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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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Artificial intelligence needs more intelligence

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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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The Quest For Sunken Treasure: Top-Down Vs. Bottom-Up Cloud Cost Allocation

CloudZero

High-quality cloud cost allocation has become an existential issue for businesses. In order to get as much out of their ( mounting ) cloud investments as possible, business leaders need to know how much they’re spending in the cloud, what/who they’re spending it on, and whether there’s a good reason for it.

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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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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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New filing season presents new risks to accountants

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

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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.

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

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What to Say When Collecting Past Due Invoices

Enterprise Recovery

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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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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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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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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ACCA appoints next global president

Accounting Today

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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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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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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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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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IRS still coping with millions of unprocessed tax returns

Accounting Today

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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.

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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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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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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.

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Great client service is everyone's responsibility

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The Challenges of Accounts Payable

Spenmo

The Top 5 Challenges of Accounts Payable and its Solutions How do you get the most value out of payments while addressing challenges like inefficiency, lack of spend optimisation, out-of-policy spending, and compliance issues? And worse, these are only some of the many account payable challenges mentioned, where there are, in fact, many more that lies beyond.

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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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How to establish and drive a forecasting culture

AWS FinOps

In part two of our forecasting blog series, we’re going to explore how you can establish a cost forecasting culture in your organization. As budgeting season kicks off (or maybe you’re already in it), typical forecasting challenges become magnified when projecting future cloud costs. Without a robust forecasting governance mechanism, the flexibility of decentralized cloud infrastructure ownership can result in siloed forecasts and limited understanding, especially as thousands of workloads are r

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How are AP Departments within Homeowners Associations Responding to a Potential Recession?

AvidXchange

A possible recession has businesses on edge as many are reevaluating costs and priorities in preparation for an uncertain future. For homeowners associations (HOAs), there’s concern that economic hardship could add to the intense pressure they are under to retain and hire the people they need to stay in business. The HOA industry gained popularity in the 1960s and has grown steadily ever since.

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Art of Accounting: Solution to oppressive tax season hours

Accounting Today

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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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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.