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App Updates

Salesforce® Connector for QuickBooks Online Advanced | insightfulaccountant.com — www.intuitiveaccountant.com

In this edition of QBO Monday Minute we will look at the first-ever Intuit®-built connector joining Salesforce and QuickBooks Online Advanced.

A Year in Review: FreshBooks' Biggest Product Releases of 2020 | FreshBooks Blog — www.freshbooks.com

Here’s a look at the biggest product features that launched on FreshBooks this year, built for owners like you.

Avalara Has Sales Tax Tool for Accounting Firms | AccountingWEB — www.accountingweb.com

Avalara Inc. has made available Avalara Managed Returns for Accountants (MRA), a sales tax returns solution designed exclusively for accounting firms

Oracle NetSuite Sales-to-Cash Functionality (Part 1) | insightfulaccountant.com — www.intuitiveaccountant.com

A comparative look at how Oracle NetSuite handles Sales-to-Cash transactions in contrast with smaller accounting systems that typically require a lot of manual 'whatsit' to get the job done.

App Discovery

Gather — gather.town

Gather is an interesting take on virtual interaction as a space that lets multiple people hold separate conversations in parallel, walking in and out of those conversations just as easily as they would in real life.

Practice Tips

New IRS Stimulus Tax Breaks and Economic Relief — www.accountingweb.com

The changes in the economic relief law are many, so the following is just a brief overview of a dozen key changes contained within.

Mind-Bending: The Move from Accountant to Advisor in 2021

By sharpening our mental flexibility, we can be ready for what comes next and to reach farther, more easily and quickly.

Nominations Are Now Open for Our 2021 ProAdvisor of the Year Awards Program - insightfulaccountant.com — www.intuitiveaccountant.com

Nominations Are Now Open for Insightful Accountant's ProAdvisor of the Year, the Top 100 ProAdvisors, and related ProAdvisor Categorical Awards for 2021.

Now for something totally different...

The Life in The Simpsons Is No Longer Attainable - The Atlantic — www.theatlantic.com

The most famous dysfunctional family of 1990s television enjoyed, by today’s standards, an almost dreamily secure existence.

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