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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...PPC Smart Practice Aid: Field Work
- Monday, 17 January 2011
- New Products
- Written by The Progressive Accountant
Smart Practice Aids-Field Work automatically places applicable PPC workpapers into the engagement, including those already completed in other Smart modules while audit program steps can be completed and signed off and hyperlinks can be placed in workpapers to reference any document within all within the suite.
Former E&Y Partner Cleared in SEC Case
An administrative judge has dismissed administrative proceedings brought against CPA Gerard A.M. Oprins for his role as engagement partner in the audit of the 2004 financial results of two companies whose president went to prison for embezzling millions to support a lavish style. The ruling means Oprins will not face a three-year suspension from practicing before the SEC. While a one-year bar was imposed on Wendy McNeeley, who was the audit manager, Administrative Judge Robert Mahoney rejected the three-year suspension requested for her by the SEC's division of enforcement.
Read more...NSA Urges Delay on eFilng Regs
ALEXANDRIA, Va. -- The National Society of Accountants is urging the Internal Revenue Service to delay e-filing regulations for paid tax preparers for a year. The regulations, which took effect this month, mandate that preparers who file at least 100 returns must using electronic filing this year. The NSA made its statements last week in testimony before the IRS.
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AICPA Pushing to Slow Mandatory E-filing
The American Institute of CPAs today continued its push to get the Internal Revenue Service to ease the adoption of mandatory e-filing by changing the threshold for tax preparers who must efile from a minimum of 100 returns to 200 returns. That was one key recommendation in the testimony by Kathy Petronchak, vice chair of AICPA's IRS Practice and Procedures Committee, at an IRS hearing last week.
New Uniform CPA Exam Launched
- Thursday, 06 January 2011
- News
- Written by The Progressive Accountant
NEW YORK -- The American Institute of CPAs, National Association of State Boards of Accountancy, and Prometric have launched a new Uniform CPA Examination, called CBT-e. The exam for the first time includes questions about International Financial Reporting Standards. Along with other changes, it is the first time there have been major revisions to the test since it was computerized in 2004. The changes are expected to enable tests results to be reported more quickly.
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Jackson Hewitt Names New CEO
- Thursday, 06 January 2011
- News
- Written by The Progressive Accountant
PARSIPPANY, N.J. -- Jackson Hewitt Tax Service has named Philip H. Sanford as president and CEO as the previous occupant of that job, Harry W. Buckley, stepped aside. Sanford was most recently EVP of strategy and performance measurement and stepped up as the company's outlook brightened a bit in the last month.
Mobile: The Hot Technology for 2011
A list of the top technology issues for 2011 starts with the word mobile. And after that come the words mobile and mobile. Mobile is hot, even if it's not clear exactly how such technology applies in running business in general and tax and accounting firms in particular.
Read more...Fiserv Names Ernst as CEO
- Tuesday, 04 January 2011
- News
- Written by The Progressive Accountant
Fiserv has hired Mark Ernst, former CEO of H&R Block, as its new chief operating officer. Ernest was chairman and CEO at Block from 1998 through 2007 and was most recently deputy commissioner for operations support at the Internal Revenue service until his resignation late last year. He will report to CEO Jeff Yabuki, who was COO under Ernst at the tax services chain.
PCAOB Bans Two in 2010
The Public Accounting Oversight Board wielded its powers over individual practitioners in 2010 when it barred two CPAs from representing companies that were registered with the organization. One ban went into effect after the practitioner appealed the decision to the SEC. The other was official in December when the disciplined accountant did not protest the PCAOB's action.
Intuit Readies Tax Import System
Intuit's eSort scan and import system, introduced last year, has disappeared into a new product, called ProLine Tax Import, which Intuit is picturing as an evolution of eSort. However, product managers say the new offering, now offers capabilities the previous product incarnation lacked.
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