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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...Intuit Kills Billing Manager
- Wednesday, 17 August 2011
- News
- Written by The Progressive Accountant
uit is dropping its free online Billing Manager application on September 30. The company is offering users of the cloud-based product its QuickBooks Online Simple Start at no charge for one year as a replacement.
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Jackson Hewitt Exits Chapter 11
- Wednesday, 17 August 2011
- News
- Written by The Progressive Accountant
Jackson Hewitt Tax Service, which had filed a re-packaged reorganization plan on May 24, has emerged from Chapter 11. CEO Philip Sanford says the now privately held company has a fully funded business plan, a strong balance sheet and the ability to make investments. The plan was confirmed by the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Wilmington, Delaware on August 9.
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Sage FAS Fixed Assets 2012
- Wednesday, 17 August 2011
- New Products
- Written by The Progressive Accountant
FAS Fixed Assets 2012 adds task-based navigation and dedicated functional working areas while a new graphical process map is offering to simplify conducting physical inventories. An Assistance Center offers customers access to industry best practices and outside resources.
Drake Buys Copanion
- Tuesday, 16 August 2011
- News
- Written by The Progressive Accountant
Drake Software plans a special push to introduce the products of recently acquired Copanion to its installed base. It will also leave the maker of the Gruntworx line in operation as a separate company at its Andover, Mass.-based headquarters.
CPE Standards Changes Proposed
- Monday, 15 August 2011
- News
- Written by The Progressive Accountant
The National Association of State Boards of Accountancy and the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants to the Statement on Standards for Continuing Professional Education Programs framework for the development, presentation, measurement and reporting of CPE programs. These were last revised in 2002.
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Read more...Intuit Dropping ProLine Brand
Intuit is dropping the ProLine brand that it had launched as a method of tying together its product lines. ProLine debuted two years ago this month. And was immediately noticeable by the phrase "Intuit ProLine Products and Services for Accounting Professionals" that was placed on the top of the Web pages for its tax and accounting products such as ProSeries, Lacerte and QuickBooks.
CPA Exam Launches Internationally
- Monday, 08 August 2011
- News
- Written by The Progressive Accountant
Candidates have taking the CPA exam in four countries, the first time it has been administered in other countries. The exam was given on August 1 in Japan, Bahrain, Kuwait, Lebanon and the United Arab Emirates and is being given throughout August.
Read more...Mobile Intuit Tax App Test Coming
- Monday, 08 August 2011
- News
- Written by The Progressive Accountant
Intuit has begun development of a mobile application for its web-based tax application, which is expected to enter a formal test during extension season. And the name of the product, TaxOnline, suggests Intuit as taken a step away from its plans to spread its ProLine brand across professional tax and accounting applications.
Thomson Reuters Launches News Service
The Tax & Accounting business of Thomson Reuters has rolled out a news service for users of its Checkpoint research platform that is accesible from the desktop, tablets or smartphones. Thomson Reuters News & Insight draws its content from articles by Reuters business editors, the company's newsletters and a team of accounting and tax journalists that has been recently assembled.
CITP Test To Be Mandatory In 2012
After many years with no test available for the Certified Information Technology Professional, exams will be mandatory for new applications in 2012. However, the 1,800 existing credential holders will be forever grandfathered, according to Jim Bourke, the CPA who heads the CITP committee of the American Institute of CPAs.
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