October 23, 2013
New Book Helps People Get Their Personal Finances in Shape
The Confident Retirement Journey Offers Prescriptive Advice on Preparing for a Successful Personal and Financial Future
October 17, 2013
AICPA Suggests Fewer Types of Retirement Plans Would Help Small Business Owners
The American Institute of CPAs is urging Congress to consolidate and simplify the types of tax-favored retirement plans now available to small business owners.
October 17, 2013
A Growth Opportunity For CPAs: Self-Directed IRA Investors
With demand for alternative assets accelerating, CPAs have an opportunity to engage with a growing number of investors making investments in illiquid – and high potential – alternative assets held in an Individual Retirement Account (IRA).
October 9, 2013
Bangor, Maine on AARP’s List of Best Places to Retire Affordably
Bangor, Maine, joins cities such as Daytona Beach, Fla., Pocatello, Idaho and Greenville, S.C., as a top spot in this year's AARP list of places to retire affordably.
October 7, 2013
Will New Healthcare Laws Hurt the CPA-Client Relationship?
As this column goes to print, provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (also known as the “ACA,” or ObamaCare) will change accountants and tax preparers from “trusted advisors” to a more derogatory status:
September 30, 2013
Marijuana Helping to Grow Jobs in Maine
For 27 year-old Paul McCarrier, selling marijuana pays the bills and grows his career. But McCarrier doesn't meet clients on street corners or in dimly lit parking lots.
September 30, 2013
More Small Business Owners Achieving Work-Life Balance
Small business owners are worried about healthcare, retirement and general finances, but it seems they are achieving an increased work-life balance, according to a recent survey by online marketing company Yodle.
September 26, 2013
Up to 18% of U.S. Workers Expected to Retire Within 5 Years
The Baby Boomers are about to retire en mass. A new report on age and retirement benchmarks in the U.S. shows that as much as 18% of the U.S. workforce could retire within the next five years.
September 12, 2013
Solution Helps Employers Meet Shared Responsibility Requirements of ObamaCare
Employers with 50 or more full-time equivalent employees on their payroll during the previous calendar year have a "shared responsibility" under the Affordable Care Act (aka, ObamaCare) to offer minimum essential coverage to their full-time employees.
September 10, 2013
The Key Healthcare Reform Provisions Employers Should Know
To help business owners stay on top of health care reform, Paychex, Inc., a leading provider of payroll, human resource, insurance, and benefits outsourcing solutions for small- to medium-sized businesses, has outlined below, provisions of interest to business owners and their employees that are expected to take effect in 2014 or sooner, and those delayed…
September 9, 2013
The Benefits and Challenges of Cloud Accounting
Accounting firms across the country are looking to the cloud to transform their client accounting services. They are looking to move from simply transactional bookkeeping services to higher value advisory services more in line with the CFO function.
August 20, 2013
New web-based system tests employee benefits plans for discrimination
Thomson Reuters has entered into an agreement with Claims-X-Change to provide benefits administrators, insurers, brokers, attorneys and advisors with a web-based tool to perform nondiscrimination testing of employer-sponsored benefit plans. The tool is accessible through Thomson Reuters Checkpoint, the industry-leading and award-winning online research platform.