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Cloud Accounting Startup Lockstep Closes $10M Series A Funding Round
Founded in 2019, Lockstep helps more than 180 customers process over 800 thousand invoices per month with almost 4 million entities. Lockstep integrates over 40 ERP and accounting solutions into its connected accounting cloud. Lockstep was recently ...
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AICPA News: February 2021
AICPA News is a round-up of recent announcements from the American Institute of CPAs.
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What Came True in 2020 and What’s Next for HR & Benefits in 2021?
Reflecting back on the sum of 2020, we found our predictions didn’t just come true, they exceeded our expectations for being accurate and were widely adopted across many industries in the face of the pandemic. Almost every company pivoted to virtual ...
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Tipalti Partners with Colu, Fusion Partners, and Queue Associates to Transform Payables Processes
Tipalti, a global payables automation platform, has announced three new strategic partnerships to further modernize financial operations for growing companies. The partners include Colu, a civic engagement platform, Fusion Partners, an investment ...
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Digital Payments to Hit $6.6 Trillion in 2021, a 40% Jump in Two Years
The global digital payments industry has seen many innovations over the past few years, including mobile wallets, P2P mobile payments, real-time payments and cryptocurrencies. This new, simple-to-use, cashless payment methods have drawn many users.
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AICPA Accepting Applications for Minority Accounting Scholarships
The George Willie program provides a scholarship and internship to ten ethnic minority accounting students who intend to pursue their CPA licensure. The AICPA doubled the number of scholarships and internships available in 2021.
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Illinois CPA Society and CPA Endowment Fund Accepting Scholarship Applications
These scholarships are designed to support deserving accounting students and future CPAs across the state of Illinois and reward them for their hard work and success thus far. Applicants must be accounting students enrolled at Illinois colleges who ...
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Venture Capital Investment in U.S. Hit Record $156 Billion in 2020
Despite global uncertainty resulting from a number of ongoing events including the COVID 19 pandemic, the US presidential election, Brexit negotiations and trade tensions between the US and China, global VC investment remained very robust in Q4’20, ...