One of the objectives of a value-added tax system is to simplify the administration of taxes, and this is accomplished by taxing almost everything and everyone, but allowing input tax credits (ITCs) for those who are not considered to be the final consumer of supplies. While many accounting and finance professionals understand the basic rules for claiming ITCs for GST/HST paid on property and services acquired in relation to an organization’s commercial activities, few have the time to explore some of the more complex issues associated with ITCs.  

Available Sessions for this Seminar:

ipwebinar.aspx?tab=1&smid=1711, March 04, 2015

This Webinar will focus on how to prepare and submit your T-Slips using the new interface with FormMaster. Plus how to navigate around in the program when searching for extraneous forms.

Available Sessions for this Seminar:

ipwebinar.aspx?tab=1&smid=1699, January 14, 2015
ipwebinar.aspx?tab=1&smid=1699, January 21, 2015

Objectives

 
The Setup course content focuses on a group of important options and features you must set up for the program to function properly. While there are many other important options and features in the program, this course focuses on some of the most basic functions you must set up in order to prepare for conversion.   

Topics

·         Make decisions on basic setup items such as timer rounding, AR payment entry method and labels  
      for Client Staff Positions and Project Status Dates

·         Create lists used in the program

·         Setup employees in the program

·         Set default security settings and security settings for individual employees

·         Create a list of Categories, Subcategories and Service Codes

·         Set up your default invoice format

·         Make decisions about how to enter a new client and client contact

Attendees

 
Staff involved in determining the firm's best practices and software setup. While this course does not expressly cover best practices, it is important to involve decision makers.

Available Sessions for this Seminar:

ipwebinar.aspx?tab=1&smid=1243, January 12, 2015

As the number of asymptomatic Covid-19 patients is increasing across the country, two professors from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Goa, are in the process of devising a rapid test to detect such cases.

To ensure social distancing during the Class X and XII public exams, the Goa Board of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education on Thursday said there will be only12 students in each exam hall as against the earlier 25. This has led to an increase in the number of exam sub-centres.

Faced with acute funds crunch and a 90% drop in tax mop up due to the lockdown in April, the state government has been left with no choice but to stagger payments. From maintenance grants for aided schools to payments to contractors, temporary workers and non-essential disbursements, have all been put on hold.

Goa waste management corporation (GWMC) has finalized the tender document to set up the over Rs 200cr garbage treatment plant at Bainguinim, Old Goa on a build own operate and transfer (BOOT) basis.

I’ve been on a few different podcasts recently.

The tenth episode of the Design Systems podcast is myself and Chris having a back-and-forth about design systems: Overcoming Entropy and Turning Chaos Into Order:

Chris and Jeremy Keith discuss imbuing teams with a shared sense of ownership of their design system, creating design systems able to address unforeseen scenarios, design ops as an essential part of an effective design system, and more.

Gerry has started a new podcast to accompany his new book, World Wide Waste. He invited me on for the first episode: ‘We’ve ruined the Web. Here’s how we fix it.’:

Welcome to World Wide Waste, a podcast about how digital is killing the planet, and what to do about it. In this session, I’m chatting with Jeremy Keith. Jeremy is a philosopher of the internet. Every time I see him speak, I’m struck by his calming presence, his brilliant mind and his deep humanity.

We talked about performance, energy consumption, and digital preservation. We agreed on a lot, but there were also points where we fundamentally disagreed. Good stuff!

If you like the sound of some Irishmen chatting on a podcast, then as well as listening to me and Gerry getting into it, you might also enjoy the episode of The Blarney Pilgrims podcast that I was on:

Jeremy Keith is the founder and keeper of thesession.org, probably the greatest irish music resource in the world. And this episode hopefully has something of the generous essence of that archive. We flow, from The North as a different planet to Galway as the centre of the ’90s slacker world. From the one-tune-a-week origin of thesession.org and managing an online community to the richness and value of constancy.

I’ve already written about how much this meant to me.

On the same topic—Irish music on the web—I made a brief appearance in the latest episode of Shannon Heaton’s Irish Music Stories, Irish Tunes in the Key of C-19:

How are traditional musicians and dancers continuing creative careers and group music events during the Covid-19 pandemic? How is social distancing affecting the jigs and reels? In this unexpected open of Season Four of Irish Music Stories, musicians from Ireland, England, Belgium, Sweden, and the U.S. address on and offline strategies… from a safe distance.

Hawkins, Dawn May, author

Amyes, Sebastian G. B., author

Guglielmone, Alberto A., author

Haslam, Stephanie

Nattrass, Ric

Manz, A. (Andreas), author

Hickman, Cleveland P., Jr., author

Hill, Richard W., author

Gold eased on Friday as appetite for riskier assets improved after a string of strong corporate earnings, while investors awaited the U.S. jobs report