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Debbie Altham Featured in Manufacturing Business Technology
January 23, 2020
Debbie Altham's article about digital transformation was published in Manufacturing Business Technology. With over 30 years of experience in technology, Debbie...
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CPE Trainings: Tax Levels 1, 2, & 3
January 23, 2020
Register for CPE Training Level of Your Choice Program Description Sikich University is pleased to offer Tax Training Levels 1-3 for your...
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Opportunity Zones: A Case Study
January 23, 2020
The Tax Cut and Jobs Act of 2017 created a new tax saving vehicle, Opportunity Zones (OZ). The intention of...
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Other Azure Cost Reduction Strategies: Basic, Burstable, and Spot...
January 23, 2020
My previous blog post talked about reducing Azure costs using Reserved Instances and Azure Hybrid Use Rights. Using this strategy,...
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Modern ERP Confronts the AS/400 Platform
January 22, 2020
Companies managing their activities on IBM AS/400 systems or their successor technology, Power Systems, often do so because the software...
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Drew Long Featured in Accounting Today
January 22, 2020
News of Drew Long and Louis Sands' promotions to partner at Sikich was covered in Accounting Today’s "People on the...
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VPN and Security
January 21, 2020
Virtual Private Networks or VPNs are widely used today in business to connect remote workers to their offices and protect...
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Salesforce Service Cloud for Lightning
January 20, 2020
Service cloud is an application within Salesforce that is geared toward making things easier for customer service by providing features...
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DNS over HTTPS – More security for your business!
January 17, 2020
If you created a list with the top 10 most critical technologies that allowed the internet to work, DNS (Domain...
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Congress Moves Forward with USMCA Trade Agreement
January 17, 2020
What this Means for U.S. Manufacturers and Distributors As a new decade begins, will manufacturers and distributors see the ‘roaring twenties’...
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The Differences Between Vulnerability Scanning and Penetration Te...
January 16, 2020
Today’s cybersecurity landscape has seen security consciousness grow amongst many organizations, such that organizations have moved from reactively scrambling to...
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A Smooth Path to Modern ERP From Homegrown Legacy Systems
January 16, 2020
At the time your homegrown ERP system was developed and launched, it was probably the best possible solution. But what...
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Financial Planning Series: Step 2 – How to Set Financial Go...
January 15, 2020
Financial Planning Series: Step 2 https://youtu.be/EFqUq7eKiI0 Setting goals is an important step in financial planning. Goals can vary based on a person’s situation, but your starting goal...
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The Power of Video: Why your company needs video marketing in 202...
January 15, 2020
Why your company needs video ARE YOU INTERESTED IN? Having more customers REACH out to you?SELLING your products more easily?Having your customers...
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Salesforce Community Cloud Basic Overview
January 15, 2020
A community cloud is essentially a website connected to the Salesforce org that you can deploy to connect customers, partners,...
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Revenue Recognition and Private Equity: Are You Paying Attention?...
January 15, 2020
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Revenue Recognition and Private Equity: Are You Paying Attention?...
January 15, 2020
Back in May of 2014, FASB issued one of the most considerably penetrating compliance changes in over a decade (Accounting...
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Dynamics GP Security – A Dozen Easy Ways to Make Your Syste...
January 14, 2020
Everyone is worried about security these days, and GP users are no exception. Clients often ask my team and me...
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The A, B, Cs of Medicare
January 14, 2020
Planning for Healthcare costs in retirement While most people know that Medicare is health insurance for those ages 65+ or with...
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Dynamics 365 Field Service Integrations, Part 5 of 5: Application...
January 13, 2020
In Part 1 of this series, we made the distinction between data integration and application integration. Part 3 and Part...
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Sikich elects two new tax partners
January 13, 2020
CHICAGO — Jan. 13, 2020 — Sikich recently promoted Drew Long and Louis Sands to partner. Both Long and Sands offer...
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Dynamics 365 Field Service Integrations, Part 4 of 5: Executing a...
January 10, 2020
In Part 3 of this series, we installed the CDS Data Integrator templates from Microsoft, established our connections, and created...
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Webinar: Revenue Recognition – Implementation is Here!
January 10, 2020
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New SECURE Act includes Significant Retirement Plan Changes
January 10, 2020
The Setting Every Community Up for Retirement Enhancement (SECURE) Act was passed in December 2019, encompassing nearly 30 provisions intended...
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Dynamics 365 Field Service Integrations, Part 3 of 5: Configuring...
January 9, 2020
In Part 2 of this series, we set up the environments involved in the integrations and the PowerApps Connections to...
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Internal Controls in the Government Sector – How to Say “No...
January 8, 2020
Employees in the internal controls environment must be comfortable saying “No,” or they may suffer a critical reduction in the...
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Affordable Care Act Updates for January 2020
January 8, 2020
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) is likely here to stay. However, in late December 2019, there were a series of ACA...
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Spreedly PCI Compliance Case Study
January 8, 2020
Payment industry leader Spreedly collaborates with Sikich to ensure and simplify compliance with regulatory frameworks that enforce standards for financial...
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Dynamics 365 Field Service Integrations, Part 2 of 5: Setting Up ...
January 8, 2020
In Part 1 of this series, we covered the basics of systems integrations, differentiating between data integrations versus application integrations....
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Financial Planning Series: How to Start the Financial Planning Pr...
January 7, 2020
How Can You Engage in a Financial Planning Process? https://youtu.be/F1uZ5QfVGp0 What are the ways that clients can work with a Certified Financial...
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Dynamics 365 Field Service Integrations, Part 1 of 5: Integration...
January 7, 2020
One of the greatest challenges for an enterprise architecture is getting your data in sync and your many diverse systems...
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