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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.

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Thomson Reuters Moves Users' Conference

thomson reutersThomson Reuters has moved the venue and date for its 30th Annual Users Conference to the Gaylord National Hotel near Washington, D.C., following the floods that damaged the sister Gaylord Opryland in Nashville earlier this year. The conference is for users of the company's products for tax and accounting professionals, such as UltraTax CS and Write-Up CS.

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BizActions Newsletter Platform

BizAction's new platform for its e-mail newsletters integrates with social media tools such as Facebook and Twitter. It also has extended Point of Contact capabilities, including subject lines for multiple POCs, and several newsletter templates have been added. Read more...

AICPA Changes Membership Categories

AICPA logoSAN DIEGO  – The governing council of the American Institute of CPAs has created three membership categories, a move the organization says is designed to draw more qualified people into the accounting profession and widen the availability of AICPA knowledge and resources. The categories are regular/voting members, affiliates and associates.  Read more...

Alere Accounting 6.6

Alere accounting Alere Accounting 6.6 can mark locations within a company as "excluded" so that inventory at those locations will not be included on the stock reorders report. This enables companies to use these locations for damaged, defective or overstocked inventory or inventory that is being returned to a supplier. Inventory can also be stage in preparation for a job or project, staged for transfer to another location or company or for inventory that is being returned for evaluation or repair. Read more...

Pro Series to Integrate with Refund Advantage

Intuit logoMOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. - Intuit expects its tax preparation customers who offer bank products will rely more heavily on Refund Advantage for the next tax season, following the exit of Chase Tax Related Products from the bank product business this spring.

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BNA Nexus Evaluator

BNA logoBNA Tax & Accounting's State Tax Nexus Evaluator, a new research tool, helps businesses and practitioners determine income tax nexus for 50 U.S. states, Washington, D.C. and New York City. Evaluator features 10 corporate business activity categories and activities with a series of questions about each. The product processes these and then provides a detailed report by state that explains whether nexus may exist.

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Emochila AppMan Internet Tools

Emochila logoAppMan, a suite of online tools for accountants and CPAs, assists users in launching and maintaining company blogs and sharing posts on social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter. They can also customize and create client newsletters and access client portals.

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Sage to Launch Accountants' Portal

Connie CertusiSage North America plans to launch Sage Connect, a portal for accountants and their clients that is designed to enable them to collaborate via the Internet, along with providing other functionality such as some document management capabilities.

A description of the plan was offered today the Sage Insights conference by Connie Certusi, the VP who leads the company's low-end software efforts. Sage made a flurry of announcements as part of its effort to re-engage with accounting firms. Read more...

H&R Block to Cut 400 Jobs

Ruth SmythKANSAS CITY, Mo. – H&R Block will cut 400 jobs as it realigns its field and support organization as it seeks to cut costs following a disappointing tax season. The company has also closed about 400 under-performing offices out of 11,000 retail locations. The changes were announced by CEO Russ Smyth.

 

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Sage's Miller Sees Channel as "Big Tent"

Sage North America sees room in its channel for small resellers and CPAs and has no intention of actively pruning its reseller base, according to Tom Miller,  Sage's VP of channel management. That puts Sage's view of channel size in sharp contrast to Microsoft's effort to sharply cut back the number of VARs by driving out smaller resellers.

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