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The future of accounting is semantic

Accounting Today

Charles Hoffman believes the accounting industry is poised for a major shift toward machine-understandable artifacts and semantic knowledge graphs.

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Top Challenges Nonprofits Face with Financial Management (and How to Overcome Them)

GrowthForceBlog

8 min read January 21st, 2024 Every nonprofit leader has a duty to be a responsible, honest, and trustworthy steward of their financial resources. Key Takeaways Foster Financial Transparency: The need for financial transparency in a nonprofit is paramount. Not only does financial transparency support and strengthen donor trust, but it also creates accountability.

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How Health Care Savings Can Lead to Tax Savings: When to Recommend an HRA

CTP

Saving for retirement is one arena where tax planners can provide value to their clients. Even your financially savvy clients may not be aware of the strategies they can use to increase the amount of money available during retirement and decrease the amount lost to taxes. One underutilized strategy is to leverage health care savings tools. According to the Fidelity Retiree Health Care Cost Estimate, the average 65-year-old will need about $165,000 to cover health care expenses during retirement.

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PBGC Premiums for the 2025 Plan Year

Withum

On January 6, 2025, the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation issued Technical Update 25-1, lending guidance on the timing of premium payments for all 2025 Plan Years. Per Section 502 of the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015 , the premium filing due date for all plans is the 15 th day of the ninth calendar month that begins on or after the first day of the plan year.

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Why Tech-Forward Tax and Accounting Firms Have the Inside Track to the Future

Speaker: Joe Wroblewski, Sales Engineer Manager

Automating time-consuming manual tasks can save your firm hundreds of hours–and thousands of dollars. But it can also have longer-lasting benefits, like helping you attract and retain the next generation of CPAs, and we don’t need to tell you how important that is amid the current generational staffing crisis in the tax and accounting profession. You'll want to save your seat for this new webinar with industry expert Joe Wroblewski, where we'll explore how to: Maximize ROI with Cost-Effective Te

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How to thrive after the busy season

Xero

While its often referred to as self assessment season we know in reality most of you spend 10 months of the year preparing for the 31 January deadline. However, theres always that last minute rush of chasing missing data from clients which makes January a stressful time. We recently teamed up with Accounting Web to put together a special report with some helpful tips for making self assessment season less stressful and more efficient.

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Building Resilience, Efficiency and Security: 4 Key Business Strategies for 2025

Withum

As businesses continue to explore AI integration, it’s crucial to prioritize key business areas that will enhance overall business resilience, improve efficiency and ensure robust data protection. In this post, well explore four critical business strategies that businesses should focus on to navigate these changes effectively. 4 Key Business Strategies 1.

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Understanding the World of Health Care Reimbursements: The Tax Benefits of HRAs

CTP

Rising health care costs are becoming a financial obstacle for many retirees. The Fidelity Retiree Health Care Cost Estimate found that the average 65-year-old retiree will need about $165,000 to cover their total health care expenses. What if you could save for these necessary expenses and lower your tax liability at the same time? Many taxpayers may be eligible for savings vessels, such as health savings accounts (HSAs), flexible spending accounts (FSAs), and health reimbursement arrangements

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BOI Update: Reporting Requirements On Pause

Shay CPA

Running any business comes with a small mountain of paperwork. Theres all the documentation you need to file at founding. You need to manage your annual filings with the IRS and applicable state tax authorities. You need to periodically renew registrations, licenses, etc. And now, to top it all off, businesses might have another piece of paperwork to deal with: the beneficial ownership information (BOI) filing.

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Rusty Fullings Journey - From Burnout to Balance

Canopy Accounting

Rusty Fulling, founder of Fulling Management and Accounting, joins us on this episode to discuss his journey of building a thriving firm. Rusty shares candid lessons from his 25-year career, from the challenges of managing culture in a remote environment to the power of core values. If youre leading a virtual team or looking for ways to grow your firm, this episode is packed with insights you won't want to miss.

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Outlook for 2025: A roadmap for small businesses

Reckon

Its a new year for businesses across Australia, and you may be looking to jump-start the engine that once ran smoothly in 2024. With 12 months ahead of you, the best way to get underway is through proper planning with a roadmap. For any roadmap, it is important to have clear and achievable goals for your business, with key dates and goals that will motivate you for the year ahead.

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Live Demo - Supercharge your Month End Close

Automation generally supercharges any process and brings its value to the forefront. See how infusing automation such as ART (our month-end close solution), into your close can get you to the next level of closing. We will share a live demo of SkyStem's solution, ART and share the key elements of month-end close automation. Through ART, we'll take a look at: What month-end close automation entails Which process steps can and should be automated Benefits of achieving process automation, and Why i

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State tax changes predicted for this year

Accounting Today

More states are expected to simplify their sales tax laws and leverage artificial intelligence for doing tax audits, according to a new report from Avalara.

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GASB 102: Shining a Light on Governmental Risk

LSLCPAs

Local governments face financial risks every day, from overreliance on a single industry to unexpected natural disasters. These risks, often hidden in plain sight, have long lacked formal disclosure requirementsuntil now. GASB 102: Certain Risk Disclosures is the latest initiative from the Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB) to bring transparency to these vulnerabilities.

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Caseware Announces Acquisition of Extractly.ai

Accounting Insight

Caseware , a global leader in cloud-enabled audit, financial reporting and data analytics solutions, today announced the acquisition of Extractly.ai , the provider of intelligent document processing solutions that streamline the audit process for accounting and finance teams. Founded in 2021, Extractly.ai offers solutions that understand and process accounting and financial documents, delivering actionable results and enabling automated workflows.

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How HSAs pay off in retirement — with caveats

Accounting Today

A client's immediate health needs make saving their accounts until they're 65 or over a difficult endeavor, and the accounts carry some highly specific rules.

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Mid-Year Review: How to Ignite Employee Potential Through Meaningful Feedback

Mid-year performance reviews aren’t just boxes for HR to check. Paycor’s toolkit empowers leaders to: Identify high-potential team members. Boost engagement with meaningful feedback. Support struggling employees. Nurture top talent to drive results. Learn how to ignite employee potential through meaningful feedback. When you nurture top talent, everybody wins.

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FASB Proposes Codification Improvements

CPA Practice

The Financial Accounting Standards Board published aproposed Accounting Standards Update on Jan. 22 focused on targeted improvements to theFASB Accounting Standards Codification.

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Additional Yearly S&P 500 30-Year Charts

Withum

I find the following information interesting and informative and put them in charts for easy viewing. Some charts start with 1990, some with 2000 and one with 2001 and they all go through the end of 2024. I prepared the charts, but the underlying data came from multipl which has a ton of additional information and statistics, and I recommend checking it out.

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Senators Accuse Treasury Nominee Bessent of Avoiding $900K in Employment Taxes

CPA Practice

The Senators also claimed Bessent, ". avoided paying nearly $1 million in Medicare taxes on your hedge fund earnings over the course of three years by reporting on your tax returns that you were a limited partner.

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10 Questions to Ask Before Hiring an Accountant

IgniteSpot

Whether youre considering an in-house hire or an outsourced firm like Ignite Spot, these 10 questions will help you find the best fit for your business.

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Your Accounting Expertise Will Only Get You So Far: What Really Matters

Speaker: Victor C. Barnes, CPA, MBA

In the climb from contributor to leader, the rules quietly change. If you’re aiming for the summit, the air gets thinner—and what got you here won’t be enough to get you to the top (a concept first popularized by Marshall Goldsmith in his book What Got You Here Won’t Get You There ). What made you successful early in your finance career—technical accuracy, sharp analysis, flawless execution—won’t be what carries you to the next level.

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Study: Why Some Companies Fail to Benefit from AI: It’s About the People, Not the Tech

CPA Practice

Successful uptake of new technology is a matter of emotions and with 4 in 5 companies saying theyre failing to capitalize on its potential, managers need to know how to deal with them, say researchers from Aalto University.

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Congress reintroduces bill to extend tax relief after natural disasters

Accounting Today

Lawmakers in the House and Senate reintroduced bipartisan legislation backed by the AICPA to provide faster filing relief to taxpayers hit by natural disasters.

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CPAClub Launches AI-Powered CPAClub Coach

CPA Practice

CPAClub Coach is an AI-powered advisor combined with live CPA expertise. Designed to bridge the talent gap in accounting, CPAClub Coach integrates artificial intelligence with live expert support, offering members personalized coaching and timely, standards-based guidance on both accounting and audit-related questions.

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FASB proposes codification changes

Accounting Today

The Financial Accounting Standards Board released a proposed ASU containing a set of targeted improvements to the FASB Accounting Standards Codification.

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The Hidden Science Behind Why Finance Teams Resist Change—And How to Fix It

Speaker: Kim Beynon, CPA, CGMA, PMP

The most overlooked, yet most critical, element of transformation is preparing people for change. Automation and AI aren't just technical upgrades, they’re cultural shifts which can challenge identities. That’s why change management isn’t a side project—it’s the foundation. In finance, where precision and process rule, navigating change can feel especially disruptive.

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Beyond the AI Hype: Three Keys to Practical Use for Accounting Firms

CPA Practice

In today's rapidly evolving tech landscape, accounting firms face a critical decision: begin strategically embracing AI, or risk falling behind competitors.

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FinQuery announces new CEO, COO, executive chair

Accounting Today

FinQuery announced the appointment of Joe Schab as CEO, George Azih as executive chairman and Justin Smith as COO.

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Beyond the AI Hype: Three Keys to Practical Use for Accounting Firms

CPA Practice

In today's rapidly evolving tech landscape, accounting firms face a critical decision: begin strategically embracing AI, or risk falling behind competitors.

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How Nonprofits Can Align Financial Practices with Their Mission

GrowthForceBlog

8 min read January 21st, 2024 Every nonprofit leader has a duty to be a responsible, honest, and trustworthy steward of their financial resources. Key Takeaways Foster Financial Transparency: The need for financial transparency in a nonprofit is paramount. Not only does financial transparency support and strengthen donor trust, but it also creates accountability.

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Doing More With Less: The Modern Finance Miracle

Speaker: Mark Gilham, FCCA, CPP

Finance used to be the function that counted, now it's the one that’s counted on. 📊 For accounting firms, controllers, and finance leaders, expectations are rising faster than headcount. Businesses want agile forecasts, granular analysis, seamless reporting, and smart automation—often without added resources while demanding uncompromised accuracy and compliance.

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How to Intuit Enterprise Suite: Project Tasks

Insightful Accountant

Murph takes you through the steps to create and use tasks for project tracking in Intuit Enterprise Suite.

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What My Team Looked Like (From Scratch to Sale)

Ryan Lazanis

Discover how I built my Xen Accounting team who I hired first, why I chose them, and how my team evolved before I sold my firm. The post What My Team Looked Like (From Scratch to Sale) appeared first on Future Firm.

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Your Business Supercharged - by Xero

Insightful Accountant

Xero recently revealed a new tagline reflecting a deeper commitment to customer success and growth.

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Ramp offers business and investment accounts

Accounting Today

Spend management solution provider Ramp announced the release of Ramp Treasury, which can act as a business or investment account for users.

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8 Pillars of Leadership Development

Great leadership development is the key to sustainable business growth. Are you ready to design an effective program? HR can use Paycor’s framework to: Set achievable goals. Align employee and company needs. Support different learning styles. Empower the next generation of leaders. Invest in your company’s future with a strong leadership development program.