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JULY 6, 2020

The Big Four accounting firms will have to put their United Kingdom auditing and consulting practices in separate business units by 2024, but may keep them within the same parent companies, under regulations announced today by the Financial Reporting Council. The measures by the U.K.’s

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NOVEMBER 15, 2018

As the peaks and valleys of blockchain hype continue to rise and fall, more doubt has surfaced over the future of distributed ledger technology, particularly in the area of B2B payments. Analysts point to the challenges associated with adoption and implementation of blockchain-powered B2B payment solutions as a key hurdle for the technology.

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OCTOBER 29, 2020

A number of large accounting groups have turned down requests to audit Greensill Capital as the SoftBank -backed firm mulls a stock market listing, the Financial Times (FT) reported. The United Kingdom-based organization has become one of the most highly valued private finance firms in the nation as of its 2011 establishment.

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AUGUST 7, 2020

With the new platform, cargo providers will have access to more convenient payment options like direct ACH debits, prefunded accounts or credit card payments, and will be able to deliver speedier payments and worry less about risk due to the more secure system, the press release says.

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JUNE 11, 2020

With market volatility and economic pressure higher than it has been in more than a decade, the ways businesses manage and account for their money is inevitably included in that wave of operational change. That means significant implications for the ways accountants and auditors operate both within an enterprise and externally from it.

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JANUARY 26, 2021

Usually, the auditing workflow involves looking at expense reports filed by employees, with a focus on identifying potentially erroneous or even fraudulent transactions. Digitizing and centralizing spend across various departments and workflows is the first step to enhancing the auditing process, said McCrossan.

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OCTOBER 9, 2020

Venture capital funding landed at supplier payment and compliance automation firms this week, among other B2B innovators that raised money. The big B2B investment of the week was Tipalti , which landed $150 million in new funding on a $2 billion valuation. PYMNTS rounds up the latest funding rounds below.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Today In B2B payments, NeweggBusiness integrates business financing and payment terms via Behalf, while Deutsche Bank expands its cash management offering into Australia. Plus, GE shutters its staff audit program, and Park Place Payments partners up for small business B2B payments. GE To End Rotational Staff Audit Program.

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MARCH 13, 2018

Forty percent of audits inspected by the International Forum of Independent Audit Regulators (IFIAR) included serious problems, according to news from The Financial Times on Monday (March 12). The IFIAR found accounting lapses in about 40 percent of the 918 audits of public companies inspected in 2017. In the U.K.

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AUGUST 19, 2019

Firms auditing expenses through manual processes and outdated technologies risk missing the chance to flag erroneous or fraudulent submissions from vendors and employees. Deploying technology — especially artificial intelligence (AI) — can streamline the auditing process and boost cost savings significantly.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Accounts payable (AP) teams are now taking a fresh look at the potential of tools such as virtual cards to ease their transaction frictions. The September CFO Guide To Digitizing B2B Payments explores how corporate buyers are streamlining their B2B transactions with digital payments and supplier onboarding tools.

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OCTOBER 28, 2020

Today in B2B payments, accounts payable automation firm CPS finds a buyer. Plus, a new FinTech, OpenEnvoy, launches to combat B2B payments fraud, while PCMI collaborates on B2B payments automation, and OpenPayd launches an FX-as-a-Service solution. REPAY Inks Deal For B2B AP Automation Firm CPS. 27) announcement.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Even with the digitization of the invoice, fraud remains a rampant problem, and it's not only the buy-side of the B2B equation faced with the consequences. I'd be willing to be that any controller or CFO that doesn't have an automated auditing process is worried about it.". A Straightforward Challenge.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

A research firm has discovered that the number of material accounting mistakes made by U.S. Massachusetts-based Audit Analytics looked at disclosures from more than 9,000 U.S.-listed For many, the mistakes were discovered when corporate finance teams were changing accounting paperwork to comply with the new U.S.

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JULY 2, 2020

The former chair of the London Stock Exchange is calling for a thorough overhaul of audit standards in the wake of the $2.1 Auditors should be required “to find fraud rather than stumble over it,” Donald Brydon , appointed last year to overhaul audit standards in the United Kingdom, told the Financial Times.

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MARCH 15, 2019

Anxieties that automation will replace humans have waned in the accounting sector, as industry players begin to realize that technology can actually help accountants play a more important role for their small business (SMB) customers as advisors and guides, rather than replacing their roles outright. Tax reform in the U.S.

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AUGUST 16, 2020

the newest update to its software, to help companies with faster account reconciliation, artificial intelligence, systems integration and more, a press release says. All of it will aid companies in reducing time spent on task management and audit preparation, which will help eliminate the risk of making mistakes in that area.

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APRIL 26, 2020

Accounts receivable (AR) platform SurePayd is responding to the coronavirus pandemic by reducing the costs for its remote migration audit services for the next two months for companies that need to go on the cloud during the crisis, according to a press release.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Parliament will commence an inquiry into the nation’s corporate auditing market, which is currently dominated by the Big Four accounting firms Deloitte, PwC, EY and KPMG, adding new pressure on an industry already being probed by other policymakers. Reports in Reuters on Sunday (November 11) said the U.K.

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JUNE 23, 2017

We break down all the B2B FinTech funding rounds below. Corporate Accounting. million in fresh funding for Canada-based Hubdoc is a show of support for the company’s cloud accounting solution, which targets automated financial document collection and processing. EaseCentral.

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JUNE 19, 2019

Corporate audit and accounting company PwC is expanding its existing collaboration with small business cloud accounting company Xero. Asia and Europe to Xero’s cloud accounting technologies. “Internationally, less than 20 percent of small businesses use cloud accounting technologies,” she said.

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DECEMBER 27, 2019

.’s so-called Big Four accounting giants — PwC, Deloitte, KPMG and EY — have reportedly set aside more than $212 million in preparation for potential fines ahead as auditing scrutiny grows. million in fines to the auditing industry, three times the value of fines it had issued in the year prior.

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JANUARY 10, 2020

B2B technology startups continue to gain valuable attention among venture capitalists. In a recent report , seed investors explored why their focus has turned to enterprise startups as opposed to consumer-facing technology firms after the publication’s analysis revealed that today’s seed investments favor B2B startups over B2C.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2019

This shift has been so acute that small business cloud accounting firm Xero is even petitioning the Oxford English Dictionary to change the definition of “accountant” to one that includes the word “advise.” Changing Demand. That demand for human talent, by the way, hasn’t decreased.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

In a survey of more than 500 small and medium-sized business (SMBs) accountants and bookkeepers, business and financial software company Intuit found a few factors that frustrate the profession. It surpassed a lack of use of accounting software and not keeping on top of bills, cited by 60 percent and 57 percent, respectively.

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DECEMBER 7, 2020

Today in B2B payments, Revolut launches a new solution for its business customers, and MonetaGo collaborates to combat trade finance fraud. Plus, Pioneer Bank sues over MyPayrollHR scandal, Procurement Partners secures new funding, and ImagineTime partners on FinTech for accountants. Serent Capital Invests In Procurement Partners.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

When it comes to B2B payments and supply chain management , many of those opportunities have surfaced as a result of some troubling vulnerabilities that have come to light in the midst of the pandemic. Accounts receivable isn't the only way to improve the buyer-supplier relationship in the flow of B2B transactions.

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JANUARY 9, 2019

In a 2017 report from job hunting site Indeed , researchers found that “small business accountant” was nowhere to be found in the top-10 job positions sought after by most small business employers. “Bookkeeping is the low-value work performed by accounting firms,” he said.

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MARCH 19, 2018

regulators are encouraging an inquiry into whether the market’s Big Four accountancy firms — KPMG, Deloitte, PwC and EY — should be broken up and forced to spin off their auditing arms, reports said. So, it seems to me that we ought to have another look at [the audit market].”. million related to its audit of Aero Inventory.

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JUNE 20, 2018

’s accounting watchdog, the Financial Reporting Council (FRC), has now levied more fines in two days than it has in the entirety of 2017, according to Bloomberg reports on Tuesday (June 19). Parliament committee found, adding that the FRC identified issues with Carillion accounts in 2015, but failed to act on them.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2018

You could call accounts payable (AP) the last mile of payments in a way. In the B2B realm, the movement to get suppliers paid on time may become a struggle, mired as AP management is in the paper chase of manual effort. These are firms that have failed audits or are about to fail audits.

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NOVEMBER 26, 2018

It’s common sense that a corporation would want its C-Suite to have some knowledge of accounting practices, and one could assume that a lack of understanding of corporate accounting may heighten the risk for misstatements on financial reports. ” Below, PYMNTS breaks down some of the key data points from the research.

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JUNE 6, 2019

auditing giant to overhaul operations amid growing regulatory scrutiny on the industry. PwC is reportedly planning to ramp up its auditing operations by hiring 500 more auditors across the U.K., The company will also deploy a digital audit team, strengthen training operations and review existing clients. .”

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

This week, the largest funding round went to a B2B startup developing autonomous trucking technology to boost fleet efficiency, with other rounds landing at small business bookkeeping, workforce communications, and IBAN fraud mitigation startups for a combined $236 million-plus landing at B2B startups.

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OCTOBER 9, 2019

B2B payments friction isn’t only experienced on the payer side. Often, accounts receivable challenges can cause significant disruptions to operations, and those consequences can ripple along the supply chain both up and downstream. These hurdles can also stifle electronic payments adoption in the B2B arena. Failure to Act.

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OCTOBER 1, 2019

have led the Financial Reporting Council (FRC) to enact more stringent accounting standards, The Guardian reported on Monday (Sept. In a statement, the FRC’s Chief Executive Stephen Haddrill said, “High-quality audit protects the public interest, meets the needs of users of financial statements and underpins investor confidence.

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OCTOBER 6, 2016

Entryless, a cloud-based financial network that allows small and medium-sized businesses to react more quickly to the needs of their buyers and suppliers, announced an integration with accountancy platform Sage Live. This integration will improve companies’ ability to pay bills and complete accounts seamlessly.

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