Benefits

April 14, 2020 

Americans began 2020 with record levels of personal financial satisfaction. However, as COVID-19 spread across the country and businesses closed, more than 16 million Americans have filed for unemployment in the last three weeks alone.

April 13, 2020 

While extremely low interest rates are generally assigned most of the responsibility for the debt explosion, regulatory factors have been implicated as well. Now research in a leading accounting journal newly identifies federal accounting regulations ...

April 13, 2020 

Are you thinking about improving your effectiveness or efficiency? Education helps you with the big picture, and training enables you to do something better. Both proactive education and reactive training serve a purpose.

Randy Johnston

April 10, 2020 

To help millions of people, the Treasury Department and the Internal Revenue Service today launched a new web tool allowing quick registration for Economic Impact Payments for those who don’t normally file a tax return.

April 10, 2020 

AP is one of the last bastions of paper processing in the enterprise, and it comes with challenges. According to the latest research from AFP, companies still make 42 percent of their payments by paper check. All those processes that are involved with ...

April 7, 2020 

The American Institute of CPAs (AICPA) is thanking the Treasury Department and Small Business Administration (SBA) for providing further clarity on the application process for the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), the $349 billion small business ...

April 7, 2020 

The American Institute of CPAs (AICPA) has recommended a defined set of documents for lenders to rely on as well as some key clarifications in the Treasury Department and Small Business Administration’s Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) application ...

April 6, 2020 

Paycheck Protection loans, which are provided through SBA-approved lenders, are available to small business borrowers to cover payroll and other operating costs. Included among the application requirements is specific documentation related to payroll.

April 4, 2020 

The Department of the Treasury (Treasury) announced on April 1 that Social Security beneficiaries who are not typically required to file tax returns will not need to file an abbreviated tax return to receive an economic impact payment.

April 2, 2020 

As projections of the coronavirus death toll soar, forecasts for the ensuing economic carnage have also quickly turned much darker – both for the depth and duration of the damage.

April 1, 2020 

Through an existing partnership with PayActiv, the Paychex Pay-on-Demand solution gives employees access to an amount equal to their net pay via PayActiv’s mobile application. Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, PayActiv is offering $250 to Paychex customers ...

March 31, 2020 

Professionals On the Move is a roundup of recent promotion announcements in the accounting space.