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Rippling Expands EOR Program 2
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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...PCAOB Censures Former JSW Partners
- Monday, 10 September 2012
- News
- Written by The Progressive Accountant
The Public Company Accounting Oversights Board has censured two partners who had worked at Jewett, Schwartz, Wolfe & Associates and revoked the registration of the Hollywood, Fla.-based CPA firm for five years. The agency also barred partner, Lawrence Wolfe, who led the public company audit practice, from being associated with a registered firm.
Justice Goes After Dallas Tax Preparers
- Saturday, 08 September 2012
- News
- Written by The Progressive Accountant
The Justice Department is seeking to bar two Dallas tax return preparers from preparing federal tax returns for others. A suit alleges that Ricardo Solomon and Leslie Mosley, who operate a business called Trini Tax, claimed false deductions and credits on customers' federal tax returns.
Intuit Speeds Up QuickBooks Online
Intuit has souped up the performance of QuickBooks Online, the Internet-based edition of its QuickBooks financial software. The system has been tuned to improve the system's speed and, in general, a series of enhancements to the product have been aimed at overcoming some previously inefficient features.
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Block Slashing Sears Presence
H&R Block is cutting its presence in Sears stores to 112 of its best-performing locations for the next tax season. And while CEO Bill Cobb noted the companies have renewed their contract, that number is down from 500 stores during the 2012 season while the company prepares to open in more WalMarts. In this week's earnings webcast, Cobb expressed confidence that his company can retain most of the customers frequenting the closed locations.
Acclvity Releases Checkout 3.5
- Thursday, 30 August 2012
- New Products
- Written by The Progressive Accountant
Checkout 3.5, a point-of sale package for the Mac, now supports customer displays, including both pole and table-top models. Supported models include Logic Controls LT9000 UP and PD3000 UP. The software also features receipt printing enhancements and the new version prints receipts/invoices without displaying a print dialog.
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SmartVault Offers iPad App
- Wednesday, 29 August 2012
- New Products
- Written by The Progressive Accountant
An application for the iPad is available for download for SmartVault. Users can browse, search, view, and share documents via their tablets. SmartVault for iPad features a command center for these tasks.
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Liberty Tax Parent Loss, Revs Grow
- Wednesday, 29 August 2012
- News
- Written by The Progressive Accountant
The cost of being a publicly held company helped increase the loss for JTH Holding, the parent of Liberty Tax, by 23.6 percent, for the first quarter ended July 31. That came as a doubling of franchise fees was a key part of a 37.3-percent rise in revenue for the period.
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FreshBooks Intros Mobile App
- Wednesday, 29 August 2012
- New Products
- Written by The Progressive Accountant
FreshBooks has launched a mobile app that provides all key features of the web version of FreshBooks. These include the ability to send professional-looking invoices, get paid online with Paypal and attach expenses directly to invoices.
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Vendor Views Conflict on Mobile Research
Welcome to the new world of mobile tax research. Or not. Because whether tax practitioners are avidly utilizing mobile devices to conduct full-fledged research is something that the profession's two major vendors don't completely agree on. As usual, the market is CCH versus Thomson Reuters.
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Move to QuickBooks Online Continues
- Wednesday, 22 August 2012
- News
- Written by The Progressive Accountant
Intuit's customers continued the move from desktop products to online during the year ended July 31. The number of subscribers for QuickBooks Online rose to 362,000, a 27.8-percent increase from 283,000 a year earlier. That came while that total number of QuickBooks customers, 1,575,000, was only 3,000 units higher than at the end of fiscal 2011.
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