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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...BNA Gets New CEO
- Tuesday, 10 January 2012
- News
- Written by The Progressive Accountant
Greg McCaffery, who served as president and COO of the Bureau of National Affairs, has become CEO and president of the unit that is now known as Bloomberg BNA. He replaces Paul Wojcik who had held the job since 2007 and remains as chairman. The changes stem from BNA's acquisition last year by Bloomberg.
Intuit's GoPayment Going Global
- Tuesday, 10 January 2012
- New Products
- Written by The Progressive Accountant
Intuit is taking its GoPayment mobile credit card app and card reader global with its first move into another country--into Canada. The company also said it would begin shipping a free re-designed card reader in both the United States and Canada. The Canadian products are scheduled to be available early this year. No schedule was discussed for releasing the app in other countries.
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Read more...Man Who Defrauded Crooked Preparer Sentenced
- Friday, 06 January 2012
- News
- Written by The Progressive Accountant
A Mesa, Ariz., man who stole from a tax preparer who conducted a Ponzi scheme was sentenced to 63 months in prison for his role in money laundering and defrauding the Internal Revenue Service. Wayne A. Mounts and his co-defendant, Gino Carlucci, were convicted in a trial in July for stealing large sums of money from tax preparer, Joseph Flickinger, who went to prison for mail and wire fraud, and from Flickinger's clients and associates. The two also set up Flickinger for arrest.
Read more...N.Y.Preparer Admits to False Tax Returns
- Friday, 06 January 2012
- News
- Written by Tamera Loerzel
A Dix Hill, N.Y.-based tax preparer has pleaded guilty to preparing at least 56 false federal tax returns. Howard Levine, who owned and operated Milaur Associates, made the admission this week in U.S. District Court in the Eastern District of New York in Central Islip, N.Y. He faces up to six years in prison and a fine of up to $500,000. Read more...
2012 and Technology: More of the Same
California CPA Firm Draws PCAOB Censure
- Thursday, 29 December 2011
- News
- Written by The Progressive Accountant
A San Francisco CPA firm has been censured by the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board. The board also levied a $2,000 penalty against Reuben E. Price & Co. for failing to file annual reports for 2010 and 2011 and pay fees for those years. Reuben E. Price & Co., which is owned by CPA Richard A. Price, withdrew its PCAOB registration after complying with the PCAOB reporting requirements and paying fees.
Intuit Pointing Some QB Users to Intacct
Intuit and Intacct are doing a promotion that is aimed at growing QuickBooks users. The marketing piece is designed to push QuickBooks users who are outgrowing the Intuit product to look at Intacct's Best Practices Financial Management Kit. An Intuit spokesperson said the program is an experiment to determine the needs of such users.
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Freed Maxick Buys McGladrey Practice
- Thursday, 29 December 2011
- News
- Written by The Progressive Accountant
McGladrey & Pullen has sold its Buffalo, N,Y, non-attest tax and consulting practices to Freed Maxick & Battaglia. The latter firm previously operated in an alternative practice structure with RSM McGladrey.
CCH Enhances CompleteTax
- Tuesday, 27 December 2011
- New Products
- Written by The Progressive Accountant
CompleteTax, CCH's consumer tax preparation application a has new bookmarking feature that places reminders in the sections of a return for which more information is needed. Users can also access the 2011 federal tax estimator from the CompleteTax website.
DOC.It Adds Client Portal
- Friday, 23 December 2011
- New Products
- Written by The Progressive Accountant
The new Doc.It .Net Client Portal accelerates workflow by enabling firms and clients to send and receive documents and files of any size securely. Setup of client portals is made through pre-configured folder templates and there is auto-email notification to the firm or client when files are uploaded.
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