It’s never too early to start 2024 business tax planning
Tax planning for businesses frequently occurs at or near year end. However, that timing may be too late to implement certain actions for the current year that could save tax dollars
Time to redefine and disrupt higher education
There has been a “college-for-all movement” for a long time and this has resulted in some serious questions and challenges for higher education, including
Employee benefits are evolving for remote workers
Once upon a time almost all salaried employees drove a car, hopped a bus or subway, boarded a commuter train or walked when heading to work each weekday mornin
Three HR policies to introduce in 2024
Especially for small businesses, HR policies are essential to protecting the organization, and per the Small Business Administration, Pennsylvania is home to 1.1 million small businesses, which make up 99.6% of the businesses in the state
Female founders: 5 steps to reaching unimagined potential
Through extraordinary perseverance, grit, knowledge, and optimism, women-owned businesses have made impressive strides in attaining C-suite leadership, seats on boards of governance, and trends toward pay equity
Why women ‘risk’ working in insurance industry
What is it these women know that so many other women – and men – don’t know. Isn’t insurance boring
Five business challenges and opportunities for small business in 2024
Today’s small businesses face extraordinary multi-layered challenges on local, state, national and global levels
Community Banks: Don’t just follow the money, follow our model
Instead of charting a more productive course in the New Year, some in the world of finance seem to have learned the wrong lessons from last year’s big bank failures
Top 10 financial checklist for 2024
If one of your New Year’s resolutions includes getting your finances in order, you may benefit from creating and maintaining a yearly checklist
When listening to employees, it’s about more than words
Let’s walk through a somewhat common scenario in the world of HR
Workers’ compensation Pennsylvania style
All 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia require employers to provide some form of workers' compensation insurance
Employee Benefits: It’s all about the ‘Why’
When discussing employee benefits with CEOs, CFOs, and human resource managers I’ve gotten everything from blank stares, to “Isn’t a living wage benefit enough?”