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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...ADP Run Now Available for Android
- Wednesday, 18 May 2011
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- Written by The Progressive Accountant
The online payroll service, Run Powered by ADP, is now available for the Android smartphone operating platform. Run clients can download the free mobile app for managing and processing payroll for employees and contractors through the mobile device. The payroll service was made available on the iPhone, iPad and iPod last fall with support for Blackberrys soon to be available.
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AICPA Sees Strong Grad Demand
Nearly 90 percent of accounting firms will hire as many or more graduates this year as they did in 2010. And 71 percent of the largest firms anticipate hiring will go up this year, according to the 2011 "Trends in the Supply of Accounting Graduates and the Demand for Public Accounting Recruits" report from the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants.
Paychex CFO to Retire
- Tuesday, 17 May 2011
- News
- Written by The Progressive Accountant
John Morphy, the chief financial officer at Paychex, is retiring after 15 years in that position. He will be succeeded by Efrain Rivera, a former CFO at Bausch & Lomb. Rivera takes over on June 1 while Morphy will stay at the payroll services company through the end of the year.
Read more...McGladrey to Resell NetSuite
- Tuesday, 10 May 2011
- News
- Written by The Progressive Accountant
RSM McGladrey has signed on with NetSuite to sell that company's web-based financial software. The announcement was made at NetSuite's Suiteworld, a combined user and channel conference now underway in San Francisco. McGladrey's move was merely the latest example of CPA firms re-entering the market to resell financial applications and is much larger than the typical NetSuite reseller.
BNA Profits Up as Revs Sag
Revenue dipped by 2.1 percent at the Bureau of National Affairs while lower operating costs, particularly for retirement benefits, helped the company to a 33-percent increase in net income for the first quarter ended March 27. Meanwhile, the company's software operations continued to provide a disproportionate amount of operating profits.
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Bob Scott's Top 100 VARS
Our sister property Bob Scott's Insights recently announced it's ranking of the Top 100 Value Added Resellers of software. Below is an excerpt and a link to the full Special Report.
A lot of money has disappeared from the reseller channel. And although many resellers report that business has improved, it is improving from a weak 2009 and early 2010. That said, the first Bob Scott’s Insights Top 100 VARs features some companies that did well in the worst of times.
Go here to download the Bob Scott's Top 100 VARS...
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Checkpoint Learning CPE Bundles
- Tuesday, 10 May 2011
- New Products
- Written by The Progressive Accountant
Thomson Reuters has produced three subscription packages to manage accountants' certification requirements. The packages provide Checkpoint Learning course formats, including tools to automatically track certification requirements from 100 regulators. The options are the Compliance CPE Package, the Professional CPE Package and the Premier CPE Package.
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FDIC Swamps Republic with RAL Charges
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. has swamped Republic Bank with charges of violating federal regulations regarding truth in lending and safe banking practices after sending bank examiners on hundreds of visits during tax season. The charges are aimed at punishing the bank for its offering Refund Anticipation Loans during the tax season after the FDIC declared RALS to be unsafe banking practices. The agency seeks a $2 million monetary penalty, pending a hearing.
ADP Boosts Outlook on Wage Growth
Automatic Data Processing has increased its forecast for revenue growth for it
s year based on strong improvement in important metrics for its third quarter ended March 31. The company increased its forecast to 9-percent-to-10-percent growth from the prior estimate of a 7-percent-to-8-percent increase for the year ending June 30.
H&R Block Names New CEO
H&R Block has named William C. Cobb, a former eBay executive, as its new president and CEO who will replace Alan Bennett, who is retiring in September. Meanwhile, the company said the number of returns it prepared for the tax season was up by 6.1 percent over the 2009 tax season, as the number of online tax returns increased. However, the overall growth lagged both rival chain, Liberty Tax, and sales of Intuit's TurboTax, which both rose by 11.1 percent for the same period.
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