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Rippling Expands EOR Program 2
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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...Thomson Debuts Checkpoint Edge
- Wednesday, 19 June 2019
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- Written by The Progressive Accountant
Thomson Reuters has introduced Checkpoint Edge, described as an artificial intelligence-based tax research platform. It will be commercially available next week.
Cloud Vendor Acumatica Acquired
- Wednesday, 19 June 2019
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- Written by The Progressive Accountant
Cloud software vendor Acumatica has been acquired by EQT Partners, a private equity group based in Sweden. Terms of the sale were not disclosed.
Xero to Offer Stripe Feed
- Tuesday, 18 June 2019
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- Written by The Progressive Accountant
Xero is developing the ability to offer a direct feed over Stripe, th ecompany said this week. CTO Craig Walker, who said the capability will be available in August, said the direct feed will be similar to ay bank feed into Xero.
KPMG Assessed $50-Million Penalty
- Tuesday, 18 June 2019
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- Written by The Progressive Accountant
KPMG has been hit with a $50-million civil money penalty by the SEC. The levy stems from issues that go beyond well-publicized leaking of confidential information from the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board to former KPMG auditors to cheating on training exams and deleting documents.
Block to Buy Wave for $405 Million
- Tuesday, 11 June 2019
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- Written by The Progressive Accountant
H&R Block will acquire Wave Financial for $405 million in cash, the tax services tcompany said this week. Wave, based in Toronto, Ont., markets cloud-based small business software and has targeted the growing market of free-lance employees.
AICPA to Administer .CPA Domain
- Tuesday, 11 June 2019
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- Written by The Progressive Accountant
The American Institute of CPAs will soon be in charge of the .cpa Internet domain. The AICPA is in the contract execution phase with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers to administer .cpa.
Avalara to Raise $190+ Million
Avalara plans to fuel expansion with a secondary offering that it expects to raise about $193.2 million. The cloud sales tax software company this week said it will sell three million shares and that proceeds could be as high as $222.3 million if the underwriter’s over-allotment option is exercised.
Intuit Doubles Bookkeeping Test Prices
Intuit is testing the limited sale of QuickBooks Live Bookkeeping. The offer of $400 per month, available this month on QuickBooks.com, is twice the price of an earlier subscription price.
BigTime Snares $14 Million
- Monday, 03 June 2019
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- Written by The Progressive Accountant
BigTime Software has closed a $14 million investment round. The Chicago, Ill.-based firms markets time and billing software for professional services firms.
Bill.com Intros AI-based Platform
- Thursday, 30 May 2019
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- Written by The Progressive Accountant
Bill.com has introduced the Bill.com Intelligent Business Payments Platform. The company says the product, which utilizes artificial intelligence, utilizes its Intelligent Virtual Assistant capability to automatically handle invoices.
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