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30 Second Ideas
- You’ve Got Two More Days to File Your Tax Return
- 2012 Standard Mileage Rates
- Taxpayers Beware: IRS Impostor Emails
Accounting Updates
- New Consolidation Standards — Who Put the VIE in Related-Party Lease Arrangements?
- Proposed Changes to Revenue Recognition Standards — Only One Proud Standard Rather than Dozens
- Proposed Changes to Lease Accounting Standards — The Classic Cookie-Cutter Standard Is Likely to Be Retired
Alerts
- Beware: New Form 8938 - Statement of Foreign Financial Assets
- Time to Come Clean with Cook County (and Chicago too?)
- SSAP 101 Adopted
Articles
- Beware: New Form 8938 - Statement of Foreign Financial Assets
- You’ve Got Two More Days to File Your Tax Return
- 1099-MISC Requirements for Landlords
Business Surveys
- Survey of Chicago Area Business Leaders, September 2009
- Survey of Advisors to Family-Owned Businesses
- Survey of Chicago Area Business Leaders, February 2009
Construction Edge
- Managing Indirect Costs Calls for a Keen Eye ... and a Plan
- An Escalation Clause Can Help Curtail Materials Cost Woes
- Four Ways Dishonest Employees Can Steal Your Money
Healthcare Edge
- Specialty Snapshot: Home Healthcare Services
- Is Your Healthcare Entity a Personal Service Corporation?
- Small Business Health Care Tax Credit
Insurance Edge
- SSAP 101 Adopted
- Organizing Reinsurance in Receiverships and Troubled Companies
- Redefining the World of Deferred Acquisition Costs (DAC)
Legal Talent
- Varying Rates for Contract Attorneys: Caveat Emptor!
- Top 10 Reasons to Hire Temporary Help in a Down Economy
- Five Organizational Tips for Staffing a Document Review Project
Manufacturing Edge
- A Year-End Planning Checklist for Every Manufacturing Company and Distributor
- Goodwill Impairment Testing — Simplification May Be Possible
- Ten Easy Ways To Improve Your Website and Bring In More Customers
Not-for-Profit Edge
- Insights from Not-for-Profit’s Accounting and Auditing Update 2011
- Benefits of Conducting a Fraud Risk Assessment
- A Formula for Sustainable Spending
Quick Links & Good Ideas
- Quick Links and Good Ideas, January 2011
- Quick Links and Good Ideas, November 2010
- Quick Links and Good Ideas, September 2010
Strategy Insights Blog
- Measuring the Success of Your Strategy, Starts with Asking the Right Seven Questions
- Leadership Lesson from the Military: Put Away Your Iron Fist and Empower Your Troops
- The New Digital Reality: Your Brand Is No Longer in Your Own Hands
Beware: New Form 8938 - Statement of Foreign Financial Assets
Certain U.S. individual taxpayers (as well as bona residents of American Samoa and Puerto Rico) holding financial assets outside of the U.S. must report those assets to the IRS for taxable years beginning after March 18, 2010. For most individual...
read moreYou’ve Got Two More Days to File Your Tax Return
For Tax Season 2012, the due date for “April 15 returns” for Tax Year (TY) 2011 is April 17, 2012. April 15 falls on a Sunday in Tax Season 2012, which under most circumstances would push the due date to...
read more1099-MISC Requirements for Landlords
In the past couple of years Congress has been active in modifying filing requirements for informational returns, especially 1099s. All of these changes have left informational return filing requirements misconstrued, especially in the case of landlords on their individual tax...
read moreWhere Do You Live? The Illinois Tax Edition
And why does it matter? It seems that Illinois residents have been asking this question more often since Illinois increased its individual income tax to five percent. How does Illinois define a resident? Illinois defines "resident" as: (A) an individual...
read moreSpecialty Snapshot: Home Healthcare Services
There are approximately 33,000 home care providers across the US with combined total projected revenues in 2009 of approximately $72.2 billion. This industry is highly fragmented, and the 50 largest companies generate less than 25 percent of the total revenue...
read moreIs Your Healthcare Entity a Personal Service Corporation?
A qualified personal service corporation (PSC) is a specific type of C Corporation, providing personal services in the fields of health, law, engineering, architecture, accounting, actuarial science, performing arts, and consulting. Many entities currently classified as PSCs could see substantial...
read moreDonations of Conservation Easements
A new Internal Revenue Service Audit Techniques Guide (ATG) on conservation easements gives taxpayers an outline for how IRS examiners will view charitable contributions of conservation easements. The purpose of a conservation easement is to preserve and protect property from...
read moreIllinois Tax Change: More Than Sears and CME
The passing of SB 397 and SB 400 in December has brought a lot of publicity to the tax breaks for Sears and CME Group. However, there are some significant changes for all Illinois residents and businesses. Most notably, the...
read more2012 Standard Mileage Rates
On December 9, 2011 the IRS released the standard business, deductible medical, and moving mileage rates effective January 1, 2012. The rate for business miles has remained unchanged since the 2011 mid-year adjustment. The medical and moving rate has decreased...
read moreCongress Extends the Reduced Social Security Rate for Employees
On December 23, 2011 Congress passed and President Obama signed into law the "Temporary Payroll Tax Cut Continuation Act of 2011." The two percent social security tax rate cut has been extended through February 29, 2012 for the employee side...
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