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Why 2024 will be the year of generative AI for investment accounting

Accounting Today

While it initially garnered attention for its creative applications in content and image generation, the true potential of generative AI lies in its ability to unlock new ways of thinking in the business world.

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Key MLOps processes (part 4): Serving and monitoring machine learning models

FinOps in Practice

In this article, we describe the block of the scheme, devoted to serving and monitoring machine learning models. Please, find the whole scheme, which describes key MLOps processes here. The main parts of the scheme are horizontal blocks, inside of which the procedural aspects of MLOps are described. Each of them is designed to solve specific tasks within the framework of ensuring the uninterrupted operation of the company’s ML services.

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Forvis and Mazars form global network

Accounting Today

The two-member combination will be called Forvis Mazars when it's finalized next June.

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Fostering Exquisite Enterprises for a Thriving Future: Introducing the winners of Xero Beautiful Business Fund and State of the Industry Report

Insightful Accountant

Xero unveils the recipients of the prestigious Xero Beautiful Business Fund and present an insightful State of the Industry Report. Join us as we delve into the world of fostering exceptional enterprises.

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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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PCAOB releases flood of fines and sanctions

Accounting Today

The audit overseer hit at least nine different firms, with fines totaling approximately $4 million.

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Common Financial Ratios to Analyze Your Business’s Health

Nolan Accounting Center

As a small business owner, it’s important to be aware of the financial health of your business. One of the most powerful tools to help you analyze your business’s health is financial ratios. These ratios provide you with valuable insights into the performance, profitability, and overall financial stability of your business. Nolan Accounting can help you track the financial ratios of your Southeast Wisconsin business.

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4 Super Easy Ways to Increase Your Firm’s Referrals

Insightful Accountant

Referrals are the best way increase your firm’s prospect pipeline and are worth way, way more than any referral you could get through traditional marketing sources, including social media and PPC (pay-per-click) ads.

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Carson Block, Nate Anderson become SEC tipsters for cash payouts

Accounting Today

Alongside their public reports, short sellers are quietly sharing their research about sketchy accounting and other misdeeds with the Securities and Exchange Commission's whistleblower office in hopes of making some extra money.

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6 Ways to Seize Market Opportunities with Metered Billing

Billing Platform

While the terms are typically used interchangeably, there are a few subtle differences between usage-based billing and metered billing – the most significant being in how charges are calculated. Usage-based billing calculates charges based on how much of a product or service is used. Whereas metered billing uses the amount of time customers use the product or service.

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EisnerAmper merges in SKP

Accounting Today

The deal is expected to close early next year and is the latest in a string of M&A transactions since EisnerAmper received private equity funding.

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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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Medical Debt: An American Struggle

RevCycle

Why do Americans have so much medical debt ? There are several reasons why Americans have so much medical debt. One reason is that the cost of healthcare in the United States is very high. According to the Kaiser Family Foundation, the average American family spent $28,166 on healthcare in 2020. This is much higher than what people in other developed countries spend on healthcare.

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Fresh accounting issues add scrutiny on Brazil retailers

Accounting Today

Magazine Luiza's announcement of accounting "inconsistencies" deals another blow to companies that have struggled after the scandal that brought down Americanas.

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What is an Expense Receipt?

Nanonets

The whole reimbursement thing can be a headache for employees and companies. When employees fork out their own cash for stuff like travel or software subscriptions, they're supposed to get paid back. So, reimbursement is like the company giving back the money to its people for work-related expenses. But here's the deal: you need an expense receipt to show what you bought.

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Your Part-Time Controller gets PE funding

Accounting Today

YPTC received a strategic growth investment from Pamlico Capital, a private equity firm based in Charlotte, North Carolina.

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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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What Are Payment Processors and How Do They Work?

Nanonets

Payment processors are financial institutions that help merchants accept credit, debit and other forms of electronic payments. They also facilitate ACH (automated clearing house) transfers, which are electronic transfers between banks. In addition, some payment processors offer merchant services such as fraud prevention, customer management tools and reporting.

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5 ways accounting firms can boost online reviews

Accounting Today

Having a large number of positive reviews can often make the difference between winning new clients or not.

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What are PO Flips and How Can They Optimize Your Business?

Nanonets

The concept of Purchase Order (PO) Flip has emerged as a transformative solution in financial operations, revolutionizing the way businesses handle their procurement and billing processes. By automating the conversion of purchase orders into invoices, PO Flip offers a seamless, error-reducing, and time-saving approach to managing transactions. This article delves into the world of PO Flips, exploring its workings, benefits, and its importance to modern businesses.

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Vendor Spotlight: Bloomberg Tax & Accounting

Accounting Today

In this Vendor Spotlight, we sit down with Evan Croen, senior vice president of product at Bloomberg Tax & Accounting.

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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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Disbursement vs Reimbursement: Meaning & differences

Nanonets

Disbursement and reimbursement differ in their settlement process of the payment. Disbursement refers to paying out funds, often associated with business expenses, loans, or salaries. It involves the distribution of money for specific purposes, such as operational costs or project funding.  Reimbursement is the repayment of expenses that any agent pays on behalf of the company.

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Zoho moves into practice management

Accounting Today

The business solutions provider announced the release of Zoho Practice, an end-to-end accounting practice management solution.

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There Is No Marketing Better Than This

Future Firm

There's no such thing as a one-size-fits-all when it comes to marketing. That being said, this "strategy" is as close as you'll ever get. The post There Is No Marketing Better Than This appeared first on Future Firm.

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Strategies for Effectively Billing Clients for Bookkeeping Software

LedgerDocs

As a bookkeeper, it is important to have tools in your tool kit to offer your clients. The more platforms you can work with the more clients you can serve. One common challenge that arises when using bookkeeping software is managing the allocation of its costs efficiently, particularly when dealing with online subscriptions and desktop applications like LedgerDocs.

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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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Paperless accounts payable: An implementation guide

Nanonets

Switching to paperless  accounts payable  is intimidating. It often means digitizing years of data, training your staff, and shifting your workflows. However, this change can yield significant rewards. Consider this:  Levvel Research  found that 50% of businesses grapple with late payments and missed discounts due to protracted approval cycles.

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Training Accountants For the AI Era

Dext

The days of manual calculations and endless paperwork are coming to an end. Of course, if you still tally numbers the old-fashioned way, that’s fine. But, in a new age where clients demand speed and you demand even greater accuracy, manual ways risk irrelevance. It’s in this intersection that artificial intelligence (AI) becomes essential.

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GCP Datastore vs Bigtable: Comparing Pricing & Features

Economize

GCP users, from seasoned cloud architects to beginner cloud engineers, often face the task of choosing between two powerful NoSQL databases: Cloud Datastore and Cloud Bigtable. While both are robust and capable in their rights, they serve distinct purposes and cater to different use cases.

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A Complete LangChain Guide

Nanonets

At its core, LangChain is an innovative framework tailored for crafting applications that leverage the capabilities of language models. It's a toolkit designed for developers to create applications that are context-aware and capable of sophisticated reasoning. This means LangChain applications can understand the context, such as prompt instructions or content grounding responses and use language models for complex reasoning tasks, like deciding how to respond or what actions to take.

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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.