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What does psychological safety mean, anyway?

Atlassian

Subscribe to Work Life Get stories like this in your inbox Subscribe. 5-Second summary. Psychologically safe work environments allow team members to feel that they can safely take calculated risks without fear of repercussions. A lack of psychological safety may deter people from speaking up about mistakes, knowledge gaps, or potential problems. When working remotely, you can promote psychological safety by being intentional about scheduling one-on-one meetings, asking open-ended questions, mode

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How FP&A Teams Can Tame Cloud Costs: 4 KPIs For Success

CloudZero

At a growing SaaS company, cloud costs can change dramatically from month to month depending on the software you’re building, the number of customers you have, and how products are performing.

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SAP Ariba Integration: How IPS Helps Make the Most of Your Investment

IPS

It’s tempting to think that deploying SAP Ariba will solve all your invoice processing problems. But it doesn’t take long to realize that you might need a bit more help.

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New Tax Laws for 2022 - Venmo, PayPal, Cash App, Etc.

Stephanie Peterson

Due to the American Rescue Plan, which was established last year, payment app providers like Venmo, PayPal, CashApp, etc. are all now required to issue you a Form 1099-K and report your earnings to the IRS for all business transactions of a combined total of $600 or more per year. This new law was created to make it tougher for someone to evade paying taxes they owe on business-related transactions.

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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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Agile transformations with measurable impacts? Jira Align does that!

Atlassian

Subscribe to Work Life Get stories about tech and teams in your inbox Subscribe. The true cost of an agile transformation can be hard to measure, boiling down to a combination of process, people, and tools. As soon as an organization discovers a better way of working, the investments begin. First, you have to decide which framework or methodology works best for your teams; then, you spend time researching and getting buy-in, setting the stage for the cultural change required to adopt new ways of

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What Is Cloud Cost Optimization? 15+ Best Practices For 2022

CloudZero

As companies increasingly build in the cloud, cost optimization has become a major issue for many engineering teams. While cloud providers like AWS offer flexibility and easy scalability, cloud costs are often opaque and difficult to track.

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What Happens If You Don’t Do Bookkeeping?

Billah and Associates

Accounting and bookkeeping are among all organizations’ most un-most loved activities. It may very well be enticing to hold back on your business accounting and heap it up until the furthest date of the tax season, just to complete it in a rush when the cutoff time is around the corner. That isn’t the method for maintaining a business! That’s when people start looking for bookkeeping services in Toronto to keep them in line with the taxation process.

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3 ways a partner ecosystem helps your SaaS business grow

Atlassian

5-second summary. As a volume-based business – that is, one that is oriented around selling as many units as possible – you can’t cover every corner of the market or every use case yourself. So don’t bother trying. For SaaS companies that are using the flywheel model, partnering with other organizations on sales, integrations, and add-ons is the best way to attract and satisfy customers who have unique needs.

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8 Issues With AWS Tags And How To Overcome Them For Good

CloudZero

AWS resource tagging is fundamental for effective cloud cost management. By creating and allocating cost-related tags in AWS, you can organize and manage your resources according to keys and values that make sense to you. This helps you better understand your cloud costs and manage your spending.

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Middle Market Data Uncovers Prevalent Industrial Warehousing Trend

AvidXchange

While the pandemic changed a number of industries in profound and unprecedented ways, you’d be hard-pressed to find an industry more radically transformed than real estate. Reconfiguration of the residential and commercial real estate space has been widely covered, but AvidXchange’s AvidIndex, which analyzes millions of payments made across the AvidPay Network each quarter, showed an interesting trend emerging in the industrial warehousing sector.

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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 Do You Get Started in FinOps?

Azure FinOps

This post is about getting started with FinOps or, more specifically, how to cultivate a cloud optimization point of view and the obstacles you’re likely to face. If you’re interested in starting a FinOps practice within your organization, this is for you. FinOps Personas from the FinOps Foundation We’ve reached an interesting point in the still unfolding cloud era.

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The next chapter of cloud compliance

Atlassian

Subscribe to Work Life Get stories about tech and teams in your inbox Subscribe. Cybercrime has dramatically increased during the pandemic, with businesses suffering 50% more cyberattack attempts per week in 2021 compared with 2020. With more and more organizations moving to the cloud, organized crime groups have also evolved their operating tactics to take advantage of the digital revolution, hiring and recruiting hackers to engineer attacks and steal valuable data from organizations across the

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Important Cryptocurrency Tax Rules (Bitcoin & Etc.)

Stephanie Peterson

Do you own any cryptocurrencies? If so, it is wise to stay on top of tax laws and regulations that may impact your crypto investments. Will you need to pay taxes on your crypto? Due to the fact that the IRS classifies crypto as a capital asset (a significant piece of property), you will owe taxes when you sell crypto and make a profit. Similar to more traditional investments, such as stocks traded at a gain.

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HOA Management Group, AP Manager Both Grow Using Automation

AvidXchange

For years, accounts payable (AP) automation wasn’t a consideration for Agynbyte LLC , a leading community association management company based in Bellevue, Washington. The AP department was happy with its in-house practices, and the company was enjoying steady growth. Then, Agynbyte acquired a local condominium management company with 25 associations leveraging AvidStrongroom from AvidXchange.

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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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How Do You Get Started in FinOps?

Azure FinOps

This post is about getting started with FinOps or, more specifically, how to cultivate a cloud optimization point of view and the obstacles you’re likely to face. If you’re interested in starting a FinOps practice within your organization, this is for you. FinOps Personas from the FinOps Foundation We’ve reached an interesting point in the still unfolding cloud era.

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The How Of Being Intentional

Earmark Accounting Podcast

Sign up to get free CPE for listening to this podcast: [link] Download the Earmark CPE App: Apple: [link] Android: [link] Guests Andrea MacDonald, CPA: [link] Owner, Pro Tax & Accounting | Accredited Business Intermediary | Fractional Chief Financial Officer for Spike's K9 Fund Learn more about Andrea's firm, Pro Tax & Accounting: Official website: [link] Twyla Verhelst, CPA: [link] Head of FreshBooks Accountant Channel & Leader of the Accounting Partner Program | Creator of the Wo

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The New Normal in Accounting: The Digital Client Experience Imperative

Dext

The COVID-19 crisis has led to dramatic shifts in how accountants and bookkeepers work with their clients. Accountants will have to work harder to meet the ever-evolving client experience requirements in order to win and remain relevant. The race to become a digital practice has arguably already been run.

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Fight Against Inflation Proves to be Complicated

NACM

Inflation rose to 7.5% last month, exceeding the 40-year-high record set in December. Typically, the Federal Reserve would raise interest rates to offset inflation. However, nothing about current inflation levels is typical."There's a confluence of factors …," David Wessel, the director of the Hutchins Center on Fiscal and Monetary Policy at the Br.

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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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Ep. 170: Alissa Vickery - Purpose Driven Leaders

IMA's Count Me

Contact Alissa Vickery: [link] References and Resources for Alissa Vickery and Leadership: [link] [link] [link] [link] [link] [link] [link] [link] [link] [link] FULL EPISODE TRANSCRIPT: Adam: (00:05) Welcome back to Count Me In, IMA's podcast about all things affecting the accounting and finance world. This is your host, Adam Larson, and we are now starting episode 170 of our series.

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Client Data Security: Best Practices to Protect Your Firm and Clients

Earmark Accounting Podcast

Sign up to get free CPE for listening to this podcast: [link] Download the Earmark CPE App: Apple: [link] Android: [link] Client Data Security: Best Practices to Protect Your Firm from Serious Threats [link] Connect with Our Guest, Byron Patrick LinkedIn: [link] Twitter: [link] Learn more about Botkeeper Website: [link] Connect with Blake Oliver, CPA LinkedIn: [link] Twitter: [link] According to a report from 2021, some 42 percent of business and professional services organizations suffered

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Timesheets Cause Accountants To Flee Profession

Cloud Accounting Podcast

Sponsors OnPay: [link] Synder: [link] FreshBooks: [link] Need CPE? Subscribe to the Earmark Accounting Podcast: [link] Get CPE for listening to podcasts with Earmark CPE: [link] Show Notes . We've also got updates on the IRS "facelift" that fell flat, some big raises, some app news, and much more! 02:44 – IRS backs away from facial recognition [link] 04:26 – IRS To Ditch Biometric Requirement for Online Access [link] 06:33 – A Guide to Completing Your Organizer This Tax Season [link] 11

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Protests Along U.S. and Canadian Border May Result in Multi-Million Dollar Loss

NACM

Protests along Ambassador Bridge, the busiest international crossing on the U.S. and Canadian border, could lead to shipping delays and more inflation, according to Morning in America. The fallout from these protests could land a major impact to the U.S. supply chain in particular.Both governments have indicated the automotive industry and agricult.

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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