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Xero announces CEO succession, Sukhinder Singh Cassidy appointed

Xero

I’m pleased to let you know t hat today we announced the appointment of Sukhinder Singh Cassidy as Xero’s new CEO, on 1 February 2023. Sukhinder will succeed Steve Vamos who after serving almost five years as CEO, is retiring from the role and plans t o return to his previous portfolio in business coaching and leadership development as an advisor, director and investor.

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Artificial intelligence needs more intelligence

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How avoiding unrestricted traffic & security issues is possible with an access control model based on AWS IAM

FinOps in Practice

With so many different individuals across your organization dabbling in the cloud and making adjustments, it can be difficult to track, manage and secure. It can also present challenges to the already complicated process of cloud cost management and cloud optimization. User rights are a key piece to the puzzle, allowing you to assign different hierarchies so that only individuals who are meant to be within one facet or project within your cloud space have access to it.

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The Quest For Sunken Treasure: Top-Down Vs. Bottom-Up Cloud Cost Allocation

CloudZero

High-quality cloud cost allocation has become an existential issue for businesses. In order to get as much out of their ( mounting ) cloud investments as possible, business leaders need to know how much they’re spending in the cloud, what/who they’re spending it on, and whether there’s a good reason for it.

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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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Xero’s half year 2023 financial results

Xero

Today we announced Xero’s half year financial results to 30 September 2022 (H1 FY23). . Xero continued to deliver strong growth momentum with more small businesses placing their trust in our cloud technology and open platform to run their business and meet critical compliance needs. . Our H1 FY23 performance highlights include operating revenue growing 30% (27% in constant currency) to $658.5 million, total customer lifetime value increasing 30% to $13 billion, and subscribers up 16% to 3.5 mill

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New filing season presents new risks to accountants

Accounting Today

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The Unit Economics Journey: Cost Considerations At Each Venture Stage

CloudZero

Just as there are a handful of stages to describe the financial journey from startup to established company — pre-seed and seed funding, followed by series A, B, and C funding — there are also stages to the process of achieving a healthy understanding of your costs. We at CloudZero like to call these cost intelligence maturity stages “crawl,” “walk,” and “run.”.

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Xero Awards UK & Ireland: How to craft a winning award entry

Xero

Entries for the UK and Ireland Xero Awards 2023 are now open for our accounting, bookkeeping and app partners. Being an award-winning firm isn’t easy, and neither is writing an award-winning entry. So how can you put your best foot forward when crafting your award submission? In season one of Beyond Numbers – our new podcast for accountants and bookkeepers – we spoke to Pam Phillips, founder and managing director of award-winning small firm de Jong Phillips , who shared her advice on not just be

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20 Days to a Better Firm: Top tips for recruiting and retention

Accounting Today

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What’s the Best AP Software for Your Business? 5 Top Vendors Compared

Plooto

There’s the adage, “Life is expensive when you don’t know accounting.” An accounts payable software solution that’s not right for your business can also cost you dearly: inefficient workflows, high monthly fees, too advanced or too few features, to name a few.

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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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How to Increase Forecast Accuracy with Automated Forecasting

Sage Intacct

Forecasting accurately across long periods is an indispensable skill for SaaS finance and RevOps departments. The further you can reliably forecast, the clearer your picture of your company's financial health will be.

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Prepare for Making Tax Digital for Income Tax with Xero’s ITSA Academy

Xero

From April 2024, self-employed people and landlords earning over £10,000 annually, will need to follow Making Tax Digital for Income Tax Self Assessment (MTD for ITSA) rules. . As an accountant or bookkeeper, you will need to prepare yourself, your clients, and your practice for these changes. Xero’s 3-step ITSA academy has been designed specifically to help you prepare.

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IRS's draft K-2 and K-3 instructions detail domestic filing exception

Accounting Today

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What to Say When Collecting Past Due Invoices

Enterprise Recovery

When it's your job to collect past-due invoices, what you say matters. And what you say will depend on your state of mind when you type the email or get on the phone. How you come across to your clients, especially when they're long-term business-to-business relationships, will determine how they react to you, your demands, or any negotiation tactics.

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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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10 QuickBooks Tips 2023: How to use it effectively

CapActix

Whether you are a big corporate house or small startup organization , it is highly essential for businesses to perfectly record all the financial transactions. In this digital world, QuickBooks is a comprehensive bookkeeping and accounting software that is helping numerous businesses to smoothly record their finances. QuickBooks accounting software is highly popular and loaded with numerous features – from bank integration to bookkeeping services.

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How Machine Learning Enhances Your Business Process Automation Software

NextProcess

More and more companies recognize the value of business process automation (BPA) software. If a business doesn’t already have some form of digitization and automation to help streamline their financial processes like accounts payable and purchasing, then there’s a good chance they already have plans to digitize. Now, companies are less likely to question whether using BPA software is a good idea.

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IRS still coping with millions of unprocessed tax returns

Accounting Today

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Improving the Customer Experience for Your Accounting Firm by Saving Time with Automation

Analytix Finance & Accounting

The earliest forms of accounting date back to ancient Mesopotamia. In those times, ruling leaders trusted and highly regarded individuals who oversaw financial matters. Today, accounting is a significant field with millions of CPAs in the world and a shift to the customer experience. Nowadays, individuals who pay for a service want the best experience possible as they know they can take their business virtually anywhere.

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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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5 Benefits of Accounts Payable (AP) Automation

AvidXchange

Accounts payable (AP) automation is a technology solution that accounting teams use to convert paper invoices into a digital format and then automate the process of organizing within the system, routing approvals, coding and executing payments. The digital tool can be used alongside an organization’s preferred accounting software, leading to increased productivity.

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Choosing the right software for your finance team

Spenmo

In an ever-changing business environment, we understand that adopting technological practices for your finance team requires great due diligence and may come at a hefty cost. Stats have proven that about 66% of finance teams find their daily tasks highly laborious and manual in nature, which take up much of their time and focus. So choosing the right software to help them relieve their workload and undoubtedly improve your team’s productivity, which in turn brings long-term benefits to the compa

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ACCA appoints next global president

Accounting Today

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Benefits of Not Doing Your Own Payroll

SLC Bookkeeping

As a small business owner, figuring out ways to save on expenses is a constant battle. There are some ways this works and others that don't. Do-it-yourself payroll is one place you might want to avoid cutting costs. In the old days, the owner could simply grab some cash from the drawer and pay employees. Some small businesses just write a check and assume the payroll is all done!

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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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AWS Billing Conductor and CloudCheckr: How They Compare

CloudCheckr

Billing for Cloud Resources: Understanding Your Needs and Available Solutions Billing for or allocating cloud usage across a large set of customers within an enterprise is an essential part of delivering a cloud services business or managing cloud costs internally. Managed Service Providers (MSPs) make a living reselling cloud resources and need to create invoices for their clients.

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8 Steps to Avoid Duplicate Payments

MineralTree

Duplicate payments are a huge headache for accounts payable departments and their vendors. For AP teams, they lead to wasted time and money and strained supplier relationships. But in order to eliminate the potential of duplicate payments, your organization must understand where they come from and how they occur. Let’s take a look at the steps AP departments can take to avoid duplicate payments and improve AP efficiencies across the organization.

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Great client service is everyone's responsibility

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How Automated Forecasting is Revolutionizing Hiring Practices

Sage Intacct

For any business, hiring is simultaneously one of the most important but also one of the trickiest business tasks. That becomes even more the case when navigating a market downturn like the one we’re currently experiencing–and SaaS companies are not immune.

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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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Why are Real Estate Firms Turning to AP Automation to Weather a Potential Recession?

AvidXchange

Real estate management firms are bracing for what could be a tumultuous time ahead. The current economic environment has businesses across industries tightening their belts and looking for ways to future-proof amidst growing uncertainty. To understand how businesses are navigating a potential recession, we surveyed 500 middle market professionals in August 2022 to see how organizations are responding to these uncertain times.

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The Challenges of Accounts Payable

Spenmo

The Top 5 Challenges of Accounts Payable and its Solutions How do you get the most value out of payments while addressing challenges like inefficiency, lack of spend optimisation, out-of-policy spending, and compliance issues? And worse, these are only some of the many account payable challenges mentioned, where there are, in fact, many more that lies beyond.

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Art of Accounting: Solution to oppressive tax season hours

Accounting Today

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How to establish and drive a forecasting culture

AWS FinOps

In part two of our forecasting blog series, we’re going to explore how you can establish a cost forecasting culture in your organization. As budgeting season kicks off (or maybe you’re already in it), typical forecasting challenges become magnified when projecting future cloud costs. Without a robust forecasting governance mechanism, the flexibility of decentralized cloud infrastructure ownership can result in siloed forecasts and limited understanding, especially as thousands of workloads are r

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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.