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April 2025 Employer Regulatory and Legislative Update
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February 17, 2025
What Is Troubled Debt Restructuring?
  • Financial Services
  • Accounting, Financial Accounting & Advisory
February 17, 2025
What Is Troubled Debt Restructuring?

What Is Troubled Debt Restructuring? Learn the essentials of TDR, its strategic applications, and compliance measures for financial experts.

  • Financial Services
  • Accounting, Financial Accounting & Advisory
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February 14, 2025
The Role of Board Members and Executives in FDICIA Compliance
  • Financial Services
  • Audit & Assurance
February 14, 2025
The Role of Board Members and Executives in FDICIA Compliance

Learn how to strategically align FDICIA controls with business objectives. Board members and executives can use this as a proactive tool for mitigating risks and driving sustainability.

  • Financial Services
  • Audit & Assurance
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November 19, 2024
Bite-sized FDICIA Readiness
  • Financial Services
  • Audit & Assurance
November 19, 2024
Bite-sized FDICIA Readiness

Plan a smooth Bite-sized FDICIA Implementation before crossing the $1 billion asset threshold. Strategic, year-by-year approach ensures lasting financial compliance.

  • Financial Services
  • Audit & Assurance
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January 12, 2024
How a Qualified CPA Addresses Key Audit Needs of Captive Insurance Companies
  • Financial Services
January 12, 2024
How a Qualified CPA Addresses Key Audit Needs of Captive Insurance Companies

Partnering with an experienced CPA firm like CBIZ LLP is crucial for addressing the specific audit needs of captive insurance companies.

  • Financial Services
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November 09, 2022
Countdown to Adoption of ASC 842: Leases for Private Companies
  • Financial Services
November 09, 2022
Countdown to Adoption of ASC 842: Leases for Private Companies

Accounting Standards Codification 842 – Leases (ASC 842) is required to be adopted by private companies for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2021.

  • Financial Services
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June 28, 2022
CECL Implementation is Here: What it Means for Financial Institutions
  • Financial Services
June 28, 2022
CECL Implementation is Here: What it Means for Financial Institutions

For calendar-year financial institutions, the CECL standard will be adopted on January 1, 2023, and reported in the first quarter call report for 2023.

  • Financial Services
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June 16, 2022
Insurance Policy Language: Complex, and Critically Important
  • Financial Services
  • Advisory
June 16, 2022
Insurance Policy Language: Complex, and Critically Important

There is no one-size-fits-all approach to insurance policies, especially because policy language is shaped by the ever-changing economic environment.

  • Financial Services
  • Advisory
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September 24, 2021
Cryptocurrency: A Growing and Potentially Hidden Giant
  • Financial Services
  • Advisory
September 24, 2021
Cryptocurrency: A Growing and Potentially Hidden Giant

As the crypto industry continues to evolve, identifying and valuing these assets will play a huge role in many of the cases both lawyers and financial experts will come across on a day-to-day basis.

  • Financial Services
  • Advisory
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August 17, 2021
Federal Reserve Releases CECL SCALE Model
  • Financial Services
  • Tax
August 17, 2021
Federal Reserve Releases CECL SCALE Model

The Federal Reserve Bank rolled out its Scaled CECL Allowance for Losses Estimator (SCALE model), which is intended to simplify the process of calculating current expected credit losses (CECL) and the resulting allowance.

  • Financial Services
  • Tax
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June 16, 2021
Transitioning into Current Expected Credit Loss (CECL)
  • Financial Services
  • Audit & Assurance
June 16, 2021
Transitioning into Current Expected Credit Loss (CECL)

Under the new Current Expected Credit Loss standard, banks and financial institutions will have to predict their losses in the most unpredictable environment to date.

  • Financial Services
  • Audit & Assurance
Article
June 08, 2021
PPP Loan Forgiveness Process for Lenders
  • Financial Services
  • Audit & Assurance
June 08, 2021
PPP Loan Forgiveness Process for Lenders

As borrowers will be continuing to submit forgiveness applications through 2026, lenders will need to vigilant in following the appropriate steps for making forgiveness decisions, submitting applications to the SBA, and reporting as applicable.

  • Financial Services
  • Audit & Assurance
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May 05, 2021
How to Handle the Accounting for Collateral Assignment Split-dollar Life Insurance Plans
  • Financial Services
  • Audit & Assurance
May 05, 2021
How to Handle the Accounting for Collateral Assignment Split-dollar Life Insurance Plans

Split-dollar life insurance is an arrangement between two parties to share the costs and benefits of a permanent insurance policy.

  • Financial Services
  • Audit & Assurance

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