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Inclusion in accounting: By the numbers

Accounting Today

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

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QuickBooks Online Payroll 'Cost Allocation'

Insightful Accountant

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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Trend analysis definition

Accounting Tools

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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Ep. 244: Andrew Jamison - How Fintech is Streamlining Financial Processes

IMA's Count Me

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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Fall In Love With the Month-End Close

It's the time of year to give our close process some TLC. Join us in this one hour webinar where we discuss how to adopt leading practices and infuse technology into the month-end close process to improve our experience and increase our productivity during month-end and quarter-end close. Learning Objectives: This course's objective is to understand how the month-end close can be improved with automation and adoption of leading practices.

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Types of payroll fraud

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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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Closing stock definition

Accounting Tools

What is Closing Stock? Closing stock is the amount of inventory that a business still has on hand at the end of a reporting period. This includes raw materials , work-in-process , and finished goods inventory. Certain items charged to expense as incurred, such as production supplies, are not considered to be part of closing stock. The amount of closing stock can be ascertained with a physical count of the inventory.

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Check payment definition

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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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Short term notes payable definition

Accounting Tools

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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Subsidiary company definition

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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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Accounting for a small stock dividend

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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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Navigating Payroll Compliance: Future-Proofing Payroll in an Evolving Regulatory Landscape

Speaker: Jennifer Hill

Payroll compliance is a cornerstone of business success, yet for small and midsize businesses, it’s becoming increasingly challenging to navigate the ever-evolving landscape of federal, state, and local regulations. Mistakes can lead to costly penalties and operational disruptions, making it essential to adopt advanced solutions that ensure accuracy and efficiency.

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Positive pay definition

Accounting Tools

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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Economic nexus definition

Accounting Tools

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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Accounts payable analysis definition

Accounting Tools

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.