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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...BNA Fixed Assets 2011.0
- Monday, 24 January 2011
- New Products
- Written by The Progressive Accountant
Version 2011.0 of the BNA Fixed Assets platform incorporates 12 major tax law changes and related forms affecting fixed asset management and depreciation provided for in the Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization, and Job Creation Act of 2010. The version updates products including BNA Fixed Assets Desktop, DesktopPro and Server. The new version addresses tax law changes providing for the 100-percent bonus depreciation deduction, as well as the Section 179 expensing changes.
PCAB Bars Former Masschussetts CPA
The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board has banned Stephen Crane, a CPA who formerly worked in Massachusetts but who now lives in China, from associating with any accounting firm registered with the board. The organization took the action alleging Crane failed to cooperate with requestions for information and also did not pay the fees required of a PCAOB-registered firm. The firm's registration was also revoked.
Read more...Two CPAs Draw SEC Ban, Firm Censured
Two Florida CPAs, one a former member of the Florida State Board of Accountancy, have been suspended from practice before the SEC and the firm that both had been associated with was censured for their role in the 2007 audit of the financial statements of a company that recorded the sales of millions of dollars of skin care products that sat unsold in its warehouse. The SEC suspended Steven H. Dohan, managing director of Dohan + Co. and Nancy Brown, a CPA who was a director at the firm at the time.
Intuit Expects Tax Filings to Be Flat
Intuit believes that the number of tax returns filed during the 2011 tax season will be unchanged from last year. That's after two consecutive years of declines that stemmed from the recession. That prediction was among several points made this morning by Brad Smith, the tax and accounting company's CEO, as he addressed attendees at the company's annual shareholders' meeting.
Another Sage Exec Leaving
- Wednesday, 19 January 2011
- News
- Written by The Progressive Accountant
Turnover in the executive ranks of Sage North America is continuing with the latest ready to depart Doug Meyer, who has held a variety of executive positions with Sage/Best Software since 1999. His important roles include a long relationship with the company's Peachtree software line. Meyer is leaving the company next month, although his plans were not revealed.
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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