International IT governance association ISACA has begun a new initiative to connect women in the technology industry.

The accounting sector has arguably been slow to adopt new technology, eschewing new, and often unproven, technology for older, tried and true tools. However, in the immortal words of Bob Dylan, “the times they are a-changin’”.

Avalara, a provider of tax compliance software, has expanded its operations and strategic initiatives in Brazil in a time of economic uncertainty.

Workday, which provides enterprise cloud applications for finance and human resources, has introduced a new planning, budgeting and forecasting application called Workday Planning.

Medows Media Group has established The Accountant’s Content Vault, an online resource to support tax and accounting firms that lack the in-house resources for to develop effective client communications.

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Avalara, a provider of tax compliance software, has raised $50 million in new capital to fund growth and acquisitions.

Intuit has released a number of updates to its QuickBooks Online, including inventory bundles, email updates and bank transfer payments.

The American Institute of CPAs has issued a new report on the growing threat of “executive impersonation,” in which criminals claiming to be corporate executives convince employees to send them sensitive documents and company information.

The Internal Revenue Service spent $15 million on a delayed implementation of an upgraded system for handling an aspect of the Foreign Account Tax and Compliance Act, but the software did not deliver the expected business results, according to a new report.

Eventually it will be time to replace older equipment such as routers and access points with something newer, and hopefully better in some way.

Wolters Kluwer has released CCH ProSystem fx for Small Firms, a new suite of solutions tailored to small practices.

Cloud hosting solutions provider Cloudnine Real Time has named Josh Clark president of the company.

Vertex has released a suite of scalable tax solutions for the Oracle ERP Cloud suitable for companies of any size.

FreshBooks, a provider of cloud-based accounting software for self-employed professionals and their teams, has redesigned its flagship platform.

A startup technology company, AppZen, has introduced new technology that is leveraging artificial intelligence to examine expense reports for signs of fraud.

Financial data extraction platform Validis has released audit working papers specific to nonprofits.

The Assurance Services Executive Committee of American Institute of CPAs has released two sets of criteria on cybersecurity for public comment, which the institute hopes will start to lay the groundwork for a new set of assurance services.

Accountants, like everybody else, are entitled to some fun and relaxation, and an upcoming array of holiday gift gadgets promises to provide some fun later this year.

KPMG has introduced Digital Ledger Services, a suite of services to help financial services companies implement blockchain technology, in Canada.