Accounting Today

JANUARY 4, 2023

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Xero

JANUARY 22, 2023

By now, you’ll be familiar with Single Touch Payroll Phase 2. This will see your business build on its existing STP reporting to share more information with the ATO and additional government agencies whenever you process a pay run. With Xero’s deferral soon coming to an end, mandatory Phase 2 reporting is set to commence from 31 March 2023. This means that all Xero Payroll users must transition to the Phase 2 reporting standard.

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Accounting Department

JANUARY 26, 2023

From a business owner's standpoint, the thought of handing off an entire area of your business for someone else to take care of may seem a bit nerve-wracking. But business owners should consider how much time is being used up on a daily, weekly, or yearly basis on an area of the business, like bookkeeping, that can be spent focusing on sales, growth, and future planning.

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ProsperOps

JANUARY 31, 2023

By 2025, 51% of IT budgets will go to cloud-based systems and operations. But, as cloud adoption increases, so does the cost of doing business. As more cloud services are introduced, along with serverless and microservice-based architectures, measuring cloud costs is both complex and unpredictable. That’s where cloud cost optimization comes into play.

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Speaker: Timothy Allsopp

Payment challenges often lead to delayed projects, financial bottlenecks, and strained relationships. With construction projects becoming more complex, outdated processes are no longer sustainable. By refining financial workflow, companies can improve cash flow, reduce error, and foster trust between stakeholders. Discover practical strategies for redesigning payment systems to overcome workflow challenges while creating a smoother, more reliable process for contractors and subcontractors alike.

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Fidesic blog

JANUARY 30, 2023

What is Multi Entity Accounting Software? For CFO's and other financial executives with multiple financial entities under a single umbrella multi-entity accounting software enables automated processes to improve accuracy and efficiency of accounting across entities--whether various departments or lines of business within a holding company, franchising organization or conglomerate.

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AP Association

JANUARY 23, 2023

Businesses are facing huge challenges as a result of the troubled economy. Inflation has reached a 41-year high of 11.1% and the Bank of England is warning of a long recession looming. As a result, businesses are increasingly automating their accounts payable process to increase efficiency going into 2023. Surveys have revealed CEOs' main goals are digitisation, growth and efficiency.

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Xero

JANUARY 12, 2023

At Xero, our aim is to make life easier for accountants, bookkeepers and small businesses. And we understand that there’s a lot to get your head around, so we’ve shared three key facts about Xero that both new and experienced accounting and bookkeeping users may not have realised. Moving clients to Xero can be efficient and stress-free. There’s a common misconception among accountants and bookkeepers that moving clients to new software, like Xero, can be a costly, time-consuming task.

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Accounting Department

JANUARY 19, 2023

As a business owner, getting paid in full and on time is crucial for a healthy cash flow. However, late payments and bad debts are a constant threat looming over an accounts receivables (AR) team. Accounts receivable reports are a key tool for businesses to manage their AR balances, forecast cash inflow, and stay on top of overdue payments.

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ProsperOps

JANUARY 19, 2023

EBOOK Cloud Cost Optimization 2.0 Despite consistent and heavy growth in cloud investments, only 15% of companies surveyed in the 2022 State of FinOps report believe their FinOps program is mature or well-optimized. About the eBook Most organizations are vulnerable to the cycle of cloud costs, in which teams repeatedly address short-term optimizations to achieve mediocre savings outcomes.

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Fidesic blog

JANUARY 22, 2023

Are you ready to take 2023 by storm, boost your job performance and get noticed by your bosses? We looked at content from recruiting agencies all over the internet and came up with some tips on how to be a good AP clerk. The 5 skills we found to improve so you can be a better AP clerk include: Communication, Organization, Attention to Detail, Software Skills and Continued Learning.

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Speaker: Ashley Harlan, MBA

What if your role as a fractional CFO went beyond operational support to actively shaping the future of your clients’ businesses? 💼 ✨ In this session, discover how fractional finance professionals can position themselves as architects of growth, guiding their clients toward sustainable success and preparing them for full-time financial leadership.

FinOps in Practice

JANUARY 13, 2023

First off, let’s start with defining AWS data transfer. It refers to the movement of data in and out of AWS services over the internet or other networks, or between different AWS services, such as moving data from an Amazon S3 bucket to an Amazon EC2 instance. In other words, it includes various scenarios, like transferring data from on-premises or other cloud platforms to AWS services, or vice versa.

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Accounting Today

JANUARY 5, 2023

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Tax 298

Xero

JANUARY 22, 2023

We held our sixth Responsible Data Use Advisory Council meeting just before Christmas last year. This was another fantastic opportunity to tap the wealth of expertise of our council members about emerging trends around responsible data use for small businesses. The council is made up of myself, Laura Jackson of Popcorn Shed (business owner), Maribel Lopez of Lopez Research (technology analyst), Wyndi and Eli Tagi of WE Mana (advisors), Aaron Wittman of XBert (app developer), Anna Johnston of

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Accounting Department

JANUARY 31, 2023

It is that time of the year again, tax season. Many businesses dread this time of the year - it's tough. But thankfully not as tough when you have the unrivaled support of AccountingDepartment.com. "1099 Season" spans from the beginning of the year until January 31st, and during this time, the team at AccountingDepartment.com is hard at work to prepare and review over 6,000 1099's for our clients.

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Advertiser: Paycor

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Insightful Accountant

JANUARY 25, 2023

Xero has announced an integration with Melio, a leading B2B payment platform that will permit the automatic sync of A/P and A/R data between the two small business solutions.

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Fidesic blog

JANUARY 19, 2023

A Microsoft Dynamics GP customer recently came to Fidesic because they were facing an increasingly common problem--they were struggling to hire an accounts payable clerk. The fact is that the industry is currently in a talent shortage as ‘accounting clerk’ has been a difficult position to fill in recent years.

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Accounts Payable Clerk Accounts Payable Accounts Payable Accounting 130

SAP Accounts Payable

JANUARY 6, 2023

As we take the time to get back into the swing of things and dig ourselves out of backlogged emails, we reflect on what we were able to accomplish last year while looking forward to our goals for 2023. Did you close that big deal you were hoping for in Q4? Or were you able to hit those last-minute cost savings objectives? Is part of your 2023 goals to improve your internal collaboration across silos?

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Accounting Today

JANUARY 12, 2023

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Tax 290

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

Xero

JANUARY 25, 2023

This February, we’re pumped to be hitting Australia’s major cities and regional towns for – you guessed it – Xero Roadshow 2023! From Geelong to the Gold Coast and Parramatta to Perth, we’ll be touring 17 locations between 7 to 27 February. Since we last hit the road in March 2022, the world has continued to experience lots of change (like talent shortages, rising inflation and cost of living pressures).

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Accounting Department

JANUARY 25, 2023

The accounting cycle is a multi-step process that involves accepting, recording, sorting, and crediting payments made within a business during a period of time. It creates an accurate record of the business's financials that are summarized on its financial statements.

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Insightful Accountant

JANUARY 26, 2023

MasterYourBooks' Mariette Martinez on the important role both play in reaching personal and professional growth goals for Latinos.

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Sage Intacct

JANUARY 9, 2023

Recently, I sat in on a financial-services session at our annual Sage Transform conference for Sage Intacct customers and partners. The session focused on family offices and one of the panelists, a CFO at a firm with dozens of multiple entities, described her journey building the firm’s financial tech stack. She spoke of taking months to analyze their business processes so their automation efforts would get it right the first time.

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Speaker: Duke Heninger, Partner and Fractional CFO at Ampleo & Creator of CFO System

Are you ready to elevate your accounting processes for 2025? 🚀 Join us for an exclusive webinar led by Duke Heninger, 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.

Accounting

CloudZero

JANUARY 9, 2023

FinOps, or the practice of managing a company’s cloud computing costs, and DevOps, the process of efficiently building applications in the cloud, should ideally go hand-in-hand.

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Accounting Today

JANUARY 10, 2023

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Tax Auditing 279

Xero

JANUARY 23, 2023

This blog was first published in April 2022 and updated in January 2023. If you’re a VAT-registered business , you may have received a letter or email from HMRC, informing you that the new penalty system for Making Tax Digital (MTD) for VAT is now in place. Arriving at the beginning of this year, the system is described as simplified penalties for late VAT submissions and payments, with a goal of making these fairer and more proportionate for customers.

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Accounting Department

JANUARY 18, 2023

Smart financial planning is something that sets successful growing businesses apart from others. Whether a business is new or growing in size , these 5 tips can be used by business owners to smarten up their business finances and prepare themselves for a successful future.

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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.

Accounting

Insightful Accountant

JANUARY 22, 2023

The Bonadio Group’s Kristin Kowalski discusses some of the ins and outs of what is becoming a potential growth opportunity in 2023 and beyond. Here’s what today’s accounting professionals should know.

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Plooto

JANUARY 30, 2023

If you have any doubts about the importance of customer service and building solid client relations, consider the following statistic from a Harvard Business Review study: Increasing customer retention by 5% can increase profits from 25 to 95%.

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CloudZero

JANUARY 30, 2023

When it comes to cloud costs, engineers have a particular reputation. The executive suite and finance department often share perplexing frustration about why engineers appear not to care about budgets and costs at all.

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Budgeting 98

Accounting Today

JANUARY 10, 2023

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