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The Form 5500 is the information return that must be filed by most employee benefit plans subject to ERISA (unless an exception applies), and failure to file this annual return for a plan can result ...

Employee benefit plan sponsors and ­administrators can save time selecting an audit firm and evaluating the quality of its services by writing a thorough Request for Proposal (RFP). Consider these ...

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The American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) issued a new audit standard for employee benefit plans in July 2019. The new standard is commonly referred to as SAS 136, but its ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Employee benefit plans are, by their very nature, decentralized. There are aspects of the plan that are likely to be outsourced to ...

Behold, the IRS audit. They are rare these days. Only one out of every 184 taxpayers experienced one in 2017, and fewer than a quarter of them are conducted in person by the agency. For many, ...

As IRS budgets and audit staff continue to diminish, audit numbers are at an all-time low. But when you file your clients’ returns, the most common question persists: “How likely am I to be audited?” ...

Adaptive Planning introduced the latest version of its on-demand corporate financial planning software, adding new collaboration features, including cell notes and an audit trail. Processing Content ...