Arvada’s new city manager challenged his team to get creative with healthcare benefits strategies to relieve the pain of soaring costs. The City’s HR and finance teams, with strategic guidance from HUB International’s advisors, started thinking outside the box and succeeded beyond ...

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Investment bankers, and any acquiring company will spend a lot of time on financial due diligence and legal, but we have seen too many cases where not enough time is spent on the overall IT ecosystem, and definitely not the business applications they are about to consume. This issue alone can lead ...

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By John Wallace Accounting and finance teams sometimes resist change. It’s understandable. After all, accuracy is essential in this field, and major changes to processes and the introduction of new ways of working could create additional stress and lead to costly mistakes. However, resisting...

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As they say, better late than never. I was one year late on when I thought we would have tax reform. I am not going to explain all the changes that went into effect with the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. There are numerous changes that will benefit taxpayers. Yet, as we know, for every tax benefit receiv...

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Taxpayers generally have two ways to take an immediate write-off for a portion or all of the cost of an acquired capitalized asset. They can claim a tax deduction for a percentage of the cost of the asset (bonus depreciation), or they can claim a deduction for a certain dollar amount of the cost of...

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Effective workforce collaboration is a priority for any business that wants to build more cohesive and productive teams and drive innovation. But two areas where collaboration really matters, but at times languishes, are at the senior management level and in the finance function. Obviously, CFOs an...

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