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NetSuite Success Story: Maine Pointe Case Study

Technology

NetSuite Success Story: Maine Pointe Case Study

We recently completed the installation of NetSuite OpenAir for Maine Pointe after its original install partner left gaps in important...

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Technology

Popularity of Zoom Results in a Data Breach

Technology

Popularity of Zoom Results in a Data Breach

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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Technology

How to Use NetSuite Vendor Installments

Technology

How to Use NetSuite Vendor Installments

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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Article

Now what? A communications playbook for COVID-19 and beyond

Article

Now what? A communications playbook for COVID-19 and beyond

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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Technology

How to Use NetSuite Customer Installments

Technology

How to Use NetSuite Customer Installments

Part of a recent NetSuite release, Customer Installments are easy and an extremely helpful tool to automate customer receipts and...

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Human Resources

Interim Payroll Management Resources and System Implementation

Human Resources

Interim Payroll Management Resources and System Implementation

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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Article

Federal Financial Assistance Impacted by COVID-19

Article

Federal Financial Assistance Impacted by COVID-19

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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Human Resources

Providing Support Through Payroll Crisis Management

Human Resources

Providing Support Through Payroll Crisis Management

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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Human Resources

Supporting the Assessment and Redesign of Payroll Processes

Human Resources

Supporting the Assessment and Redesign of Payroll Processes

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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Technology

Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations: Vendor Information Works...

Technology

Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations: Vendor Information Works...

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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Technology

Forget About Doing a “Reclass” Entry to Fix a Transaction Cod...

Technology

Forget About Doing a “Reclass” Entry to Fix a Transaction Cod...

Here are a few questions to get you thinking about using a Dynamics GP reclassification entry: Are you creating endless...

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Tax

Proposed Regulations Under Section 512(a)(6) for Not-for-Profit O...

Tax

Proposed Regulations Under Section 512(a)(6) for Not-for-Profit O...

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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Technology

My List of Top 10 NetSuite 2020.1 Enhancements

Technology

My List of Top 10 NetSuite 2020.1 Enhancements

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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Technology

How to Use Powershell to Export MFA Status by User

Technology

How to Use Powershell to Export MFA Status by User

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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Article

Technical Correction to Allow Accelerated Depreciation of Qualifi...

Article

Technical Correction to Allow Accelerated Depreciation of Qualifi...

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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Technology

Easy Wins for Active Directory – Part 3

Technology

Easy Wins for Active Directory – Part 3

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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COVID-19

Preparing Your Teams to Return to Work

COVID-19

Preparing Your Teams to Return to Work

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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COVID-19

Today’s opportunity: Build resilience

COVID-19

Today’s opportunity: Build resilience

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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Technology

Introducing Microsoft’s Take on RPA: UI Flows

Technology

Introducing Microsoft’s Take on RPA: UI Flows

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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Accounting

Borrowers Certification of Economic Need and Uncertainty for PPP ...

Accounting

Borrowers Certification of Economic Need and Uncertainty for PPP ...

Updates as of May 6: the SBA extended the date for borrowers seeking to repay PPP loans from May 7...

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Technology

Ransomware Regret?

Technology

Ransomware Regret?

Ransomware is one of the most common and prevalent forms of malware that targets both personal and business computer systems....

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Wealth Management

Financial Planning Series: Step 5 Asset Allocation

Wealth Management

Financial Planning Series: Step 5 Asset Allocation

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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Technology

PowerToys in Windows 10 – Shortcut Guide

Technology

PowerToys in Windows 10 – Shortcut Guide

This blog was originally part 4 of a 4 part series on PowerToys. However, as with everything Microsoft, PowerToys has...

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Article

Antony Nettleton to lead Sikich’s assurance team

Article

Antony Nettleton to lead Sikich’s assurance team

CHICAGO — May 4, 2020 — Antony Nettleton, former global leader of assurance, quality and enterprise risk for Grant Thornton International,...

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Accounting

SBA Allows Borrowers to Return PPP Loans if Unable to Show Loan N...

Accounting

SBA Allows Borrowers to Return PPP Loans if Unable to Show Loan N...

Updates as of May 6: the SBA extended the date for borrowers seeking to repay PPP loans from May 7...

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Technology

Vulnerability Allows Malicious Domain Registration

Technology

Vulnerability Allows Malicious Domain Registration

I recently was reading a publication on security and came across this major zero-day vulnerability that has affected many different...

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Technology

Disaster Plan Considerations for Shortages in Available Staff

Technology

Disaster Plan Considerations for Shortages in Available Staff

Disaster recovery testing scenarios too often consist of a random technical outage that focuses on the IT department, some managers/developers,...

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Technology

Rethink Customer Engagement with Salesforce Communities

Technology

Rethink Customer Engagement with Salesforce Communities

Salesforce has created a community space for sharing information and collaborating with those essential to your business. This collaborative solution...

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Technology

Office 365 Deployment – You’re Not Done Yet

Technology

Office 365 Deployment – You’re Not Done Yet

When it comes to Microsoft Office 365, many organizations go through the setup process until they get their software working and...

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Not-for-Profit

Webinar: Composite Score and Financial Responsibility Changes

Not-for-Profit

Webinar: Composite Score and Financial Responsibility Changes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_VOLMF6rKo&feature=youtu.be Join our expert Raymond Krouse, CPA as he covers how recent accounting standards required the Department of Education to modify...

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