Technology

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September 9, 2016 

Hey Xero – New Chatbot For Accounting Users

The chatbot will have the capability to connect the more than 50 million small businesses who use Facebook Messenger every month into the wider Xero ecosystem, opening a new way for businesses to discover the cloud accounting platform and find the ...

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September 9, 2016 

Change Management in Accounting Firms

In today’s fast-paced, ever-changing environment, we must be prepared to pivot quickly. Doing things the way we’ve always done them just doesn’t work anymore. Author Alan Deutschman popularized the business catchphrase, “Change or Die.” And it’s truer than ever – remaining stagnant is a recipe for extinction. But we all know, saying you’re open to...…

Jim Boomer

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September 8, 2016 

SAP Enhances Revenue Accounting Platform for New Standards

SAP SE has enhanced its revenue accounting platform to help CFOs and chief accounting officers master the new IFRS 15/ASC 606 standards. These new accounting standards apply to all entities — public, private and not-for-profit — that have contracts ...

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September 7, 2016 

U.S. Cities Falling Behind on Competitiveness

U.S. cities are demonstrating strength in leading economic and social indicators, but are also revealing dimensions where they are falling behind as engines of global competition and urban well-being, according to PwC’s Cities of Opportunity 7.

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September 7, 2016 

Why Successful Accounting and Tax Firms Use Web Portals

Clients expect information be available when they need it, regardless of where they are and with no regard for your firm’s digital capabilities. To meet those demands and most importantly, to deliver or exchange documents in a secure manner ...

Don Emery

 Tax Preparers Take Center Stage in the Fight Against Tax Fraud

September 6, 2016 

Tax Preparers Take Center Stage in the Fight Against Tax Fraud

According to IRS Commissioner John Koskinen, the number of victims of tax-related identity theft dropped 48% in the first half of 2016, as compared to the first half of 2015. Further, the number of suspicious refunds that financial institutions ...

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September 5, 2016 

Epson Launches Two New Business Scanners

Both models offer easy one-touch scanning for users to directly save their files to folders, email and with Epson Document Capture software installed on a connected Windows PC or Mac, to online storage accounts including Dropbox, SharePoint, ...