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CEO Corner
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Dear Hannah,
Last week, our friends at Integrated Partners held a webinar explaining the new pooled employee retirement plan (PEP) exclusively for MSCPA members. We’ve been working on this for a while, since the PEP rules came out of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act and not all the rules were clear.
Things have settled down now, and we are able to offer this great benefit to our members. When you join PEP, your retirement assets will be pooled with others for purposes of investment. This means that you will get the lower management costs previously available only to larger firms and that there will be a single filing. This will greatly cut down on red tape that you have to endure to provide this great benefit for you and your staff.
Please contact me if you have any questions. I’m hoping lots of our members take the time to understand this benefit. It’s a new approach, but it represents an opportunity we at the Society are very excited to be able to provide our members.
PEP is among several benefits we’ve developed over the past few years to help our sole practitioners and smaller firms. Please also check out our HR Hotline, a completely free and confidential service that allows you to have 30-minute consultations with Laurie LaBrie, SPHR, SHRM-SCP. Many of you have met Laurie at the New England Practice Management (MAP) Virtual Conference and elsewhere. She has also done free HR webinars for our members and written some great articles for
SumNews — she actually has a webinar and a SumNews article coming in January, so look out for those!
Also, check out our January small firms roundtables for a great opportunity to talk to your peers about everything on your mind. Finally, a few years ago we introduced the small-firm level (fewer than 10 employees) for our Education Foundation’s Scholarships. For $500, you can get the same recognition as larger firms and make a real difference in the life of a college accounting student who could use the extra help. You can learn more and donate here.
We are always looking for ways we can help all our members, including those in small firms. Please feel free to contact me directly with any ideas.
Happy Chanukah to those of you who celebrate. Have a great weekend!
Amy Pitter
MSCPA President/CEO
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Featured Virtual Conferences
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Join us Wednesday, January 13 – Thursday, January 14 for a conference that is sure to set you and your organization up for a successful year! Our annual State Tax Virtual Conference is a great opportunity to learn about hot topics, meet experts in the field and boost your network! Register today with the promo code
EARLY to save $25 on your registration! This offer ends Thursday, December 31.
Attendees will earn eight CPE credits. REGISTER
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Join us Thursday, January 21 – Friday, January 22 for a conference that will provide you with essential information you need to help guide your business and clients! At our Nonprofit Virtual Conference, we'll cover FASB, best practices for remote audit, Office 365 apps, a nonprofit update, scenario planning in a post COVID-19 environment and much more! Register today with the promo code
EARLY
to save $25 on your registration! This offer ends Thursday, December 31.
Attendees will earn eight CPE credits. REGISTER
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MSCPA Educational Foundation Holiday Decorating Competition
Show your creative side (and holiday spirit!) while supporting future CPAs. By donating $10, you can be entered into our holiday decorating competition. Whether you are home or in the office, join us in jazzing up your space for a chance to win and support a great cause! All proceeds will go directly to the MSCPA Educational Foundation.
Prizes will be awarded for the following categories:
1. Most festive individual workspace décor ($50 gift card)
2. Best decorated holiday season baked good/gingerbread house/holiday treat (prize)
3. Best overall firm participation in holiday workspace décor competition – each individual who submits this form with their submission picture will be judged by their overall participation based on all individual submissions we receive from the firm.
(Complimentary MSCPA Firm Guide listing – a $400 value! Winners will also be announced in
SumNews,
our bi-monthly member magazine)
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NEW! Multi-State CPAs in Business Virtual Roundtable (12/15)
LAST CHANCE TO REGISTER! Join us next Tuesday, December 15 to connect with your peers in the private sector across the country at our first
FREE Multi-State CPAs in Business Virtual Roundtable! In this one hour discussion, we'll cover:
- Virtual onboarding and hiring;
- Return to work plans;
- PPP loans;
- Budgeting for 2021;
- HR issues: Furloughs, layoffs and general remote work policies;
- Revenue recognition slowdowns; and
- Technology/cybersecurity and risk.
You'll chat with members in Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska, New Jersey, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, sharing ideas and challenges of running a firm in the "new normal." REGISTER
Please note:
Zoom login information will be sent to registrants 24 hours before the event. Please contact Jill Foley at jfoley@mscpaonline.org if you have any questions. Video participation for this session is optional, but highly encouraged.
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Join us on Thursday, January 21
for our next virtual trivia night hosted by Trivia Hub! Assemble a team of up to six coworkers to answer questions about everything from sports to history, and from pop culture to food! Firms are encouraged to enter more than one team. Don't have a team? No problem! Sign up as an individual and we will set you up with some fellow geniuses! REGISTER
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Career Center
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Job Postings
- Tax Senior - Kevin P. Martin & Associates, PC
- Senior Tax Accountant - Kline & Company, CPA, PC
- Manager for Private Enterprise Group - Kevin P. Martin & Associates, PC
- Tax Supervisor/Manager - Gonzalez & Associates, P.C.
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Per Diem Job Postings
- Tax Reviewer - Reagan & Company, PC
- Seasonal Tax Preparer/Reviewer - Solar & Kilcoyne, PC
- Senior/Supervisor - E.L. Mann, PC
- CPA - Vaillette & Sipowicz LLC
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| Member News
| GRAY, GRAY & GRAY, LLP, Canton, announced that the firm was named one of “America’s Best Tax and Accounting Firms for 2021” by Forbes.
KEVIN P. MARTIN & ASSOCIATES, P.C., Boston/Braintree/Danvers/Fall River, announced that TRACIE DROUIN, CPA
joined as a tax director and
CAROLE MCAULIFFE, CPA joined as a senior tax manager. The firm also announced that
BRIAN CONDE
and SIOBHANN WILLIAMS, CPA joined as audit supervisors.
SHARE YOUR NEWS
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Form 8752 in Light of PPP Loan
Forgiveness Rules
Mortgage Forgiveness Tax Break Question
Lack of Peer Reviewers and the Peer Review Program
Speaking Opportunity: Massachusetts Association of Accountants (MAA)
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TAXATION COMMITTEE MEETING (12/15)
Join the MSCPA Taxation Committee at 8:30 a.m. next Tuesday, December 15! Justin Boron, Barry Miller and Kirsten Patzer, partners from Freeman Mathis & Gary, LLP, will give a presentation titled "A Hacker’s Playground: Cyber Risk to Tax and Accounting Professionals during a Pandemic." You can view the full agenda here.
To join by Zoom, click here. To join by phone, dial 646.558.8656. Please contact Larry Liuzzo with any questions.
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| VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES
Accountant & Bookkeeper - Treasurer - Greater Newburyport Bura, Kenya Alliance, Ltd.
Board Treasurer - Lyracle
CPA - The Loop Lab
Treasurer - Prison Book Program
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This week's Legislative Brief offers updates on the MSCPA calling on Congress to allow deductibility for PPP expenses, Governor Charlie Baker's revised reopening measures going into effect this Sunday and more.
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