By:  Mark Gardiner, Partner, CPA, CFE The Association of Certified Fraud Examiners released their 2022 edition of the Report to the Nations fraud study last spring. This study contains over 2,110 cases of occupational fraud that were investigated between January 2020 and September 2021. This study published each year by the Association of Certified Fraud...

As I think back over the past years, I find today strikingly different. Your industries, the current business environment and societal changes have directed our training, planning, and working environment to focus in areas not thought about in the past. Less than one half of our recent staff training agenda was dedicated to technical topics...

It has become increasingly common to hear investors and stakeholders request environmental, social and governance (ESG) information from companies to assist them in assessing a company’s performance. Many large companies have responded by delivering this information to stakeholders for further consideration. In 2020, 92% of the S&P 500 companies and 70% of the Russell 1000...

We have breathed life back into our client peer group database, including current year information and some past years. The database tracks 26 key ratios and 18 different gross margins (as ¢ per unit or % of sales) for commodities and products sold. We have several ways to build out your peer group, including states,...

In July 2019, the AICPA issued Statement on Auditing Standards (SAS) No. 136, Forming an Opinion and Report on Financial Statements of Employee Benefit Plans Subject to ERISA, which prescribed certain new performance requirements for financial statement audits of ERISA employee benefit plans and changed the form and content of the related auditor’s report. This...

On June 5, 2020, President Trump signed into law the PPP Flexibility Act of 2020. This amends the PPP giving borrowers more freedom or flexibility in spending the PPP funds and retaining the possibility of full forgiveness. Some key takeaways are as follows: + Forgiveness period was increased to 24 weeks, up from 8 weeks,...