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Xero Assistance Programme extends to all small businesses in Auckland, Northland, Waikato

Xero

In the wake of extreme weather events, the Xero Assistance Programme (XAP) is being extended to all small businesses in the Auckland, Northland and Waikato regions. From Wednesday 1st February through to Friday 31st March, any small business owner, employee or their families in Auckland, Northland and Waikato regions can access three confidential and free telephone, live chat, online or face-to-face counselling sessions.

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It's 1099 Season at ADC!

Accounting Department

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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Global Media Company

ProsperOps

CASE STUDY Global Media Company Discover how ProsperOps helped a global media company's FinOps team increase their Effective Savings Rate by over 50% within six months of adoption. Challenge Despite a mature cost optimization program, use of Reserved Instances (RIs), and support from a third-party RI commitment broker, the company was only achieving a 26% ESR (85th percentile) for its $17 million per month AWS compute spend.

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How to Automate Accounts Payable with Multi Entity Management

Fidesic blog

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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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 With construction projects becoming more complex, outdated processes are no longer sustainable.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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Xero included in 2023 Bloomberg Gender-Equality Index

Xero

Xero’s commitment to diversity, inclusion and belonging has driven our inclusion in the Bloomberg Gender-Equality Index for the fourth consecutive year. Like last year, Xero is the one and only company headquartered in New Zealand to be included in the index, which is made up of 484 companies across 45 countries and regions. Our scores have improved each of the four years we’ve been included in the index, and we’re pleased to see our progress demonstrated in such a tangible way.

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AccountingDepartment.com Attends Vistage ChairWorld 2023

Accounting Department

This week, AccountingDepartment.com Business Development Representative, Luke Backus, attended Vistage ChairWorld in Nashville, TN! ChairWorld is a place for Vistage Chairs to come together and attend various breakout sessions, networking opportunities, and evening fun to learn new strategies, improve leadership skills, and more.

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Insightful Accountant Expanding ProAdvisor Awards Program for 2023

Insightful Accountant

Insightful Accountant will recognize a new list of up to 25 Up-n-Coming ProAdvisors, and a Top Up-n-Coming ProAdvisor for 2023.

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MHH Practice boosts efficiency with new invoicing

Xero

Accounting has changed dramatically over the last few years. Automation, digital transformation and the acceleration of the cloud have all played an important role in shaping it. But amongst all of this change, one thing remains constant: businesses need to get paid, explains Hayden Watson, Director of UK-based accountancy firm, MHH Practice. Using technology to manage invoicing is one way to help businesses get paid on time, which may explain why invoicing remains one of our most loved feature

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Proven Strategies to Help Your Accounting Firm Retain, Attract Clients

Plooto

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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4 Ways To Help Engineers Understand How Their Choices Affect Cloud Costs

CloudZero

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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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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Getting Ready for Top 100 – Tips & Tricks Part 2

Insightful Accountant

Murph spills the beans on criteria for the new QBO-Advanced and QuickBooks Enterprise Categories—what defines each bloodline, so to speak.

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Why you should connect with your community this summer

Xero

The summer months are some of the busiest of the year for small business owners. As the peak period for gifting, festivities and tourism, many entrepreneurs aim to make the most of the seasonal buzz. But for some, this comes at a cost. Increased demand can equal longer hours and higher overheads in wages and supply costs (which is particularly prevalent in today’s economic environment).

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Non-Dilutive Funding: Your Guide to Getting Funded and Growing Your Business

FundThrough

For many of the small business owners, CEOs, and finance leads we work with, they need funding but don’t want to lose ownership by giving away equity in exchange for capital. They want to stay in control of the business they’ve worked so hard to build – completely understandable. The next step is to look […] The post Non-Dilutive Funding: Your Guide to Getting Funded and Growing Your Business appeared first on FundThrough.

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SRE Vs. DevOps: A Simple Breakdown Of The Differences

CloudZero

You know this already. Regardless of your size, you must keep up with technological developments in your industry — and, increasingly, in other industries, even those that seem unrelated. Embracing disruption can enable you to increase your market share, revenue, and profit margins.

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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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Ignition Appoints Drew Woodcock as Global VP of Sales

Insightful Accountant

The hire brings extensive experience in building, optimizing and leading high performing sales teams across vertical SaaS businesses in the US.

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Are You Taking Too Long to Collect on Receivables?

Enterprise Recovery

When your business has a late-paying client, follow-up calls must be handled quickly and with conviction. Late or non-paying clients cause your business to write receivables off as bad debt, and they could cause the deterioration of your business relationships. Or you could escalate to a professional B2B collections agency that values your business relationships and your cash flow.

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Financial Consolidation Guide for Multi-Entity SaaS Companies

Sage Intacct

External demands for a faster financial consolidation process are regularly placed on SaaS accounting departments. SaaS companies with multiple locations, subsidiaries, or operations, means that each entity will have its own chart of accounts, and more than likely has its own individual bank accounts, jurisdictions, and perhaps tax structures. When dealing with disparate entities, risk and error goes up, while financial accuracy goes down – stressing the importance of having a centralized system

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6 Trends in B2B Payment Technology

MineralTree

In 2023, most B2B payment technology trends will focus on navigating economic uncertainty, cultivating talent, optimizing efficiencies, and embracing digitization. CFOs and finance teams will also use the year ahead to zero in their focus on business process improvements and increasing visibility, particularly in regards to cost and spend analytics.

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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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Password Managers – An Insightful Accountant Software Comparison

Insightful Accountant

Our readers are always asking for software comparisons, so Murph conducted a review of 10 Password Managers; tossed two out, but ranked the remaining eight for your consideration.

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Podcast - The secret to healthy business growth

finout

The Modern CTO is talking with our CEO and Co-Founder, Roi Rabhon, about how young people can think creatively out of problems into new solutions; Roi’s workplace culture that allows for entrepreneurs to be born out of the company; and why “growing healthy” in business is a result of proper KPI alignment.

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How SAP Users Can Achieve Full Accounts Payable Automation

IPS

If you are an SAP user with lots of manual accounts payable (AP) tasks, you are not alone.

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Non-Dilutive Funding: Your Guide to Getting Funded and Growing Your Business

FundThrough

For many of the small business owners, CEOs, and finance leads we work with, they need funding but don’t want to lose ownership by giving away equity in exchange for capital. They want to stay in control of the business they’ve worked so hard to build – completely understandable. The next step is to look […] The post Non-Dilutive Funding: Your Guide to Getting Funded and Growing Your Business appeared first on FundThrough.

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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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The Time is Now to Prepare for ASC 842

Insightful Accountant

LeaseCrunch's Ane Ohm takes a deep dive into the new GAAP lease accounting requirements, and six pieces of information you need to know to prepare for transition.

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Resetting in the New Year – What I’m focusing on this year

1st Step Accounting

2022 was a busy year for me. I traveled a lot. I worked a lot, and I fell behind A LOT. I constantly felt like I would never catch up. Well, I vowed not to have this same overwhelming feeling going into the new year. 2023 is the year of playing offense and delivering better customer service to my customers because I know they have not gotten the best version of me and my team over the past year.

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Remote Work Accountants Are More Billable

Cloud Accounting Podcast

Recession needed to increase accounting grads; Amber Setter on improving the CPA pipeline; 2023 tax season officially starts; tech layoffs hit accounting tech Sponsors Keeper - [link] LiveFlow - [link] Anchor - [link] Need CPE? Subscribe to the Earmark Accounting Podcast: [link] Get CPE for listening to podcasts with Earmark CPE: [link] (00:00) - Thank you to our sponsor, Keeper (00:20) - Preview : Accountants are prestressed for busy season (00:56) - Blake is in Tucson; Welcome Amber to the sh

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Accounting Leads: 21 Tactics to Generate More

Future Firm

If you’re looking for tried, tested, and true tactics to help you generate more accounting leads for your firm, you’re in the right place. Read on to access 21 actionable methods that you can implement to help increase your client base. Let’s go! Table of Contents What is Lead Generation for Accountants 21 Tactics to Help You Generate Leads What is Lead Generation for Accountants?

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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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LeaseCrunch Adds Reports Center to Software

Insightful Accountant

The latest feature allows for storing of reports, future scaling and easier reporting for all customers.

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Development Firm Ramps Up Payment Processing Speed with AvidXchange

AvidXchange

Located in New York City, Douglaston Development is a real estate development company committed to revitalizing and growing neighborhoods. They specialize in building residential developments including high-rise rentals and condominiums, affordable housing, hospitality, senior housing and mixed-use. Douglaston Development controller shares how TimberScan and AvidPay modernize accounts payable Adam Ditchfield graduated from CUNY Queen’s College in New York with his bachelor’s degree in accounti

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Founding Principles of Growth with Darren Root

Jetpack Workflow

Podcast Welcome Today, we sat down with Darren Root, Chief Strategist at Rootworks & Right Networks. Rootworks is a company of Right Networks. They focus on firm improvement and emphasize the drive of helping small to medium-size accounting firms improve every day. Let’s jump right in. Meet Darren Root Darren has managed his own CPA firm for over 30.no sorry. 35 years.

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How Should You Use AI in Your Firm Right Now?

Future Firm

Wondering why AI is a hot topic these days? In this episode, I’ll explain how AI can be properly integrated into a firm’s operations and how it can increase business growth and competitiveness. Listen Below. 00:35 – I received a question from a LinkedIn user on how I see AI playing out this year for accounting firms. 1:30 – I talked about recent buzz around ChatGPT, a conversational AI model that can interact with users. 1:52 – A good example of this is a Twitter us

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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.