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By All Accounts By Jim Moran CPA, MST The Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act has provided taxpayers affected by COVID-19 with some relief in the area of […]

A Primer on RMDs By Bob Suprenant, CPA, MST With all that’s happened in the world this year, the SECURE Act, signed into law on Dec. 20, 2019, seems to […]

Rich Kump

Pandemic Lessons It’s the wave of the future, Rich Kump said — and the COVID-19 pandemic simply cast that wave in sharper relief. “We’ve had a goal of moving routine […]

More Relief from the CARES Act By Lisa White On March 27, the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act was signed into law. Since its inception, much of […]

Sticker Shock Business-interruption insurance should be a simple idea to explain. But in the era of COVID-19, it has become a thorny topic. “It is coverage that most businesses have […]

This Tax-relief Provision of the CARES Act Brings Advantages to Employers By Carolyn Bourgoin, CPA Businesses that either repaid in a timely fashion or did not receive a loan pursuant […]

Fight Back with Diligence, Communication, Monitoring, Education By Julie Quink, CPA, CFE In recent months, business owners have been faced with difficult business decisions and worries surrounding the financial and […]

Changes in Benefit Plans By Melissa English Audits of employee-benefit plans continue to evolve, and the pace of this evolution is unpredictable. Areas such as technology and skills continue to […]

Signs of the Times Hyman Darling says the calls started coming in several weeks ago. At first, there were a few, and then, as the news about the COVID-19 pandemic […]

A Pandemic Estate Plan By Gina M. Barry COVID-19, also known as the novel coronavirus, has arrived in our communities. While statistics show that many people will survive being infected, […]

Kevin Day

Natural Transition In some ways, Kevin Day is no stranger to running Florence Bank — he was already overseeing about 90% of its departments as executive vice president, a series […]

Volatility Is the Order of the Day By Jean Deliso The market has acted like a roller coaster in recent months, up one day, down another — but where will […]

Deepening Its Roots When FieldEddy Insurance entered the HUB International family a little over five years ago, it traded a name with a rich regional history for one backed by […]

Beyond the Bottom Line Mark Lussier tells the story of a newly licensed driver backing out of her driveway in South Hadley who didn’t see the 85-year-old walking along the […]

This Measure Changes the Retirement Landscape in Several Ways It’s called the Setting Every Community Up for Retirement Enhancement Act, and it was signed into law just a few weeks […]