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IRS will wipe away $1.2B in late fees from pandemic

Accounting Today

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Eight tips to prepare for (and make the most of) Xerocon Sydney

Xero

In just a couple of weeks, accountants and bookkeepers from all over Australia, New Zealand and Asia will descend upon Sydney’s International Convention Centre (ICC) for two days of inspiration, education, connection and fun. You guessed it; we’re talking about the return of Xerocon! After a three-year hiatus, we couldn’t be more excited to bring you – our partner community – together again at the world’s most beautiful and innovative conference for cloud accounting leaders. .

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8 common accounts payable pitfalls and how to avoid them

AP Association

It's tough enough running a business without having to worry about making mistakes with your accounts payable. Even the best-managed businesses can fall into common traps that can cause problems down the road. By being aware of these traps and taking steps to avoid them, you can save yourself a lot of headaches. The following is a list of the most common accounts payable mistakes you should watch out for and try your best to avoid.

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Introducing Framework Updates

FinOps Foundation

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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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California pass-through entity tax credit circumvents SALT cap

Accounting Today

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Payroll history is launching in Australia

Xero

This week, one of our most highly requested product updates will be going live in Xero Payroll: payroll history. We listened to you, our customers and community, and will be launching the first stage of the feature in Australia – employee records. So, what does this mean? You’ll now have an easy-to-access audit trail of changes made within Xero by a small business owner, advisor or app partner.

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25 Crucial DevOps Automation Tools Your Team Needs In 2022

CloudZero

With technology advancing and the business environment becoming increasingly competitive, your DevOps team needs to continually improve your product. Yet releasing new product features and improving existing ones require freeing up their time. You can do this by automating repetitive tasks.

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Do we need accounting firms?

Accounting Today

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Meeting the expectations of a digital customer

Xero

It’s been so amazing to bring our long-awaited Xerocon event back to life in New Orleans over the past two days. This vibrant city brought a festive atmosphere to the event and we were inspired with on-stage performances by local talent such as Amanda Shaw , a fiddler and Brandan Odum , a successful street artist. It was the perfect way to reconnect with our US and Canadian based accounting and bookkeeping partners and the wider Xero community. .

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Everything You Should Look For in a Procure to Pay Solution

AvidXchange

Everything comes at a cost. Companies must charge for the materials and services they use to create the final product, plus a little extra to ensure a return on investment of raw goods. In the B2B world, this is known as the procure-to-pay process. Table of Contents What is Procure-to-Pay? The procure-to-pay (also known as purchase-to-pay or P2P) process is the cycle in which businesses inquire, request, receive, and then pay for raw goods and services.

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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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15 Essential Container Orchestration Tools For 2022

CloudZero

Managing containerized applications or microservices can be difficult. It is even more demanding and error-prone if you do it manually. So, what’s the alternative?

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Supreme Court to hear case involving taxation of U.S. expats

Accounting Today

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What to expect from Xerocon Sydney

Xero

In case you haven’t heard, Xerocon is back with a bang. From London to New Orleans, and soon, Sydney, this year’s event series is an international tour celebrating our partner community around the globe. Whether you’re a first-timer or veteran, it’s safe to say you can expect the unexpected. After all, it’s been coined the world’s most beautiful and innovative conference for cloud accounting leaders for a good reason.

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Where does FinOps stop and GreenOps begin?

The FinOps Alliance

FinOps vs. GreenOps vs. Sustainability Since FinOps started gaining traction in the larger cloud technology community, we’ve seen an increase in the use of the term ‘GreenOps’ as well. For a lot of organisations, the goal of FinOps is reasonably clear, while GreenOps tends to just be ‘FinOps, but for sustainability’. We think there is more to the story than just that.

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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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5 Things A Successful VPE And CTO Should Do Every Day

CloudZero

Great leaders know how to think big. As a VPE or CTO, your leadership role puts you in a position to make important changes and guide policy.

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What the student debt forgiveness plan would mean for taxpayers and the U.S. economy

Accounting Today

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The top three security priorities for your organization as you look ahead

Xero

The last two days at Xerocon New Orleans have been a fantastic whirlwind, and I was particularly thrilled to speak about my favourite topic – how to keep your practice cyber safe – in a breakout session on the second day for our delegates. . As Xero’s General Manager for Security Assurance, this is a topic very close to my heart, and it’s this education and awareness piece that makes up a huge part of the work my team and I do on a day-to-day basis. .

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Flawless Execution of Professional Billing for Northern Regional Hospital

SSI Healthcare Rev Cycle Solutions

Flawless Execution of Professional Billing for Northern Regional Hospital. August 24, 2022. August 24, 2022. Northern Regional Hospital is a leading provider of quality, affordable medical care, serving patients in Mount Airy, NC, and surrounding regions since 1953. The hospital features comprehensive healthcare solutions for an expansive range of specialties, including state-of-the-art emergency, diagnostics, and surgery centers.

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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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How One Church Focuses on Paying It Forward Instead of Worrying About Accounts Payables

AvidXchange

Daniel Miracola with Central Presbyterian Church shares how AvidXchange helped to automate their accounts payable process, allowing them to scale while reinvesting their savings back into the church. Central Presbyterian Church is a historic congregation on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, founded by pastor and abolitionist William Patton in 1821. After experiencing a period of decline in the early 2000s, the church has grown its congregation into a culturally diverse body of more than 500 m

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The future of the Metaverse holds great promise. The present, less so.

Accounting Today

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Product wrap from Xerocon New Orleans 2022

Xero

The heat, the food, the music, the energy. There’s really no place like New Orleans, Louisiana (known affectionately as NOLA). It was the perfect location to reconnect with our valued accounting and bookkeeping partners, and share some exciting plans for new tools and features designed to make inventory management, bank reconciliation and tax management simpler and more seamless.

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The Ins and Outs of Non-Profit Accounting

Brigade

Non-Profit organizations are often made up of passionate team members dedicated to supporting their community or cause, and not many have a professional accountant on staff. These organizations require the same basic financial tracking and services as other businesses (expenses, invoices, accounts payable, accounts receivable, etc.) but can sometimes require extra support, especially when funding through grants, recording donations or reporting to a board of directors is involved.

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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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The Accountant’s Guide to Standardised VAT Returns

Dext

Whether you pull together the client’s VAT returns or another staff member does the work, a robust framework allows you to standardise your firm’s process, mitigating the risk of human-error, no matter who is doing the work. In this guide, we’ll be sharing what that looks like.

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IRS offers tax penalty relief to late-filing taxpayers, refunding $1.2B in penalties

Accounting Today

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Xero Small Business Insights expands to the United States and Canada, providing timely updates on state of small business

Xero

It takes passion and perseverance to run a small business. I saw this first hand growing up in my family’s small business in rural Canada. Now, more than ever, running a successful small business takes insight. Historical trends and timely market data can, when used effectively, help small businesses and their advisors adapt to complex present realities and prepare for future ones.

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Ep. 196: Amanda Cohen – Why your company needs a risk management makeover

IMA's Count Me

Connect with Amanda: [link] [link] [link] [link] [link] [link] Full Episode Transcript: Adam: I'm Adam Larson and welcome to Count Me In, the podcast focused on all the ways management accountants can help businesses thrive through smart financial management and data driven decision making. My guest today is Amanda Cohen, the vice president of product at Resolver, a software company helping businesses manage complex interconnected risks.

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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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72% of Economists Warn of a Recession in 2023

NACM

All eyes are on the Federal Reserve as it fights the worst inflation in four decades with aggressive interest rate hikes. Most economists (73%) expect the Fed to be unsuccessful in taming inflation in the next two years without triggering a recession, according to the National Association for Business Economics (NABE). 72% predict a recession by th.

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Former BDO audit manager shot and killed ex-boss

Accounting Today

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The KaiXen chapters: Xero’s approach to continual improvement

Xero

In Japanese philosophy, change is represented by the word ‘kai’, and ‘zen’ means ‘for the better’. As we rapidly scale our technology capabilities in the pursuit of becoming the world’s most sustainably excellent engineering company, we know just how important the kaizen approach to continual improvement – small changes, over time – is in how we identify problems, and solve them. .

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Trump CFO Pleads Guilty to Tax Fraud

Cloud Accounting Podcast

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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.