Fri.May 10, 2024

article thumbnail

Generative AI may let tax pros charge more

Accounting Today

A recent survey has found that 40% of tax professionals believe generative AI will allow them to demand higher rates, in comparison to 6% who said rates will decrease.

Tax 325
article thumbnail

Recognizing Our Military Spouses - Happy 2024 MilSpouse Appreciation Day!

Accounting Department

Our AccountingDepartment.com family is proud of its vibrant and diverse “cast of characters”—we span the country with our team members coming from all backgrounds and personalities. Included among our team are some amazing Military Spouses whose hard work, dedication, and contributions are part of what makes our family so strong—and theirs as well.

232
232
professionals

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

US April budget surplus hits $210B on higher tax receipts

Accounting Today

The U.S. government recorded a higher budget surplus for the month of April than a year ago thanks to a rise in tax receipts, while steeper debt-servicing costs continue to impose a major drag.

Budgeting 268
article thumbnail

This tax season, we saw more reasons why the tax code should be more simple, fair, and transparent

Intuit

Over the last 30 years, the tax code has more than tripled in size. That’s three times the amount of complexity and headaches for many families. For our Intuit TurboTax customers, we’ve helped make the complicated easy for decades, continuously improving and evolving our product to help taxpayers navigate the pages, and pages , and pages of complicated code.

Tax 130
article thumbnail

From Start to Scale: Driving Growth Through Seamless Payments Implementation

Speaker: Michael Veatch, Senior Director, Implementations & Ella Aguirre, Director of Solution Consulting

Embedding payments can be a transformative step for software companies looking to enhance their platform capabilities, boost customer satisfaction, and drive long-term growth. However, the success of payments hinges on a single thing: implementation. Drawing on real-world insights and experiences, payments implementation experts Michael Veatch and Ella Aguirre will explore actionable strategies that can lead to a transparent, friction-free launch and mitigate potential challenges like technical

article thumbnail

On the move: PYA names chief marketing officer

Accounting Today

Eide Bailly admits 24 partners; MGI Worldwide adds new member firm; and more news from across the profession.

306
306
article thumbnail

The difference between authorized and outstanding shares

Accounting Tools

What are Authorized Shares? Authorized shares are the number of shares that a corporation is legally allowed to issue. The number of authorized shares is initially set in a company's articles of incorporation. The shareholders can increase the number of authorized shares at any time at a shareholders meeting, as long as a majority of shareholders vote in favor of the change.

More Trending

article thumbnail

Revenue recognition methods

Accounting Tools

There are a number of ways in which revenue can be recognized in an organization's income statement. The method chosen depends on the industry and the specific circumstances. In the following sections, we note a number of recognition methods, how they work, and when they can be used. Completed Contract Method The completed contract method is used to recognize all of the revenue and profit associated with a project only after the project has been completed.

article thumbnail

Tax pros, protect your clients and firm after massive IRS data breach

Accounting Today

The extent of how many taxpayers were affected by the breach was unknown until now.

Tax 317
article thumbnail

Asset accounts definition

Accounting Tools

What are Asset Accounts? Asset accounts store monetary information about a company’s resources. Assets can be subdivided into many accounts , depending on their nature and assumed holding periods. The ending balances in these accounts roll forward into the beginning balances for the following year. The general categories of asset accounts are as follows, along with the accounts commonly used within each category: Current Asset Accounts Cash.

article thumbnail

FICPA launches pilot program to help accountants complete 150 credit-hours for free

Accounting Today

The Bridge to CPA program allows accountants to complete their remaining credits for CPA licensure for free through Nova Southeastern University.

CPA 182
article thumbnail

Less Stress, More Success: Accounting Best Practices & Processes for 2025

Speaker: Amanda Adams, Fractional CFO, CPA

Are you ready to elevate your accounting processes for 2025? 🚀 Join us for an exclusive webinar led by Amanda Adams, a seasoned fractional CFO and CPA passionate about transforming back-office operations for finance teams. This session will cover critical best practices and process improvements tailored specifically for accounting professionals.

article thumbnail

Benford's Law definition

Accounting Tools

What is Benford’s Law? Benford’s Law states that, in a naturally occurring set of numbers, the smaller digits appear disproportionately more often as the leading digits. The leading digits have the distribution shown in the following table, where the number 1 appears slightly more than 30% of the time as the leading digit, and the number 9 appears as the leading digit less than 5% of the time (which is a difference of 6x). 1 = 30.1% frequency of occurrence 2 = 17.6% frequency of occurrence 3 = 1

article thumbnail

CFO strategies can maintain profitability despite economic uncertainty

Accounting Today

To maintain steady organic growth and decrease time to value, financial leaders must implement effective response strategies.

article thumbnail

Asset turnover ratio definition

Accounting Tools

What is the Asset Turnover Ratio? The asset turnover ratio compares the sales of a business to the book value of its assets. The measure is used to estimate the efficiency with which management uses assets to produce sales. A high turnover level indicates that a business uses a minimal amount of working capital and fixed assets in its daily operations.

article thumbnail

How TaxAct on Cloud Can Benefit Your Tax Firm

Ace Cloud Hosting

TaxAct is a comprehensive tax preparation and filing software for individuals and firms. It offers online and desktop-based software enabling users to file federal and state tax returns. This tax.

Tax 59
article thumbnail

Avoiding Lease Accounting Pitfalls in 2025: Lessons Learned from Spreadsheet Errors

Speaker: Abdi Ali, Sr. Lease Accounting Consultant

Join this insightful webinar with industry expert Abdi Ali, who will discuss the challenges that can arise from managing lease accounting with spreadsheets! He will share real-world examples of errors, compliance issues, and risks that may be present within your spreadsheets. Learn how these tools, while useful, can sometimes lead to inefficiencies that affect your time, resources, and peace of mind.

article thumbnail

Advising Employees: Why Their Form W-2 Is Different From Their Last Pay Stub

CSI Accounting & Payroll

As a small business owner, you know that sometimes your employees are going to ask you questions about their tax forms. It’s a common misconception that their last pay stub of the year will always match their W-2, so how can you help them understand the difference? At CSI Accounting & Payroll, we’ve worked with small businesses for over 50 years.

Payroll 52
article thumbnail

Financial reporting made easy for NGOs

Plooto

Thames Valley Family Health Team (TVFHT) provides primary health care to more than 160,000 patients through a network of 120 physicians. As the team grew, managing its accounts became more onerous. The organization’s small accounting team input data manually to process, pay and track invoices — an approach that became unmanageable as the number of invoices tripled and then quadrupled over a two-year period.

article thumbnail

Web Scraping for Market Research

Nanonets

In today’s highly competitive business landscape, staying ahead is a constant struggle for all organizations. To achieve this, businesses must be updated with the latest information about the market, customers, and competitors. Gathering information about any of these is known as market research.  Whether you are launching a new product or improving an existing one, market research is necessary to understand the market trend and user perception.

article thumbnail

Top Challenges Accounting Firms Face – Blog Series Part 1 – Burnout

Ace Cloud Hosting

In the modern world of finances and accounting, where staying ahead of the curve is essential, the year 2024 brings with it a new set of challenges for firms. Challenges.

article thumbnail

Back to Basics with Reconciliations

Join us in this webinar, where we share best practices on how to think about the reconciliation work each month, when best to do reconciliations, how they should be prepared, and some common pitfalls to avoid. Learning Objectives: This course objective is to understand how to properly prepare and review balance sheet reconciliations and its impact on the financial statements.

article thumbnail

Songs about tax avoidance?

Accounting Fun

The titles were cleaned up eventually of course! VAT's the way uh-huh uh-huh I like it Greedy Woman by Roy Orbison I want it tax free - by Queen Hello, is it me money you're looking for?

Tax 45
article thumbnail

Top Challenges Accounting Firms Face – Blog Series Part 1 – Burnout

Ace Cloud Hosting

In the modern world of finances and accounting, where staying ahead of the curve is essential, the year 2024 brings with it a new set of challenges for firms. Challenges.

article thumbnail

How to calculate the market value of a company

Accounting Tools

There are several ways to calculate the market value of a company. This is of critical importance to an investor , who wants to understand whether it makes sense to buy or sell a firm’s shares. We explore the different types of market valuation approaches in this article. Valuation of a Company by Stock Price When the shares of a company are already publicly-held , the easiest way to calculate its market value is to multiply the number of shares outstanding by the current price at which the shar

article thumbnail

Tech News: Patriot Software launches 1099 portal

Accounting Today

Patriot Software launches 1099 portal; Expensify launches Expensify Travel; Sage launches two new integrated suites in U.K. and Canada; and other accounting technology updates.

article thumbnail

Usage-Based Monetization Musts: A Roadmap for Sustainable Revenue Growth

Speaker: David Warren and Kevin O’Neill Stoll

Transitioning to a usage-based business model offers powerful growth opportunities but comes with unique challenges. How do you validate strategies, reduce risks, and ensure alignment with customer value? Join us for a deep dive into designing effective pilots that test the waters and drive success in usage-based revenue. Discover how to develop a pilot that captures real customer feedback, aligns internal teams with usage metrics, and rethinks sales incentives to prioritize lasting customer eng

article thumbnail

Material misstatement definition

Accounting Tools

What is a Material Misstatement? A material misstatement is information in the financial statements that is sufficiently incorrect that it may impact the economic decisions of someone relying on those statements. For example, a material misstatement of revenue could trigger a decision to buy a company's stock , causing losses for the investor when the misstatement is later corrected and the price of the stock declines.

article thumbnail

PwC cuts around 60 Canadian jobs

Accounting Today

The firm employs about 7,700 people in Canada and had already cut about 2% of its workforce in the country at the end of last year.

173
173
article thumbnail

Overhead costs definition

Accounting Tools

What are Overhead Costs? Overhead costs are any expenditures not directly associated with the creation of a product or service. They must be incurred in order to stay in business, irrespective of the sales level of the organization. Overhead costs are any operational expenses stated in a company’s income statement that are not directly associated with the cost of goods or services.

article thumbnail

Brainard vows corporate tax hike with Trump cuts set to expire

Accounting Today

President Biden's top economic advisor pledged Democrats would push to reverse Donald Trump's corporate tax cuts next year.

article thumbnail

Solve Your Firm's Automation Complexities Once and For All

Speaker: Mark Stovel

When it comes to automating, many firms focus on finding the latest tech, believing that efficiency is something achieved through new tools. Yet true efficiency is achieved by delivering real value to clients, not merely by upgraded systems. Without a clear approach, no level of automation can overcome the complexities of serving every client’s needs.

article thumbnail

Impairment of long-lived assets definition

Accounting Tools

What is a Long-Lived Asset? A long lived asset is any asset that a business expects to retain for at least one year. This definition can be broadened to include any asset that is expected to be retained for more than one accounting period. Long lived assets are usually classified into two subcategories, which tangible long-lived assets and intangible long-lived assets.

article thumbnail

Post balance sheet events definition

Accounting Tools

What are Post Balance Sheet Events? A post balance sheet event is something that occurs after a reporting period , but before the financial statements for that period have been issued or are available to be issued. The two types of post balance sheet events are as follows: An event provides additional information about conditions in existence as of the balance sheet date , including estimates used to prepare the financial statements for that period.

article thumbnail

Revenues definition

Accounting Tools

What are Revenues? Revenues are the fees generated from the sale of goods and services. Under the cash basis of accounting , revenues are recorded when cash is received from a customer in payment of these items. Under the accrual basis of accounting , revenues are recorded when goods and services are delivered to customers. Examples of Revenue Accounts There are several possible accounts in which revenue transactions may be stored, such as Sales - Goods, Sales - Services, and Fees Earned.

article thumbnail

Bond interest expense definition

Accounting Tools

What is Bond Interest Expense? Bond interest expense is the aggregate interest expense incurred during a reporting period for an organization’s bonds payable. It includes the following types of expenses: Interest payments. This is the interest payments made by the issuer to bond holders. It is calculated as the bond coupon rate times the face value of the bond.

article thumbnail

Confronting the Change Challenge

Change is difficult, whether in our private or work life. However, without change, growth and learning are difficult not to mention keeping up with the market and staying competitive. We have all worked for or ourselves are the bosses that prefer to keep the status quo. We will discuss how to address the "change challenge" to enable you to be a changemaker and a graceful recipient of change.