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Maximize Profits With Smart Pricing And Strategic Plating

SLC Bookkeeping

In the dynamic and competitive restaurant business world, two essential elements play a significant role in captivating customers: smart pricing and food plating.

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Sales tax nexus vs. income tax nexus

Accounting Today

If you have clients with businesses in multiple states, product or service sales in different states, or employees in other states, they need to know a thing or two about nexus.

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Intuit Named to FIDO Alliance Board in Recognition of Passwordless Authentication Standards Leadership

Intuit

Every day, our employees set out to solve customer problems and deliver seamless experiences, propelled by our AI-driven expert platform strategy and mission to power prosperity around the world. Part of delivering on this means delivering industry-leading customer experiences for more than 100 million consumer and small business customers with Intuit TurboTax , Credit Karma , QuickBooks , and Mailchimp.

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Streamlining Financial Processes: How Client Accounting Services Drive Efficiency

Accounting Department

Efficient financial processes are essential for the success and growth of any business. However, managing tasks like invoicing, payroll management, and financial reporting can be time-consuming and complex, diverting valuable resources from core operations.

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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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5 tips to get the best out of apps at Xerocon

Xero

Xerocon is fast approaching: the best forum to hear about the latest innovations within Xero, get inspired and connect with other accountants and bookkeepers. Plus, with more than 70 app partners from the Xero ecosystem exhibiting at Xerocon Sydney on 23-24 August, it’s also the best opportunity you’ll have all year to connect with and learn about apps that can take your practice to the next level.

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IRS issues guidance on Medicare drug pricing tax

Accounting Today

The Internal Revenue Service and the Treasury Department said Friday they will be issuing rules for prescription drug makers and importers about a new tax imposed by a provision in last year's Inflation Reduction Act to allow Medicare to negotiate on the prices of many medications.

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Is it Time for an Outsourced Bookkeeper?

Accounting Department

Some business decisions are obvious. Others can seem like 50/50 propositions that make doing nothing a good third option. Deciding what to do about your bookkeeping, fortunately, is not a dilemma when you know what to factor into your considerations. So, how can you determine whether you would be better off with outsourced bookkeeping services or continuing it onsite at this stage of your growth?

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Why Does Your Home Healthcare Service Need Monthly Accounting?

CSI Accounting & Payroll

When you own a home healthcare practice, such as senior care or disability care, you're often dealing with small profit margins. If you run into even a moderate problem at the wrong time, that can mean big trouble for your business. You might be surprised to hear that your accounting strategy can make all the difference. Most small businesses have an administrative employee handle bookkeeping as a side task, then outsource annual taxes to an accountant.

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IRS starts 'paperless processing' initiative

Accounting Today

The Internal Revenue Service hopes to process all of the tax correspondence, notice responses and non-tax forms it receives digitally in the next two years in an effort to reduce the amount of time-consuming paper it receives in the mail.

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Can ChatGPT Comply with Accounting Rules?

Insightful Accountant

New Oracle NetSuite white paper not only provides a guide for CFOs about the topics of AI and Machine Learning, but also evaluates ChatGPT. Read our summary of how ChatGPT explained ASC 842 compliance.

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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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Chat with PDFs using ChatGPT & OpenAI GPT API - A Detailed Tutorial

Nanonets

In this blog post, we explore Language Learning Models (LLMs) and their astounding ability to chat with PDF files. To start, we will show you how to chat with PDF files via the ChatGPT website. Next, we dive into a detailed code tutorial on how to chat with all kinds of PDF files. After that, we build our first automation to automate a repetitive task involving PDFs using ChatGPT API.

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Healthcare Accounting Services Provide Security for Your Practice

CSI Accounting & Payroll

More and more medical groups, including small practices and home healthcare, are outsourcing accountants for expanded services. Why? Regardless of how small it is, a medical practice is a business and needs to turn a profit to operate and grow. However, not all accountants or forms of accounting are created equal. Finding the right fit for your practice is a crucial step in the process.

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Small-business wage and job growth slowed in July

Accounting Today

Hourly earnings growth for small business employees declined 0.07% to 3.95% and fell below 4% for the first time in more than two years, while hiring also moderated, according to Paychex.

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QuickBooks Enterprise Advanced Features – Reference List

Insightful Accountant

Looking for a quick way to find reference articles within Insightful Accountant related to QuickBooks Enterprise Advanced features? Well, Murph has gathered a list of the most read articles regarding each feature.

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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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6 Tips to Solve Scope Creep in Your Service-Based Business

Brigade

If you run a service-based business, you may be familiar with the term “scope creep” which is essentially a stream of change requests that come from clients either during or after project delivery. This can be a major challenge for many reasons, not the least of which being your profit margin!

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The Ultimate Guide To Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) Pricing

CloudZero

Google Cloud released Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) as a commercial version of native Kubernetes (K8s). GKE promises a user-friendly, reliable, and cost-effective service. Yet, calculating GKE costs can be daunting, including how to understand what you're paying for and how to maximize your return on investment.

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CAQ pushes back against PCAOB NOCLAR proposal

Accounting Today

The Center for Audit Quality is spearheading an effort to convince the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board to water down a proposed update in the standards for auditors to be on the lookout for fraud and other signs of noncompliance with laws and regulations.

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Canopy Expands its AI-driven Capabilities

Insightful Accountant

With its new Canopy Insights, the account management software provider advances its practice management analytics with AI-Driven custom query and reporting capabilities.

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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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Fixed asset accounting

Accounting Tools

Related Courses Accounting for Intangible Assets Fixed Asset Accounting How to Audit Fixed Assets How to Account for Fixed Assets A fixed asset is an item having a useful life that spans multiple reporting periods, and whose cost exceeds a certain minimum limit (called the capitalization limit ). There are several accounting transactions to record for fixed assets, which are noted below.

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4 Ways SaaS Brands Evolved Their Pricing Strategy Using Cost Intelligence

CloudZero

One powerful way SaaS companies can balance their own costs while still providing plenty of value to their customers is to be strategic about pricing tiers and payment plans.

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IRS cracks down on monetized installment sale transactions

Accounting Today

The Internal Revenue Service and the Treasury want to curb the use of some types of monetized installment sale transactions by listing them as potentially abusive tax dodges.

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How to Ensure Long-term Lease Accounting Success

Insightful Accountant

A new webinar by LeaseCrunch will help guide attendees through preparing for the next chapter of ASC 842 lease accounting implementation. See how to sign up today.

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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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Types of accounting functions

Accounting Tools

Related Courses Bookkeeping Guidebook CFO Guidebook New Controller Guidebook There are several types of functions fulfilled by the accounting department within a business. These accounting functions are noted below. Financial Accounting The financial accounting group records accounting transactions and converts the resulting information into financial statements.

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Billing Software: What You Need to Know

Billing Platform

Described as software that enables companies to, at its most basic level, generate and send invoices, collect payments, and calculate taxes – billing software is now capable of so much more. Regardless of whether you run a small and-medium sized business (SMB), a large enterprise, or something in between – implementing the right billing solution enables you to drive operational efficiencies, reduce errors, and boost profitability.

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Less than 1% of firms can find enough staff

Accounting Today

CPA firms are resorting to strategies like hiring workers abroad, raising starting salaries, offering fully remote jobs, and hiring staff who haven't graduated college.

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QB Talks is All About Top 100 from Our List-makers

Insightful Accountant

Join Murph and Gary on Wednesday, Aug. 16, at 2 p.m. (EST) as they visit with members of the 2023 Top 100 and Categorical Awards.

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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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The asset conversion cycle

Accounting Tools

Related Courses Bookkeeper Education Bundle Bookkeeping Guidebook What is the Asset Conversion Cycle? The asset conversion cycle is the process by which cash is used to create goods and services, deliver them to customers, and then collect the resulting receivables and convert them back into cash. The nature of this cycle determines the extent to which a business has either a net cash inflow or outflow.

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AI Accounting

Tipalti

From invoice processing to supplier onboarding, learn how AI is revolutionizing accounting. We’ll walk through AI accounting use cases, software, and how to start using AI today.

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Hacker and rapper wife plead guilty in crypto laundering

Accounting Today

One of the most enduring mysteries in cryptocurrency was resolved when Ilya Lichtenstein acknowledged that he executed the 2016 attack on the Bitfinex exchange.

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To Save or Not to Save.Americans Show Some Regret Over Question

Insightful Accountant

According to a Bankrate study, 74% of Americans have a financial regret, most frequently not saving for retirement early enough

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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.