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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...Intuit to Debut Online Accountant Offering
Intuit is going to replace QuickBooks Online Accountants with a product called QuickBooks Accountant. The new product is designed to increase collaboration between accountants and their clients. But it's also aimed at turning around the reception the current product has received. "The Net Promoter score for accountants is actually negative," according to comments by SVP Dan Wernikoff during this week's Investor's Day.
Ex-Block Franchisee Pleads Guilty
- Monday, 29 September 2014
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- Written by The Progressive Accountant
A woman who owned four H&R Block franchised stores faces up to two years in prison after pleading guilty to a charge that she opened lines of credits using stolen client identities. The store owner, Sherry R. Kelley, age 41, of Exmore, Va., pleaded guilty to one county of aggravated identity theft. She had been indicted on ten counts of aggravated identity theft and ten counts of using others' Social Security numbers.
Read more...Mayer Hoffman McCann Faces SEC Hearing
- Monday, 29 September 2014
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- Written by The Progressive Accountant
Mayer Hoffman McCann faces a hearing on a possible cease-and-desist order from the SEC over a client's owning the stock of the accounting firm's partner, CBIZ. The SEC says the trader-broker client Tradebot's owning the stock meant that MHM's independence was impaired for its audits of Tradebot's financial statements for 2008 through 2012. The hearing of issuing an order will be held within 30 to 60 days of a September 25 notification by the SEC.
Read more...CPA Gets 40 Months for Helping Mob
- Tuesday, 23 September 2014
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- Written by The Progressive Accountant
A Pennsylvania CPA who falsified tax documents to help a mobster get a mortgage loan has been sentenced to 40 months in prison. Howard Drossner of Amber, Pa., had pleaded guilty to a charge of conspiracy to commit wire fraud in a case that involved Lucchese organized crime family member Nicodemo "Nicky" S. Scarfo. But Drossner's involvement went far beyond that act the government said.
Read more...Sage Eyes Firms for Payroll Services
Sage's pending purchase of Paychoice lays the ground for Sage to begin offering payroll services through its accountants network. The acquisition of the Mount Laurel, N.J-based company for $157 million in cash, announced this week, also provides Sage the opportunity to integrate its major accounting software packages with the Paychoice offerings and to cross sell payroll and human resource products.
Intuit Integrates DocuSign in Pro Tax
- Sunday, 21 September 2014
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- Written by The Progressive Accountant
Intuit is integrating DocuSign's Digital Transaction Management (DTM) and electronic signature technology with Intuit Tax Online, Lacerte and Intuit ProSeries. Available for purchase with those products, DocSign enables preparers and clients the ability to add electronic signatures on returns.
Paychex Pay Relies More on Incentives
- Tuesday, 16 September 2014
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- Written by The Progressive Accountant
Paychex rewarded its executives with compensation that reflected an increased reliance on variable pay for the year ended May 31. Compensation for CEO Martin Mucci and two other executives rose by low double-digits, but their base salaries decreased. The increases came from significant boosts in non-equity incentive compensation.
Block in Major Accounting Services Play
H&R Block intends expand its retooled client accounting services program nationally after testing it in Kansas City, Mo., the tax preparation company's hometown. Block is talking to accounting firms that may wish to become franchisees and has a plan to buy firms. All of the candidates will have completed a program from BMRG Advisory Services in order to be considered.
Preparer Gets 135 Months in Fraud
- Tuesday, 16 September 2014
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- Written by The Progressive Accountant
A tax preparer, who formerly operated in North Carolina, has received a 135-month prison sentence for tax fraud, healthcare fraud and money laundering. Claude Arthur Verbal II, now a resident of Miami, Fla., drew the punishment in two different cases after pleading guilty to the charges on April 9.
Vertex SMB Inks Wipfli as a Reseller
- Tuesday, 09 September 2014
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- Written by The Progressive Accountant
Vertex SMB has signed accounting firm Wipfli as a reseller of its sales-tax software. The deal marks the continuation of the signing of high-profile CPA organizations and value-added reseller in its relatively new channel program.
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