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Rippling Expands EOR Program 2
Rippling has expanded its Employer of Record program to eight new countries. The change is part of the latest monthly release of the office application.
With EOR, a user can establish a legal entity in a country outside the United States, giving the user the ability to hire and pay employees in other countries. The latest additions are Colombia, Costa Rica, Denmark, Israel, New Zealand, the Philippines, Switzerland and Turkey.
In addition, Rippling is providing hourly workers with a weekly break down of pay on paystubs so they can see hours worked, including overtime, for each of the weeks included in the pay period.
Users can now down payroll comparison data as a CSV file. Rippling says it has also provided more efficient time-entry CSV imports for Time an Attendance since users can automatically reconcile timestamps based on the employee’s timezone and
filter down to a specific set of imported entries and delete only those
They can also import thousands of entries in seconds, versus 30 minutes.
View items...Tax Software Vendors: Mixed Results
What kind of results are software vendors getting on the number of returns filed so far this tax season? Right now the answer is mixed with CCH reporting an uptick and the number of returns filed and TaxWorks and Drake Software showing returns lagging behind expectations. It's not clear what the reasons are with the possibility the limited available of refund loans is having some impact on the lower end of the market with the extender provisions, including the fact the Internal Revenue Service won't start accepting returns with Schedule A attached until next week.
Read more...Mobile Payments Products Debut
- Wednesday, 09 February 2011
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- Written by The Progressive Accountant
The mobile world is getting new entries in the area of payment processing with Sage North America introducing Sage Mobile Payments and Intuit demonstrating GoPayment for Honeycomb, which is designed for Google's Android 3.0. It seems clear that the mobile payment area is going to get a lot of attention from vendors this year.
Read more...Marketing VP Goldenberg Leaves CCH
Gene Goldenberg has left CCH Small Firm Services where he has marketing vice president since 2004. Goldenberg has returned to the Washington D.C. area and is working as a consultant. CCH Small Firm Services markets the TaxWise and ATX tax preparation lines. Goldenberg said the change was effective February 1.
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SEC Bars CPA Tax Attorney
A New York CPA tax attorney has been barred from practicing before the SEC after he pleaded guilty to securities violations for his role in an insider trading scheme in which he made $119,347 from trading on pending corporate mergers and other transactions. Eric Holzer faced those charges for his actions in 2005.
Read more...Avalara Starts CPA Program
- Wednesday, 02 February 2011
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- Written by The Progressive Accountant
Avalara has started a two-tiered accountants program that gives firms access to use of its sales-and-use tax products and services, along with other benefits, depending on their level of participation.The thrust is to encourage accountants to expand their programs via use of the company's offerings, according to Jeff Anderson, senior product manager for the Avalara Accountants Advantage Program
AICPA Updates SAS 70 for the Cloud
The American Institute of CPAs has developed reporting options for organizations that utilize Internet-based services. The new Service Organization Control reports, formerly called SAS 70 reports, are designed to help companies that outsource services or tasks to third parties.
NetSuite Nabs Baker Tilly in Cloud Fight
- Wednesday, 02 February 2011
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- Written by The Progressive Accountant
Baker Tilly has joined NetSuite's channel program as a trend is building for large CPA firms to enter alliances with vendors of Internet-based accounting applications. In the last few months, rival Intacct has landed several accounting firms, including most recently Clifton Gunderson. This is the first major firm to join the NetSuite Solution Provider since Eide Bailly was announced in the program's roll out last spring.
ADP: 9 Percent Rev Growth for FY 2011
With its business showing a broad range of improvement, Automatic Data Processing is anticipating revenue growth of about 9 percent year-over-year for the year ending June 30. The company is also expecting about five percent growth in earnings per share, according to remarks made by CEO Gary Butler in the company's recent earnings conference call.
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Paychex Exec Shake Up Continues
- Tuesday, 01 February 2011
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- Written by The Progressive Accountant
Paychex continues to see change in its executive ranks as the company appears to be restocking under Martin Mucci, who took over as CEO in September. The company recently named a new VP of human resources and filled the new position of VP of marketing. It had appointed a new VP of payroll sales in November along with two new members of the company's board of directors.
XCM, SpeedTax Team Up in CPA Program
XCM Solutions, which markets workflow applications, and sales-and-use tax vendor SpeedTax, have joined in a program with scanner vendor Fujitsu. The companies says the alliance is aimed at educating accountants on the implementation and use of their products. The partners to hold events at conferences, possbily utilizing the common booths and having shared speaking engagements.
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