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At blum we believe that learning is a never-ending pursuit. That is why our team is committed to discovering and developing the knowledge we need to meet the emerging challenges of our clients. Our insights section is filled with the collective expertise of our team of experts, from articles and webinars to tools and live events. We are focused on helping our clients stay up-to-date on the latest developments affecting their businesses—from accounting and tax, to business planning, technology resources, cybersecurity and more!

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Rhode Island Legislative Changes for 2018

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Tax Reform and Its Impact on Non-Profit Giving

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New Connecticut Tax on Passthrough Entities – Effective January 1, 2018

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2017 BlumShapiro 10 Tips to Start Your Succession Plan

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2017 BlumShapiro Family Business Succession Planning - Self Assessment

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Employee Benefit Plan Audit Checklist

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5 Signs You Need Outsourced Accounting

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2017 Fringe Benefits Guide

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Succession Planning: A Guide for Various Stages

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Top 10 U.S. Federal Tax Issues Facing Non-Profits eBook

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Tax Reform for Non-Profits

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Transfer Pricing for Companies with International Operations

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Revenue Recognition's Impact on Construction

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Five Telltale Signs Your Business Has Outgrown QuickBooks

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Best Practices for Protecting Your Business from Cyber Threats

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Tax Reform's Impact on Auto Dealers

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Unlocking the Mystery Behind Predictive Analytics

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Critical Cybersecurity and Data Privacy Issues for Municipalities

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Powering the Modern Office

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Methods to Effectively Manage Your Non-Profit's Tax Risk

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Cybersecurity Awareness for Your Employee Benefit Plan

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Tax Reform: Taxation of Foreign Income and International Tax Matters

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Is Your Industry at Risk for Digital Disruption?

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2017 Accounting & Auditing Update

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Preparing for the New Revenue Recognition Standards

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Changes for Corporations to Consider

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Individual Impacts of Tax Reform

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What Tax Reform Means for Pass-Through Entities

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Tax Extension Advice with BlumShapiro's Greg Cabral on WPRI 12

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Roof Repair - A Cost Segregation Case Study

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Master Data Case Study: Legrand North America Manages Enterprise Data

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How Data-Mail Used Data to Drive Decisions

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From Spreadsheets to Software: How Sage Intacct Helped Infinex Financial Group

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City of the Future: Guiding the City of Danbury into the Future

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Customer Testimonial: Manchester Sports Center

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City of the Future: Envisioning the Future for the City of New Britain

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Business Enterprise Review Finds Efficiencies and Ways to Improve Cash Flow

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blum's Intervention With the IRS Results in Avoidance of Significant Tax Adjustment

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blum Performs Business Enterprise Review with Parallel Products

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blum Leads Comprehensive Data Quality Project for OneSource Water

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blum Helps Pharmaceutical Company Move to the Cloud

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blum Helps Auto Dealer Find Innovative Financing Solution

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Being Proactive with Your 403(b) Benefit Plans

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Revenue Recognition Standard – Price Concessions

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How the New Tax Law Impacts Mortgage and Home Equity Interest Deductibility

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Contract Modification Under the New Revenue Recognition Guidance

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Accounting for Warranties Under the New Revenue Recognition Standard

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Project Management Solution Makes Corporate Tax Department More Efficient

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Municipal Leaders Continue to Face Serious Challenges

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Customer Testimonial: Gengras Motor Cars

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Trump Signs Bipartisan Budget Act; Tax Extenders Included

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CCRC Accounting Guidance Update

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New 20% Deduction for Pass-Through Business Income Under New Tax Law

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New Federal Tax Law Brings New Foreign Tax Provisions

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New Law Drops Corporate Income Tax Rate to 21%, Modifies Individual Rate Brackets

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blum Helps City Achieve Certificate of Excellence in Financial Reporting

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Focusing on the Future - How British Beer Company Used Sage Intacct and Outsourced Accounting to Move Forward

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Museum Utilizes Project Planning and Management Services

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IntegraMed Streamlines Accounting Operations with Sage Intacct

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AccuFund Accounting Software Helps Town Meet Reporting Requirements

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Clearing the Master Data Services Staging Tables

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Where is my "Homeless" Master Data?

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Member Level Security in SQL Server Master Data Services

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Is Windows 8 a Game Changer?

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SharePoint and Adobe Integration

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Deploying Software with Windows Intune

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The Mercer Report on the State of Connecticut Medicaid Long Term Care Demand Projection

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IRS Exempt Organization Division Publishes 2013 Workplan

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How to Foster an Effective Non-Profit Board of Directors

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Financial Reporting Update

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Succession Planning: A Requirement for Fiscal Fitness

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Working with Multiple Virtual Machines in Hyper-V

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Calculating Damages of Early Stage Intellectual Property Infringement

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Add Pictures to Active Directory and Show in SharePoint 2013

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The New 3.8% Net Investment Income Tax Continues to Challenge

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Why do I need a Data Warehouse?

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Senate Passes Internet Sales Tax Bill That Will Require State Sales Tax on All Online Purchases

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Compliance Programs Mandatory for Skilled Nursing Homes and Nursing Facilities in 2013

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How are vacation homes taxed?

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IRS Focuses on Group Exemption

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Performing a Risk Assessment for Non-Profit Organizations

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Enterprise Risk Management – What Educational Institutions Should Be Considering

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Master Data Maestro 3.0 Released

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Manufacturing in Connecticut: A Proud Heritage, But What Does the Future Hold?

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eDiscovery and SharePoint 2013 as a Litigation Tool

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For Family Owned Businesses, Succession Planning Is Essential

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New Compliance Tool to be Available Soon for Skilled Nursing Facilities

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Should Your Employees Bring Their Own Devices to Work?

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Changing LEAN Government from Incremental Improvement to Sweeping Agency Transformation

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Press Release: BlumShapiro Receives Award From New Haven Chamber

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Are You Prepared to Implement the FASB’s New Revenue Recognition Model?

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IRS Releases Comprehensive Repair/Capitalization Final Regulations

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Enterprise Social Networks: Should Your Organization Use One?

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IRS Issues Final Tangible Property "Repairs" Regulations

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IRS Final Report on Tax-Exempt Colleges and Universities Compliance Project

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Two Things Your Employee Benefit Plan Cannot Live Without

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Press Release: BlumShapiro Announces Merger with FSS

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Update on The Non-Profit Financial Reporting Model

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OMB Issues Final Guidance Revising Grantee and Auditor Requirements

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Errors in Employee Benefit Plans – What are Your Options?

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FASB Issues New Standards to Simplify Private Company Accounting for Goodwill and Interest Rate Swaps in Certain Instances

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How Do I? Gather the Right Paperwork for a Charitable Deduction

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Fraud Prevention and Detection 101

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HIPAA Compliance: When Was The Last Time?

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Refining Unstructured Search Results in SharePoint 2013

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Big Data and Business

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Manufacturers Can Recognize Dramatic Results from Cost Segregation

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Treasury Set to Develop New Retirement Savings Vehicle: myRAs

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401(k) Loan Policies – What to Consider

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Five Steps to Prepare for a Financial Statement Audit

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IRS Final Report on Tax-Exempt Colleges and Universities Compliance Project—Compensation Issues

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How to Avoid (or Survive) a Benefit Plan Audit

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Finding the Right Advisors: Your Job as a Business Owner!

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Handing Over the Reins of a Family-Owned Business

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Written Acknowledgements for Donors

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Five Questions to Ask Before Joining a Board

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Is Cloud Computing Right for Your Company?

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Ask Not What You Can Do for Your Software; But What Your Software Can Do for YOU

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ZPIC Audits: How Can Your Organization Prepare?

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Taxation of Facility Image Upgrade Payments

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Cultivating a Relationship Between the Finance and Development Offices

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BlumShapiro Live Tiles with Count

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How to Record Non-Cash Donations

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Forensic Review of Tax Returns a Must in Marital Dissolution Matters

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Revenue Recognition Changes… Are you Ready?

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Use of Manufacturing Reinvestment Accounts to Reduce Corporation and Pass-Through Owners’ Connecticut Income Tax Liabilities

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Internal Control Checklist for Small Non-Profits: 5 Critical Steps

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Seven Reasons to Outsource Your Accounting Practice

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Impact of the 2014 Office of the Inspector General Work Plan on the Nursing Home Industry

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Phishing Scams – What Should You Look Out For?

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Pension Plan De-Risking Trending Upwards

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How to Safely “BYOD”

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Tools To Help Keep Your Manufacturing Business Efficient

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How Interested Parties Learn About Your Non-Profit Organization and How to React

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Press Release: BlumShapiro Named as Best of the Best Accounting Firm

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Using Form 990 for Organizational Improvements

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Communication Between the Business Office and The Board

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Improving Your Business through Globalization, Digitization, Rationalization and Transparency

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Your Reputation Shows in Your Financial Statement

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Volume or Gross?

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Fair Credit and Fair Gain

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Don’t Forget About the Massachusetts Estate Tax

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Record Retention Guide - Business and Organizations

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IRS Finalizes Guidance on the Treatment of Tangible Property Under MACRs

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Workforce Science and Big Data

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The Importance of Making an Entity Classification Election

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Retirement Plan Fund Revenue Equalization

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Reminders on 403(b) and 401(k) Remittances

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BlumShapiro Announces Merger with Schneider, Schneider & Associates

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Data Science Foundations - Classification and Regression

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Five Tips to Help Construction Companies Avoid Cash-Related Fraud

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ASU 2015-01 Eliminating Extraordinary Items

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City of the Future: A Call to Action

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Data Science Foundations - Similarity Matching and Clustering

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990 Policy Compliance Series - Ensuring Transparent Governance and Operational Policies

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Retirement Plan Sponsor Best Practices

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Management Soon to be Required to Assess Going Concern Under U.S. GAAP

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990 Policy Compliance Series - What is an Independent Board Member?

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Individual Record Retention Guidance

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Five Critical Success Factors for Initiating Master Data Management

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The Business Value of Microsoft Azure - Part 3 - Backup

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Avoid Creating Another Information Silo with MDM

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990 Policy Compliance Series - Conflict of Interest Policy

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IRS Introduces New Tax Favorable Vehicle for Saving for Disability Needs

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Overcome the Challenge of Outsourcing Technology

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Accounting Standards Update

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The Benefits of Establishing an Interest Charge Domestic International Sales Corporation

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Fun with Machine Learning

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990 Policy Compliance Series - Compensation Policies

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Five Reasons to Keep CRM and MDM Separate

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Shared Services and The City of the Future

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John Zinno Honored for Community Service by Saint Mary School

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Revenue Recognition Update

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Are You Overpaying Management Fees?

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First Accommodate Master Data, Then Clean It

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Fraud and Internal Controls

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Financial Literacy

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The Business Value of Microsoft Azure - Part 5 - Notification Hubs

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Face API and Power BI

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Department of Health and Human Services Plans Shift to Value-Based Payments for Nursing Homes

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Formulate Essential Data Governance Practices

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Grantee Implementation of Federal Uniform Administrative Requirements, Cost Principles and Audit Requirements

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Five Steps for Recognizing Revenue under New FASB and IASB Standards

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BlumShapiro Selected 2015 Business Champion for Community Involvement

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BlumShapiro Makes Philanthropy Part of Employee Work-Life Balance

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The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and Responding with a Fair Credit Compliance Program

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The Vital Role of the Supply Chain in 21st Century Manufacturing

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Connecticut Manufacturing Innovation Fund Voucher Program (MVP)

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Reorganize Your Content in SharePoint

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6 Critical Technologies for the Internet of Things

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BlumShapiro One of INSIDE Public Accounting's Top National 100 Firms

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It's Easy to Assess and Share Your Project Portfolio Health

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Businesses Shouldn’t Live In Fear of Data Breaches – They Should Take Steps to Prevent Them

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BlumShapiro Makes Inc. Magazine's Fastest Growing Private Companies

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IRS Releases Revenue Procedure 2015-41 - Updated Procedures for Advance Pricing Agreements

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Best Practices for Allocation of Functional Expenses

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FASB Issues Amendments to Plan Accounting

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BlumShapiro Announces a New Managing Partner

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How to Form a Partnership for Tax Purposes

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When BYOD is as Common as a Morning Coffee

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IRS Releases Temporary Regulations to Coordinate Arm’s Length Standard and Best Method Rule for Transfer Pricing

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DSS Announces 2015 Medicaid Wage Enhancement Program

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Revenue Recognition Step 3: Determine the Transaction Price

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The Four Machine Learning Problems, Explained

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Why You Should Care About the Internet of Things

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Top 5 Things to Think About Regarding Your Transfer Pricing

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Three Tips to Jump Start Your Data Science Plan

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Four Thresholds Massachusetts Non-Profits Should Be Aware Of

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4 Key Risks of Using Spreadsheets to Track Revenue Recognition

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What is Considered Unrelated Business Income?

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BlumShapiro and UConn Release Report on Baby Boomer Impact in CT

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A Look Into the CT Business Landscape and the Effects of an Aging Generation on our State

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Drive Your Business with a Dashboard, not Intuition

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When Must Individuals Pay Estimated Taxes?

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CFOs - Tired of Doing Bookkeeping? Learn How to Become More Strategic

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BlumShapiro Selects Vanessa Rossitto to Lead Government Practice

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Half of CT Business Owners Will Reach Retirement Age by 2027

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Advertising vs. Qualified Sponsorship Payments

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Family Owned Businesses Need to Start Succession Planning Today

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More Business Friendliness Would Greatly Help Fairfield County

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Investment Committee Best Practices for 401(k) Plans

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Recovering Indirect Costs from Federal Grants Under Uniform Guidance

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Revenue Recognition Step 4: Allocate Transaction Price to Performance Obligations in the Contract

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Five Reasons Cloud Accounting is Becoming a Top Choice for CFOs

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Five Reasons Why You Should Replace QuickBooks

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State Registration Requirements for Fundraising

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New Partnership Promises to Streamline Processing and Improve Payroll Expense Visibility for CFOs

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Improving Identity Theft Protection for Taxpayers

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Revenue Recognition Step 5: Recognize Revenue When/As the Entity Satisfied a Performance Obligation

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2015 PBN Business Excellence Awards

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The Latest on Valuation Discounts

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Recent Items of Interest Regarding Tangible Property Regulations

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Knowing Your Pension Plan’s Fiduciary Responsibility

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Accounting and Auditing Standards Update

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