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- Which Fringe Benefits are Tax-Free to Employees?
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- Sometimes How Much is in Tax-Deferred Retirement Accounts May Be Too Much
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- Reviewing the July 2026 Markets
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- Let’s Trade! Business Bartering is Still Taxable
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Seize the Day with Real-time Strategic Planning
Traditional strategic planning requires not-for-profit leaders to perform a lot of guess work about what might happen in the future. This approach also asks decision-makers to explicitly shut down options…
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Accounting for the Fall 2021 Child Care Relief Funds (aka Child Care Sustainability Grant)
Beginning the week of January 10, 2022, districts that applied and were approved for Fall 2021 Child Care Relief Funds began receiving these grant payments. Additional grant award amounts will…
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Accounting for the Receipt and Expenditures of Emergency Connectivity Fund (ECF) Funding
Congress authorized the Emergency Connectivity Fund (ECF) as part of the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (CFDA/ALN 32.009). The ECF Program will cover reasonable costs of laptop and tablet…
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Accounting for Food Service-related Revenues and Expenditures (Updated)
NEW (January 2022): Accounting for Pandemic EBT (P-EBT) Local Costs Grant The P-EBT Local Level Administrative Cost Grant is a federal award (CFDA#10.649). Accounting guidance for these funds is as…
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Expense Report Fraud
“Everyone Does It.” Fudge Pad Exaggerate Cushion Inflate All of these are euphemisms that are used to trivialize expense report fraud. Employee fraudsters rationalize their dishonesty by minimizing the fraud…