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How the founder of DS Business Support fell in love with bookkeeping

Xero

A person’s career path doesn’t necessarily travel in a straight line. There can be twists, turns and unexpected junctures in which you find yourself enamoured with a field you never considered before. This was the case for Marykate McAndrew, founder of DS Business Support. Here, Marykate tells us about her journey from hair salon owner to founding her own bookkeeping business, and how Xero is helping DS Business Support best serve its clients.

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IRS continued to delay business tax refunds from pandemic

Accounting Today

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Helpful Google Cloud customer success stories and cost optimization advice

FinOps in Practice

While no one will be surprised by today’s growth in the cloud and the investment and the costs businesses are putting toward cloud usage, the statistics are telling. A newly released report , “Cloud Computing Market Research Report by Workload, Service Model, Infrastructure, Solution, Organization Size, Industry, Deployment model, Region” conducted a global forecast through to 2027, keeping the impact of COVID-19 in mind.

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4 accounts payable tips for small businesses

AP Association

Accounts payable is an essential component of any small business's accounting processes. Your business's accounts payable department maintains a record of all the money you owe to suppliers and other creditors. A well-functioning accounts payable department will help you ensure that you pay any money you owe to other individuals or businesses as promptly as possible and in line with any payment arrangements you might have with individual creditors.

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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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Product wrap from Xerocon Sydney 2022

Xero

Any way you slice it, the past two years have tested us all. None more so than you all — our valued accounting and bookkeeping partners — who have helped your clients navigate a digital acceleration and shift their business models to survive (and thrive). . Today at Xerocon Sydney , we were able to celebrate what we can achieve when we work together to support small businesses across Australia and New Zealand.

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IRS exposed about 120K people's information online

Accounting Today

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The Right Car (Or Cloud Service) For Your Family (Or Work) Adventures

CloudZero

Managing gas bills has a lot in common with managing cloud spend. In the summer, our gas bill increased with our summer adventures. Sitting home with the kids out of school and the warm summer months was not an option.

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Cash flow crunch: The red flags impacting small business cash flow

Xero

It’s so fantastic to bring Xerocon back to Sydney. Having the opportunity to meet and connect with partners from Australia, New Zealand and Asia has been really great – and we’re only just getting started! I’m looking forward to two full days of keynotes, breakouts and partner sessions – and, of course, the Xerocon wrap party at Luna Park! . Today, I am thrilled to launch part two of our Xero Small Business Insights special report Crunch: Cash flow challenges facing small businesses.

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Tax lessons from Charlie Sheen

Accounting Today

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6 Ways to Build a More Effective SaaS Finance Team

Sage Intacct

If they're being honest with themselves, any successful SaaS company will probably admit that their CFO had a large hand in their good fortune.

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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 Productivity Without Increasing Headcount

AvidXchange

The construction industry has the potential to boost its value by an impressive $1.6 trillion, but companies also face mounting pressures to stay competitive while keeping tight control of rising costs. Manual processes are no longer cutting it, and any organization hoping to reach that potential needs to adopt efficiencies that will enable them to do more work in less time without tacking on a ton of extra overhead.

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Three key takeaways from our Xerocon Sydney blockchain session

Xero

When it comes to understanding practical opportunities for up and coming decentralised technologies like blockchain, cryptocurrencies and smart contracts – there’s a lot to take in. Add in the potential challenges that businesses might have incorporating these offerings in the future, it’s no surprise that there are more questions than answers among our community.

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IRS approving most NOL carryback claims with little vetting

Accounting Today

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Rising Paper Statement Costs and the Switch to Mobile Patient Payments [Infographic]

SSI Healthcare Rev Cycle Solutions

Rising Paper Statement Costs and the Switch to Mobile Patient Payments [Infographic]. September 9, 2022. The infographic below explores what’s causing the significant increase in the cost of paper statements, and how switching to a mobile patient payment platform can positively impact your organization. Has your cost to run paper patient statements significantly increased in the past six months?

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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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Collection Process Control Best Practices: How to Improve the Control of the Collection Process

Gaviti

The collection process significantly impacts cash flow at your business. Is it any wonder financial professionals spend so much of their time monitoring and controlling it? Over time, this has led to a set of accounting control best practices. These efforts at collection control have yielded the best results for organizations around the world. Before applying them, remember that each business is different.

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Partnering with Cogo to help small businesses take positive climate action

Xero

Part of Xero’s approach to sustainability includes helping our partners, customers and other small businesses on their sustainability journey, by providing education and resources about how to operate in socially and environmentally responsible ways. We’ve heard from small businesses that they want to operate more sustainably, but many don’t know where to start.

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Xero releases carbon footprint tracking app

Accounting Today

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Operational Excellence: Move Payroll to the Cloud

dynavistics

Achieving Operational Excellence : Moving Payroll to the Cloud. During the past couple of decades, an increasing number of business applications began moving to the cloud. Driven by a combination of lower costs, increased computing power, and faster connections, cloud-based platforms became a cost-effective way to support a growing organization. As with any emerging technology, however, there were some holdouts.

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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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Start Using Azure Reservations!

Azure FinOps

We’re now at a point in the still unfolding history of cloud computing when serious questions are being asked about cost which has led to the rise of FinOps as a practice area. Only a few years ago, during what we might call the ‘gold rush’ phase, large organizations, once they moved past ‘no cloud’ policies, adopted what was essentially a no cost too high phase.

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Simplifying people processes in the changing world of work

Xero

Today, we launched our Changing world of work reports for Australia and New Zealand. Through this research, conducted in partnership with Lonergan Research, we found that managing employee processes is negatively impacting the mental health of almost half of Australian employers and more than a third of New Zealand employers. The reports shine a light on the workforce challenges that your clients face, the workplace experiences of their employees, and the critical role of technology in this chan

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PwC partners with Monitaur to advance AI ethics

Accounting Today

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Dunning Process: How Do You Know What’s Working or Not

Gaviti

When run correctly, your dunning process will capture lost revenue and ensure clients pay on time. It’s a standard accounts receivable process that every company will need to contend with at some point. Unfortunately, this is one area where many companies struggle. Although simple on paper, a dunning process can be surprisingly complex, and it’s often difficult to tell which aspects are working and which aren’t.

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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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Start Using Azure Reservations!

Azure FinOps

We’re now at a point in the still unfolding history of cloud computing when serious questions are being asked about cost which has led to the rise of FinOps as a practice area. Only a few years ago, during what we might call the ‘gold rush’ phase, large organizations, once they moved past ‘no cloud’ policies, adopted what was essentially a no cost too high phase.

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That’s a wrap at Xerocon Sydney

Xero

Today, we wrapped up Xerocon Sydney, the third and final Xerocon for this year. Over the last two days we have come together with over 3,000 of our Aussie, Kiwi and Asia-based accounting and bookkeeping partners, app partners and Xeros to get inspired, to learn and most importantly to reunite as a community. It’s been three years since our last Xerocon in this part of the world and we enjoyed every minute of being together again.

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Accounting firms react to passing of Queen Elizabeth

Accounting Today

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Developing a Cutting Edge Sales Tax Practice for Ecommerce

Earmark Accounting Podcast

Thanks to Our Sponsors! Accountests: [link] Dark Horse CPAs: [link] Sign up to get free CPE for listening to this podcast [link] Download the Earmark CPE App Apple: [link] Android: [link] Connect with Our Guests Brittany Brown: [link] Kexin Smith: [link] Learn more about LedgerGurus [link] LedgerGurus University [link] Connect with Blake Oliver, CPA LinkedIn: [link] Twitter: [link] Learn how to build a productive and profitable sales tax practice for your accounting firm from Brittany Brown an

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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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Ep. 198: Leah Wietholter – Following the money with a forensic accountant

IMA's Count Me

Connect with Leah Workman Forensics Full Episode Transcript Adam: Welcome to Count Me In, the podcast that explores the world of business from a management accountants perspective. My cohost Rouba Zeidan spoke with our special guest Leah Wietholter. Leah is a certified fraud examiner and the author of the new book Data Sleuth: Using Data in Forensic Accounting Engagements and Fraud Investigations.

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10 song titles reworked for accountants

Accounting Fun

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Marcum and Friedman complete merger

Accounting Today

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Women–Owned Small Business and Federal Contracting

SMB Accounting and Consulting

by Chris Poponak – SMB Government Compliance Analyst. According to Samson Haileyesus (smallbiztrends.com,) women entrepreneurs own nearly half of all business enterprises in the United States. These same businesswomen employ almost nine-and-a-half million workers, and they generate nearly two trillion dollars in revenue across all industries. Also, according to Haileyesus, “most women-owned firms are small businesses with the top employment industries being health care; accommodation and food se

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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.