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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

Fulfillment by Amazon
When the internet was created, nobody imagined it would become as great as it has today. Businesses now have a ...

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 ...

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 ...