Accounting

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March 6, 2017 

Accounting Power

Other accounting solutions were created primarily for small businesses and are sold directly to them, claiming to make accounting easier for them. Accountants are their secondary users, and are mainly important as a marketing channel. Accounting Power is the first cloud-based accounting system created exclusively for YOU – the accounting professional – to give you...…

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March 6, 2017 

68% of Small Businesses Lack Disaster Plan

While most small-business owners don’t have a formal plan, many have taken various steps to prepare for a natural disaster. The majority reported that they can work remotely in case of a natural disaster (82 percent), have duplicated and stored their ...

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March 6, 2017 

How Retailers Can Take Advantage of Amazon’s Weaknesses

Major opportunities for retailers exist with younger shoppers — 76% of digitally native 18-24 year olds make less than half of purchases on Amazon. This group prefers in-store shopping and a seamless buying experience ...

 FloQast Appoints Akmaeva to VP Finance Position

March 3, 2017 

FloQast Appoints Akmaeva to VP Finance Position

Akmaeva has worked in the finance industry for more than a decade. Most recently, she served as corporate controller at TeleSign, a Los Angeles based software security company. In this capacity, Akmaeva managed the global consolidation, implementation ...

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March 2, 2017 

CRUSH Sales Tax Conference Heading to Austin May 2-3

The event brings together leaders in finance and technology who are enabling the strategic evolution of accounting, CRUSH offers attendees opportunities to learn, educate and network with hundreds of peers and experts.

 SEC Proposes Inline XBRL Filing of Tagged Data

March 1, 2017 

SEC Proposes Inline XBRL Filing of Tagged Data

The Securities and Exchange Commission today voted to propose amendments intended to improve the quality and accessibility of data submitted by public companies and mutual funds using eXtensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL).

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March 1, 2017 

Only 17% of Finance Team Time Spent on Strategic Activities

The CFO Indicator Q4 2016 report reveals that while 85% of CFOs say their teams have direct access to the financial and operational data needed to generate accurate reports, it is the non-value-added tasks—like data gathering, verifying accuracy, and ...

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March 1, 2017 

Making Sense of Travel and Expense Management in 2017

No matter what leads a company to embrace the latest technologies, those who do make the switch to T&E automation are generally pleasantly surprised with the outcome. We know this because we asked, and in the 2017 study the actual benefits companies reali