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Recently Published
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
Quick Links & Good Ideas
Quick Links and Good Ideas, January 2011
Visit the Strategy Insights Blog Happy New Year! We hope that you were able to take a few minutes over the holidays to spend with family and friends and that you are back in the saddle, ready to attack 2011...
read moreQuick Links and Good Ideas, November 2010
As with most of you, I spent the last few weeks wading through the electioneering, and a good portion of last Tuesday evening listening to the winners, the losers, and the pundits trying to explain what the election results meant.One...
read moreQuick Links and Good Ideas, September 2010
Visit the Strategy Insights BlogAs the summer of 2010 fades in the rearview mirror, our clients and friends are gearing up to maintain the momentum they created in their businesses. Maintaining this momentum, however, will depend far more on their...
read moreFamily business survey says . . . the recovery is moot
Blackman Kallick & FFI’s "Adaptability and Innovation" survey finds that family-owned enterprises are acting, not waiting.We have been speaking with a number of financial-market prognosticators over the last few weeks. As usual, the opinions run the range from cautious enthusiasm...
read moreQuick Links and Good Ideas, July 2010
Visit the Strategy Insights Blog Do Sports Imitate Life Or Does Life Imitate Sports?Over the last several days, we have had the opportunity to witness some amazing events in sports. We can’t help but join the chorus in talking about a...
read moreQuick Links and Good Ideas, June 2010
Visit the Strategy Insights Blog We hope that you are enjoying the early days of summer. Good things are worth the wait.Survey says . . . Work continues on our Adaptability and Innovation survey. The survey, being conducted in conjunction with...
read moreQuick Links and Good Ideas, April 2010
Visit the Strategy Insights Blog Spring is in the air.Recovery is also in the air, or at least it’s trying to be. While there are signs of economic renewal, there are also signs that we have a long way to go...
read moreQuick Links and Good Ideas, March 2010
Visit the Strategy Insights Blog Navigating “The Recovery”Late last year we offered our thoughts in Surviving the Upturn... Be "The Other" as both an article and a webinar.The recent Kellogg Private Equity conference was entitled “Partnering through Uncertainty,” and last week’s...
read moreQuick Links and Good Ideas, January 2010
Visit the Strategy Insights Blog Happy New Year. Isn’t it wonderful to be looking at 2009 rapidly receding in the rear view mirror? As great as it was to close the books on 2009, we see that 2010 is already 1/25th...
read moreKeeping the Right People 'On Your Bus'
Twelve months ago, your staff was likely happy just to have jobs. Now, as the market improves, some of your stronger players might be looking for better opportunities.So how do you keep them engaged, involved and loyal … especially if...
read moreThe Road to Recovery
Visit the Strategy Insights Blog The Dow Jones Index has recovered from 8,776 points at the end of 2008 to a closing of 9,605 as of September 11, 2009. That’s certainly good, but not great. At the same time, the economy...
read moreSummer Reflections
Visit the Strategy Insights Blog The late spring and early summer rains seem to have finally let up in the Midwest. The stock market has begun to rally again, but other economic indices remain mixed. Perhaps it's fair to conclude that...
read moreEconomic Recovery and the "New Normal"
Visit the Strategy Insights Blog Many economic pundits believe that the economy might have bottomed out last month. While the wait can be long between hitting bottom and the first strong signs of a recovering economy, we have seen some signs...
read moreSurvey of Advisors to Family-Owned Businesses, May 2009
With the help of the Family Firm Institute (FFI), we recently surveyed advisors to family-owned businesses across the United States. Our goal was to gain an understanding of how the present economic situation is affecting the services they provide to...
read moreWill Spring Showers Bring Economic Recovery?
Visit the Strategy Insights Blog Spring has arrived, and with this month’s notes, we are celebrating the first anniversary of our blog, Blackman Kallick Strategy Insights. We hope you’ve found the blog to be helpful and thought-provoking.Whether it’s the flowers blooming...
read moreSpring Is Just Around the Corner
Visit the Strategy Insights Blog Spring is just around the corner, but we are not yet out of the woods of wild 30–40 degree daily swings in temperature, gutter gushing rainstorms and bright and blustery late winter days. The economy is...
read moreBlackman Kallick Publishes Survey Results
We have just published the results of our second Chicago Area Business Leaders Survey. While its primary focus is Chicago business, it also includes data on leaders' views on the national economy. View survey results We feel that this important...
read moreHaven't You Dreamed of Getting a Leg Up on Your Competition? Why Not Now?
Visit the Strategy Insights Blog Happy New Year to all! We hope you had a good holiday season, perhaps adding some merriment to the end of a rather difficult year for business. The holiday decorations are likely back in their boxes,...
read moreStuck in 2008 or Moving Purposefully Into 2009
Visit the Strategy Insights Blog It's hard to believe summer has already come to an end. We are strong proponents of taking vacation and hope you were able to take at least a little time off to recharge this summer.So, if...
read moreLetting the Outside In
Visit the Strategy Insights Blog We hope that you had an enjoyable Fourth of July holiday and were able to "recharge your battery" during the holiday weekend.New Articles of InterestWe have added a couple of thought provoking articles to our blog...
read moreWork on Your Business, Not Just in It
Visit the Strategy Insights Blog Please take a few moments to check out two thought-provoking and timely business strategy-related articles which have recently been posted on our Blackman Kallick Strategy Insights blog. We're strong believers that business owners and managers must...
read moreHow to Be like Tiger or Lance in the Business World
Visit the Strategy Insights Blog If you haven't checked out our new Blackman Kallick Strategy Insights blog, now would be a good time. New postings include an excellent action-directed article by Suzanne Lane discussing executive coaching How to Be like Tiger...
read moreBlackman Kallick Launches BK Strategy Insights Blog
Visit the Strategy Insights Blog We’re pleased to announce that Blackman Kallick’s Strategic Services group has launched a blog, Blackman Kallick Strategy Insights, to provide a forum for us to share and elicit thoughts and comments on business strategies and practices...
read moreAre You Sure Your Kids Will Want the Family Business?
You're a parent who owns a family business. Admit it. If you started the company, didn't you entertain thoughts early on of one or more of your children eventually coming into the business? If your parent or grandparent founded the...
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