation, digital transformation and the acceleration of the cloud have all played an important role in shaping it. But amongst all of this change, one thing remains constant: businesses need to get paid, explains Hayden Watson, Director of UK-based accountancy firm, MHH Practice. Using technology to manage invoicing is one way to help businesses get paid on time, which may explain why invoicing remains one of our most loved feature

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Are You Taking Too Long to Collect on Receivables?

Enterprise Recovery: Accounts Receivable

When your business has a late-paying client, follow-up calls must be handled quickly and with conviction. Late or non-paying clients cause your business to write receivables off as bad debt, and they could cause the deterioration of your business relationships. Or you could escalate to a professional B2B collections agency that values your business relationships and your cash flow.

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Financial Consolidation Guide for Multi-Entity SaaS Companies

Sage Intacct

External demands for a faster financial consolidation process are regularly placed on SaaS accounting departments. SaaS companies with multiple locations, subsidiaries, or operations, means that each entity will have its own chart of accounts, and more than likely has its own individual bank accounts, jurisdictions, and perhaps tax structures. When dealing with disparate entities, risk and error goes up, while financial accuracy goes down – stressing the importance of having a centralized system

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AI In Accounting: A Practical Roadmap For Smarter AP

Speaker: Gerald Ratigan

The accounts payable (AP) function is evolving and AI is leading the charge. As finance teams face rising invoice volumes and expectations for speed and accuracy, AI-powered automation has shifted from a futuristic concept to the most practical solution. But for finance leaders, success isn’t just about selecting the right tools, it’s about implementing the right strategy.

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Password Managers – An Insightful Accountant Software Comparison

Insightful Accountant

Our readers are always asking for software comparisons, so Murph conducted a review of 10 Password Managers; tossed two out, but ranked the remaining eight for your consideration.

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6 Trends in B2B Payment Technology

MineralTree

In 2023, most B2B payment technology trends will focus on navigating economic uncertainty, cultivating talent, optimizing efficiencies, and embracing digitization. CFOs and finance teams will also use the year ahead to zero in their focus on business process improvements and increasing visibility, particularly in regards to cost and spend analytics.

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Podcast - The secret to healthy business growth

finout

The Modern CTO is talking with our CEO and Co-Founder, Roi Rabhon, about how young people can think creatively out of problems into new solutions; Roi’s workplace culture that allows for entrepreneurs to be born out of the company; and why “growing healthy” in business is a result of proper KPI alignment.

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How SAP Users Can Achieve Full Accounts Payable Automation

IPS

If you are an SAP user with lots of manual accounts payable (AP) tasks, you are not alone.

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You upgrade everything else. Why not your close process?

You wouldn’t keep using a 2009 flip phone - so why settle for outdated close processes? It’s time for an upgrade. SkyStem's Guide to Month-End Close Software walks you through what today’s best tools can do (and what your team shouldn’t have to deal with anymore). Get smart, fast, and a whole lot less stressed when it’s time to close the books.

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The Time is Now to Prepare for ASC 842

Insightful Accountant

LeaseCrunch's Ane Ohm takes a deep dive into the new GAAP lease accounting requirements, and six pieces of information you need to know to prepare for transition.

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Non-Dilutive Funding: Your Guide to Getting Funded and Growing Your Business

FundThrough

For many of the small business owners, CEOs, and finance leads we work with, they need funding but don’t want to lose ownership by giving away equity in exchange for capital. They want to stay in control of the business they’ve worked so hard to build – completely understandable. The next step is to look […] The post Non-Dilutive Funding: Your Guide to Getting Funded and Growing Your Business appeared first on FundThrough.

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Resetting in the New Year – What I’m focusing on this year

1st Step Accounting

2022 was a busy year for me. I traveled a lot. I worked a lot, and I fell behind A LOT. I constantly felt like I would never catch up. Well, I vowed not to have this same overwhelming feeling going into the new year. 2023 is the year of playing offense and delivering better customer service to my customers because I know they have not gotten the best version of me and my team over the past year.

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Remote Work Accountants Are More Billable

Cloud Accounting Podcast

Recession needed to increase accounting grads; Amber Setter on improving the CPA pipeline; 2023 tax season officially starts; tech layoffs hit accounting tech Sponsors Keeper - [link] LiveFlow - [link] Anchor - [link] Need CPE? Subscribe to the Earmark Accounting Podcast: [link] Get CPE for listening to podcasts with Earmark CPE: [link] (00:00) - Thank you to our sponsor, Keeper (00:20) - Preview : Accountants are prestressed for busy season (00:56) - Blake is in Tucson; Welcome Amber to the sh

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Stop Budget Burnout: A Better Way to Grow Your Nonprofit in 2026

Speaker: Sean Yoder

Nonprofits are under more pressure than ever to demonstrate financial accountability while continuing to expand their impact. Traditional budgeting models often fall short, reinforcing silos, limiting flexibility, and stalling growth. Enter collaborative budgeting: a dynamic, team-driven process that enables smarter resource allocation and builds financial resilience at scale.

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LeaseCrunch Adds Reports Center to Software

Insightful Accountant

The latest feature allows for storing of reports, future scaling and easier reporting for all customers.

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Accounting Leads: 21 Tactics to Generate More

Future Firm

If you’re looking for tried, tested, and true tactics to help you generate more accounting leads for your firm, you’re in the right place. Read on to access 21 actionable methods that you can implement to help increase your client base. Let’s go! Table of Contents What is Lead Generation for Accountants 21 Tactics to Help You Generate Leads What is Lead Generation for Accountants?

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Development Firm Ramps Up Payment Processing Speed with AvidXchange

AvidXchange

Located in New York City, Douglaston Development is a real estate development company committed to revitalizing and growing neighborhoods. They specialize in building residential developments including high-rise rentals and condominiums, affordable housing, hospitality, senior housing and mixed-use. Douglaston Development controller shares how TimberScan and AvidPay modernize accounts payable Adam Ditchfield graduated from CUNY Queen’s College in New York with his bachelor’s degree in accounti

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Founding Principles of Growth with Darren Root

Jetpack Workflow

Podcast Welcome Today, we sat down with Darren Root, Chief Strategist at Rootworks & Right Networks. Rootworks is a company of Right Networks. They focus on firm improvement and emphasize the drive of helping small to medium-size accounting firms improve every day. Let’s jump right in. Meet Darren Root Darren has managed his own CPA firm for over 30.no sorry. 35 years.

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Why Tech-Forward Tax and Accounting Firms Have the Inside Track to the Future

Speaker: Joe Wroblewski, Sales Engineer Manager

Automating time-consuming manual tasks can save your firm hundreds of hours–and thousands of dollars. But it can also have longer-lasting benefits, like helping you attract and retain the next generation of CPAs, and we don’t need to tell you how important that is amid the current generational staffing crisis in the tax and accounting profession. You'll want to save your seat for this new webinar with industry expert Joe Wroblewski, where we'll explore how to: Maximize ROI with Cost-Effective Te