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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...UBCC Speeds QuickBooks Import
- Saturday, 04 December 2010
- New Products
- Written by The Progressive Accountant
Universal Business Computing Company has addedone-step client payroll import from QuickBooks for its payroll and write-up programs. Controls can be set to automatically adjust the employee number in QuickBooks to the one used by the payroll service bureau, as well as skip "0" checks, and reverse deductions, overheads and withholdings as needed.
Read more...Meta Rules Out RALS and Refund Transfers
Meta Financial Group, which had been expected to fund a refund loan program, has ruled out the possibility of funding loans for the upcoming tax season through its Meta Payments Division. In an SEC filing, the bank reported it had concluded it would be unable to get the necessary federal approval to offer any tax-related programs in 2011. The language Meta used also indicates it would not provide a tax refund transfer program.
Former Deloitte Partner Faces Insider Charges
- Thursday, 02 December 2010
- News
- Written by The Progressive Accountant
Sage Getting French North American CEO
- Wednesday, 01 December 2010
- News
- Written by The Progressive Accountant
As Sage reported North American revenue had dropped for the year ended September 30, it also said that Sue Swenson, CEO of the largest unit in Sage's organization, will retire next year from the position she has held since March 2008 to be replaced by the current CEO of Sage France. That's following Guy Berruyer, another Frenchman, having become chief executive of the British parent Sage Group in October.
Practice Features Looming on Mobile
Tax and accounting professionals are requesting new features for mobile applications faster than the vendors can produce them. And It's clear that users are embracing mobile practice management, tax research and other features that have hit the market in the last few months and which are going to multiply rapidly over short-term, including time entry and efile status tracking.
Read more...CBIZ Hikes CFO's Severance Terms
- Tuesday, 30 November 2010
- News
- Written by The Progressive Accountant
CBiz has approved a substantial hike in severance pay for CFO Ware H. Grove if he is terminated for any reason other than cause and if he were to voluntarily leave his job in the event of a change of control. The new agreement increases severance pay and benefits with the severance worth about $832,000.
Read more...Quickcharts to Track Financial Reform
- Tuesday, 30 November 2010
- New Products
- Written by Bob Scott
QuickCharts, a new product from Wolters Kluwer Law & Business enables users to select and review key elements such as added, amended and/or repealed laws, effective dates and new agency guidance, opinions, rules and regulations. QuickCharts also include links to the underlying primary source material contained in the CCH Federal Banking Law.
GilmanCiocia Needs More Capital
GilmanCiocia says it needs additional capital to fund acquisitions and to repay nearly $4 million in debt this week. The company, which has financial planning and tax and accounting businesses, said that capital would be raised through private offerings, such as the one that brought in $500,000 this month. The information was contained in Gilman’s SEC filing for the first quarter ended September 30.
XCM 8.0 Work Flow Enhancements
- Tuesday, 23 November 2010
- New Products
- Written by The Progressive Accountant
Enhancements to XCM 8.0, a workflow software application, have given users greater flexibility in designing and saving customized report templates in XCM Reports. Also new is Auto-Rollver which can automatically roll forward completed tasks, such as tax returns done each year for client.
Read more...2010 Bob Scott's Insights VAR Stars Awards
Maybe any company that’s still in the reselling business after the last two years should be categorized as a star. Because where once VARs were focusing on growth, the last two years has been more about surviving Although some have been some real stars that bucked the trend, this has been a period in which even good organizations took a big hit.
But first, it is necessary to define a VAR Star. In this case, candidates have a practice involving the sale of mid-market financial software. While most derive significant revenue from other sources, accounting software is the core to their business.
Go here to download the Bob Scott's Insights 2010 VAR Stars...
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