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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...Real Estate Audit Aid Debuts
- Thursday, 11 December 2014
- New Products
- Written by The Progressive Accountant
PPC's Practice Aids for Audits of Real Estate covers audits of nonpublic entities engaged in developing, managing and owning real estate projects for their own use or for sale to others. This includes audits of real estate operators, real estate developers (including homebuilders) and retail land sales developers.
PCAOB, SEC Discipline 15 Firms
- Monday, 08 December 2014
- News
- Written by The Progressive Accountant
Fifteen accounting firms have drawn disciplinary action from the Securities and Exchange Commission and Public Company Accounting Oversight Board. All of the actions involve the regulators' findings that the firms violated independence standards by using data provided from broker-dealer audit clients to prepare financial statements for those same clients.
SmartVault Gets $4.5 Million
- Thursday, 04 December 2014
- News
- Written by The Progressive Accountant
SmartVault, which makes online document storage, has received $4.5 million in second-round funding. The investors include the founders of CyrusOne and original investors in Softlayer. The company said the capital will enable it to accelerate development of its core offering and to scale operations to support its integration of the online storage capability with Intuit's Lacerte and ProSeries professional tax preparation products.
Accountants Key to Sage One?
Sage is suggesting accounting firms are the key to its ability to sell its web-based Sage One application in the United States. While the product is in its early days in this country, its penetration lags and it will take a long time to establish the cloud application here, Steve Kelly, the new chief executive, said in this week's webcast of fiscal 2014 results.
Intuit Moving to Usage-based Pricing
Intuit will increasingly shift its software pricing towards a usage-based model. That approach will show up across the board in the company's payments, payroll and accounting products, according to Neil Williams, Intuit's CFO. The shift is in line with trends brought about by web-based software products.
Sage: Tool Base for Client Advice
- Wednesday, 03 December 2014
- New Products
- Written by The Progressive Accountant
Sage has introduced an analytical tool called Sage View that the company says will help accountants provide advisory services to client. But software publishers introduced those kinds of tools in the early 2000s and they went nowhere. So what does Sage think is different now?
Intuit CEO Pay Up One Third
- Tuesday, 02 December 2014
- News
- Written by The Progressive Accountant
Intuit CEO Brad Smith had a very good fiscal 2014 when it came to compensation. Smith received $16.5 million in total pay for the year ended July 31, up 33 percent from $12.5 million in fiscal 2013. The total was pushed up by option awards, which more than doubled to $3.5 million for the recently ended year, up from $1.6 million.
Xero Adds Three U.S Leaders
- Tuesday, 25 November 2014
- News
- Written by The Progressive Accountant
Cloud accounting vendor Xero has strengthened its management team in the United States with the hiring of three executives. The Australian company placed new leaders in key business areas as the it regroups from the departure of Peter Karpas in September as the CEO of the company's North America operations after seven months.
QB Online Exceeds Intuit's Forecast
Intuit is adding QuickBooks Online subscribers at a faster rate than expected. In a recent earnings webcast, the Mountain View, Calif.-based software vendor said there were 739,000 QBO subscribers when the first quarter ended on October 31, an increase of 43 percent from 516,000 a year earlier. Intuit has expected to hit 715,000. The company also report strong international growth with 103,000 subscribers, a 170-percent increase.
Yearli W-2, 1099 System
- Monday, 24 November 2014
- New Products
- Written by The Progressive Accountant
Yearli, a federal, state and recipient W-2 and 1099 reporting platform, can generate, file, print and mail all related forms. The cloud-base system comes with three options—Core, Performance, and Desktop—which provide different function and pricing levels.
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