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Extended Business Tax Incentives Benefiting the Construction and ...
May 14, 2020
As 2019 ended, Congress passed the Taxpayer Certainty and Disaster Tax Relief Act as part of an omnibus spending package,...
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Illinois Sexual Harassment Training – Model Now Available
May 14, 2020
Great news! The long-awaited model for the required Illinois sexual harassment training program has been released by the Illinois Department...
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Adding MSSP is a Natural Progression for Premier MSPs
May 13, 2020
As a team member and one of the leaders of a premier managed service provider (MSP) here at Sikich, our...
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How to Utilize Delegate Purchase Approvers in NetSuite
May 13, 2020
Managing approvals can be a tedious and often frustrating process for businesses. When employees take time off, the transactions they...
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SBA Provides $2 Million Safe Harbor on PPP Loans
May 13, 2020
PPP Loan Update On May 13, 2020, the Small Business Administration (SBA) and Treasury Department issued the latest FAQ on the...
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Nice Backups. It Would be a Shame if They Got Encrypted…
May 13, 2020
Cyber extortionists continue to target all types of organizations with network-wide ransomware attacks. If you are familiar with ransomware, then...
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Selling Your Business? Skip the Surprises.
May 13, 2020
The last thing you want during any sales transaction is a surprise. Imagine you’re about to sell your home after...
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NetSuite Success Story: Maine Pointe Case Study
May 12, 2020
We recently completed the installation of NetSuite OpenAir for Maine Pointe after its original install partner left gaps in important...
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Popularity of Zoom Results in a Data Breach
May 12, 2020
With COVID-19 affecting most everyone in our nation in some way or another, video conferencing software has been utilized by...
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How to Use NetSuite Vendor Installments
May 12, 2020
Welcome back to Part II of Sikich’s introduction to Installments in NetSuite. In this blog, we will be going over...
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Now what? A communications playbook for COVID-19 and beyond
May 11, 2020
In disorienting change and economic turmoil, many people feel as if they’ve been tossed about by a capricious and often...
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How to Use NetSuite Customer Installments
May 11, 2020
Part of a recent NetSuite release, Customer Installments are easy and an extremely helpful tool to automate customer receipts and...
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Interim Payroll Management Resources and System Implementation
May 11, 2020
CLIENT CHALLENGE We were contacted by a higher education institution with 4,000+ employees to assess and provide solutions for the payroll...
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Federal Financial Assistance Impacted by COVID-19
May 11, 2020
Article updated on May 11, 2020 On March 9, 2020, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) issued M-20-11, "Administrative Relief...
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Providing Support Through Payroll Crisis Management
May 8, 2020
CLIENT CHALLENGE When a business in the construction industry reached out and informed us of their challenges involving the payroll, tax...
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Supporting the Assessment and Redesign of Payroll Processes
May 8, 2020
CASE BACKGROUND When a higher education institution with 4,000 employees began to detect small indicators of a potentially larger problem, we...
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Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations: Vendor Information Works...
May 8, 2020
This Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations Vendor Information Workspace is purely about managing the vendor users. Let’s start with a...
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Forget About Doing a “Reclass” Entry to Fix a Transaction Cod...
May 8, 2020
Here are a few questions to get you thinking about using a Dynamics GP reclassification entry: Are you creating endless...
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Proposed Regulations Under Section 512(a)(6) for Not-for-Profit O...
May 7, 2020
Amidst the large amount of guidance pending for the CARES Act, the IRS has released the long-awaited Proposed Regulations under...
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My List of Top 10 NetSuite 2020.1 Enhancements
May 7, 2020
By now you've surely seen the various enhancements from the NetSuite 2020.1 update. We've combed over them in great detail,...
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How to Use Powershell to Export MFA Status by User
May 7, 2020
Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) is essential to working in today’s business environment securely. MFA is an authentication method in which a computer user is granted...
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Technical Correction to Allow Accelerated Depreciation of Qualifi...
May 6, 2020
Tax Considerations for Real Estate Investors under the CARES Act Back in 2017, the additional first-year bonus depreciation deduction was increased...
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Easy Wins for Active Directory – Part 3
May 6, 2020
In part 1 of this three-part series, we covered vulnerabilities related to NetBIOS Name Service (NBNS) and Link-Local Multicast Name...
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Preparing Your Teams to Return to Work
May 6, 2020
In the coming days and weeks, states will begin to initiate their COVID-19 reopening plans, bringing millions of employees, customers...
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Today’s opportunity: Build resilience
May 6, 2020
I’ve thought a lot about resilience recently – how it’s helped individuals overcome some of the worst hardships imaginable; how,...
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Introducing Microsoft’s Take on RPA: UI Flows
May 6, 2020
Microsoft published UI Flows late in 2019 as part of the Power Platform. UI Flows are Microsoft’s take on Robotic...
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Borrowers Certification of Economic Need and Uncertainty for PPP ...
May 5, 2020
Updates as of May 6: the SBA extended the date for borrowers seeking to repay PPP loans from May 7...
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Ransomware Regret?
May 4, 2020
Ransomware is one of the most common and prevalent forms of malware that targets both personal and business computer systems....
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Financial Planning Series: Step 5 Asset Allocation
May 4, 2020
Answering: What is Asset Allocation? https://youtu.be/lo6MrkNVf0c Asset allocation is a fancy term that generally means how much you have in stocks and...
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PowerToys in Windows 10 – Shortcut Guide
May 4, 2020
This blog was originally part 4 of a 4 part series on PowerToys. However, as with everything Microsoft, PowerToys has...
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