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7 ways to drive innovation in your firm

Accounting Today

While the term "innovation" isn't necessarily associated with most CPA firms, this perception can easily be changed with the right strategic moves.

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QuickBooks for Small Business – Which Version Do You Need?

Ace Cloud Hosting

Just like for smooth money handling, you need to create a bank account. Similarly, the right accounting platform is necessary to manage the business financial landscape. This is where QuickBooks.

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Accounting Today news quiz: April 26

Accounting Today

Test your knowledge of the biggest accounting headlines of the week. No. 2 pencil not required!

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Ethical Collection Techniques For Recovering Late Payments

Enterprise Recovery

In today's competitive business landscape, it's important to manage late payments while upholding positive client relationships. Use the following techniques to navigate the delicate balance of recovering outstanding debts while maintaining trust and loyalty with your clients. Discover ethical collection practices to help recover late payments while maintaining positive client relationships.

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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

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IRA heirs, planners get additional RMD breathing room — again

Accounting Today

Financial advisors, tax professionals and their clients get another year to think through potential tax, distribution and trust strategies, according to experts.

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Advancing Your Cash Flow: Should You Opt for Early Invoice Payment from Your Client?

FundThrough

For small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs), maintaining a healthy cash flow is often one of the most challenging aspects of running a company. Because many of us at FundThrough have been entrepreneurs before, we understand firsthand what it’s like to struggle with unpaid invoices. Late payments or even standard-length payment terms can have serious impacts […] The post Advancing Your Cash Flow: Should You Opt for Early Invoice Payment from Your Client?

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Indirect Procurement

Tipalti

What is indirect procurement and its benefits for your business? Learn how to efficiently manage the day-to-day costs of doing business, for more accurate financial forecasting.

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HSBC wins £1.3B suit over Disney tax breaks

Accounting Today

The bank successfully fought off a London court claim brought by investors over tax breaks linked to financing for 'Pirates of the Caribbean 2.

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5 Ways to Increase Employee Satisfaction with Automated Expense Reporting

NextProcess

Expenses are part of running a business. When a company lets employees make business purchases on behalf of the company, the expense reimbursement system provides a way for the company to pay back employees for those expenses. When the travel and expense (T&E) reporting and reimbursement system works well, it’s good for employees and the company.

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IRS free tax pilot enticed 140K taxpayers

Accounting Today

The Internal Revenue Service's Direct File pilot program officially closed Friday, after 140,803 taxpayers used it in 12 states.

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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.

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10 Ways that BPA Software Can Help Your Company Improve Efficiency and Productivity in Finance

NextProcess

We all want to optimize our businesses. Improving efficiency and productivity makes a company more financially stable, places it in a better position to take advantage of opportunities, and enables the company to keep up in the fast-paced modern business world. In today’s world, digitizing business processes is key to keeping finance departments efficient and productive.

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How local governments can weather a federal shutdown

Accounting Today

Even if a program is predominantly funded with federal dollars, there may be other sources of funds from which local governments can draw.

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Are You Making These Common Mistakes in Real Estate Bookkeeping?

Outsourced Bookeeping

Real Estate is a fortune-acquiring scalable business. However, to reap its benefits you must go through the testing process, enhanced with effective finance management. This is a crucial yet challenging process, compelling you to prepare budgets, create various financial reports, perform audits, monitor cash flows, and file taxes. If you are solely handling all these accounting challenges as a business owner it might become nerve-racking.

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On the move: KSM names new leaders

Accounting Today

Plus, the Kansas Society of CPAs gives out scholarships; the Accounting MOVE Project announces a mini summit; and more.

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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.

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Top 15 Apps & Integrations on Xero App Marketplace

Nanonets

Bank feeds and automated reconciliation, easy expense claim reimbursement, and online invoicing features are just the start; Xero is a premium accounting software solution for small businesses. The tool’s out-of-box robustness lays a strong foundation to support a multitude of business processes, but it’s the Xero Marketplace – full of Xero apps and integrations – that really sets the Xero platform apart.

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Tech news: AuditBoard announces AuditBoard AI now generally available

Accounting Today

AuditBoard announces AuditBoard AI now generally available; Earmark launches web app; and other accounting technology news.

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Spenmo Q1 Updates: Your Feedback Shaping Spenmo's Latest Features

Spenmo

As we close Q1-2024, we are thrilled to share a suite of enhancements that help finance managers improve their Accounts Payable processes. Driven by our dedication to Customer Love, we've listened closely to your feedback and tailored our solutions to meet and exceed your operational needs. Our latest updates are designed to streamline your processes, freeing up more time for high-value tasks like financial analysis and strategic planning. 1.

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'Not guilty' pleas in Patisserie Valerie accounting fraud

Accounting Today

The bakery chain collapsed into insolvency in 2019 after a forensic investigation revealed thousands of false entries in its accounts.

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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.

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Maximizing Your Accounting Firm's Value with Brannon Poe

Cloud Accounting Podcast

Blake Oliver sits down with Brannon Poe of Poe Group Advisors to discuss the differences between traditional and subscription-based virtual accounting firms. Brannon shares his expertise on firm valuation, revealing that factors like cash flow to owner and owner hours play a significant role in determining a firm's value. He also emphasizes the importance of pricing strategies, noting that implementing value pricing and subscription models can dramatically improve a firm's profitability and over

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Protect the profession as traditional firms fade away

Accounting Today

We're witnessing the evolution of the "new firm.

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Before PwC, before Coopers & Lybrand, there was Cooper Brothers.

Accounting Fun

PwC was initially called PriceWaterhouseCoopers having been formed by the merger of Coopers and Lybrand and Price Waterhouse. Long before that merger Coopers & Lybrand was originally called Cooper Brothers and based in Gutter Lane, London. Indeed they may have been the only building with an address identified as being in Gutter Lane. Legend has it that at one stage the partners wrote to the Corporation of London suggesting that, in view of their long tenancy, it might be appropriate to renam

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QuickBooks for Small Business – Which Version Do You Need?

Ace Cloud Hosting

Just like for smooth money handling, you need to create a bank account. Similarly, the right accounting platform is necessary to manage the business financial landscape. This is where QuickBooks.

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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

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Procurement as a Service

Tipalti

Learn how procurement as a service (PaaS) revolutionizes procurement processes, offering scalability, cost-efficiency, and expert support. Explore its benefits and applications for your business.

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Growing a mentoring network 

Intuit

Mentorship isn’t about zeroing in on a single advisor for the entire scope and duration of your career. You can benefit from many different types of support over time, and often at the same time. Similarly, working with multiple mentors of diverse profiles will expand the range of perspective and guidance available to you. That’s one reason the Tech Women @ Intuit (TWI) Mentorship program is designed around six-month terms, with mentees and mentors encouraged to rotate to new pairs regularly.