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Charter Schools Not Exempt from MA Paid Family and Medical Leave Law
AAFCPAs would like to make charter school clients aware that the Massachusetts Department of Family and Medical Leave recently issued a policy clarification related to certain excluded employers of the new Paid Family and Medical Leave (PFML) law. Municipalities, districts, political subdivisions, and other agencies are excluded from PFML law unless they choose to opt-in. […]
Hosting Service and Auditor Independence
AAFCPAs would like to make clients aware that the AICPA’s Professional Ethics Executive Committee (PEEC) has issued a new interpretation of AICPA’s independence rule, Hosting Service. The new interpretation, effective July 1, 2019, applies specifically to CPA firm attest clients and prohibits CPA firms from providing Hosting Services to these clients. As you may know, […]
New Revenue Recognition Accounting for Nonprofits: Contribution or Exchange Transaction?
On June 21, 2018, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) issued a final Accounting Standards Update (ASU) 2018-08, Not-For-Profit Entities (Topic 958): Clarifying the Scope and the Accounting Guidance for Contributions Received and Contributions Made. This ASU clarifies and reduces the current diversity in practice in accounting for grants and contributions, particularly for grants and […]
Carla McCall Shares How AAFCPAs Put Innovation to Work
AAFCPAs’ Co-Managing Partner Carla McCall, CPA, CGMA presented a best practices session titled: Putting Innovation to Work: Moving from Ideas to Action at Upstream Academy’s Best Practices 2019 annual conference for CPA firm leadership teams. The desire to improve is one of the hallmarks of a high-performance firm. It is difficult to move from desire […]
AAFCPAs’ Chief Talent Officer and New Director of Talent Advancement Support Continued Growth
AAFCPAs is pleased to announce Donna M. Richer is promoted to Chief Talent Officer (CTO) and Ingrid Goldbloom Bloch joins the firm as Director, Talent Advancement. Donna M. Angelico As CTO, Donna leads AAFCPAs’ Talent Management function and helps maintain our unique and authentic company culture—one that genuinely cares for the individual, expects honesty and […]
October is National Cybersecurity Awareness Month
Held every October, National Cybersecurity Awareness Month (NCSAM) is a collaborative effort between government and industry to raise awareness about the importance of cybersecurity and to ensure that all Americans have the resources they need to be safer and more secure online. The Business & IT Security practice at AAFCPAs has published the following insights […]
Watch Now: 340B Compliance Webinar
This educational webinar provided attendees with an understanding of compliance requirements for running a 340B in-house or contract pharmacy, including: How to successfully prepare for an Office of Pharmacy Affairs (OPA) audit How to ensure 340B Program integrity and maintain accurate records documenting compliance with all 340B Program requirements Major risks of the 340B Program […]
AAFCPAs Tax Practice Announces New IT Solutions and Process Improvements
The Tax Practice of AAFCPAs is excited to introduce new IT solutions and process improvements that will add efficiency and ease to your client experience for the 2019 tax return filing season. Please review the information below as you may need to take action in order to avail yourself of these new tools. TaxCaddy TaxCaddy […]
Social Security Benefits to Increase by 1.6% in 2020
AAFCPAs Wealth Management would like to make clients aware that the Social Security Administration announced today that Social Security and Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefits for nearly 69 million Americans will increase 1.6 percent in 2020. Cost-of-living adjustments (COLA) have averaged 1.4 percent in the past decade. The 1.6 percent adjustment will begin in January […]