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New Lease Standard

New Lease Accounting Standards

A new Accounting Standards Update (ASU) recently issued by the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) will affect many construction industry ...
/ / Construction
Cash

Turning Trash into Cash

Construction sites generate large amounts of waste material. Typically, contractors end up paying to have this construction debris hauled away ...
Construction Perspectives

Developments in Tax and Business

Increase in De Minimis Safe Harbor Threshold The tax law allows companies to make an election to expense certain “de ...
/ / Construction
Retention Policy

Does Your Company Have a Document Retention Policy?

Every company generates business documents. Cataloging and storing paper files, electronic documents, correspondence, and data used in business applications and ...
Hawkins Ash

Maximizing Your Firm’s Bonding Capacity

The information you present in your company’s financial statements gives sureties a sense of your company’s operating results and financial ...
/ / Construction
federal student tax

“Federal Student Tax” Scam

A new tax scam is directed at college and university students and involves what's called a "federal student tax." Scammers are ...
/ / Tax
Tax and Business

June 2016 Tax and Business Alert

Our June 2016 Tax and Business Alert Newsletter is available. Topics in this edition include: Final Rule: Overtime SALT Expert ...
/ / Business, Tax
Fulfillment

Fulfillment by Amazon

When the internet was created, nobody imagined it would become as great as it has today. Businesses now have a ...
/ / Business, Tax
Hawkins Ash CPAs

Getting a Jump-Start on your 401(k) Audit

This is the time of year that you start looking at your 401(k) audit. Here are a few tips for ...
Fiduciary

DOL Change in Fiduciary Rule

As a retirement plan sponsor, you often hear a lot about fiduciary responsibilities and how important it is that you ...