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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...CPA Faces Five Years In Refund Fraud
- Wednesday, 16 January 2013
- News
- Written by The Progressive Accountant
A Los Angeles, Calf.-based CPA has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to defraud the United States. Accountant and tax preparer, Masood Chotoni, entered the plea which stemmed from charges that he filed returns using names and Social Security numbers of deceased taxpayers. He faces a maximum five years in prison and $250,000 fine.
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San Antonio Preparers Draw Ban
- Tuesday, 15 January 2013
- News
- Written by The Progressive Accountant
SEC: KPMG Duo Rubber Stamped Audit
The Securities and Exchange Commission has accused two KPMG auditors of rubber-stamping an audit of a failed Nebraska-based bank that hid millions of dollars in loan losses from investors during the financial crisis. The SEC says KPMG partner, John J. Aesoph, and senior manager, Darren M. Bennett, "relied on stale information and management's representations" in issuing unqualified opinions of TierOne Bank's 2008 financial statements and internal controls over its financial reporting.
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Intuit’s Cook Sells $37.4M Shares
- Wednesday, 09 January 2013
- News
- Written by The Progressive Accountant
Intuit founder Scott Cook closed out 2012 by selling a bit more than $37.4 million in the company's stock during the second half of December. For Cook, it was the largest amount of Intuit stock sold in a single month in more than two years. The largest block was 266,666 shares sold on December 16 for $16.5 million.
Avalara Moves into Europe
- Wednesday, 09 January 2013
- News
- Written by The Progressive Accountant
Sales-and-use tax vendor Avalara is expanding its operations into Europe. The company is preparing to open an office in London and Marshal Kushniruk, EVP of business development for the Bainbridge Island, Wash.-based vendor, is moving soon to run the business across the ocean.
TaxWorks Beset by Software Woes
Users of TaxWorks are flaying the company over its new tax preparation software. But whether problems are widespread or just a reaction by an installed base faced with a dramatically changed product remains to be seen. In comments on a blog on the TaxWorks website, several preparers complained they cannot print organizers, while some had trouble installing the software. The gripes are coming from new users and from practitioners who have bought the program for decades.
Thomson Adds Major Features to Workpapers CS
- Thursday, 27 December 2012
- New Products
- Written by The Progressive Accountant
Thomson Reuters has given Workpapers CS, its workpaper management application. the ability to create PDF files from mobile device camera captures or other sources. Users can also now add tick marks, stamps and text. The latest version introduces trial balance integration with Microsoft Excel.
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Sandy Nips Decent Paychex Quarter
The wide geographic reach of Hurricane Sandy took a small bite out the results for Paychex's second quarter ended November 30. The East Coast Storm significantly impacted about 15 percent of the company's customers and took a half a percent off results for the period, CEO Martin Mucci said during this week's earnings webcast.
AccuFund Introduces Version 4.04
- Tuesday, 17 February 2015
- New Products
- Written by The Progressive Accountant
Version 4.04 of the AccuFund Accounting Suite introduces the Task Scheduler module for scheduling reports to run and documents to print at a specific time or on a recurring basis. With the new module, users can offload the processing of reports to off-peak hours. Financial reports and standard reports in any module can be scheduled.
The 2012 VAR Stars
- Wednesday, 02 January 2013
- News
- Written by The Progressive Accountant
The selection of VAR Stars for 2012 has been announced by Bob Scott, editor of Bob Scott's Insights, a sister publication to The Progressive Accountant. The names of the 100 business chosen for this annual honor were published this month and can be found at www.bobscottsinsights.com.
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