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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
Transaction Advisory Services
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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DOL Proposed Safe Harbor to Send Communications Electronically
January 7, 2020
Effect of the New Rule on Electronic Disclosures On October 23, 2019, the Department of Labor (DOL) published a proposed rule...
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A Wake-up Call on Workforce Safety
January 7, 2020
View the Related Workplace Safety Infographic Below As a former law enforcement officer, I’m deeply passionate about workforce safety. I believe...
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xHelper – Phone Security Threat
January 3, 2020
A little more than half of the people who read this article will be reading it from an Android-based device...
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Ken Cranney and Bill Larkin Featured in HR Technologist
January 3, 2020
Ken Cranney and Bill Larkin authored an article that was published in HR Technologist. This article discusses human capital management...
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What’s the Difference Between Sales Enterprise and Sales Profes...
January 2, 2020
As you're setting up Dynamics 365, but you aren't sure if Dynamics 365 for Sales Professional or Sales Enterprise is the best...
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Retirement Plan Fee Benchmarking for Private Colleges
January 2, 2020
Plan sponsors are expected to understand fees associated with an organization’s retirement plan, as well as to ensure costs are...
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Selecting the Correct HCM Vendor
December 24, 2019
Client Challenge An agricultural cooperative and marketing organization was seeking a consulting firm with experience and expertise in HCM strategic planning...
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Leadership Succession Planning for a Mid-Sized Client
December 24, 2019
Client Challenge Sikich was asked by a second-generation, family-owned agricultural business to help prepare the organization for the transition of a...
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Talent Assessment & Talent Acquisition for a Mid-sized Clien...
December 24, 2019
Client Challenge Sikich was engaged by a small medical practice to assess their Human Resources function because the organization was experiencing...
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