“Palestine Action just smashed JP Morgan’s genocidal complicity wide open”

by The Canary @thecanaryuk @palestine
@israel

“In the early hours of Wednesday 14 May, activists from #Palestine #Action targeted Edwards Accountants in Birmingham, and JP Morgan at Victoria Embankment in London. The action drew attention to the two companies dripping in complicity with #Israel’s genocide in Gaza”

https://www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2025/05/16/palestine-action-jp-morgan/?__s=pw3ygmyxve9etudpqdrh

For #Accountants and #Bookkeepers of #Mastodon, do most companies use Excel for accounting/bookkeeping? or is quickbooks the main driver? if excel is used, is there some sort of template specifically made for accounting and how would I gain access to it? I'd like to know how to make 4 documents and credit and debit each, statement of financial position, Income statements, Statement of cashflows, and invoices. It would really help because I'm #Blind and Excel is very #Accessible with #ScreenReaders, and I would love to get back into accounting if at all possible, as it was my favorite subject in College and if I could gain employment in that field, I'd gladly do it again. Thank you for your assistance, and if you don't know the answer, please boost for reach.

#Accountants, #TaxPreparers, and #BookKeepers of #Mastodon, After researching your careers and determining if its possible for a #Blind person to help people in these jobs, I've come to realize that yes, it is definitely possible. With Quickbooks and other software services, each one uses screen readers that allow a person who can not see the visual elements to input the proper information into the Balance Sheets, statements of Cashflows, Income Statements, preparing invoices, and all Tax forms, etc. If you know a blind person who is trained in accounting, bookkeeping, or tax preparation, I highly urge you to hire them, because they can provide the same quality of service a sighted person can, just in a different way. Thank you for reading, and please boost for reach, this needs to be given to companies who are looking for help. #Business, #SmallBusiness, #Jobs, #Accounting, #Finance, #CorporateFinance , #FinancialAccounting, #ManagerialAccounting

Wolters Kluwer have added #AI to their iFirm accounting SaaS platform. There is no way to opt out, and there was no advance warning.

https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20250129014933/en/Wolters-Kluwer-Brings-GenAI-Driven-CCH-AnswerConnect-to-CCH-iFirm-in-Canada

The Comics of Gary Larson

“When people have the #tools, #network, #resources, #knowledge, experience stacked up on top of access to top #attorneys, #accountants and others (plus the politicians that write the #law and #rules and regs) that know the rules inside and out they will...use it.”

- Ariel Serber via #LinkedIn
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/just-like-usor-ariel-serber--xrsue?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_ios&utm_campaign=share_via

#Journalists are first, but everyone else is next. #Trump has announced multibillion-dollar #lawsuits against “the enemy camp”: #newspapers and #publishers. His proposed #FBI director is on record as wanting to prosecute certain #journalists. Journalists, publishers, #writers, #academics are always in the first wave. #Doctors, #teachers, #accountants will be next. Authoritarianism is as predictable as a Swiss train. It’s already later than you think. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/nov/17/how-to-survive-the-broligarchy-20-lessons-for-the-post-truth-world-donald-trump #mattgaetz #gabbard

Accountants of mastodon, I humbly request your help.

TLDR: Looking for PEPPOL complying software.

The roundabout way of asking:

The EU will require PEPPOL invoicing BS soon - starting January 2026 in Belgium, apparently.

I currently use Zoho Invoice to create all my invoices & keep track of payment & expenses for my business (sole proprietorship / side gig teaching yoga & not making that much money). Zoho Invoice is **free** to use for me (few invoices per year).

I cannot find anything about Zoho being compliant with this PEPPOL bs, and being that it is just me and I like things just so, I would like to have enough time to transition to a new software if I need to.

Anyway, my question: which low cost invoicing software comply with PEPPOL? In which I can also track expenses, and create invoices that look the way I want them to look?

Ideas?
#fixedrate #account has a larger % #AER for #monthly over #annual #interest #payments. It doesn't appear to be #compound (with the monthly #interest going back into the #account) as you specify a different account for it to be #paid into. #Customerservice couldn't give me a reason.
I know it doesn't really matter but it is a #puzzle and I'd like the #solution.
#Banking #CoopBank #Finance #interestrates #accounts #money #saving #Bank #banks #financial #accountants #math #maths #numbers

Hoe kunnen we accountants vertrouwen (kern van hun dienstverlening) als schandalen maar voortduren...
Recordboete en verbanning uit China voor accountantskantoor PwC - https://nos.nl/l/2536977
#accountants #pwc #china

This is a fundamental issue of fairness and generational wealth.

"Community Development Advocates of Detroit (CDAD) and The Coalition for Property Tax Justice are partnering to find retired [or active] #accountants, #economists, #appraisers, who own homes in #Detroit.

"Detroit’s property tax assessments are still systematically more than 50 percent of a property’s market value. No current Board of Review member has the skills necessary to challenge the city Assessor."

#BlackMastodon

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Can the government beat the real estate industry in its money laundering crackdown? -
In the realm of money laundering and terrorism finance, #Australia ranks among the worst. We join the US, Haiti, China, and Madagascar in not including real estate agents, #lawyers, and #accountants in anti-money laundering laws. Consequently, Australian #realestate has become a prime target for global #moneylaundering, especially from China. The Financial Action Task Force, the global body for money laundering detection standards, states that Australia has left the door open to money laundering in several key areas. #auspol #housingcrisis #ponzischeme https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-07-09/real-estate-industry-focus-in-money-laundering-crackdown/104076158

Reduced my thoughts on Copilot+ PC, as announced, to a piece for Forbes.

TLDR: Also we should think about compliance with things like subpoenas and how completely can anything ever be deleted with such a system.

The more I think about it, the less this seems like a well thought-out product for pros. Dreamed up by coders that already have had their life’s work sucked up by GPT through #Github.

#attorneys #accountants @law #microsoft

https://www.forbes.com/sites/andrewleahey/2024/05/22/copilot-pcs-could-be-a-privacy-nightmare-for-professionals/
https://esq.social/@andrew/112484905475208847

I reckon Copilot+ PC is going to be a product that an entire class of professional just simply can't purchase or use for work. Thinking of #attorneys, #accountants, etc.

Surely the "features" will be able to be disabled, but can anyone reasonably trust that?

#lawfedi @law

PwC pays $1.45 million in fines to CPA Ontario for breaching code of conduct | Globalnews https://bit.ly/3Rk31Lh #CPAOntario #PwC #Accountants #Training #Assessments #CodeOfConduct #Honesty #onpoli @onpoli

I'm seeking a tax advisor in the Leeds area for what might be a complicated self assessment for this year.

If anyone has any recommendations for a friendly, local advisor that is knowledgeable about property income tax and good at explaining it to clueless individuals, I'd be grateful for any reccomendations.

Tax advisors further afield also welcome, as long as they are happy to communicate over video call. Thanks!

Corporations PROFITING off our misery (tax filing).

Corporations HATE when even some small percentage of us use a FREE option to complete the BS we shouldn't have to be bothered with in the first place.

The entire tax preparation industry is a fooking scam. It's one reason US tax code is the nightmare that it is in the first place ... to keep CPAs and such in the money.

https://www.propublica.org/article/turbotax-intuit-black-taxpayers-irs-free-file-marketing

Well, who'd have predicted that (answer: pretty much everyone):

The #Tories look likely not to bring froward promised reforms in the regulation of the #audit sector & associated #corporategovernance rules;

apparently there is 'no political will' for reform, despite the shredded reputation of the UK Big Four (and some of the smaller auditors) after a string of scandals, mistakes & wilful deception here & abroad.

Of course, the #accountants will be claiming that voluntary measures are better.