Illustration: Rahul Awasthi Six months into the lockdown, after the initial flush of success servicing orders from friends and family, home chefs are establishing themselves as small businesses. The Yummy Idea, a platform to discover home chefs, has seen more than 1500 registered home chefs in five months. Another aggregator FoodCloud said over 1000 licensed […]
Archives for September 2020
It’s cashless on delivery
L-R: Praveena Rai, TR Ramachandran, Sameer Nigam, Ravindra Pandey, Mihir Gandhi The coronavirus pandemic has brought about a permanent shift in the way consumers approach digital payments. The contactless nature of the digital modes — enabled by innovative technologies and regulatory flexibility — has given millions of Indians a choice to practice social distancing while […]
Ecommerce recharges digital payments
Illustration: Rahul Awasthi The mass adoption of ecommerce and boom in online shopping have been the single biggest push for digital payments during the Covid-19 pandemic, panellists at an ET webinar said, as restrictions on physical businesses forced Indian consumers to redefine their spending behaviour. “I cannot pass this point without highlighting the boom in […]
OAuth Consent Phishing Ramps Up with Microsoft Office 365 Attacks
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Latest product news – October 2020
We have some exciting announcements for you this month, many of which were featured on Xero On Air. If you haven’t had a chance to watch all the episodes, they’re still available for a short time, so don’t forget to register and tune in from the comfort of your home, office or wherever you are. […]
Something for the kids: Xero at STEMwana 2020
Part of the Tech Outreach and Engage purpose is to: Increase a diverse pipeline of talent into tech. For me, being based in Auckland, most of my focus for this has been local. So, when the STEMfest team, based in Tauranga, reached out to us to get involved with their inaugural event in 2019, we […]
The technology shaping our world and what we can learn from its limitations
It’s impossible to miss the astounding progress made in artificial intelligence (AI) over the last decade. But, let’s not get ahead of ourselves. In very real ways, the technology’s definite limitations tell us as much about the future of work as what the systems can do. To be sure, what they can do is remarkable. […]
‘Direct examination’ engagement created by SSAE No. 21
Practitioners will be able to perform a new engagement known as a direct examination for clients under a new standard published Wednesday by the AICPA Auditing Standards Board (ASB). Statement on Standards for Attestation Engagements (SSAE) No. 21, Direct Examination Engagements, gives a practitioner the ability to measure or evaluate underlying subject matter against criteria […]
Foreign tax credit allocation and apportionment rules finalized
News Foreign Income & Taxpayers By Alistair M. Nevius, J.D. Taxpayers received guidance Tuesday on how to allocate and apportion deductions and creditable foreign taxes and on other issues relating to foreign tax and the foreign tax credit in final regulations posted by the IRS (T.D. 9922). The IRS also posted wide-ranging proposed regulations regarding […]
What COVID-19 has taught corporate boards
In previous years, work as a corporate director generally was predictable. Board members could count on an approximate number of meetings, oversight topics that generally remained the same, and business conversations inside and outside of the boardroom. Everything changed in March, when the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted business and society in unforeseen ways. Boards were meeting […]