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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...Build Your Firm Allies with ShareFile
- Friday, 20 January 2012
- News
- Written by The Progressive Accountant
Build Your Firm, an accounting marketing and website development company that serves accounting firms, has formed a partnership with ShareFile, which provides secure file sharing and exchanging to those accounting operations. The partnership supports cross promotion of complementary products.
CCH Allies for Tax/Tech Help for Small Firms
CCH Small Firm Services has reached an agreement under which Tax Rite will provide advice on tax and and technology issues to its customers.Tax Rite provides technical support and a tax hotline for tax professionals through subscription-based services.
U.S. Seeks to Shut Down Preparer
- Wednesday, 18 January 2012
- News
- Written by The Progressive Accountant
The Department of Justice is seeking to bar Larry Carnell Dixon Sr. and his firm, Dixon's Tax Service, from preparing federal tax returns for others. An injunction is being sought against the Zachary, La.-based preparer alleging that he used inflated and fake business expense deductions for real or fictitious businesses on his clients' returns to reduce their tax liabilities or increase refunds.
Read more...Freshbooks Offers Accountant Certification
- Tuesday, 17 January 2012
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- Written by The Progressive Accountant
Freshbooks has introduction a certification program, the FreshBooks Certified Beancounter program. The program offers continuing edudcation credits and a client discount and referral program.
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Former BDO Partner Pleads Guilty to Lying
- Friday, 13 January 2012
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- Written by The Progressive Accountant
A former audit partner of BDO USA has pleaded guilty to lying to the SEC enforcement staff during investigative testimony. CPA Bryan N. Polozola of Richardson, Texas, pleaded guilty to one count of making a false statement to government officials when he denied knowing of a payment made to his former employer for funds he had allegedly taken for his personal use.
SEC Won't Block PCAOB Ban on Firm
- Thursday, 12 January 2012
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- Written by The Progressive Accountant
The SEC has rejected the appeal of a Houston firm that was sanctioned by the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board. With a stay lifted, the permanent revocation of PCAOB registration will go into effect for CPA R. Everett Bassie and his firm, C.E. Bassie & Co. Bassie had appealed the bar and also a $75,000 civil money penalty ordered by the PCAOB for not producing a single requested document in 10 months and then ceasing to respond to the board requests.
Read more...GoFileRoom Improves Form Recognition
- Wednesday, 11 January 2012
- New Products
- Written by The Progressive Accountant
GoFileRoom, a document management system from Thomson Reuters, has an improved ability to identify tax forms in its TaxSort feature. These include customizable bookmark categories other menu options for Adobe PF files that are store in the application. There are also improvements to the FirmFlow module.
Read more...CCH Upgrades Workstream; Practice SaaS
- Monday, 16 January 2012
- New Products
- Written by The Progressive Accountant
ProSystem fx Workstream's new Monitored Project Notification automatically alerts users a specified number of days prior to a planned finish date if the project is not on schedule. Project Assignment Timing can make role and workstep assignments independently of project creation. Workstream users also can choose to e-mail or post notifications to a dashboard for monitoring.
Read more...InfoSpace Buying TaxAct; Eyes More
TaxAct, whose purchase by H&R Block was halted by the government, has a new prospective buyer. The bidder is InfoSpace, an online search company based in Bellevue, Wash., which has signed a definitive agreement to buy the tax preparation software company for $287.5 million in cash. Meanwhile, InfoSpace CEO William J. Ruckelshaus indicated interest in additional acquisitions in the space to consolidate the online tax market.
BNA Gets New CEO
- Tuesday, 10 January 2012
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- Written by The Progressive Accountant
Greg McCaffery, who served as president and COO of the Bureau of National Affairs, has become CEO and president of the unit that is now known as Bloomberg BNA. He replaces Paul Wojcik who had held the job since 2007 and remains as chairman. The changes stem from BNA's acquisition last year by Bloomberg.
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