Technology

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February 9, 2018 

Be Relentless in the Pursuit of Change

Has your firm started the transformation to advisory services? If not, in the not so distant future you will be too behind to catch up. That sounds harsh, but it’s better to face the reality that soon the gap will be so wide that your options for ...

Arianna Campbell

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February 8, 2018 

Why Bother with Project Accounting?

While standard financial accounting is essential for the health of your business, project accounting helps drive the success of individual engagements. Project accounting is more about the details – and viability – of every single active and inactive ...

 Keynote Speakers Announced for AICPA Engage

February 8, 2018 

Keynote Speakers Announced for AICPA Engage

Two conferences have been added to the AICPA ENGAGE lineup this year – the EDGE Career Development Conference, designed for standout young CPAs, and the CPA Firm Management Association’s National Practice Management Conference – bringing the total ...

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February 8, 2018 

EY Launches New Advanced Portal System EY Interact

The EY Americas Tax practice today launched EY Interact, the firm’s new program that provides real-time access and visibility to tax engagements. While collaboration portals exist, EY Interact gives clients one site to access all of their work products and engagement data, and to receive personalized alerts and secure document sharing across their EY tax...…

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February 7, 2018 

721 Sales Tax Rates Changed in 2017

According to the annual year-end tax rate study issued by Vertex Inc., a tax technology provider, there were 721 total US sales tax rate changes in 2017, a substantial increase of 29.21 percent from the 558 changes that occurred in 2016.

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February 7, 2018 

Avalara CRUSH DC Keynote Features Gartner Analyst

Avalara CRUSH will also include an expanded Developer Track, covering everything from the basics of calculating tax using AvaTax to building connectors for enterprise-level organizations. Avalara has added nearly double last year’s number of ...

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February 7, 2018 

The 2018 Payment Technology Checklist: 5 Trends to Watch

With a new year comes new resolutions, disruptors and trends. This will especially ring true in the payments space, which boasts one of the biggest growth markets in the world - fintech. Research estimates that global fintech solution usage is ...

 10 Ways Boardrooms are Tackling Risk in 2018

February 6, 2018 

10 Ways Boardrooms are Tackling Risk in 2018

Looking to the year ahead, the organization WomenCorporateDirectors convened top global corporate directors in its EMEA and Asia Institutes this fall, and, from those and other discussions, identified ten ways boards are seeking to mitigate risk today.

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February 6, 2018 

5 Qualities to Differentiate Your Accounting Firm

The days of thinking that “process” is something that only low-level staff and administrative staff work on are over. Those days should’ve been over ten years ago, but they’re definitely over today. In future-ready firms, process is a core strategic ...

Dustin Hostetler

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February 6, 2018 

Xero Partners with Stripe for Integrated ACH Transfers

Xero, a provider of small business accounting and management solutions, has partnered with Stripe, enabling Xero customers to accept Automated Clearing House (ACH) bank transfers. With the availability of ACH payments, Xero’s more than 1.2 million ...