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ERISA 03.28.2024

Essential protection – ERISA

The term “fiduciary breach” often evokes images of significant mishaps within company-sponsored retirement plans, leading to notable legal disputes. Yet, a more common and equally troublesome issue for business owners is failing to secure the…
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Essential protection – ERISA
Court Bonds 03.28.2024

Planning Ahead: Capacity Decline

  A brutal truth is that we can never know if or when we could experience a capacity decline that impedes our ability to run our businesses, handle our finances, and make sound decisions. That’s…
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Planning Ahead: Capacity Decline
Court Bonds 03.28.2024

Death and Taxes: Who Pays What?

  While the saying “you can’t take it with you,” is true of our money and possessions, taxes do follow us into death, remaining due until paid off, usually by the personal representative or other…
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Death and Taxes: Who Pays What?
ERISA 03.23.2024

Accepting Market Volatility?

  Data reveals that overall, we’re feeling more experienced as investors and more comfortable with market volatility. A research report from benchmarking firm, Hearts & Wallets, finds the number of households feeling inexperienced with investing…
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Accepting Market Volatility?
ERISA 03.23.2024

Appreciating The 401k

  Staying up to date on ERISA compliance, scurrying around with SECURE 2.0 provisions, and keeping benefits competitive are all big lifts for plan sponsors these days. Take heart, though: employees really do appreciate the…
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Appreciating The 401k
Contract Surety 03.23.2024

Analyzing The Balance Sheet

  Businesses can have the ability to produce revenue, as shown on a P&L (profit and loss statement), but poor financial health, as reflected on the balance sheet. Because it summarizes net worth at a…
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Analyzing The Balance Sheet
Contract Surety 03.23.2024

Time for An Upgrade: Headgear

  The hard hat worn by construction workers has been a tradition for over 100 years, and came into use to provide protection from falling objects. These days, data points to the need for a…
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Time for An Upgrade: Headgear
Contract Surety 03.06.2024

Trim Your Tax Bill: Claim Your Innovations

You may already have qualified for a federal research and development (R&D) tax credit in the eyes of the IRS,  but do not know it, since this tends to be an underutilized and misunderstood opportunity…
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Trim Your Tax Bill: Claim Your Innovations
Contract Surety 02.22.2024

Worth Doing: Job Costing

  Turning a profit? Great! But, digging into the details of where you actually made and lost money can result in even more success. Insights about which types of projects are your real sweet spot,…
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Worth Doing: Job Costing