July, 2022

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How should small businesses balance artificial intelligence, automation and data privacy?

Xero

We recently held our fourth Xero Responsible Data Use Advisory Council meeting via Zoom with seven council members across four time zones to discuss the most important emerging trends around responsible data use for small businesses. How time has flown – we’ve nearly completed our first year of a council. The council includes myself, Samuel Burmeister of Tall Books (advisor), Laura Jackson of Popcorn Shed (business owner), Maribel Lopez of Lopez Research (analyst), Wyndi and Eli Tagi of WE Accou

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Black CPA Centennial distributes $93.5K in scholarships

Accounting Today

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How SaaS Companies Should Prepare for an IPO

Sage Intacct

Wow, an IPO is a massive milestone! It signifies that your company is a clear forerunner in its market and that it’s run and managed effectively. Going public is something a company’s leadership can be incredibly proud of.

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8 most common filing mistakes that make you look silly

AP Association

When it comes to working in accounts payable, knowing the mistakes that can save you and your company money, time and productivity are essential. No one wants to hire a person who will make bad decisions, take too long to pay their vendors, be misinformed on how much they can spend, or worse yet, make their CEO look silly. Whether you're new to the world of financing or just want to become a better AP professional, having knowledge of the most common filing errors will not only save you time but

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Breaking Ground on Better Payment Processes: Strategies for Construction Pros

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 With construction projects becoming more complex, outdated processes are no longer sustainable.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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CapEx Vs. OpEx In Cloud Computing: What’s The Difference?

CloudZero

As many companies shift from traditional IT infrastructure to cloud computing, they are also rethinking how they handle cloud costs — from accounting to tax reporting.

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Your Guide to Virtual CFO Services: Everything You Need to Know

Future Firm

Offering virtual CFO services is a great way to help small businesses and startups manage their finances. These services can help businesses level up with financial reporting, planning and forecasting, and more. In this guide, I’ll discuss: What virtual CFO services are. The different services offered within them. The benefits of offering and using them.

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A more intelligent digital transformation for AP

Accounting Today

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3 Ways to Cut Your SaaS Close Cycle

Sage Intacct

How do the best SaaS CFOs help their companies win their market? By providing data for faster decision making: when to hire, how to invest, where to double down. For this reason, cutting close time should always be a top goal of SaaS companies. That involves constantly scanning the horizon for anything that might get in the way of a smooth and fast closing process.

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Why ERPs are Not Enough for Accounts Payable Automation

IPS

An enterprise resource planning (ERP) application is the financial nerve center of the business.

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CloudHealth Pricing: How Much Does CloudHealth Cost?

CloudZero

Virtualization technology provider VMware acquired CloudHealth in August 2018. VMware hoped the new addition would enable more organizations to manage services on other cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, and their private data centers.

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The Growth Architect: How Financial Leaders are Unlocking Potential

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.

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How to Get Accounting Clients in a Changing World

Future Firm

In this post, I’ll be outlining strategies your firm can take today for how to get accounting clients and land new business in a rapidly changing world. I’ll be backing these strategies up with statistics gathered from a recent study titled “ The Next Chapter for Small Business: How to Thrive in a Changed World ” conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of Xero, which surveyed 1,000+ small businesses and 1,000+ consumers around the world in June 2020 to tap into today&

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Introducing start and end times in Xero Me

Xero

We’re really excited to share that in the weeks ahead, we’re rolling out new functionality in the Xero Me mobile app that will let employees record their start, end and unpaid break times. This new feature will help you keep accurate payroll records and save time on manual processes such as chasing timesheets or reviewing information before doing payruns in Xero.

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OSCPA gives $54K in scholarships to Oklahoma accounting students

Accounting Today

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3 Steps to Build Your Revenue Recognition Strategy

Sage Intacct

Revenue recognition is at the heart of accounting for SaaS and subscription companies. But it is complicated. However, you can quickly study and optimize your unique version of calculating deferred revenue.

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2025 Payroll Calendar Templates (Biweekly, Semi-Monthly, and Monthly)

Use these handy calendar templates to stay on top of payroll in 2025! Download them today to share with your HR team or post for employees. Whether your company has biweekly, semi-monthly, or monthly pay periods, Paycor has you covered. Get your templates today!

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Why Advertising Agencies Must Automate their Payables End-to-End

IPS

The importance of digitizing media payables end-to-end cannot be underestimated.

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Announcing CloudZero AnyCost: Cost Intelligence For A Multi-Service World

CloudZero

At CloudZero, we’re confident that we can organize cloud spend better than anyone else out there.

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Accounting Engagement Letter: Templates, Samples & How to Create One

Future Firm

Does your firm use an accounting engagement letter when signing on a new client? This post is a deep dive into why you should. In this article, you’re going to learn about: What an accounting engagement letter for your firm is. The purpose and need of a quality engagement letter. Items to put in yours. What to use to send this valuable document. Sample sections and template letters.

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Your small business tax time questions answered

Xero

This is a guest post by accountant Daniel Hardy of Xero Platinum Partner firm Caveo Partners. Recently, Caveo Partners was named the best boutique firm of the year at the Australian Accounting Awards. . With a new financial year upon us, you might be thinking, what’s next for my small business? In fact, you’ll likely have all kinds of thoughts about where you’re at and where you’re headed next.

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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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IRS grilled over fake charity fraud schemes

Accounting Today

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Building and Forecasting a Usage Billing Business

Sage Intacct

Usage-based billing is becoming an increasingly common way for recurring revenue companies to do business with their customers.

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The Cloud Cost Evolution Plan

The FinOps Alliance

Within IT Project Development there are a few things people see as evident. Having the right engineering skills to build the capabilities your application, solution or service needs is something no one would think twice about. Having someone in place to manage the project or team, is also a no brainer for many people working in the technology landscape.

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K3s Vs K8s: What’s The Difference? (And When To Use Each)

CloudZero

Kubernetes, or K8s, is an open-source, portable, and scalable container orchestration platform. With K8s, you can reliably manage distributed systems for your applications, enabling declarative configuration and automatic deployment.

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Less Stress, More Success: Accounting Best Practices & Processes for 2025

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.

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23 Accounting Security Tips to Keep Your Firm Secure

Future Firm

In today’s post, I’m going to show you the very best accounting security tips (23 of them to be precise!) to keep your accounting firm safe and secure. Key Takeaways. Importance of why you must have accounting security for the safety of your business. Different cybersecurity threats you need to be aware of that your CPA firm may encounter.

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Xerocon Sydney by the numbers

Xero

We’re numbers people here at Xero. And we know you – our partner community – are too. So to celebrate the return of Xerocon Sydney this September, we’ve gone and rounded up some stats to give you a taste of what to expect. Because if our calculations are correct, there are 1,161 reasons (and counting) to get excited about this unmissable event for cloud accounting leaders. . 12 keynote sessions.

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EY helping clients cope with recession fears amid rising inflation

Accounting Today

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How SaaS Companies Can Tell Their Story to Investors

Sage Intacct

All the more now, Investors want the data that proves you can make your plan. For context, the struggle for investment capital among SaaS companies is always competitive, even under the best economic and investment conditions. But when times grow uncertain and market conditions become turbulent, the competition for investment capital grows even fiercer.

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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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5 Reasons why every bookkeeper should stop charging by the hour

5 Minute Bookkeeping

When it comes to pricing their services, most new bookkeepers start off with charging their clients by the hour. I certainly did that in the early days of my bookkeeping business too. But one of the best things that I did to grow my business was to move away from hourly billing to pricing all services upfront for my clients instead. If you’re still charging clients by the hour, I’d love to share my insights and experience with you from my own pricing journey.

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What To Look For In A Cloud Cost Tool: Must-Haves And Red Flags

CloudZero

When you’re already strapped for time and bogged down by cloud bills that seem higher than they should be, you may not be inclined to devote months to researching the best cloud cost tools. And unless you’ve used a cost tool before, you may have no idea where to start.

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Electronic Payment Systems: Everything You Need to Know

AvidXchange

You’ve probably heard of electronic payment systems and actually used them. But you may not have explored what these systems mean, which types are most relevant to you, how they work and ways they can help your business grow. You’ll find answers to all these questions here: Table of Contents What is an Electronic Payment? An electronic payment simply means you’re paying for products or services via the Internet, which most people do daily.

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Five things we learned from the Xerocon London breakout sessions

Xero

Xerocon London 2022 boasted everything from inspirational keynotes, to major product announcements , and fantastic guest speakers. But, most importantly, it offered us an opportunity to come together and reconnect with our amazing community. It’s time to take a breath and reflect on an awesome event. . With this in mind, we’ll take a look back and share some of our key learnings from the Xerocon London breakout sessions. .

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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.