September, 2022

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Changes to multi-factor authentication are coming for Australian customers

Xero

Over the last few years, our lives – and businesses across the world – have moved online at a rapid pace. Unfortunately, cybercriminals have followed and are using new, digital methods to target Australians. At Xero, we are custodians of your data and do all we can to protect the information held in your account. One of the ways we do this is through multi-factor authentication (MFA), a process designed to secure how you log in to Xero and verify it’s really you.

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Why AI could be a financial director's best friend during busy season

Accounting Today

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How to get copies of your Facebook receipts

The Savvy Bookkeeping Blog

Using Facebook ads is a popular way to market your business. Being relatively new to creating paid Facebook ads, I do find that a lot of my time and energy is spent on coming up with the marketing material and then navigating my way around Facebook Ads Manager (Arghh, so many decisions.

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Rightsizing recommendations: get GCP costs down with Google Cloud optimization services

FinOps in Practice

Cloud cost optimization is a topic keeping many cloud users up at night. Who wouldn’t want to take advice and recommendations from experts then? The same is true for today’s cloud users. Companies investing and utilizing the cloud should be turning to machine generated recommendations for their virtual machine (VM) instances. Those who do are both cutting cloud costs and optimizing the way they use the cloud across their companies and teams.

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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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Want to Survive the Recession? Focus On These SaaS Metrics

Sage Intacct

Surviving and thriving in business regardless of external financial conditions might sound too good to be true. SaaS is a highly competitive industry, and even the top players in the market can have their good fortune reversed if they aren’t constantly vigilant.

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25+ Kubernetes Tools For 2022: The Best K8s Tools By Category

CloudZero

Over the past few years, Kubernetes (K8s) has become the preferred method of orchestrating containers and microservices. Its self-healing, high scalability, and open-source nature make it appealing to a wide range of users.

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IRS continued to delay business tax refunds from pandemic

Accounting Today

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Gaining Customer Awareness for Your New Business

SMB Accounting and Consulting

As a new business owner one of your first priorities is to get the word out about your company. Grassroots marketing can be a low-cost but effective way to gain a large amount of exposure to locally owned businesses or other specific audiences. Grassroots marketing involves narrowing the type of customer and making your business known to those customers you’re hoping to attain.

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The Emergency Mini Budget Breakdown

Dext

The Emergency Mini Budget, termed as ‘the Growth Plan’, was announced on 23rd September 2022 and it included many important updates. The announcements touched upon several areas including Business taxes and schemes, Personal taxes, Investment zones, SDLT and much more.

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Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) Strategies for SaaS CFOs During a Recession

Sage Intacct

For SaaS CFOs, one set of letters eclipses almost all others in importance: FP&A. Financial planning and analysis is the bread and butter of any successful SaaS company. It's vital at all times, but it becomes even more so during a market correction like the one we're currently experiencing.

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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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25 Azure Monitoring Tools And Best Practices For 2022

CloudZero

Microsoft Azure is the most popular cloud computing platform after Amazon Web Services (AWS). With over 200 services and resources available, there are plenty of ways to use Azure. This means the Azure public cloud allows for hundreds, if not thousands, of unique configurations.

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How the founder of DS Business Support fell in love with bookkeeping

Xero

A person’s career path doesn’t necessarily travel in a straight line. There can be twists, turns and unexpected junctures in which you find yourself enamoured with a field you never considered before. This was the case for Marykate McAndrew, founder of DS Business Support. Here, Marykate tells us about her journey from hair salon owner to founding her own bookkeeping business, and how Xero is helping DS Business Support best serve its clients.

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IRS says improperly forgiven PPP loans are taxable

Accounting Today

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Fintech Payment Companies: What the Best Ones Have in Common

FundThrough

Fintech payment companies provide services such as credit card payments, e-commerce checkout, mobile wallets, and other financial transactions. They also offer merchant accounts and other tools to help businesses accept payments. As the global economy continues to evolve, fintech payment companies are becoming increasingly vital to the success of businesses of all stripes and sizes. […].

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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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The Complete Guide to Cross-Border Payments and AP Automation

AvidXchange

Companies that pay suppliers abroad can leverage accounts payable (AP) automation to complete both domestic and cross-border payments in one place, decreasing the time and money spent on payment processing. In this blog, you will learn about cross-border payments including its history, definition and the benefits it can provide organizations. What are cross-border payments?

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Give Your Executive Team the Metrics They Need to Succeed

Sage Intacct

CFOs should use metrics to intelligently shape and inform their strategies regardless of their industry. But when your industry moves at breakneck speeds as it does for SaaS companies, the metrics, and your visibility around them, become more than helpful. They become indispensable to creating a shared consciousness on the direction of the business.

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The Right Car (Or Cloud Service) For Your Family (Or Work) Adventures

CloudZero

Managing gas bills has a lot in common with managing cloud spend. In the summer, our gas bill increased with our summer adventures. Sitting home with the kids out of school and the warm summer months was not an option.

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Product wrap from Xerocon Sydney 2022

Xero

Any way you slice it, the past two years have tested us all. None more so than you all — our valued accounting and bookkeeping partners — who have helped your clients navigate a digital acceleration and shift their business models to survive (and thrive). . Today at Xerocon Sydney , we were able to celebrate what we can achieve when we work together to support small businesses across Australia and New Zealand.

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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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Colorado now accepts crypto for taxes

Accounting Today

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How to Catch Up on Your Bookkeeping

FundThrough

Although we offer a Catch Up Bookkeeping Service here at Bench, we know that some business owners prefer to tackle overdue bookkeeping on their own. Here’s a step-by-step process you can use to plow through your bookkeeping backlog in no time. Step 1: Gather your receipts First, collect all of the receipts and invoices […]. The post How to Catch Up on Your Bookkeeping appeared first on FundThrough.

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15 Undeniable Reasons to Love Bookkeeping for a Hotel

SLC Bookkeeping

The pulse of the hotel industry is customer satisfaction and repeat business. Hotel owners and managers focus all of their efforts on meeting these two goals and everything else becomes less important. Of course, there is a long list of ways that customers become satisfied and keep coming back. This equates to a continuous, day-to-day, sometimes moment-by-moment excellent performance which keeps everyone super busy.

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Fundraising Tips and Best Practices for SaaS CFOs

Sage Intacct

Reliably securing funding is an indispensable component of any SaaS CFO's job. And now that the SaaS market has begun to follow suit with the broader economic trouble brewing at the moment, this is more true than ever.

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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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8 Steps To Take Before You Can Start Forecasting Cloud Costs

CloudZero

Accurate, fair budgets make everyone in the company happy. Engineers love when they can build products that make the company money, executives enjoy seeing nice, wide margins, and finance departments celebrate when everything goes according to plan.

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Cash flow crunch: The red flags impacting small business cash flow

Xero

It’s so fantastic to bring Xerocon back to Sydney. Having the opportunity to meet and connect with partners from Australia, New Zealand and Asia has been really great – and we’re only just getting started! I’m looking forward to two full days of keynotes, breakouts and partner sessions – and, of course, the Xerocon wrap party at Luna Park! . Today, I am thrilled to launch part two of our Xero Small Business Insights special report Crunch: Cash flow challenges facing small businesses.

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SEC advisory committee recommends revamp of FASB

Accounting Today

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5 Traits of a Great Cloud-Based Payroll Provider

dynavistics

Achieving Operational Excellence : Moving Payroll to the Cloud with a great Provider. As you begin to evaluate various cloud-based payroll providers, there are several considerations to keep in mind.

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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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Improving Your Dunning Strategy and Recovery Rate

Gaviti

Finance teams and leaders are well-acquainted with the concept of automation and how it enables sweeping transformations across financial functions. Although the concept has been met with skepticism from some circles (largely related to the administrative red tape and regulations surrounding finance transformation,) pushing for digital innovation has become a top priority for CEOs.

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How to Close 80% Faster: What Every SaaS Controller Should Know

Sage Intacct

Can you guess three of the most essential words in any SaaS Controller's vocabulary? If you guessed "monthly close cycle," you were right on track. Staying on top of your monthly close is one of the most important aspects of keeping your department running like a well-oiled machine.

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20+ Google Cloud Monitoring Tools And Best Practices For 2022

CloudZero

Google Cloud Platform (GCP) offers a great alternative to Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure. In case you use Google Products extensively at work, such as Google Workspace, moving to GCP may be a natural choice too.

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Three key takeaways from our Xerocon Sydney blockchain session

Xero

When it comes to understanding practical opportunities for up and coming decentralised technologies like blockchain, cryptocurrencies and smart contracts – there’s a lot to take in. Add in the potential challenges that businesses might have incorporating these offerings in the future, it’s no surprise that there are more questions than answers among our community.

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Travel and Expense Policy Success: Your Essential Checklist

Setting the stage for successful organizational change always begins with clear, thoughtful communication. When it comes to rolling out a new travel and expense (T&E) policy, establishing a well-structured communication plan is key to ensuring that all employees understand the changes and their impact. By following a step-by-step approach, you can guide your organization through the transition, fostering smooth adoption from the outset and improving compliance.