Client vs Accountant: The battle for AI authority
Accounting Web
JULY 2, 2025
Practice strategy Tags Accounting Excellence Artificial intelligence Clients
Accounting Web
JULY 2, 2025
Practice strategy Tags Accounting Excellence Artificial intelligence Clients
Shay CPA
JULY 2, 2025
Closing your books is more than just an accounting formality—it’s a safeguard for your business’s financial integrity. For many early-stage tech companies, where growth is rapid and every transaction counts, ensuring that your records remain unaltered once finalized is crucial for accurate reporting and decision-making. In this post, we discuss why it’s essential to secure closed books with passcodes, the risks associated with making unapproved changes to prior periods, and best practices for ha
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Canopy Accounting
JULY 2, 2025
In this episode of Canopy Practice Success , KC Brothers hosts Shannon Vincent and Colin Dunn—co-founders of Renew Group—to explore the broken business model that plagues many accounting firms. Drawing from decades of experience in public accounting and advisory, Shannon and Colin discuss how traditional firms are often bogged down by the wrong clients, outdated pricing structures, and unsustainable workloads.
CPA Practice
JULY 2, 2025
The latest update introduces generative AI document summarization and a new dynamic tools directory, enabling users to uncover insights faster, reduce research time, and make more confident decisions.
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The office of the CFO is rapidly evolving, with more and more demands being placed upon the finance and accounting team each year. Join us in this webinar, where we share 8 things to NOT do when it comes to helping the CFO office advance in supporting the business. Learning Objectives: This course objective is to understand how best to support an organization's finance leadership.
ThomsonReuters
JULY 2, 2025
As artificial intelligence (AI) continues to transform industries, payroll is emerging as a key area ripe for innovation. Yutaka Takagi, Principal Product Evangelist at isolved, believes AI is not just a futuristic concept for payroll — it’s already reshaping how companies process pay, ensure compliance, and enhance employee experience. In a recent interview, Takagi shared insights into how AI is being integrated into payroll systems, the strategic advantages it offers, and the challenges
Accounting Insight
JULY 2, 2025
Introducing Paul Barnes, Managing Director at MAP, The Digital Agency Finance Function. How did you get into the world of finance? I graduated from university in Manchester in 2008 with an Accounting and Finance degree. I went on to work for 3 firms over the next five years, before setting up my own firm. What’s the best part of your job? I really enjoy seeing young people develop into mature professionals.
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Withum
JULY 2, 2025
Receiving notice that you are being audited by the IRS is stressful, but losing an IRS audit that you should have won is far worse. That’s what happened to the Shleifers. They made procedural errors in their refund claim and subsequent audit that later prevented them from asserting a valid argument in court. The mistake – they failed to comply with an esoteric tax rule known as the variance doctrine.
Accounting Today
JULY 2, 2025
Bassim Michael has created Practice Gauge, a cloud-based analytics platform for his fellow accountants to use with their dentistry and veterinary clients.
Canopy Accounting
JULY 2, 2025
When you’re running an accounting or tax practice, choosing the right software can be the difference between, “I’ve got this,” and, “Why is everything on fire?” The right platform should be efficient, scalable, and make your life easier. Two big names in the space—Canopy and Karbon—are often compared. Both offer modern solutions to help accounting professionals manage clients, automate workflows, and streamline communication.
Accounting Today
JULY 2, 2025
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Speaker: Dylan Secrest, Founder of Alamo Innovation and Construction Digital Transformation Consultant
Construction payment workflows are notoriously complex when you consider juggling multiple stakeholders, compliance requirements, and evolving project scopes. Delays in approvals or misaligned data between budgets, lien waivers, and pay applications can grind progress to a halt. The good news? It doesn't have to be this way! Join expert Dylan Secrest to discover how leading contractors are turning payment chaos into clarity using digital workflows, integrated systems, and automation strategies.
Withum
JULY 2, 2025
Employee benefit plans are a growing target for cyber threats due to the volume and sensitivity of the data they hold. From participant Social Security numbers and medical histories to financial and payroll information, this data is highly valuable to bad actors and often dispersed across multiple third-party vendors. In response, the Department of Labor (DOL) expects plan fiduciaries to take a proactive approach, maintaining strong cybersecurity programs and assessing their effectiveness annual
Ryan Lazanis
JULY 2, 2025
AI is moving fast, and many fear the future. Here’s my take on what might actually change in your firm as adoption and maturity grow. The post AI and Your Firm: How Should We Be Thinking About Its Impact? appeared first on Future Firm.
Accounting Today
JULY 2, 2025
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CPA Practice
JULY 2, 2025
The fintech company announced July 1 the launch of Aggregator Plus, a new product upgrade that adds automated Form 1099 data extraction to K1x's AI-powered K1 Aggregator tax platform.
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You wouldn’t keep using a 2009 flip phone - so why settle for outdated close processes? It’s time for an upgrade. SkyStem's Guide to Month-End Close Software walks you through what today’s best tools can do (and what your team shouldn’t have to deal with anymore). Get smart, fast, and a whole lot less stressed when it’s time to close the books.
Accounting Today
JULY 2, 2025
A look at the key tax provisions of the semi-final version of the Trump administration's One Big Beautiful Bill Act.
CPA Practice
JULY 2, 2025
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Accounting Today
JULY 2, 2025
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Withum
JULY 2, 2025
Insights from Withum’s Investment Banking 2025 Quarter 1 Report Download Guide How is Middle Market M&A trending? With the everchanging M&A market, we’ve put together this report to keep you informed on the latest trends and activities we have been seeing within the Middle Market M&A world. View the report to gain an understanding of: current M&A activity, M&A valuation trends, industry segment happenings and private credit markets.
Speaker: Gerald Ratigan
The accounts payable (AP) function is evolving and AI is leading the charge. As finance teams face rising invoice volumes and expectations for speed and accuracy, AI-powered automation has shifted from a futuristic concept to the most practical solution. But for finance leaders, success isn’t just about selecting the right tools, it’s about implementing the right strategy.
Accounting Today
JULY 2, 2025
The Top 25 Firm plans to launch a data warehouse service for smaller organizations this year and has been using AI to develop some of its rollout strategies.
Insightful Accountant
JULY 2, 2025
At the end of May Insightful Accountant told you about price hikes coming to QuickBooks Online and QuickBooks Desktop as well as both Online Payroll and Desktop Payroll.
CPA Practice
JULY 2, 2025
Behind the spreadsheets, filings, and budgets lies a growing concern in the accounting and tax industry: burnout is real and it's on the rise.
Insightful Accountant
JULY 2, 2025
Because Insightful Accountant reviewed Intuit’s previous Connect to Square App as one of the apps in our eCommerce App Comparison within the last year, and scored that App below many others in the comparison, we wanted to bring you up to date.
Speaker: Sean Yoder
Nonprofits are under more pressure than ever to demonstrate financial accountability while continuing to expand their impact. Traditional budgeting models often fall short, reinforcing silos, limiting flexibility, and stalling growth. Enter collaborative budgeting: a dynamic, team-driven process that enables smarter resource allocation and builds financial resilience at scale.
Accounting Web
JULY 2, 2025
Tech pulse
CPA Practice
JULY 2, 2025
The Fed has held off on lowering interest rates this year—despite intense pressure from President Donald Trump—in part to determine whether tariff-driven price hikes might evolve into more persistent inflation.
Going Concern
JULY 2, 2025
The last time we covered the Microsoft Work Trend Index report was two years ago when they crunched Microsoft 365 data and discovered that Teams is the biggest productivity killer at work. In case you missed that article and don’t want to click through to read it, here are the highlights: Sixty-eight percent of people say they don’t have enough uninterrupted focus time during the workday.
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
Accounting Today
JULY 2, 2025
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Withum
JULY 2, 2025
Are Disconnected Systems Hurting Productivity? Boost Growth with Integrated Marketing Systems by Optimizing Your HubSpot CRM. Fragmented and disconnected tech stacks don’t just hurt marketing – they can hinder your entire revenue team. If your business already uses HubSpot but isn’t leveraging its full potential, you’re likely leaving value on the table.
Accounting Today
JULY 2, 2025
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CPA Practice
JULY 2, 2025
Republicans were scrambling Wednesday to salvage their “big, beautiful” reconciliation bill amid a revolt from conservatives over the measure’s growing price tag.
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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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