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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...Doc.it Suite 3.3
- Friday, 18 December 2009
- New Products
- Written by The Progressive Accountant
The Auto-Forms Recognition feature in Doc.It Suite 3.3 detects documents produced by software applications such as tax preparation, bookkeeping and Microsoft office and the Universal Search function enables users to search across any Binder, where data files like Word, Excel and emails are managed.
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Intuit Intros Online Pro Tax Product
Intuit has officially introduced a Web-based professional tax preparation product that it has said earlier this year would been ready for use for tax season. The major news in this announcement was that Intuit revealed pricing for the product, which is not based on the same code base as either its desktop Lacerte or ProSeries tax packages.
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M&P's Block Press Releases: Now You See Them ...
In its relationship with H&R Block, accounting firm McGladrey & Pullen took a highly unusual course regarding the press releases issued about the firm's initial statement it would end its Administrative Services agreement with Block and then that it and Block had come to terms. It removed them from its Web site after posting them.
Read more...Job Losses Impact Paychex Revenue
The loss of jobs at client companies helped push Paychex revenue to $496.6 million for the second quarter ended November 30, down 5 percent from $524.2 million a year earlier. And the company reiterated its view that continued economic weakness would leave its revenue for the year ending May 31 off by 2 percent to 5 percent. However, CEO Jonathan Judge issued a statement that key indicators were stable for the second straight quarter.
PPC’s Guide to Going Concern
- Wednesday, 16 December 2009
- New Products
- Written by The Progressive Accountant
PPC’s Guide to Going Concern helps evaluate clients’ viability 
and protect CPAs from lawsuits by bringing together analysis and tools to help the professional identity and evaluate going concern uncertainties in accordance with professional standards.
CCH: Clients Lag Accountants on Document Sharing
- Tuesday, 15 December 2009
- News
- Written by The Progressive Accountant
Accountants are far more likely to share documents online than their clients, according to an online survey conducted by YouGov survey in October and commissioned by CCH. And the gap in attitudes raising some questions for firms that want to make documents available via Internet portals.
Mint Could Become Tax Prep Data Source
Although he emphasized the company has not made that decision, Mint.com founder Aaron Patzer envisions that "If you use Mint, half your taxes would be done before you used TurboTax." He also predicted that the 1.7 million users of Mint.com would double in the next eight months.
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M&P, Block Stay Together
- Monday, 14 December 2009
- News
- Written by The Progressive Accountant
Following the issuance of a decision by an arbitration panel, McGladrey & Pullen agreed to continue its alternative practice relationship with H&R Block. That followed M&P's announcement in July that it planned to withdraw from the two-and-a-half-year old Administrative Services Agreement that spelled out the terms under which the two did business.
Read more...Morningstar Sees Better Pricing
- Monday, 14 December 2009
- News
- Written by The Progressive Accountant
Most clients have stopped requesting price concessions from Morningstar, which says it has implemented some small fee increases and also planned what it called a modest hike for Premium memberships in January .
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CompuPay Gets $20M Investment
- Thursday, 10 December 2009
- News
- Written by The Progressive Accountant
MIRAMAR, Fla. - CompuPay, a payroll services company that has been in a growth mode, has received a $20 million equity investment from its majority shareholder, Willis Stein & Partners, a Chicago-based investment firm.
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