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4 Tips for More Efficient Financial Processes

Nolan Accounting Center

As a small business owner, it’s important to keep a close eye on your financials, including making sure that you are getting your bills paid in full and on time, investing in the future, and making a decent profit. Therefore, you must make sure that you have efficient financial processes in place. This can be challenging for many, which is why it’s important to find an accounting firm you can trust.

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Steps to ensure a seamless EOFY in Xero Payroll

Xero

If you’re anything like us, the shorter days and colder weather signals not only a change in season, but the nearing of another cyclical shift – the new financial year. With just over six weeks left in FY23, now’s the time to get organised. And a good place to start is with finalising payroll. This EOFY in Xero Payroll will be slightly different than previous years.

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The Average Cost of Processing a Purchase Order: A Detailed Analysis

Ascend Software blog

In the world of business, understanding your expenditures is crucial. One of the costs that can often fly under the radar is the price of processing a purchase order (PO). While it might seem like a negligible expense, it's important to remember that small costs add up, especially when you're dealing with a high volume of orders. In this blog post, we'll break down the average cost of processing a purchase order and discuss strategies for reducing it.

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ADC Attends the 2023 WPO Entrepreneurial Excellence Forum

Accounting Department

Last week, AccountingDepartment.com Business Development Representatives, Shawn Marcum, and Luke Backus attended the 2023 Women President's Organization Entrepreneurial Excellence Forum in Las Vegas, NV.

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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 With construction projects becoming more complex, outdated processes are no longer sustainable.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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Becoming an entrepreneur: what diverse founders need to know

Intuit

We recently launched Intuit Ventures to invest in high-growth startups that are mission-aligned with our business and usher in exciting waves of innovation. Our investments represent opportunities to power prosperity and improve the financial lives of individuals and small businesses. And yet, the venture capital industry doesn’t offer equal opportunities to all.

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Your comprehensive guide to preparing for the retirement of old reports

Xero

There’s now a little over two months to go before old reports in Xero are retired. Over the past year, we’ve been encouraging you to make the switch, with lots of education, support and advice from other small business owners and their advisors. If you’ve waited until now to start using new reports, you’ll have less time to make the switch. We urge you to start focusing on this, to avoid any disruption to your workflows.

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Dynamic Forecasting Keeps Business Owners in the Know

Accounting Department

Experienced business leaders know that accurately predicting future financial outcomes is a highly complex challenge. It’s a process not to be left only to logic that is based on reviews of combined financial reports from the past.

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Intuit Reinforces its Commitment to Fighting for Taxpayers’ Rights

Intuit

Today, the IRS released the Congressionally-mandated study on the feasibility of an IRS-run direct e-file system. The conclusions of this study ignore facts, common sense, and what we know from our decades of helping millions of Americans file their taxes – taxpayers don’t want the tax collector, assessor, auditor, and enforcer also to be their tax preparer.

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Xero’s FY 2023 financial results

Xero

Today we announced Xero’s full year financial and operating results to 31 March 2023 (FY23). Having started my journey as Xero’s CEO in February this year, I’m pleased to share our strong FY23 operating results, and I’m deeply excited about our opportunity to help power the global small business economy. Our results demonstrate Xero’s resilience in a complex macroeconomic environment, our valuable customer proposition, our increasing efficiency, and commitment to even more disciplined, customer

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With an Eye on the Future

Insightful Accountant

Massachusetts Society Of CPAs awards scholarships to 51 students across the state.

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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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The Top 9 Ways to Use ChatGPT in Your Firm

Future Firm

In this episode, I want to share 9 ways you can leverage ChatGPT in your accounting firm to save time, reduce stress, and boost productivity. Listen below. 0:26 – ChatGPT is a powerful tool that can boost productivity and efficiency for several processes. 1:07 – ChatGPT can help businesses save time and generate high-quality blog content by quickly creating informative and engaging posts based on provided topics and details. 1:39 – Second, ChatGPT helps you draft professional e

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Beginners Bookkeeping Guide for Self-Employed or Freelancers

LedgerDocs

Any freelancer or self-employed individual knows what it is like to be busy and you’re used to wearing multiple hats on your workday. With everything that you have going on, managing your finances and bookkeeping can be challenging. Maintaining organized and accurate records is crucial for your business’s financial health, future growth opportunity, and tax compliance.

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Aotearoa New Zealand’s $7.8 billion digitalisation opportunity

Xero

When it comes to productivity, it’s no secret Aotearoa New Zealand lags heavily behind our OECD counterparts. In fact, our recent research shows Kiwis would need to work 20 percent more to reach the average OECD GDP output. For Kiwis working a 40-hour work week, this is equivalent to working an extra day per week to make up the labour productivity gap – and that’s just to reach the average productivity mark.

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Unable to Install an Auto Downloaded Update

Insightful Accountant

If you find an 'automatic update' download for QuickBooks Desktop failed to install, Murph has some procedures you can try.

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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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Going concern qualification definition

Accounting Tools

Related Courses Going Concern Audit Issues How to Conduct an Audit Engagement What is the Going Concern Qualification? The going concern principle is that you assume a business will continue in the future, unless there is evidence to the contrary. When an auditor conducts an examination of the accounting records of a company, he or she has an obligation to review its ability to continue as a going concern; if the assessment is that there is a substantial doubt regarding the company's ability to

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How Automation Helps with Cash Flow

Enterprise Recovery

With the "unprecedented" events of the past few years, businesses are looking to become more efficient in all areas of their organizations. An area that is often overlooked due to its manual processes is accounts receivable. Even though payments by check have declined since 2019, thirty percent of B2B clients are still writing checks and sending them in the mail.

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Identifying & Preventing Vendor Fraud

MineralTree

According to a 2022 report by the Association for Financial Professionals (AFP), 71% of organizations surveyed experienced attempted or actual payments fraud in 2021. Vendor fraud is one common type of fraud used by scammers to steal from businesses of all sizes. It often involves faking vendor information to redirect payments from the accounts payable (AP) team to a fraudster’s account.

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QuickBooks 2022 – Release Update R9_45

Insightful Accountant

Intuit began pushing out the R9_45 update to QuickBooks 2022 Desktop Products, including Enterprise 22.0 on May 11. You may have seen this update pending in QuickBooks 2022 software.

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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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Ledger account definition

Accounting Tools

Related Courses Accountants’ Guidebook Bookkeeper Education Bundle Bookkeeping Guidebook What is a Ledger Account? A ledger account contains a record of business transactions. It is a separate record within the general ledger that is assigned to a specific asset, liability, equity item, revenue type, or expense type. Examples of Ledger Accounts Examples of ledger accounts are cash, accounts receivable, inventory, fixed assets, accounts payable accrued expenses, debt, stockholders’ equity, revenu

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Top Tax Planning Strategies to Follow in 2023

Outsourced Bookeeping

Financial management must include tax planning because it may minimize tax bills and increase savings. Both individuals and companies must start arranging their taxes now for the tax planning strategies for 2023. To reduce tax costs and maximize savings, it’s essential to stay current on recent developments given the constantly evolving tax rules and regulations.

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Cross Border Payments

Tipalti

Cross-border payments are transactions sent from one country and received in a different country. Transfer fees, bank fees, local currency, foreign currency conversion rates, exchange fees, and international credit card fees may apply to cross-border transactions.

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REMINDER: QuickBooks Desktop 2020 Sunsets May 31, 2023

Insightful Accountant

Intuit will discontinue support, including add-on services for QuickBooks Desktop 2020, as of May 31, 2023.

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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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Allowance for doubtful accounts definition

Accounting Tools

Related Courses Bookkeeping Guidebook How to Audit Receivables New Controller Guidebook What is the Allowance for Doubtful Accounts? The allowance for doubtful accounts is paired with and offsets accounts receivable. It represents management’s best estimate of the amount of accounts receivable that will not be paid by customers. When the allowance is subtracted from accounts receivable, the remainder is the total amount of receivables that a business actually expects to collect.

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A Clean and Simple Bookkeeping Client Folder Template

Jetpack Workflow

Developing bad habits is easy to do in the early days of running your accounting firm. It’s also understandable. Who has time to keep everything in order when your focus is on growing your firm? One of the more common “bad habits” is unorganized and incomplete client folders, which vary from one client to the next. As your firm grows, this will likely cause several issues, including: Endless back-and-forths with clients Missed deadlines Erroneous mistakes on crucial documents Undue frustration f

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5 Ways in Which a CFO Can Help Your Startup

Analytix Finance & Accounting

CFOs play a prominent role in the success of a business. They protect the company’s finances and steer the business towards continuous improvement by taking actions dependent on the existing scenario. Hiring a CFO can be a good idea if you own or manage a startup and find managing the key aspects of your finances to be challenging. If your company is not yet ready to hire a full-time CFO, there are great options available for you.

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QuickBooks 2023 – Release Update R4_101

Insightful Accountant

New for May, Intuit is pushing out the R4_101 update to QuickBooks 2023 Desktop Products, including Enterprise 23.0. It's primarily focused on Employee and Payroll related functionality.

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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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Direct write-off method vs allowance method

Accounting Tools

Related Courses Bookkeeping Guidebook How to Audit Receivables New Controller Guidebook The Difference Between the Direct Write-Off and Allowance Methods Under the direct write-off method , a bad debt is charged to expense as soon as it is apparent that an invoice will not be paid. Under the allowance method , an estimate of the future amount of bad debt is charged to a reserve account as soon as a sale is made.

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The 10 Best Tools Every CPA Should Know About

Jetpack Workflow

You already know about the standard suite of CPA tools available: QuickBooks, Xero, NetSuite, and others. But are there other tools you should consider to help run your business and be more productive? Reliable software tools can make your job easier and scale with you as you grow your firm rather than limit your potential or overcomplicate operations.

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The Role of Predictive Analytics in Subscription Revenue Software

Billing Platform

When forecasting subscription software revenue, do you find it a time-consuming process that never quite hits the mark? What if you had the ability to forecast revenue with precision? Now you can! Combining predictive analytics with subscription revenue software is a growing discipline. It’s rapidly being adopted by subscription management organizations!

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Tipalti Secures $150 Million in Growth Financing

Insightful Accountant

The funding, from JPMorgan Chase Bank and Hercules Capital, will continue its growth and product innovation. In addition, the company names three new executive team additions.

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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.