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IRS crypto enforcement could get tougher

Accounting Today

The Internal Revenue Service could be doing a better job of cracking down on tax noncompliance by users of virtual currency or digital assets, according to a new report.

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The app stack every Aussie small business owner needs in FY25

Xero

The tax-time crunch is wrapping up, meaning the new financial year is here. And whether you’re looking to avoid the same end- of-financial-year stress next year, or streamline your operations – every small business can benefit from starting the new financial year with the right apps in their app stack. What’s an app stack? An app stack is another name for the set of apps that you use to run your business.

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IRS debunks nonexistent Self Employment Tax Credit social media claims

Accounting Today

The IRS warned about bad advice that's being peddled on social media promoting a bogus "Self Employment Tax Credit" and prompting unsuspecting taxpayers to file false claims for the credit.

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Unlocking the Power of Retention Marketing in SaaS Business

Enterprise Recovery

Retention marketing is the practice of implementing strategies and techniques to keep existing clients engaged and loyal to your business. While acquiring new customers is important, retaining existing ones is more valuable for the long-term success of your business. By focusing on client retention, you can build strong relationships, increase customer satisfaction, and ultimately drive revenue growth.

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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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CLA attracts young accountants, leveraging global presence

Accounting Today

CliftonLarsonAllen CEO Jen Leary has been focusing on expanding the firm's appeal, especially to young accountants, as CLA grows its international network.

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13 Ways to Improve Your Business Operations

Nolan Accounting Center

As a small business owner, you should want to improve your business operations. Indeed, every business owner should recognize that improving operating efficiency must be an ongoing endeavor. As American editor and publisher Clarence W. Barron stated, “Everything can be improved.” More pointedly, Japanese consultant Masaaki Imai said, “Not a day should go by without some kind of improvement made somewhere in the company.

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Goods in transit definition

Accounting Tools

What is Goods in Transit? Goods in transit refers to merchandise and other types of inventory that have left the shipping dock of the seller, but not yet reached the receiving dock of the buyer. The concept is used to indicate whether the buyer or seller of goods has taken possession, and who is paying for transport. Ideally, either the seller or the buyer should record goods in transit in its accounting records.

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Wolters Kluwer releases tax solution for multinationals

Accounting Today

Wolters Kluwer announced CCH Tagetik Tax Provision & Reporting, a solution offering data collection and group tax provision calculations for multinationals.

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Taxation principles definition

Accounting Tools

What are Taxation Principles? Taxation principles are the guidelines that a governing entity should use when devising a system of taxation. These principles include the following items: Broad application. The system of taxation should be spread across a broadest possible population, so that no one person or entity is taxed excessively. Instead, the entire population shares in the taxation burden.

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KKR-backed OneStream, shareholders seek $466M in IPO

Accounting Today

OneStream Inc. and a group of shareholders including KKR & Co. are seeking to raise $465.5 million in a U.S. initial public offering.

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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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Profit planning definition

Accounting Tools

What is Profit Planning? Profit planning is the set of actions taken to achieve a targeted profit level. These actions involve the development of an interlocking set of budgets that roll up into a master budget. The management team adjusts the information in this set of budgets to arrive at the combination of actions needed to arrive at the targeted profit level.

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Accounting Today news quiz: July 15

Accounting Today

Test your accounting knowledge on AI layoffs, the IRS Direct File program, and more. No. 2 pencil not required!

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Provision for doubtful debts definition

Accounting Tools

What is the Provision for Doubtful Debts? The provision for doubtful debts is the estimated amount of bad debt that will arise from accounts receivable that have been issued but not yet collected. It is identical to the allowance for doubtful accounts. The provision is used under accrual basis accounting , so that an expense is recognized for probable bad debts as soon as invoices are issued to customers , rather than waiting several months to find out exactly which invoices turned out to be unc

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A complex but tax-friendly approach to diversification

Accounting Today

The combination of variable prepaid forwards with long and short equity positions outpaces the after-tax returns of a direct indexing strategy, a new study found.

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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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Cost accounting basics

Accounting Tools

What are the Basics of Cost Accounting? Cost accounting is the art of translating the costs incurred by a business into actionable analyses that can improve operations and profits. Here are several basic ways in which to use cost accounting: Activity-based costing. This is a methodology for more precisely allocating overhead costs to products and services.

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Feeling the Squeeze? Automate Your Tax Workflow with Intuit ProConnect Tax

Insightful Accountant

If you missed our recent App Academy webinar, Intuit shared how to leverage ProConnect Tax solutions to streamline the workflow across Books-Income Tax-Advisory to enable you to automate compliance tasks.

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What is Revenue Management?

Billing Platform

Also referred to as yield management, revenue management can be described in extremely simplistic terms ( selling the right product, to the right customer, at the right price, through the right channel ) or defined in a more complex manner. Brought mainstream by industries like hospitality and airlines, revenue management is a discipline that combines data mining, analytics, and operations research to understand customer behavior.

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AWS Cost Management: Tools, Tips, and Advanced FinOps Practices

finout

As organizations increasingly shift to cloud computing, managing cloud costs emerges as a primary concern. The flexibility and scalability of platforms like Amazon Web Services (AWS) bring significant benefits but also introduce tremendous complexity in tracking and controlling expenses. The dynamic nature of cloud billing, with its myriad of services and pricing options, often leads to unexpected costs, making it challenging for organizations to stay within budget.

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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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Advantages of Revenue Management: Your Ultimate Guide

Billing Platform

Also referred to as yield management, revenue management can be described in extremely simplistic terms ( selling the right product, to the right customer, at the right price, through the right channel ) or defined in a more complex manner. Brought mainstream by industries like hospitality and airlines, revenue management is a discipline that combines data mining, analytics, and operations research to understand customer behavior.

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Join those already signing-up for the 2025 ProAdvisor Awards

Insightful Accountant

Why wait? Now is a perfect time to join the many ProAdvisors who have already started the 2025 ProAdvisor Awards process by nominating a fellow ProAdvisor, being nominated by a colleague or client, or applying.

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Doomsday ratio definition

Accounting Tools

What is the Doomsday Ratio? The doomsday ratio is the most conservative measure of the ability of a business to pay its short-term obligations. The name is derived from the assumption that, if a business were on the verge of bankruptcy , could it still pay its bills right now? The ratio is not actually used for that purpose, but rather to determine the adequacy of the amount of cash on hand.

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Don't Miss These Insightful Training Sessions In July

Insightful Accountant

Janel Sykora, Kellie Parks and Christine Gervais kick of Insightful Accountant's Be Insightful membership program with CPE Webinars, Q&A sessions and actionable steps to grow your firm.

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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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Step fixed cost definition

Accounting Tools

What is a Step Fixed Cost? A step fixed cost is a cost that does not change within certain high and low thresholds of activity, but which will change when these thresholds are breached. When the cost changes as a result of a threshold breach, a new set of high and low activity thresholds will then apply, within which the fixed cost will not change appreciably.

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Bank reconciliation process

Accounting Tools

What is the Bank Reconciliation Process? The bank reconciliation process involves comparing the internal and bank records for a bank account , and adjusting the internal records as necessary to bring the two into alignment. This is done to ensure that an organization’s recorded cash balance is accurate. The bank reconciliation process is usually accomplished with the bank reconciliation module in an accounting software package.

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Unit of production method definition

Accounting Tools

What is the Unit of Production Method? The unit of production method is a technique for charging capitalized costs to expense in the oil and gas industry, using the ratio of produced units to reserves. This is done by estimating the total number of units of proved oil or gas reserves and dividing actual production in the period by the beginning proved reserves to derive the amortization rate.

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Wealth maximization definition

Accounting Tools

What is Wealth Maximization? Wealth maximization is the concept of increasing the value of a business in order to increase the value of the shares held by its stockholders. The concept requires a company's management team to continually search for the highest possible returns on funds invested in the business, while mitigating any associated risk of loss.

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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.

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Equity method definition

Accounting Tools

What is the Equity Method? The equity method of accounting is used to account for an organization’s investment in another entity (the investee). This method is only used when the investor has significant influence over the investee. Under this method, the investor recognizes its share of the profits and losses of the investee in the periods when these profits and losses are also reflected in the accounts of the investee.

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Contribution margin ratio definition

Accounting Tools

What is the Contribution Margin Ratio? The contribution margin ratio is the difference between a company's sales and variable expenses , expressed as a percentage. The total margin generated by an entity represents the total earnings available to pay for fixed expenses and generate a profit. When used on an individual unit sale, the ratio expresses the proportion of profit generated on that specific sale.

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Implicit interest rate definition

Accounting Tools

What is the Implicit Interest Rate? An implicit interest rate is an interest rate that is not specifically stated in a business transaction. Any accounting transaction that involves a stream of payments extending over multiple future periods must incorporate an interest rate, even if there is no rate stated in the related business contract. Otherwise, the contract does not reflect the expense associated with delaying payments over a period of time, which is known as interest expense.

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Asset recognition criteria

Accounting Tools

What are Asset Recognition Criteria? Asset recognition criteria are needed to determine which assets will be included in the balance sheet. When an expenditure is made, it can either be recognized as an expense or an asset , with recognition as an expense being the default presumption. Most expenditures will be recognized at once as expenses, since they reflect the immediate consumption of the underlying expenditure.

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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.