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Four Pitfalls of Delayed Invoice Payments

Enterprise Recovery

When clients fail to pay their invoices on time, it can negatively impact your cash flow and harm your business in various ways. Maintaining a healthy cash flow is crucial for the success of your business, so it is essential to address any issues with late payments promptly and find effective solutions to ensure a steady and stable financial foundation.

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QuickBooks Desktop Is Dead. Long Live Online!

Cloud Accounting Podcast

Blake and David discuss Intuit's announcement that QuickBooks Desktop will no longer be sold as new subscriptions after July 2024. They also talk about the need for changes in the accounting profession, such as simplifying financial reporting requirements and revising the 150-hour rule. In other news, they cover sanctions against China-based accounting firms, incorrect IRC claims by businesses, and the Adidas-Kanye West fallout.

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Finding the Best Invoice Processing Software in 2024

Nanonets

Your accounts payable team – whose main function is to ensure funds are disbursed properly to vendors, business partners, and sometimes customers – processes an exorbitant number of invoices every single week. When done manually, processing an invoice can take days. If an AP expert has to conduct three-way matching checks , route the invoice to the proper department for approval , initiate the payment process, and get another approval before sending funds, there are many potential

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IRS plans foreign tax credit rules

Accounting Today

The Treasury Department and the Internal Revenue Service expect to issue proposed regulations to address the application of the foreign tax credit and related rules and the dual consolidated loss rules to certain types of taxes described in the GloBE Model Rules.

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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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A Place Where Women in Sales Want to Work

Intuit

Championing women in sales When companies ramp up their diversity and inclusion efforts, their focus usually goes to tech and engineering roles. But women are underrepresented in sales, too. That’s why it’s meaningful that Intuit was recently recognized as number one on the list of the “Top 25 Companies Where Women Want to Work” released by GirlsClub, a professional organization focused on getting more women in sales leadership.

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Budgeting and Planning for 2024: A Guide for Businesses

Accounting Department

With a new year just around the corner, it's time for organizations to start thinking about their budgets for 2024 - if they haven't already. Effective budgeting and planning are critical to the success of any business. It helps in making smart financial decisions, optimizing resource allocation, and achieving business objectives.

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FASB issues cryptoasset standard

Accounting Today

The Financial Accounting Standards Board released its long-awaited accounting standards update to improve the accounting for and disclosure of certain cryptoassets.

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A Guide to AWS Compute Savings Plan for Strategic Cloud Spending

ProsperOps

As an Amazon Web Services (AWS) customer, you’re always looking for ways to optimize your cloud spending and get the most out of your budget. One effective solution for reducing AWS costs is to use Compute Savings Plans. These flexible pricing models offer savings of up to 66% by committing to a fixed hourly spend for one or three years. In this article, you’ll learn more about Compute Savings Plans and how ProsperOps can help you optimize your cloud cost strategy.

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AccountingDepartment.com Gears Up for its 10th Vistage ChairWorld

Accounting Department

We're happy to announce that AccountingDepartment.com is gearing up for its 10th Vistage ChairWorld event in January! As a proud National Sponsor for the past decade, this event holds a special place in our hearts, and we can't wait to reconnect with familiar faces and forge new connections in 2024.

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Build the ultimate app stack to help skyrocket your practice growth

Xero

In today’s accounting and bookkeeping practices, you can find yourself juggling client communications, compliance and acting increasingly in advisory roles – all while still managing your ever-growing daily management tasks. It’s understandable that you may often find yourself spending more time on the admin side of your practice than growing it. So how can you streamline time spent on admin, workflows and processes?

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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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IFAC sees need for internal controls for sustainability

Accounting Today

The International Federation of Accountants wants organizations to combine sustainability reporting with their existing internal control and governance frameworks.

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Twelve Months of New Features: a 2023 Recap

Compleatable

Our developers have been hard at work this year, listening to feedback from our iCompleat users and constantly improving your experience. Cast your mind back to January (insert ‘it feels like a lifetime ago’ comments here!)- a New Year, and some new tweaks to your user experience. We made it even easier to create a new order by adding the layout and supplier within the Requisition form, as well as adding a shiny new duplicate function to Purchase Orders.

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Coaching Work-Life Balance from a Management Level | Beyond the Books Podcast by AccountingDepartment.com

Accounting Department

We are thrilled to announce that Episode 8 of our podcast, Beyond the Books , is now live and ready for your listening pleasure.

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Faces in FinOps Podcast: Episode 15 with Eli Mansoor, Pt. 1

ProsperOps

“Faces in FinOps” is hosted by Jon Myer and powered by ProsperOps. Greetings and welcome to another stellar episode of the Faces In FinOps Podcast, powered by ProsperOps, with your host, Jon Myer. This week we’re excited to have Eli Mansoor , a FinOps evangelist and CEO/Founder of OskaQ Consulting , a business focusing on improving cloud customers’ gross margin by optimizing vendors’ agreements and cloud spend.

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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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AICPA sees threat to CPA state mobility

Accounting Today

The American Institute of CPAs provided information for U.S. accounting professionals on the potential impact on their out-of-state engagements if some of the pending legislation in some states on licensure requirements is enacted.

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Designing Future-Proof Purchase-to-Pay Operations

Cevinio

We will uncover Alpar’s insights on maintaining an effective P2P team, with a special focus on the transformative power of automation technology. Additionally, we’ll discuss AP challenges and, more importantly, solutions to overcome them. During this interview, you will learn about: Keys to having an effective P2P function The transformative impact of AP automation: before and after Important features in AP Automation for operational success Factors for a successful transformation Ab

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Sage 50 – Features, Use Case, Alternatives, & Limitations

Ace Cloud Hosting

Managing finances and accounting is a crucial aspect of any business, regardless of its size. Sage 50 Accounting software has long been a trusted solution for businesses looking to streamline.

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New Feature: Global Cyclical Optimization Support – More Savings for Elastic Compute Environments

ProsperOps

Autonomous Optimization for Cyclical Workloads Globally I’m excited to announce our newest feature: Global Cyclical Optimization Support. Earlier this year, we launched a precursor capability called Advanced Cyclical Optimization Support. That update implemented cyclical workload optimization for EC2 usage at the region level. Specifically, if aggregate usage patterns for regional workloads using the same instance type, operating system, and tenancy formed a recurring cyclical pattern, our platf

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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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IFAC to revise education standards for sustainability

Accounting Today

The International Federation of Accountants' planned revisions will include some new and revised learning outcomes to meet the demands for sustainability reporting and assurance.

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How to Safeguard AP Operations Against Invoice Fraud

Cevinio

How to Safeguard AP Operations Against Invoice Fraud The rapidly growing invoice fraud risk poses a significant threat to businesses. Having the potential to cost hundreds of thousands of dollars in losses, it can decimate business-to-business relationships and cause irreparable damage to an organization’s good reputation. It’s imperative to protect your organization against invoice fraud, also known as AP fraud, as a result.

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6 Benefits of AI Insurance Claims Processing

Nanonets

A survey by Accenture on underwriting employees found that up to 40% of underwriters’ time is spent on non-core and administrative activities. They estimate that this represents an industry-wide efficiency loss of up to $160 billion over the next five years. Integrating AI and automation into the underwriting workflow presents a significant opportunity to minimize the time allocated to administrative tasks, manual processes, and repetitive data entries.

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AIOps Explained: Transforming IT with Artificial Intelligence

ProsperOps

AIOps is a convergence of AI and IT operations, helping AWS users grapple with the intricacies of cloud computing. According to McKinsey, 70% of companies will employ hybrid or multicloud management technologies, tools, and processes in the years ahead. Because of this relentless pace of technology development, AWS customers often find themselves managing complex IT problems, and the challenge they face is to keep up without compromising customer service.

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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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IRS tax demands would take money from victims of FTX bankruptcy

Accounting Today

U.S. officials will take money away from victims of the fraud-tainted crypto firm unless a judge rejects the government's demand for $24 billion in unpaid taxes, the bankrupt company said in a court filing.

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Plooto bolsters executive team with seasoned fintech leaders from PayPal and Xero

Plooto

The strategic Risk and Partnerships hires will build on Plooto's 2023 momentum and supercharge market expansion in 2024 to further support growing businesses

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3 Canadian Legislation Changes In 2024 To Keep In Mind

The Successful Bookkeeper

Whether you’re already mentally in holiday mode or are spending the next few weeks tying up what feels like a thousand loose ends, one thing’s for sure: a new year is right around the corner.

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5 Tips to Reduce Your Cash Conversion Cycle

Gaviti

When you shorten your cash flow conversion time, you improve liquidity. You can then use this cash to pay bills on time, increase staffing, invest in research and development, or expand into new markets. These are just some of the uses that make strong cash flow an important metric for determining the health and potential longevity of businesses. The trick is knowing how to reduce cash conversion cycle times while still preserving good relationships with your customers.

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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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The future of the trusted advisor: Challenges and opportunities

Accounting Today

As the accounting profession enters a period of unprecedented change, the AICPA's Barry Melancon highlights the upsides and downsides.

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Manolo Blahnik Pairs with NetSuite

Insightful Accountant

Fashion shoe brand Manolo Blahnik uses NetSuite to enhance supply chain efficiency, consolidate financial processes, and improve visibility into its growing global operations.

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Healthcare Document Management: A Complete Guide

Nanonets

Healthcare document management systems play a crucial role in the modern healthcare landscape by streamlining and enhancing the management of patient records, administrative documents, and medical data. These systems provide a centralized and secure platform for storing, organizing, and accessing a vast array of healthcare-related information. What is Healthcare Document Management?

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11 Strategies for Success Business Owners Have Used 

Nolan Accounting Center

Let’s talk about strategy. Strategy is not something to fear, nor is it only for big companies. As Ellie Pidot, vice president of strategy at Medtronic has said, “Strategy is a fancy word for coming up with a long-term plan and putting it into action.” Author Pete Johnson added, “Strategy is a style of thinking, a conscious and deliberate process, an intensive implementation system, the science of ensuring future success.

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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.