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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...2010 Bob Scott's Insights VAR Stars Awards
Maybe any company that’s still in the reselling business after the last two years should be categorized as a star. Because where once VARs were focusing on growth, the last two years has been more about surviving Although some have been some real stars that bucked the trend, this has been a period in which even good organizations took a big hit.
But first, it is necessary to define a VAR Star. In this case, candidates have a practice involving the sale of mid-market financial software. While most derive significant revenue from other sources, accounting software is the core to their business.
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CCH Readying Hosted KnowledgeConnect
CCH is working on a hosted version of its Knowledge Connect, a knowledge management program, after the next tax season. But overall, it's a program probably hasn't had the impact on the market the company has hoped. One reason was the program hit the market during the worst of the economic problems and it was viewed as a discretionary purchase.
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AICPA: Repeal New 1099 Reporting
The American Institute of CPAs has called on Congress to repeal a requirement that businesses making purchases of more than $600 in goods or services from another vendor would have to provide the vendor and the Internal Revenue Service with a Form 1099-Misc. The AICPA termed the requirement "burdensome."
Intuit's Financial Services VP Resigns
- Wednesday, 17 November 2010
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Sasan Goodarzi resigned his position as SVP and general manager of Intuit Financial Services, a post he has held for slightly more than three years. Goodarzi resigned effective December 10 to take the position of CEO at Nexant, a privately held firm in the clean energy industry. Intuit has named CeCe Morken as VP and GM of the division
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SmartVault Adds Portals in Version 3.2
- Tuesday, 16 November 2010
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SmartVault 3.2 puts the online document management vendor into the portal business and has an option that enables firms to brand client portals. The new version also makes it easier for other developers to integrate their products with the application. "The main new thing is SmartVault is that we are getting into the portal business," says CEO Eric Pulaski.
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Read more...Intuit Rewarded Its Execs Well in 2010
Intuit rewarded its top executives with hefty increases in compensation for the year ended July 31 as the company handed out substantial increases in stock awards compared to the prior fiscal year. The amounts brought the execs much closer to the paythey earned for fiscal 2008. And CEO Brad Smith had a very good year as his $13.9 million in total compensation was more than three times what he got in 2009, the depths of the economic downturn. Read more...
Showdown Week for RALs?
This week looms as critical for the continuing availability of refund anticipation loans as the nation's two largest tax preparation chains face decisions about their programs. The key events are a scheduled hearing on H&R Block's suit against HSBC Bank and Jackson Hewitt's deadline for informing its lenders about its ability to get funding for its refund loans for consumers.
SmartPros Narrows Loss on Rev Decline
- Wednesday, 10 November 2010
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- Written by The Progressive Accountant
Educational vendor SmartPros narrowed its loss for the third quarter ended September 30, despite a 10.5-percent decline in revenue for the period. The company lost $108,902 for the most recently ended quarter, compared to $181,131 in red ink a year earlier.
Avalara Gets New President
BAINBRIDGE ISLAND, Wash. - Sales-and-use-tax vendor Avalara has named Kevin Riegelsberger, best known in the accounting profession from his years at Epicor, as its president and chief operating officer. Riegelsberger was most recently CEO of Estorian, which provides applications for mainframe storage applications.
CCH Debuts Mobile with Free Trial
- Monday, 08 November 2010
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CCH has introduced its CCH Mobile application which provides the services of its IntelliConnect research platform to BlackBerry and iPhone users. The company is rolling out a limited-time version that enables IntelliConnect users to download the initial edition of the product for free through next year.
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