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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...Practice Features Looming on Mobile
Tax and accounting professionals are requesting new features for mobile applications faster than the vendors can produce them. And It's clear that users are embracing mobile practice management, tax research and other features that have hit the market in the last few months and which are going to multiply rapidly over short-term, including time entry and efile status tracking.
Read more...CBIZ Hikes CFO's Severance Terms
- Tuesday, 30 November 2010
- News
- Written by The Progressive Accountant
CBiz has approved a substantial hike in severance pay for CFO Ware H. Grove if he is terminated for any reason other than cause and if he were to voluntarily leave his job in the event of a change of control. The new agreement increases severance pay and benefits with the severance worth about $832,000.
Read more...Quickcharts to Track Financial Reform
- Tuesday, 30 November 2010
- New Products
- Written by Bob Scott
QuickCharts, a new product from Wolters Kluwer Law & Business enables users to select and review key elements such as added, amended and/or repealed laws, effective dates and new agency guidance, opinions, rules and regulations. QuickCharts also include links to the underlying primary source material contained in the CCH Federal Banking Law.
GilmanCiocia Needs More Capital
GilmanCiocia says it needs additional capital to fund acquisitions and to repay nearly $4 million in debt this week. The company, which has financial planning and tax and accounting businesses, said that capital would be raised through private offerings, such as the one that brought in $500,000 this month. The information was contained in Gilman’s SEC filing for the first quarter ended September 30.
XCM 8.0 Work Flow Enhancements
- Tuesday, 23 November 2010
- New Products
- Written by The Progressive Accountant
Enhancements to XCM 8.0, a workflow software application, have given users greater flexibility in designing and saving customized report templates in XCM Reports. Also new is Auto-Rollver which can automatically roll forward completed tasks, such as tax returns done each year for client.
Read more...2010 Bob Scott's Insights VAR Stars Awards
Maybe any company that’s still in the reselling business after the last two years should be categorized as a star. Because where once VARs were focusing on growth, the last two years has been more about surviving Although some have been some real stars that bucked the trend, this has been a period in which even good organizations took a big hit.
But first, it is necessary to define a VAR Star. In this case, candidates have a practice involving the sale of mid-market financial software. While most derive significant revenue from other sources, accounting software is the core to their business.
Go here to download the Bob Scott's Insights 2010 VAR Stars...
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CCH Readying Hosted KnowledgeConnect
CCH is working on a hosted version of its Knowledge Connect, a knowledge management program, after the next tax season. But overall, it's a program probably hasn't had the impact on the market the company has hoped. One reason was the program hit the market during the worst of the economic problems and it was viewed as a discretionary purchase.
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AICPA: Repeal New 1099 Reporting
The American Institute of CPAs has called on Congress to repeal a requirement that businesses making purchases of more than $600 in goods or services from another vendor would have to provide the vendor and the Internal Revenue Service with a Form 1099-Misc. The AICPA termed the requirement "burdensome."
Intuit's Financial Services VP Resigns
- Wednesday, 17 November 2010
- News
- Written by The Progressive Accountant
Sasan Goodarzi resigned his position as SVP and general manager of Intuit Financial Services, a post he has held for slightly more than three years. Goodarzi resigned effective December 10 to take the position of CEO at Nexant, a privately held firm in the clean energy industry. Intuit has named CeCe Morken as VP and GM of the division
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SmartVault Adds Portals in Version 3.2
- Tuesday, 16 November 2010
- New Products
- Written by The Progressive Accountant
SmartVault 3.2 puts the online document management vendor into the portal business and has an option that enables firms to brand client portals. The new version also makes it easier for other developers to integrate their products with the application. "The main new thing is SmartVault is that we are getting into the portal business," says CEO Eric Pulaski.
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