Accounting Today

MARCH 11, 2024

The fate of the Child Tax Credit is in the hands of the Senate, but the IRS is ready to implement changes rapidly if the bill is passed.

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Intuit

MARCH 11, 2024

Intuit announced today it has acquired intellectual property and hired the team from Proper Finance to join its Fintech & SBSEG Money teams. Based in San Francisco, the Proper Finance team brings deep expertise in digital banking, payments, money movement, and financial operations and infrastructure. Intuit’s Money portfolio is revolutionizing the way small businesses manage their finances and the Proper Finance team will help accelerate innovation.

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Accounting Today

MARCH 11, 2024

President Joe Biden's budget proposal — which calls for sweeping tax increases on corporations and the wealthy — is the opening round of a looming tax fight set to consume Washington next year.

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Xero

MARCH 11, 2024

Over a year ago, we launched an early version of Xero Go to see how a purpose built app could help cater for the entry-level accounting needs of the self-employed in the UK. We have spent the last year testing and refining Xero Go and after completing a careful review to understand the future of the product, we found greater investment was required to meet the changing customer needs and expectations around the product.

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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

Accounting Today

MARCH 11, 2024

The internal audit function is gaining more people and funding, according to a new survey released Monday during an Institute of Internal Auditors conference in Las Vegas.

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Insightful Accountant

MARCH 11, 2024

A judge ruled the Corporate Transparency Act's ownership reporting unconstitutional for NSBA and its 60,000+ members by March 1, 2024. This may trigger similar cases nationwide, impacting BOI reporting. Practitioners need to plan their response.

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Insightful Accountant

MARCH 11, 2024

The Bonadio Group climbs to 41st on 2024 Accounting Today Top 100 Firms List, named Top Firm in Mid-Atlantic. Revenue grows over 14% post mergers.

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Accounting Today

MARCH 11, 2024

Senior leaders from Accounting Today's Top 100 Firms and Regional Leaders share the areas where they see the most potential for the profession.

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CSI Accounting & Payroll

MARCH 11, 2024

If you started with an interest and turned it into a hobby, that’s awesome! But how can you tell when your hobby becomes a business? You need to know for tax purposes. At CSI Accounting & Payroll, we’ve worked with small businesses for over 50 years. We know that if a prospect comes to us seeking accounting for a hobby, they wouldn’t be getting the right value from our service.

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Accounting Today

MARCH 11, 2024

The perception that companies are scaling back their diversity efforts is wrong, according to the AICPA's Crystal Cooke.

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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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Invoicera

MARCH 11, 2024

Introduction 82% of small businesses are stressed due to late payments and inconsistent cash flow. If you are also one of them, you must be looking for invoicing software to send timely invoices to your clients. But you might also want to customize invoices to fit your brand image. Thus, you need two-in-one software that offers automated invoicing with tailored solutions.

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Accounting Today

MARCH 11, 2024

The Creating Hospitality Economic Enhancement for Restaurants and Servers would provide a tax deduction for bars, restaurants and entertainment venues with draft beer systems.

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finout

MARCH 11, 2024

As the adoption of Large Language Models (LLMs) increases, Finout anticipates a significant expansion in the infrastructure for LLM monitoring and optimization tools. Techniques such as a mixture of experts and LLM quantization, along with architectural decisions like smart LLM routing and caching, can differentiate between a profitable and a loss-making LLM deployment.

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Accounting Today

MARCH 11, 2024

A recent podcast included a discussion of time sheets, practice management and the future of the profession.

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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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Accounting Tools

MARCH 11, 2024

What is an Adjunct Account? An adjunct account increases the valuation of a liability account. In essence, the credit balance in this account is added to the liability account with which it is paired. An adjunct account may be considered a valuation account, since (on an aggregate basis) it alters the value of the account with which it is related. Adjunct accounts are rarely used in smaller businesses that deal with relatively simple business transactions.

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Accounting Today

MARCH 11, 2024

The Financial Reporting Council is considering either Canary Wharf or Stratford for its new main office.

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Accounting Tools

MARCH 11, 2024

What is an Accounting Worksheet? An accounting worksheet is a document used within the accounting department to analyze and model account balances. A worksheet is useful for ensuring that accounting entries are derived correctly. It can also be helpful for tracking the changes to an account from one period to the next. An accounting worksheet is commonly employed as an internal document in which key information is stored, either at a detailed or summary level, to support an accountant’s work in

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Accounting Today

MARCH 11, 2024

AuditBoard announced new artificial intelligence, analytics and annotation capabilities.

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Accounting Tools

MARCH 11, 2024

What is an Accrual Rate in Finance? Accrual rate is the percentage interest rate applied to the remaining principal on a loan. The concept is used to determine the amount of interest expense accrued between interest payments. The accrual rate is commonly used on bonds , since these financial instruments usually only pay interest at intervals of once every six months, and the interest expense must be determined during the intervening periods.

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Accounting Today

MARCH 11, 2024

With two fields increasingly working together, wealth management and accounting firms are rolling out tools. Are financial advisors ready to work with the robots?

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Accounting Tools

MARCH 11, 2024

What is an Allocation Rate? An allocation rate is the standard amount of overhead applied to a unit of production or other measure of activity. This is done when shifting costs to a cost object , which may be required under one of the accounting frameworks to ensure that a full cost is applied to inventory. This information then appears in a company’s balance sheet , in the form of fully-burdened finished goods.

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Accounting Today

MARCH 11, 2024

The president's fiscal 2025 budget proposal lays out a second-term vision that would deliver more services, middle-class tax breaks and price controls to voters funded through higher taxes on the wealthy and corporations.

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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

Accounting Tools

MARCH 11, 2024

What is an Accounting System? An accounting system is a set of accounting processes with integrated procedures and controls. The intent of an accounting system is to record business transactions , summarize those transactions into an aggregated form, and create reports that can be used by decision makers to monitor, analyze, and improve operations. Though an accounting system can be entirely paper-based, this situation is usually only found in quite small businesses.

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Accounting Tools

MARCH 11, 2024

What are Accrued Expenses Payable? Accrued expenses payable are those obligations that a business has incurred, for which no invoices have yet been received from suppliers. These accrued expenses can be quite common when suppliers routinely issue invoices several days after the end of a month. Accounting for Accrued Expenses Payable An accrued expense payable is recorded with a reversing journal entry , which (as the name implies) automatically reverses in the following reporting period.

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Accounting Tools

MARCH 11, 2024

What is an External Dependency? An external dependency is an input from an external source that is required before a task can proceed. This dependency frequently takes the form of an approval. A project manager needs to track external dependencies closely to ensure that each one has been dealt with, so that a project can be completed on schedule. This can be done with ongoing meetings to review the situation in regard to each of these dependencies.

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Accounting Tools

MARCH 11, 2024

What are Accounting Research Bulletins? Accounting Research Bulletins are issuances of the Committee on Accounting Procedure (CAP), which was part of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants ( AICPA ). The bulletins were issued during the 1939 to 1959 time period, and were an early effort to rationalize the general practice of accounting as it existed at that time.

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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.

Accounting Tools

MARCH 11, 2024

What is an Executory Cost? An executory cost is any expenditure not included in the minimum ongoing payments associated with a lease. These expenditures are usually related to the ongoing maintenance of or operating costs associated with property. Depending on the terms of a lease agreement, the lessee may reimburse the lessor for any executory costs incurred by the lessor, or the lessor may take responsibility for these costs.

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Accounting Tools

MARCH 11, 2024

What is an Exception Report? An exception report is a document that states those instances in which actual performance deviated significantly from expectations, usually in a negative direction. It excludes all events in which actual performance was roughly as expected. The intent of this report is to focus management attention on just those areas requiring immediate action.

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