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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...SEC Bars McGladrey Partner
- Monday, 11 May 2015
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- Written by The Progressive Accountant
A McGladrey partner has been barred from practicing before the Securities and Exchange Commission for at least three years. Simon Lesser, age 58 of Wilmette, Ill., must also pay a $75,000 civil money penalty for what the SEC said was his failure to address related-party relationships in which a hedge fund illegally charged $3 million in expenses to feeder funds.
SFS Receives Call Center Award
- Tuesday, 05 May 2015
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- Written by The Progressive Accountant
Wolters Kluwer CCH Small Firm Services has been named as one of the Top 50 medium-sized call centers in North America. The award was the second consecutive received by the Kennesaw, Ga.-based organization. The award was part of the 2015 Top 100 Call Center awards made by BenchmarkPortal, a research and educational organization for customer contact best practices.
Read more...Blackbaud CEO Earned $4.8 Million
- Tuesday, 28 April 2015
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- Written by The Progressive Accountant
Blackbaud CEO Mike Gianoni earned $4.8 million in 2014 as the executive completed his first full year with the Charleston-S.C.-based nonprofit software vendor. The biggest portion of Gianoni's compensation came via a stock award valued at $2.6 million. Gianoni, hired in November 2013, also received a bonus of $864,277 to offset a lost bonus and equity at his prior job and to assist with relocation.
Xero Uses Rising Revs to Grow
Xero saw an 81-percent increase in subscription revenue for the year ended March 31. But the New Zealand-based cloud accounting software company reported this week that its loss rose by 96 percent as the company chose to focus on growth. Xero also said its U.S.-based CFO Doug Jeffries has resigned after eight weeks on the job.
Security Back as Top CPA Concern
Security reclaimed the top spot among the top issue on the the 25th Anniversary North American Top Technology Initiatives Survey. Security ranked No. in eight of the last 10 years but was displaced by Managing and
Retaining data in the last survey released to the public. The latest effort was conducted by the American Institute of CPAs and Chartered Professional Accountants of Canada.
Abila Names First CFO
- Tuesday, 21 April 2015
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- Written by The Progressive Accountant
Nonprofit software vendor Abila has hired Jeff Cross as the company's first chief financial officer. Cross is in charge of the finance, accounting and legal departments for the Austin, Texas-based company and will primarily be responsible for revenue recognition, forecasting, and merger and acquisition activities.
Intuit Starts Biz Development Team
- Monday, 13 April 2015
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- Written by The Progressive Accountant
Intuit has created a Regional Business Development Team that will works with accountants and ProAdvisors. The program is designed to help practitioners grow their business via the use ofthe company's cloud-based products. The five persons hired initially will educate accountants about cloud applications and provide support and training to help them build a better cloud accounting practice.
CPA Firm Gets AccuFund Honor
- Tuesday, 07 April 2015
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- Written by The Progressive Accountant
Harshwal & Company, a CPA firm with offices in San Diego, Calif., and Albuquerque, N.M., has been named Rookie of the Year by AccuFund. It was the second time the Needham, Mass.-based nonprofit software company has given this award and was made as AccFund presented its 2104 Partner Leadership awards recently to its resellers.
CPA Charged with Stealing $500K from Firm
- Tuesday, 07 April 2015
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- Written by The Progressive Accountant
The managing partner of PKF Pacific Hawaii LLP has been charged with bilking his firm of $500,000 in fraudulent expense claims. CPA Patrick H. Oki, age 45, faces 13 separate felony counts for what were alleged to have been four different reimbursement schemes. A Certified Fraud Examiner, Oki has also served on the board of the Hawaii Society of CPAs since 2008, according to his LinkedIn page.
ZenPayroll Raises $60 Million
- Tuesday, 07 April 2015
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- Written by The Progressive Accountant
Cloud company ZenPayroll has raised $60 million in a round of funding led by Google Capital. The investment brings the company's total funding to $86.1 million. The San Francisco, Calif.-based company operates in 47states and the District of Columbia and will be in all states by the end of the month. ZenPayroll launched operations in California in 2012. It employs 84 people.
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