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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...CCH Upgrades TeamMate
- Monday, 10 August 2009
- New Products
- Written by The Progressive Accountant
201 CMR 17 – Massachusetts’ New Regulation
- Friday, 26 June 2009
- News
- Written by Barry MacQuarrie CPA.CITP
Massachusetts has set the gold standard when it comes to privacy regulations. Their new regulation, 201 CMR 17, is entitled Standards for The Protection of Personal Information of Residents of the Commonwealth and can be found here. The regulations apply to “all persons that own, license, store or maintain personal information about a resident of the Commonwealth”.
Essentially, the regulations apply to any company that employs residents of Massachusetts and any CPA firm that prepares returns for Massachusetts residents. The requirements of the regulation are comprehensive and will require organizations to devote significant amounts of time, money and energy to ensure compliance.
Read more...INTUIT ANNOUNCES POWER TO GET MORE DONE STIMULUS GRANT WINNERS
- Monday, 22 June 2009
- News
- Written by Alex Vuchnich
Over 700 participated in the Intuit initiative, which was created to help accounting professionals succeed in uncertain economic times. Each winner receives $10,000 in cash and up to $10,000 in Intuit products and services. They include:
I Hate to Say This, but ……
- Monday, 22 June 2009
- News
- Written by The Progressive Accountant
I choose to live in my home state, South Dakota. It’s a wonderful place full of smart, courteous, hard working people that produce an economy that, compared to the rest of the US, is almost recession-proof. I have no complaints about my income-tax free home state but I do wish that AT&T would hurry and add primary coverage so we could get the Apple iPhone! I’ve seen it, often --- in fact, I actually own an iTouch, the cellular-less first cousin of the iPhone. But, alas, no iPhone for us.
But, as I tweeted two weeks ago I DO have a brand-new shiny Palm Pre that I’m pretty impressed with, so far. It’s been out only 15 days and has only a paltry 30 or so applications in its store. That said it’s interesting to note that Pre owners have downloaded over 750,000 applications in those 15 days. I know I certainly did my part!
Read more...The 29th Annual Midwest Accounting & Finance Showcase
- Saturday, 20 June 2009
- News
- Written by The Progressive Accountant
The Illinois CPA Society will again host its premier annual event for business and financial professionals. The 29th Annual Midwest Accounting & Finance Showcase is being held on Tuesday, August 25 and Wednesday, August 26, 2009 at the Donald E. Stephens Convention Center in Rosemont, Illinois.
The Showcase seeks to provide the information and tools needed to face the challenges of today’s fast changing and unpredictable economic environment, and its keynote presentations reflect the big picture issues of the accounting profession and the current business climate. Keynote sessions include:
Read more...Software as a Service (SaaS) Back to the Time Sharing Future
- Tuesday, 23 June 2009
- News
- Written by Richard Oppenheim CPA
Once upon a time, long, long ago, there was a world, almost forgotten now, where only a few people knew how to type. Since then, computer use has grown exponentially and the range of computer device sizes would make a clothing store proud. Almost everyone is learning how to type so they can, if they choose, use some small percentage of the hundreds of thousands of computing applications available.
One of the ways we used computing applications back in the 1960s was dubbed “Time Sharing.” This system enabled the use of a terminal (keyboard and paper or keyboard and monitor) to send an electronic signal from the terminal connected to a telephone modem connected to a telephone line that would support transport through telephone cabling to a modem connected to a large computer in some other location. Time-sharing gave users access to applications and computing power that could be used as needed. Fees for this service were typically determined by minutes of connect time or on some contractual basis.
Read more...Technology Required: Making 7216 Manageable
- Tuesday, 23 June 2009
- News
- Written by Barry Friedman CPA
Future-thinking firms are taking advantage of the latest and greatest technologies to elevate efficiency at all levels of operation. From automating tax document preparation to delivery of financial statements via portals, technology is at the heart of a well-run and profitable practice. But what about beyond core tax and accounting workflow? Technology certainly has a place in relation to compliance—for example with Internal Revenue Code Section 7216. Disclosure and Use mandates set forth in 7216 are complex and demand significant time investment. Tech-savvy firms realize that technology is the answer to streamlining the compliance process and are starting to transition from traditional, manual processes to a technology-driven approach.
Read more...Sharepoint for the Rest of US
- Friday, 17 April 2009
- News
- Written by Kathy Yakal
In one corner, you’ve got Sharepoint, an extraordinary tool for building office collaboration systems. In the other, generic social media tools like FaceBook and Twitter. What if neither works for your firm?
There’s an option in the middle, “Sharepoint for the rest of us,” as the company calls it. Box.net provides a ready-made framework for collaborating online and sharing files in an office environment. The company recently added full-text search capabilities that support Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, and Excel, as well as PDFs, TXT, and CSV files.
In upcoming weeks, the company plans to add enhancements in areas like collaboration, full-text search, and workflow and project management.
The Business version costs $15/user/month, and there’s a free lite version.
Kathy Yakal
Read more...CPA2Biz and Intacct Form Alliance
- Monday, 06 April 2009
- News
- Written by Alex Vuchnich
The Power to Get More Done - Update
- Thursday, 26 March 2009
- News
- Written by Alex Vuchnich
As previously posted (see http://www.theprogressiveaccountant.com/management-features/intuit-puts-where-its-mouth-is-offers-stimulus-grants-for-firms.html) Intuit recently launched its own version of the suddenly popular “stimulus program”. Today they released more details.
Intuit’s co-sponsors are the National Society of Accountants, the National Association of Enrolled Agents and the National Association of Tax Professionals. These organizations are providing a representative to sit on the panel of judges that will determine the 10 stimulus grant winners.
They also announced the judges --- good people all. (And no, I didn’t accidentally leave my name off the list. I wasn’t invited! Hmmmmm)
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