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Don’t Forget to Empty Out Your Flexible Spending Account

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If you have a tax-saving flexible spending account (FSA) with your employer to help pay for health or dependent care expenses, there’s an important date coming up. You may have to use the money in the account by year-end or you’ll lose it (unless your employer has a grace period). This amount will be increasing to $3,200 in 2024.

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Disabled Family Members May Be Able to Benefit from ABLE Accounts

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It can be done though an Achieving a Better Life Experience (ABLE) account, which is a tax-free account that can be used for disability-related expenses. law made changes that will allow more people to be eligible for these accounts, beginning in 2026. Anyone can contribute to an ABLE account. The SECURE 2.0

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Evaluate Whether a Health Savings Account is Beneficial to You

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For eligible individuals, a Health Savings Account (HSA) offers a tax-favorable way to set aside funds (or have an employer do so) to meet future medical needs. The post Evaluate Whether a Health Savings Account is Beneficial to You appeared first on Roger Rossmeisl, CPA.

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Got Fraud? Call a Forensic Accountant

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If your business suspects fraud, engaging a forensic accountant to investigate, zero in on a perpetrator and gather evidence that can be used in court, is generally money well spent. Call a Forensic Accountant appeared first on Roger Rossmeisl, CPA. In fact, the faster fraud is found, the less your company is likely to lose.

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8 Signs Your Accounting Team Is Ready to Automate Month-End Close

Speaker: Nancy Wu, Head of Sales and Customer Success at SkyStem

How do you know if your accounting team is ready to automate the month-end close? Field of Study: Accounting. Join us in this informative webinar, where we share the top 8 signs that indicate that a team has outgrown all existing tools and may be ready to embark upon month-end close automation. Recommended CPE: 1 CPE.

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Accountants, IRS and DOJ hunt for fraud

Accounting Today

The Internal Revenue Service is warning taxpayers to be on the lookout for charity fraud as accountants look to advise clients on how to detect and avoid fraud.

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IMA certification aims to address accounting talent shortage

Accounting Today

The Institute of Management Accountants is rolling out a new Financial and Managerial Accounting Associate certification that requires no prerequisites like a college degree.

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Perfecting the Close Checklist

Speaker: Nancy Wu, Head of Sales and Customer Success at SkyStem

Field of Study: Accounting. Let’s rediscover the power of reconciling the balance sheet, the best way to approach the work, and the pitfalls to avoid when preparing or examining reconciliations. 1 CPE credit will be provided for qualifying participants. Recommended CPE: 1 CPE. Program Cost: $0. Program Knowledge Level: Overview.

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How Finance and Accounting Operations Fail to Scale Efficiently

Every company, no matter its size, must address its finance and accounting requirements. This guide looks at the finance function for companies at different stages, and the types of issues and challenges that they face when they fail to build agile, scalable accounting and finance operations from the start.

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Change Your Mindset: The Key to Growing Your Accounting Practice

Speaker: David Bergstein, Chief Innovation Officer at Bergstein CPA

In the accounting profession, the post-COVID business model is surely on everyone's minds. Join David Bergstein, Chief Innovation Officer at Bergstein CPA, as he shares insight on the accounting landscape, new trends, and practical tips for reevaluating your company's positionality.

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10 Pragmatic Guidelines to Inspire Trust in Your Accounting Firm During COVID Times

Speaker: Javier Goldin, Managing Partner at Goldin Group LLC

The accounting profession has been moving from transactional to advisory work. In this webinar you will learn: How important are face to face relationships for an accounting firm? Advisory work is based on relationships and an ongoing dialogue. The pandemic has forced many firms into a remote environment.

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Rethinking the Concept of the Employee: How Outsourcing Can Help Grow Your Accounting Business

Speaker: Dixie McCurley, Principal, Digital Advisory at Cherry Bekaert LLP

In this post-COVID world, clients are reevaluating their expectations as far as an in-person relationship with their CPAs and accounting professionals. What a supplemental "gig economy" looks like for an accounting firm. Why outsourcing can help yield growth by augmenting your current model.

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Telling a Great Story with Data

Speaker: Jeff Epstein, Operating Partner at Bessemer Venture Partners, & Aneal Vallurupalli, CFO at Airbase

They will share details on how small accounting and finance teams can support the data requirements of teams across an organization and provide actionable examples of how to tell a story with the numbers. With this, decision-makers can be better informed with data that provides perspective and insights.

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Making A Bigger Impact with Automation

Speaker: Nadia Asoyan, VP of Finance at Trusted Health, and Amer Ali, VP of Finance at Netlify

We’ll also explore how to evaluate accounting software to ensure that your tech stack works for your company’s needs today, and that it will scale into the future. Learn about the automation mindset behind some of the most efficient companies.

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Managing Security Issues with a Remote Workforce while Continuing to Grow Your Practice

Speaker: Jim Bourke, Managing Director Advisory Services at WithumSmith+Brown

Accountants are the “Trusted Professionals.” Gain an awareness of some of the unique technologies that are ready to take the accounting profession to the next level. As trusted professionals, clients “expect” us to deploy best practices around privacy and security. The recent pandemic forced change onto our profession. and more!