Sat.Aug 05, 2023 - Fri.Aug 11, 2023

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Big Four: AI will augment, not replace, accountants

Accounting Today

The four largest firms are squarely on 'Team Human' when it comes to artificial intelligence — and don't believe the tech is even at a level where it can take over all of a human's job.

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Introducing our 2023 Xerocon Sydney event partners

Xero

Xerocon Sydney is just weeks away on 23 and 24 August, and the ICC exhibitor floor will be full to the brim with some of the best and most loved apps, tools and services for accountants, bookkeepers and small businesses. This year, you can expect to see 80+ exhibitors at the event, including more than 70 leading Xero App Store app partners. Whether you’re looking for tools to chase invoice payments, simplify tax compliance, or make job management easier, you’ll find plenty of solutions to help s

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How AccountingDepartment.com Fused Coaching into Culture

Accounting Department

Company culture is a term that is heard quite often from companies all over the world. It's what defines an organization, shaping its values, beliefs, and behaviors. It encompasses employees' shared attitudes and norms, how they interact, and the overall work environment.

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How Spend Visibility Can Help Schools Save Money

Compleatable

Schools are facing some of the steepest cuts since the 1970s. So, we’re guessing that seeing your school’s bank balance going down rapidly as the school year progresses is getting incredibly scary! But what about the granular detail- is that visible? We’re talking about knowing who is buying what, when, how often, where from, and why.

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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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PCAOB finds more problems in broker-dealer audits

Accounting Today

The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board saw high rates of deficiency when inspecting audits of brokers and dealers last year, with little to no improvement over prior years.

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AWS cost datasets: Understanding blended, unblended, and amortized costs

FinOps in Practice

When a company uses AWS services, whether running virtual servers or storing data, it is billed for the resources it consumes. The FinOps team within the company naturally wants to stay in the know of the cloud costs to reduce and optimize them. This is where AWS Cost Datasets come into the picture, as they are designed to help analyze and monitor spending patterns to make informed decisions about AWS costs.

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Pursuing my professional and personal ambitions at Intuit

Intuit

I took the road less traveled Graduating high school at seventeen. Joining the Army Reserves. Earning six college degrees. Studying Greek, Hebrew, and Latin in seminary. I’ve been blessed with a bundle of energy and many interests. Even with all of those experiences, I’ve found my position at Intuit as a Multi-Domain Expert (MDE)—supporting TurboTax and QuickBooks—incredibly satisfying.

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IRS offers new way to get relief on late int'l forms

Accounting Today

Taxpayers who aren't under examination have a new option that promises to make it easier to request relief when they need to file international tax forms and documents past a deadline.

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3 Types of Invoice Fraud Compleat AP Automation Helps Prevent

Compleatable

Invoice fraud is a real and immediate threat for businesses worldwide. It’s responsible for over £9 billion of losses within small & medium-sized businesses every year in the UK alone, and according to research by Tungsten Network, 54% of businesses view it as their biggest threat. With the strictest measures in place to combat invoice fraud, the most diligent businesses still fall prey to fraudsters.

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QuickBooks Online Navigation Revisions Coming Soon

Insightful Accountant

The Intuit QuickBooks team is advising accountants and ProAdvisors of impending changes to QBO Navigation, which will give them time to start working with their clients on the upcoming enhancements.

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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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Semi-retired and (still) thriving as a tax expert at Intuit

Intuit

Libby Wages, a tax expert with an enrolled agent credential from Atlanta, Georgia, joined Intuit while in semi-retirement. She’s thrilled that Intuit has empowered her to use technology with confidence while she helps consumers and small businesses run their financial lives. Intuit makes it easy to learn the latest technology Like you, I’m confident in my tax and accounting abilities.

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AICPA, NASBA team with Tulane to ease CPA licensing

Accounting Today

The American Institute of CPAs and the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy are pilot testing a program to make it easier for accounting students to earn 150 credit hours.

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How Spend Visibility Can Help Schools Save Money

Compleatable

Schools are facing some of the steepest cuts since the 1970s. So, we’re guessing that seeing your school’s bank balance going down rapidly as the school year progresses is getting incredibly scary! But what about the granular detail- is that visible? We’re talking about knowing who is buying what, when, how often, where from, and why.

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Tanya Hilts on Unlocking Success

Insightful Accountant

On the latest edition of Accounting Insiders, Insightful Accountant's Gary DeHart sits down with Cloud Business Services' Tanya Hilts to discuss the importance of industry events, and more.

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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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QuickBooks Hosting Review 2023 – Benefits, Pricing & Customer Reviews

Ace Cloud Hosting

There are dozens of QuickBooks hosting service providers in the market with similar offerings that appeal to your dollar, but how are their results? How should you go about choosing.

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IRS employee union gets new leader

Accounting Today

The National Treasury Employees Union, whose members include Internal Revenue Service agents and revenue officers, elected Doreen Greenwald, a longtime federal employee and local union leader as the next national president.

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3 Types of Invoice Fraud Compleat AP Automation Helps Prevent

Compleatable

Invoice fraud is a real and immediate threat for businesses worldwide. It’s responsible for over £9 billion of losses within small & medium-sized businesses every year in the UK alone, and according to research by Tungsten Network, 54% of businesses view it as their biggest threat. With the strictest measures in place to combat invoice fraud, the most diligent businesses still fall prey to fraudsters.

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Best Accounting & Payroll Methods for Mental Health Practices

CSI Accounting & Payroll

When you own a mental health practice, your main goal is to help your patients have a brighter future. After focusing on treating the different things that cause them discomfort or distress, you don't want to slow down enough to put in the extra hours that accounting and payroll require. Have you ever considered outsourcing these tasks to save you time and help you avoid costly mistakes?

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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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How Your Firm Can 100% Automate This Marketing Activity

Future Firm

Firm owners often struggle with marketing. In this episode, I discuss how I use AI to automate my podcast marketing and how you can implement the same without being an expert. Listen Below. 1:10 – The usual podcast production process involves brainstorming, scripting, recording, and editing by a virtual assistant. However, the current episode breaks this pattern, as it’s created by AI, including the voice. 1:42 – Creating a podcast requires topics, which can be challenging to g

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Uniting accountants to salute the troops

Accounting Today

The Accountants Salute the Troops campaign is bringing the accounting profession together to increase awareness of the USO's mission and raise much-needed funding to support the men and women of our military.

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Halo + NetSuite Helping to Save More Dogs' Lives

Insightful Accountant

Halo, a next generation GPS wireless dog fence company, has selected NetSuite to automate its key business processes, and support its domestic and international expansion.

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Top Invoice Factoring Companies in Michigan

FundThrough

As business owners, we’re all too familiar with the challenges of maintaining cash flow. Waiting for accounts receivable can slow your business’s progress and ability to seize new opportunities. In cases where you need more reliable cash flow for payroll, big projects that will grow your company, equipment, or any other expense, factoring can be […] The post Top Invoice Factoring Companies in Michigan appeared first on FundThrough.

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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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The Complete Guide to AI Image Processing

Nanonets

In a world increasingly dominated by digital imagery, the convergence of artificial intelligence and computer vision has ushered in a new era of innovation. Join us as we dive headfirst into the captivating realm of AI image processing. Buckle up, for the pixels are about to come to life, and the machines are poised to reveal the unseen. What is AI Image Processing?

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Creativity and closing the accounting talent gap

Accounting Today

Firms need to engage in a systemic overhaul of how they pull individuals toward the profession, keep them in it, and use them as advocates to bring others into the space.

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QBO Monday Minute: Auto-Match with QuickBooks Online Payments

Insightful Accountant

Liz Scott is back with a look at the newest feature from QBO Payments and how it will help streamline the process of matching QBO with QBO Payments.

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Tips for taking on a messy comingling cleanup in QuickBooks Online

5 Minute Bookkeeping

Starting with a new bookkeeping client can be an exciting opportunity, but what happens when their books are a mixed mess of personal and business transactions? It becomes crucial to implement effective strategies to untangle the comingling mess and establish proper bookkeeping practices. When that happens to you, here are my tips for taking on a messy comingling cleanup in QuickBooks Online.

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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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Is Outsourcing B2B Debt Collections Right for Your Business?

Enterprise Recovery

Do your business debt collections keep you up at night? It's frustrating to work with a client who neglects to pay their invoices, especially when you know their non-payment will affect your ability to be successful. More often than not, some of those invoices will remain unpaid unless you have the resources to follow up with them. Is outsourcing B2B debt collections the right choice for your business?

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Accounting software companies seek to bolster products with AI

Accounting Today

Major accounting software companies view AI as a way to step up the timetable on their long-term ambitions as they work the new technology into their products.

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NetSuite Now Running in Oracle Cloud Regions in Toronto and Montreal

Insightful Accountant

As part of Insightful Accountant's "International Coverage" we wanted you to know that for the first time, NetSuite is now running in Canadian data centers to meet their growing customer base.

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The Role of Accounts Payable on Cash Flow

MineralTree

No matter your business’ size or industry, healthy cash flow is critical for operations and financial stability. But a key component of cash flow balance — accounts payable — is often overlooked. Accounts payable (AP) is inherently tied to a business’ financial stability. It includes the amounts owed to vendors, suppliers, and other stakeholders for goods or services.

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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.