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Artificial intelligence needs more intelligence

Accounting Today

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Xero announces CEO succession, Sukhinder Singh Cassidy appointed

Xero

I’m pleased to let you know t hat today we announced the appointment of Sukhinder Singh Cassidy as Xero’s new CEO, on 1 February 2023. Sukhinder will succeed Steve Vamos who after serving almost five years as CEO, is retiring from the role and plans t o return to his previous portfolio in business coaching and leadership development as an advisor, director and investor.

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How avoiding unrestricted traffic & security issues is possible with an access control model based on AWS IAM

FinOps in Practice

With so many different individuals across your organization dabbling in the cloud and making adjustments, it can be difficult to track, manage and secure. It can also present challenges to the already complicated process of cloud cost management and cloud optimization. User rights are a key piece to the puzzle, allowing you to assign different hierarchies so that only individuals who are meant to be within one facet or project within your cloud space have access to it.

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Accounting Automation: The Definitive 2023 Guide

Future Firm

This is my complete guide to accounting automation in 2023. So if you want to: Learn the 8 benefits of automated accounting. Save time by automating your accounting processes. Automate all 15 areas of your accounting. Find out the latest tools to help you streamline and automate your work. Then you’ll love this new guide. Let’s get started. Table of Contents.

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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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New filing season presents new risks to accountants

Accounting Today

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Prepare for Making Tax Digital for Income Tax with Xero’s ITSA Academy

Xero

From April 2024, self-employed people and landlords earning over £10,000 annually, will need to follow Making Tax Digital for Income Tax Self Assessment (MTD for ITSA) rules. . As an accountant or bookkeeper, you will need to prepare yourself, your clients, and your practice for these changes. Xero’s 3-step ITSA academy has been designed specifically to help you prepare.

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SSI Wins Oracle Cerner 2022 Collaboration Award

SSI Healthcare Rev Cycle Solutions

SSI Wins Oracle Cerner 2022 Collaboration Award. November 9, 2022. Every year, Oracle Cerner honors its most innovative and meaningful partnerships, which are chosen based on superior performance and the impact the partner has on their clients. This year, the SSI Group, LLC (SSI) is pleased to announce that we were named the 2022 Collaboration Award Winner at the recent Oracle Cerner Health Conference.

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20 Days to a Better Firm: Top tips for recruiting and retention

Accounting Today

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Xero Awards UK & Ireland: How to craft a winning award entry

Xero

Entries for the UK and Ireland Xero Awards 2023 are now open for our accounting, bookkeeping and app partners. Being an award-winning firm isn’t easy, and neither is writing an award-winning entry. So how can you put your best foot forward when crafting your award submission? In season one of Beyond Numbers – our new podcast for accountants and bookkeepers – we spoke to Pam Phillips, founder and managing director of award-winning small firm de Jong Phillips , who shared her advice on not just be

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The Unit Economics Journey: Cost Considerations At Each Venture Stage

CloudZero

Just as there are a handful of stages to describe the financial journey from startup to established company — pre-seed and seed funding, followed by series A, B, and C funding — there are also stages to the process of achieving a healthy understanding of your costs. We at CloudZero like to call these cost intelligence maturity stages “crawl,” “walk,” and “run.”.

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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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What’s the Best AP Software for Your Business? 5 Top Vendors Compared

Plooto

There’s the adage, “Life is expensive when you don’t know accounting.” An accounts payable software solution that’s not right for your business can also cost you dearly: inefficient workflows, high monthly fees, too advanced or too few features, to name a few.

AP
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IRS's draft K-2 and K-3 instructions detail domestic filing exception

Accounting Today

Tax
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Xero’s half year 2023 financial results

Xero

Today we announced Xero’s half year financial results to 30 September 2022 (H1 FY23). . Xero continued to deliver strong growth momentum with more small businesses placing their trust in our cloud technology and open platform to run their business and meet critical compliance needs. . Our H1 FY23 performance highlights include operating revenue growing 30% (27% in constant currency) to $658.5 million, total customer lifetime value increasing 30% to $13 billion, and subscribers up 16% to 3.5 mill

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How to Increase Forecast Accuracy with Automated Forecasting

Sage Intacct

Forecasting accurately across long periods is an indispensable skill for SaaS finance and RevOps departments. The further you can reliably forecast, the clearer your picture of your company's financial health will be.

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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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What to Say When Collecting Past Due Invoices

Enterprise Recovery: Accounts Receivable

When it's your job to collect past-due invoices, what you say matters. And what you say will depend on your state of mind when you type the email or get on the phone. How you come across to your clients, especially when they're long-term business-to-business relationships, will determine how they react to you, your demands, or any negotiation tactics.

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IRS still coping with millions of unprocessed tax returns

Accounting Today

Tax
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10 QuickBooks Tips 2023: How to use it effectively

CapActix

Whether you are a big corporate house or small startup organization , it is highly essential for businesses to perfectly record all the financial transactions. In this digital world, QuickBooks is a comprehensive bookkeeping and accounting software that is helping numerous businesses to smoothly record their finances. QuickBooks accounting software is highly popular and loaded with numerous features – from bank integration to bookkeeping services.

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How Machine Learning Enhances Your Business Process Automation Software

NextProcess

More and more companies recognize the value of business process automation (BPA) software. If a business doesn’t already have some form of digitization and automation to help streamline their financial processes like accounts payable and purchasing, then there’s a good chance they already have plans to digitize. Now, companies are less likely to question whether using BPA software is a good idea.

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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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Improving the Customer Experience for Your Accounting Firm by Saving Time with Automation

Analytix Finance & Accounting

The earliest forms of accounting date back to ancient Mesopotamia. In those times, ruling leaders trusted and highly regarded individuals who oversaw financial matters. Today, accounting is a significant field with millions of CPAs in the world and a shift to the customer experience. Nowadays, individuals who pay for a service want the best experience possible as they know they can take their business virtually anywhere.

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ACCA appoints next global president

Accounting Today

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5 Benefits of Accounts Payable (AP) Automation

AvidXchange

Accounts payable (AP) automation is a technology solution that accounting teams use to convert paper invoices into a digital format and then automate the process of organizing within the system, routing approvals, coding and executing payments. The digital tool can be used alongside an organization’s preferred accounting software, leading to increased productivity.

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Choosing the right software for your finance team

Spenmo

In an ever-changing business environment, we understand that adopting technological practices for your finance team requires great due diligence and may come at a hefty cost. Stats have proven that about 66% of finance teams find their daily tasks highly laborious and manual in nature, which take up much of their time and focus. So choosing the right software to help them relieve their workload and undoubtedly improve your team’s productivity, which in turn brings long-term benefits to the compa

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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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Benefits of Not Doing Your Own Payroll

SLC Bookkeeping

As a small business owner, figuring out ways to save on expenses is a constant battle. There are some ways this works and others that don't. Do-it-yourself payroll is one place you might want to avoid cutting costs. In the old days, the owner could simply grab some cash from the drawer and pay employees. Some small businesses just write a check and assume the payroll is all done!

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Great client service is everyone's responsibility

Accounting Today

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AWS Billing Conductor and CloudCheckr: How They Compare

CloudCheckr

Billing for Cloud Resources: Understanding Your Needs and Available Solutions Billing for or allocating cloud usage across a large set of customers within an enterprise is an essential part of delivering a cloud services business or managing cloud costs internally. Managed Service Providers (MSPs) make a living reselling cloud resources and need to create invoices for their clients.

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8 Steps to Avoid Duplicate Payments

MineralTree

Duplicate payments are a huge headache for accounts payable departments and their vendors. For AP teams, they lead to wasted time and money and strained supplier relationships. But in order to eliminate the potential of duplicate payments, your organization must understand where they come from and how they occur. Let’s take a look at the steps AP departments can take to avoid duplicate payments and improve AP efficiencies across the organization.

AP
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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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How Automated Forecasting is Revolutionizing Hiring Practices

Sage Intacct

For any business, hiring is simultaneously one of the most important but also one of the trickiest business tasks. That becomes even more the case when navigating a market downturn like the one we’re currently experiencing–and SaaS companies are not immune.

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Art of Accounting: Solution to oppressive tax season hours

Accounting Today

Tax
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Why are Real Estate Firms Turning to AP Automation to Weather a Potential Recession?

AvidXchange

Real estate management firms are bracing for what could be a tumultuous time ahead. The current economic environment has businesses across industries tightening their belts and looking for ways to future-proof amidst growing uncertainty. To understand how businesses are navigating a potential recession, we surveyed 500 middle market professionals in August 2022 to see how organizations are responding to these uncertain times.

AP
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How can you improve your Employee Reimbursement Process

Spenmo

One of the most frustrating parts of being an employee is waiting for reimbursement on business expenses. You’ve got to dig up receipts and fill out reports, then deal with a long wait for your money. Not to mention, employees need to read through a long and lengthy employee reimbursement policy. And let’s face it, nobody reads it anyways. Meanwhile, your finance team is also waiting—for mistakes on expense reports, receipts that are missing, and trying to create complex expense reimbursement po

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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