Tue.Oct 29, 2024

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FASB proposes update on accounting for software development

Accounting Today

The Financial Accounting Standards Board issued a proposed accounting standards update to update the guidance on accounting for software, specifically when it comes to developing software for internal use.

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Why CFOs Must Prioritise Their Own Efficiency: The Importance of AP Automation

Compleatable

They say that doctors make the worst patients. While I can’t confirm whether this is true, the analogy resonates deeply with me as a CFO. Just like doctors may meddle in their own diagnoses, we finance professionals often neglect our own needs, especially when it comes to the resources that would make our jobs easier. Let me explain. As finance experts, we excel at building robust budgets and forecasts.

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Private equity changes accounting career paths

Accounting Today

The increasing amount of investment from private equity firms in the accounting profession is transforming the ways accountants pursue their careers, according to a new report.

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Top Best Lacerte Add-ons for Accountants and Tax Preparers

Ace Cloud Hosting

Lacerte is a renowned professional tax preparation software offered by Intuit. It provides features and tools for error diagnosis, automated calculations, tracking missing data, tax law alerts, and more. It.

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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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Small biz job growth impacted by hurricanes

Accounting Today

Job and wage growth continued at a moderate pace among small businesses in October, likely slowed by the impact of recent hurricanes down south, according to payroll company Paychex.

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Breaking News: ProAdvisor to Return to QuickBooks Badges

Insightful Accountant

Good news for hundreds of thousands of ProAdvisors, the term ProAdvisor is making its way back onto the New Badges and Certificates that have appeared over the last week or so.

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Tech Solutions for Small Tax Practices: Expert Insights with Christine Gervais

Insightful Accountant

In this episode of the Accounting Insiders Podcast, Gary DeHart sits down with CPA doctoral candidate Christine Gervais to address the biggest technology challenges facing small tax practices.

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TCJA extension or sunset: Gamechangers for professional athletes

Accounting Today

Uncertainty around sunsetting provisions should have professional athletes planning ahead on their taxes.

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Improving your Cash Application Processes

oAppsNet

If you’re like most businesses, your cash application process probably isn’t as efficient as it could be. Many companies struggle to reconcile incoming payments, match them to the correct customer accounts, and ensure everything is accounted for in real-time. The result? Delays in cash flow, errors, and frustration for both your team and your customers.

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10M more 1040s by 2031

Accounting Today

The number of taxpayers filing Forms 1040 and 1040-SR are projected to increase by about 10,000,000 over the next eight years.

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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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Crunch Numbers, Not Time: Become a BooXkeeping Franchise Owner

Insightful Accountant

The bookkeeping industry is expanding rapidly, with more small and medium-sized businesses recognizing the value of outsourced financial services. Owning a BooXkeeping franchise offers a unique opportunity to leverage your expertise.

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In the blogs: Are we ready?

Accounting Today

Foreign gifts and penalties; FBARs and the Constitution; contention and confusion; and other highlights from our favorite tax bloggers.

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Beginner's Guide to Claude 3.5 Sonnet and Haiku (New)

Nanonets

What are Claude 3.5 Sonnet and Haiku ? Claude 3.5 Sonnet (New) and Claude 3.5 Haiku are Anthropic's new advanced Large Language models, among which Claude 3.5 Sonnet (New) is an upgraded version of Claude 3.5 sonnet. It offers greater efficiency, nearly doubling speed and enhancing comprehension of complex and conversational contexts. Claude 3.5 Sonnet now delivers significantly improved performance on coding and tool use tasks.

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How American tax breaks brought a Chinese solar energy giant to Ohio

Accounting Today

What looks like a domestic triumph is also a win for America's primary industrial and geopolitical rival.

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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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Warehouse Wednesday: Autonomous Warehouse Robots

Insightful Accountant

Cyngn is bringing autonomous warehouse robots into reality just like Tesla is bringing autonomous commercial vehicles into reality.

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US, Taiwan to begin talks on a deal to address double taxation

Accounting Today

Taiwan's firms see high U.S. taxes as a major impediment to additional investment in America.

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Announcing the 2024 winners of the Xero Beautiful Business Fund

Xero

We’re thrilled to announce the global and country winners of the 2024 Xero Beautiful Business Fund, who each share in the NZ$750,000 total prize pool. We were blown away by the entries from passionate small businesses and non-profits across seven countries. Our judging panels were both inspired and challenged by the task of selecting 28 exceptional winners.

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Herbein acquires Bumpers

Accounting Today

The Pennsylvania-based Regional Leader is expanding to Delaware.

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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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Google Cloud Invests in FOCUS and GenAI to Drive the Future of FinOps

FinOps Foundation

Key Insight: Google Cloud is investing in data to help FinOps Practitioners drive the next level of business innovation. At FinOps X in San Diego in June 2024, J.R. Storment , Executive Director of the FinOps Foundation, sat down with Pravir Gupta , VP of Engineering at Google Cloud, to ask what he thinks the Future of FinOps will look like. Pravir noted that customer expectations are evolving; Practitioners need more granular and more real-time data so they can properly forecast, allocate, and

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Enhance your firm's client experience

Accounting Today

Your clients have options, and the experience you offer can make and keep you the clear choice.

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