Accounting Today

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

Attitudes toward diversity, equity and inclusion are shifting in the profession — but slowly.

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Xero

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

In the 2023 budget announcement, Singapore’s Minister for Finance announced the GST rate will increase from 8% to 9% on 1 January 2024. This change will impact all Singapore businesses that file GST. Here’s what we’re doing to make it easy for you to manage this change in Xero. Update your default rate We’ll make the new 9% rate available in Xero by 5 December 2023.

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Insightful Accountant

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

QuickBooks Payroll will soon allow customers to split employee payroll costs into multiple classes and projects, ensuring accurate tracking without additional journal entries.

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Accounting Tools

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

What is Trend Analysis? Trend analysis involves the collection of information from multiple time periods and plotting the information on a horizontal line for further review. The intent of this analysis is to spot actionable patterns in the presented information. In business, trend analysis is typically used in two ways, which are noted below. When trend analysis is being used to predict the future, keep in mind that the factors formerly impacting a data point may no longer be doing so to the sa

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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

IMA's Count Me

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

Welcome to Count Me In! Join your host Adam Larson as he dives into insightful conversations with industry experts. In this episode, Adam is joined by Andrew Jamison , CEO & Co-Founder of Extend , a Point72-backed fintech platform that enables virtual card and spend management capabilities for small businesses. They discuss how small to medium-sized businesses can leverage fintech solutions to reshape their financial landscape.

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Accounting Tools

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

Payroll fraud is the theft of cash from a business via the payroll processing system. There are several ways in which employees can commit payroll fraud, as noted below. Among the more common types of payroll fraud are not paying back an advance, buddy punching, and time sheet padding. Advance Retention Fraud The most passive type of fraud is when an employee requests an advance on his pay and then never pays it back.

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Accounting Tools

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

What is a Petty Cash System? A petty cash system is a set of policies, procedures, controls, and forms that a company uses to dispense cash for various miscellaneous needs, such as office supplies and services. The basic process of setting up a petty cash system is: Location. Decide upon the locations where petty cash funds will be installed. There may be a single one for the entire company, or perhaps one per building or department.

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Accounting Tools

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

What is a Check Payment? A check payment is a negotiable instrument drawn against deposited funds, to pay the recipient a specific amount of funds on demand. A check has traditionally been physically routed from the payer to the payee , then to the payee's bank, which issues funds to the payee, and then by the payee's bank to the payer's bank. The payer's bank then shifts funds from the payer's account to the payee's bank, thereby settling all accounts.

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Accounting Tools

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

What are Short Term Notes Payable? Short term notes payable are obligations to pay a specified sum, plus interest , within one year. These notes payable usually refer to the repayment of loaned funds in the near term. The concept can also apply to the payment of accounts payable that have been converted into short term notes payable, probably because the buyer was unable to pay within terms.

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Accounting Tools

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

What is a Subsidiary Company? A subsidiary company is a business entity that is controlled by another organization through ownership of a majority of its common stock. If the owning entity has acquired 100% of the shares of a subsidiary, the subsidiary is referred to as a wholly-owned subsidiary. This separate legal structure may be used to gain certain tax benefits, track the results of a separate business unit, segregate risk from the rest of the organization, or prepare certain assets for sal

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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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Accounting Tools

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

What is a Stock Dividend? A stock dividend is the issuance by a corporation of its common stock to its common shareholders without any consideration. A dividend of this type is usually issued when a business does not have sufficient cash to spare for a normal dividend, but still wants to give the appearance of issuing a payment to its shareholders. This can happen when there is pressure from shareholders to issue a dividend.

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Accounting Tools

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

What is Positive Pay? A positive pay system detects fraudulent checks at the point of presentment and prevents them from being paid. This means that checks that have had their payment amounts altered or which are derived from stolen check stock will be flagged by the bank. This is an effective way to stop check fraud. The basic positive pay steps are noted below.

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Accounting Tools

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

What is Economic Nexus? Economic nexus is created when a business generates a certain amount of sales in a particular state. Some state governments measure this figure based on the overall dollar amount of transactions generated, while others combine the concept with the total number of individual sales transactions completed. A common threshold value is that sales tax remittances are required when an out-of-state seller’s sales into a state exceed $100,000 or 200 sales transactions within a cal

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Accounting Tools

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

What is Accounts Payable Analysis? Accounts payable analysis is used to extract several types of information from the detailed accounts payable records. These analyses are noted below. A key outcome of this analysis is to alter payables processes to reduce the risk that any flaws found can recur in the future. Doing so can improve overall corporate profitability by avoiding excess expenditures.

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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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