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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...Audit Issues Cost Grant Thornton $4.5M
- Thursday, 03 December 2015
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- Written by The Progressive Accountant
Grant Thornton and two partners have agreed to settle charges they ignored red flags in auditing two companies that later faced enforcement actions by the Securities and Exchange Commission. The accounting firm, which admitted wrongdoing, will forfeit about $1.5 million in audit fees plus interest and pay a $3-million penalty. The two partners were barred from SEC practice.
Sage 50, X3 Led 2015 Sage Growth
The Sage Group said its Sage 50 low-cost accounting products and its X3 manufacturing application led revenue growth in North America in fiscal 2015. That observation came as the company reported this week that it had the fastest rate of revenue growth worldwide for the year ended September 30 in eight years, with 4-percent organic revenue increases reported on this continent.
ADP Upgrades Time & Attendance
- Tuesday, 01 December 2015
- News
- Written by The Progressive Accountant
Automatic Data Processing has launched ADP Time & Attendance, a software package designed to help small business comply with the federal, state, and local wage and hour laws. The company described the new product as an upgrade to its existing time and attendance. The new system offers scheduling and timecard management tools and mobile capability.
VP Warawa Takes Over Sage Live
Jennifer Warawa, who has headed the accountants' program for Sage North America, has taken over the position of global VP of marketing for Sage Live. She replaces Doug Labahn, who had held the job only snce February. It is part of a sweeping number of personnel changes across Sage worldwide.
AICPA Proposing Peer Review Changes
- Wednesday, 18 November 2015
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- Written by The Progressive Accountant
The Peer Review Board of the American Institute of CPAs has issued an exposure draft on peer review changes that it says will enhance review of firms' quality control systems. It will also supplement and clarify guidance, the board says. The draft is open for comment through January 31.
AICPA: Small Firms Have More Women Partners
- Monday, 16 November 2015
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- Written by The Progressive Accountant
The smaller the firm, the more likely it is to have female partners, according to a study by the American Institute of CPAs. The AICPA CPA Firm Gender Survey found women have made the great in roads at firms with 20 accounting professionals or less and the least progress at firms with 100 or more CPAs.
Intacct Tightens Outsourcing, Reselling Programs
Intacct has trimmed its reseller and outsourcing channels as it tightens requirements. The San Jose, Calif.-based cloud software company has reduced its reselling ranks to 80 dealers from 95 a year ago. And it has slowed the paced of requirement of accounting firms and outsourcing organizations to utilize its software to deliver outsourced accounting services.
Intuit Names Accountant Marketing Director
- Wednesday, 04 November 2015
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- Written by The Progressive Accountant
Intuit has named Luis Sanchez Castillo as director of QuickBooks accountant marketing. Sanchez takes over the job after heading up the QuickBooks ProAdvisor program as worldwide director from May 2015 through September 2015. Chris Hamilton steps into to head the ProAdvisor program.
AccuFund: NFP Software Doesn't Do Enough
A study commission by software vendor AccuFund has concluded that users must spend too much time manipulating data outside of their non profit accounting systems. Seventy-three percent of those responding spend one to five hours weekly pulling reports for staff; for 17 percent that rises to six to 10 hours and more than 10 hours weekly for 10 percent.
Accelerator Adds Videos to Website Packages
- Monday, 02 November 2015
- News
- Written by The Progressive Accountant
Accelerator Websites has added a video package option to its line of websites for accountants in public practice. The presentations are marketing videos that are part of the company's new Platinum website package.
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