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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 […]

The State of Things By Jonathan Cohen-Gorczyca, CPA Very rarely do court cases related to state taxation make national news. South Dakota v. Wayfair Inc. (2018) was a Supreme Court […]

Forward Progress Arrha President and CEO Mike Ostrowski says credit unions have in many ways filled the void left by many of the smaller community banks that have disappeared from […]

A ‘Natural Partnership’ Mike Matty says the talks with Chris Milne began roughly two years ago. And as they often do in such cases, these discussions were somewhat intermittent in […]

A Primer on Record Retention By Emily White These days, it’s hard to imagine holding on to paper copies of every paid bill, invoice received, or other financial document. Today’s […]

Dollars and Sense By Steve Siebold It is now not only the start of a new year, but also the beginning of a new decade. Maybe the last 10 years […]