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Perspectives

Apr 5, 2024

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

Mar 25, 2024

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

Mar 20, 2024

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

Mar 20, 2024

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

Mar 18, 2024

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

Mar 6, 2024

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

Feb 8, 2024

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

Feb 7, 2024

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

Feb 6, 2024

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

Dec 27, 2023

When listening to employees, it’s about more than words 

Let’s walk through a somewhat common scenario in the world of HR

Dec 8, 2023

Workers’ compensation Pennsylvania style

All 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia require employers to provide some form of workers' compensation insurance

Dec 8, 2023

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?”