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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...NSA Likes Tax Preparer Testing, But ...
- Thursday, 29 April 2010
- News
- Written by The Progressive Accountant
ALEXANDRIA, Va. — The National Society of Accountants supports tax preparer registration requirements proposed by the Internal Revenue Service, but wants several changes in administration, compliance and enforcement. And it asked to have more preparers covered by requirements, including volunteers. The positions are contained in comments the NSA submitted to the IRS this week.
CCH/Thomson Tax Battle Going International
- Thursday, 29 April 2010
- News
- Written by The Progressive Accountant
With the decision by Wolters Kluwer Tax & Accounting to purchase tax compliance products from Ernst & Young Australia, it's clear that the battle between CCH and Thomson Reuters is starting to heat up in the international tax arena as both make moves in the corporate tax market.
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CCH CorpSystem Sales Tax Office 3.0
- Friday, 23 April 2010
- New Products
- Written by The Progressive Accountant
CorpSystem Sales Tax Office Version 3.0 now incorporates a built-in Customer Exemption Management module that can manage customer exemption certificate information within Sales Tax Office. Exemption information can be exchanged between Sales Tax Office, a company’s accounting software or any third-party Exemption Certificate Management System via Web Services.
BNA Quick Tax Reference for IPhone
- Thursday, 22 April 2010
- New Products
- Written by The Progressive Accountant
ARLINGTON, Va. - BNA Tax & Accounting has launched its first iPhone application, the BNA Quick Tax Reference which is an electronic version of its Quick Tax Reference Guide. The company said users can also expect the introduction of a similar Blackberry application soon.
CEO's Pay Down as CBIZ Cuts Bonuses
- Wednesday, 21 April 2010
- News
- Written by The Progressive Accountant
Steven Gerard, CEO of CBIZ, had a 1 percent decline in total compensation for 2009 as the company cut his bonus for the year by 54.7 percent. Gerard, like other executives whose bonuses also were reduced, made up some ground with a base salary increase. He ended last year with $2.29 million in compensation, down from $2.54 million in 2008.
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Block Lost Returns While TurboTax Sales Rose
- Tuesday, 20 April 2010
- News
- Written by The Progressive Accountant
The continuing boom in online tax preparation led Intuit to a 10-percent increase in sales of its consumer tax software, TurboTax, during the tax season. TurboTax continued to gain at the expense of tax store chains with H&R Block reporting its return total dropped by 4.9 percent. Meanwhile, quarterly results filed by Republic Bancorp showed a increase in net income from refund anticipation loans despite an 11 percent decrease in loan fees.
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Sage Chief Executive Will Leave
- Monday, 19 April 2010
- News
- Written by The Progressive Accountant
The Sage Group has confirmed that Paul Walker, who was been chief executive of the British company for 16 years and has worked at the company for 26 years, will resign. The company did not give a date, but said he would leave "in due course" as the company worked through the transition.
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New CS Professional Suite Web Site Rolling Out
- Wednesday, 14 April 2010
- News
- Written by The Progressive Accountant
Thomson Reuters is rolling out a new Web site for its CS Professional software operations, which include the UltraTax and NetClient lines, that puts an increased emphasis on the services that the company has available, and not just on its software products.
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Intuit Readies Practice Management Suite
Intuit is developing an office management suite for tax and accounting professionals that will also integrate across Lacerte, QuickBooks and Microsoft Outlook. The company is not ready to release specifics about the functionality, but the move would put Intuit in the practice management software market, something that has been missing in its professional line, and give it more products for larger firms.
H&R Block CFO Quittng
- Tuesday, 13 April 2010
- News
- Written by The Progressive Accountant
Becky Shulman, the CFO of H&R Block is leaving the company at the end of the month. And while company didn't link her resignation to any factor, it said she was not leaving for another job and that it would like to expand the job of CFO to include operations. Shulman, who became CFO in March 2008, joined the tax franchisor in 2001 and the company credited her with helping build a strong financial position.
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