SMBAccountant

MARCH 6, 2024

Accounting operates within its own language, a system of terms and conventions that serve as the backbone of financial communication and analysis. Understanding this unique language is essential for interpreting financial data, making informed decisions, and effectively navigating the intricate world of business finance. Cash vs. Accrual Accounting Cash accounting records transactions only when cash changes hands, providing a real-time view of cash flow.

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TaxConnex

MARCH 5, 2024

The non-fungible token (NFT) remains a sizzling commodity. These digitized assets denote ownership of such collectibles as sports cards and artwork, even designer digital footwear. Two signs of the size of the sizzle: The online NFT platform OpenSea claims to be worth more than $13 billion. Some NFTs alone on OpenSea have sold for millions and in recent years the average sales price of an NFT (an admittedly volatile commodity) jumped from about $150 to $4,000.

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CPA Practice

MARCH 4, 2024

By Jo Constantz, Bloomberg News (TNS) Mistakes continued to pile up this earnings season in the wake of Lyft Inc.’s market-roiling typo : Planet Fitness Inc., Mister Car Wash Inc. and Rivian Automotive Inc. all had to correct their quarterly earnings statements. These types of errors shake investor confidence and in extreme cases can result in heavy fines from the U.S.

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RogerRossmeisl

MARCH 5, 2024

The credit for increasing research activities, often referred to as the research and development (R&D) credit, is a valuable tax break available to certain eligible small businesses. Claiming the credit involves complex calculations, which we’ll take care of for you. But in addition to the credit itself, be aware that there are two additional features that are especially favorable to small businesses: Eligible small businesses ($50 million or less in gross receipts for the three prior tax ye

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Speaker: Amanda Adams, Fractional CFO, CPA

Are you ready to elevate your accounting processes for 2025? 🚀 Join us for an exclusive webinar led by Amanda Adams, a seasoned fractional CFO and CPA passionate about transforming back-office operations for finance teams. This session will cover critical best practices and process improvements tailored specifically for accounting professionals.

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Insightful Accountant

MARCH 5, 2024

Ashleigh Sutter explores the challenges of transitioning from bookkeeping to tax, offering insights on starting, gaining alignment, executing, and maintaining employee engagement during change.

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Accounting Today

MARCH 4, 2024

When someone leaves, they need to be replaced and with that comes orientation, training, introduction to your systems and procedures and to your culture.

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LSLCPAs

MARCH 5, 2024

Our 2016 post on Accounts Receivable Fraud might seem “outdated” in the tech-heavy 2024 AI-assisted receivables world, but the principles are the same deep down: fraud happens. The bigger problem today is that all this technology makes the money disappear quicker and sometimes, harder to track and hidden more thoroughly. In response, you and your. The post Accounts Receivable Fraud: How to Stay One Step Ahead in 2024 appeared first on LSL CPAs.

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CPA Practice

MARCH 4, 2024

Breaking news: Accountants aren’t robots—they’re human beings and sometimes they make mistakes at work. But a new survey from research and consulting firm Gartner finds that capacity constraints are the leading factor to more errors being made than usual in accounting and finance departments. The survey of 497 professionals working in the controllership function, conducted last July, revealed that 18% of accountants said they make financial errors at least daily, with a third making at least a f

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Insightful Accountant

MARCH 6, 2024

Last week our calendars all marked a unique day that only comes about once every four years. Leap Day, February 29th, this day intends to sync the calendar with the solar year. It still has its affects tax planning, so discuss with clients.

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BurklandAssociates

MARCH 5, 2024

From what to look for when hiring a Fractional CFO to when to make the hire, this article answers eight top questions we hear from startup founders. The post Hiring a Fractional CFO for Your Startup – Answers to Common Questions appeared first on Burkland.

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Speaker: Abdi Ali, Sr. Lease Accounting Consultant

Join this insightful webinar with industry expert Abdi Ali, who will discuss the challenges that can arise from managing lease accounting with spreadsheets! He will share real-world examples of errors, compliance issues, and risks that may be present within your spreadsheets. Learn how these tools, while useful, can sometimes lead to inefficiencies that affect your time, resources, and peace of mind.

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RogerRossmeisl

MARCH 5, 2024

With the high cost of college, many parents begin saving with 529 plans when their children are babies. Contributions to these plans aren’t tax deductible, but they grow tax deferred. Earnings used to pay qualified education expenses can be withdrawn tax-free. However, earnings used for other purposes may be subject to income tax plus a 10% penalty.

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Withum

MARCH 2, 2024

In a surprise decision Friday night, a federal district court ruled that the Corporate Transparency Act (“CTA”) is unconstitutional, effectively placing the Beneficial Ownership Information (BOI) reporting on hold. By way of background, the CTA was enacted on January 1, 2021 as part of the 2021 National Defense Authorization Act as an attempt to prevent money laundering and tax evasion by requiring new reporting for certain companies doing business in the US.

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Accounting Today

MARCH 6, 2024

A divided Securities and Exchange Commission voted to approve a new rule that would require companies to provide climate-related disclosures to investors, but scaled back the original proposal to exclude disclosure of so-called Scope 3 emissions from their supply chains, and exempt many smaller companies.

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CPA Practice

MARCH 7, 2024

By Leada Gore, al.com (TNS) The IRS has a warning that expenditures for general health and wellness aren’t considered medical expenses, regardless of some advertising claims to the contrary. In a bulletin issued “amid concerns about people being misled,” the IRS said personal expenses—things like food and general wellness purchases—are not deductible or reimbursable under health flexible spending or reimbursement arrangements, health savings accounts, or medical savings accounts.

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Join us in this webinar, where we share best practices on how to think about the reconciliation work each month, when best to do reconciliations, how they should be prepared, and some common pitfalls to avoid. Learning Objectives: This course objective is to understand how to properly prepare and review balance sheet reconciliations and its impact on the financial statements.

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RogerRossmeisl

MARCH 5, 2024

Business valuators sometimes consider major events that happen after the valuation date. For example, what if a business is subsequently sold, files for bankruptcy, discovers new technological advances, or experiences a major fraud loss, data breach or natural catastrophe? Such events could potentially affect a business’s fair market value, but whether a valuator will consider a particular event depends on the facts and circumstances of the valuation assignment.

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Withum

MARCH 5, 2024

In this episode of Cryptonomix, Mark Eckerle sits down with Seth Priebatsch, President at Groma, a full-service real estate development and management firm with a blockchain twist.

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Accounting Today

MARCH 4, 2024

Investors have filed a lawsuit against an accounting firm alleging it helped a client maintain a Ponzi scheme involving cash advances that led to the loss of millions of dollars.

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CPA Practice

MARCH 5, 2024

Technical skills and a meticulous eye for detail have always been the bedrock of the accounting profession. Yet, amid the focus on balance sheets and financial analytics, there’s a vital element that’s often overlooked—Emotional Intelligence (EI). As we venture through the evolving landscape of modern business, the ability to adeptly navigate our own emotions and those of others has become indispensable for accountants looking to elevate their service beyond the numbers.

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Speaker: David Warren and Kevin O’Neill Stoll

Transitioning to a usage-based business model offers powerful growth opportunities but comes with unique challenges. How do you validate strategies, reduce risks, and ensure alignment with customer value? Join us for a deep dive into designing effective pilots that test the waters and drive success in usage-based revenue. Discover how to develop a pilot that captures real customer feedback, aligns internal teams with usage metrics, and rethinks sales incentives to prioritize lasting customer eng

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RogerRossmeisl

MARCH 5, 2024

If you want to withdraw cash from your closely held corporation at a low tax cost, the easiest way is to distribute cash as a dividend. However, a dividend distribution isn’t tax efficient since it’s taxable to you to the extent of your corporation’s “earnings and profits,” but it’s not deductible by the corporation. 5 different approaches Thankfully, there are some alternative methods that may allow you to withdraw cash from a corporation while avoiding dividend treatment.

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Withum

MARCH 7, 2024

There is a lot going on with the employee retention credit (ERC) these days and it can be hard to keep up with the latest developments. From Congressional proposals to changes in IRS procedures, change is afoot and more is expected in the near future. Below is a summary of the latest thoughts on various issues that are of interest to those who have already claimed the ERC or are about to claim the ERC.

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Accounting Today

MARCH 5, 2024

An Alabama federal district court held that the Corporate Transparency Act is unconstitutional, stating it "exceeds the Constitution's limits on Congress' power.

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Going Concern

MARCH 7, 2024

Per The Telegraph , Big 4 firms across the pond are now “banning” applicants from using ChatGPT and its equivalents to help with applications because they’re afraid AI tools “will help them cheat the system.” The irony. Big Four accountants have warned applicants not to use AI to complete applications or online assessments during the hiring process.

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The first Market Momentum Index: AI and Unstructured Data Management, conducted by Deep Analysis with support from AIIM and M-Files, surveyed 500 enterprises across various industries to assess their readiness to employ AI. The results reveal that AI is already far more embedded into organizations' operations than previously realized. These findings and more insights have been brought to you in the "Market Momentum Index: AI and Unstructured Data Management.

RogerRossmeisl

MARCH 5, 2024

If you operate your business in multiple locations (as with retail or restaurant chains), you face some extraordinary fraud-prevention challenges. After all, you can’t be everywhere at once. And the more locations you operate, the harder they are to monitor. Without the appropriate checks and balances in place, fraud losses in one store could threaten the health of your entire company.

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CPA Practice

MARCH 4, 2024

By Venus Wu and Crystal Li. In October 2023, California became the first state to pass regulations for reporting greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs). The regulations are outlined in two bills, the Climate Corporate Data Accountability Act (SB-253) and the Climate-Related Financial Risk Act (SB-261). These laws apply for both private and public U.S. companies that do business in California (not just those with a physical presence in California).

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Accounting Today

MARCH 5, 2024

The 25 accounting practices with the highest revenue growth in percentage terms in 2023 from Accounting Today's Top 100 and Regional Leaders list.

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Going Concern

MARCH 5, 2024

Should you quit during busy season? It’s a question that has plagued Big 4 accountants since the dawn of billable hours. While the consensus used to be that quitting during busy season makes you a tremendous piece of s**t without exception , attitudes toward bailing at the worst possible time have changed over the years. It’s still frowned upon and considered rude but perhaps not the permanent reputation killer it once was.

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Speaker: Mark Stovel

When it comes to automating, many firms focus on finding the latest tech, believing that efficiency is something achieved through new tools. Yet true efficiency is achieved by delivering real value to clients, not merely by upgraded systems. Without a clear approach, no level of automation can overcome the complexities of serving every client’s needs.

RogerRossmeisl

MARCH 5, 2024

Business bankruptcies increased 40.4%, from 13,481 to 18,926, from 2022 to 2023, according to statistics released by the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts. Solvency opinions may help creditors determine whether a liquidating debtor can meet repayment obligations. They also may come into play in fraudulent conveyance, bankruptcy alter ego and due diligence actions.

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CPA Practice

MARCH 5, 2024

A new survey by business accounting and management software maker BILL shows that small and mid-sized businesses believe innovative technology such as AI and automation are beneficial capabilities for their financial operations. The BILL 2024 State of Financial Automation Report shows they are looking to AI and automation to help them increase efficiency and empower them to redeploy staff to more strategic tasks that can foster innovation and growth.

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Accounting Today

MARCH 8, 2024

The unemployment rate increased two-tenths of a point to 3.9% and the BLS revised downward the job numbers for December and January, indicating some softening in the labor market.

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Insightful Accountant

MARCH 4, 2024

We are excited to announce the members of Insightful Accountant’s inaugural Advisor Panel. The primary purpose of the panel is to help us stay “in touch” with the audience we serve and to continue to provide the content you, our audience, want.

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