Practice Development
The Department of Labor requires employee benefit plan (EBP) audits for all employers with more than 100 eligible plan participants and some smaller plans. It is a growing practice area. Here are development tips for this growing practice area.
Practice Management
Launching your own CPA practice is one of the greatest professional challenges you’ll ever undertake—and potentially one of the most rewarding. Fraught with hard work and long hours, it’s also a chance to build something of your own. This article can help.
Employee Benefits
Companies that allow employees to accumulate too much company stock in their 401(k) accounts face the possibility of lawsuits if the stock price declines. There are steps CPAs can recommend to minimize this risk while still satisfying employees.
Finance / Fraud
At most companies and firms, meetings are a huge line item that’s among the most difficult to manage and track—and enormously vulnerable to fraud and abuse. Here are some tips for planning great meetings, holding down costs and establishing processes to protect firms and companies from the unique temptations that meetings budgets offer to those who plan and sponsor them.
Technology
All charts make data easier to understand, but the best ones are dynamic, updating automatically as the underlying information changes—making them perfect for presentations.
Finance / Fraud
At most companies and firms, meetings are a huge line item that’s among the most difficult to manage and track—and enormously vulnerable to fraud and abuse. Here are some tips for planning great meetings, holding down costs and establishing processes to protect firms and companies from the unique temptations that meetings budgets offer to those who plan and sponsor them.
Tax
Identifying the tax basis of an asset is rarely easy—especially when the asset in question is your home. This article explores how taxpayers should compute the tax basis in their homes and the records they should maintain to avoid the risk of additional tax, interest and penalties.
Worth Repeating
The difficulty of calculating the return on an IT investment often makes it hard to obtain funding for needed improvements in an organization’s systems. This article shows how to measure both the tangible and intangible results of IT initiatives and their impact on the bottom line.