Employee Benefit Blog
- Welcome Changes in Employee Benefit Plan Audit Independence
- Is Your Benefit Plan Missing an Audit Report?
- MarylandSaves for Employers
- It’s Time to Consider Cybersecurity Risk for Employee Benefit Plans
- Preparing for Your Plan Audit, Part 5: Minutes and Amendments
- Preparing for Your Plan Audit, Part 4: SOC 1 Report
- Preparing for Your Plan Audit, Part 3: Investment Certifications
- Preparing for Your Plan Audit, Part 2: Completion of a Timeliness Schedule
- Preparing for Your Plan Audit Part 1: Census Reconciliation
- What Does a 401(k) Audit Encompass?
- Plans Retroactively Adopted After the End of the Plan Year Will Not Be Required To File a 2020 Form 5500
- IRS Updates Under Employee Plans Compliance Resolution System
- U.S. Department of Labor Announces Cybersecurity Guidance
- Update on Employee Benefit Plan Auditing Standards (SAS 136)
- Employee Benefit Plans and COVID-19
- Cybersecurity Risk Surrounding Employee Benefit Plans
- Financial Statement Disclosures Unique to Defined Benefit Plans
- 401(k) Plan Forfeitures – The Forgotten Funds
- 10 Auditor Considerations Under the New Employee Benefit Plan Standard (SAS 136)
- FASB Amends Master Trust Reporting Requirements for Employee Benefit Plans
- EisnerAmper Co-Hosts Employee Benefits Plan Event at NYSE
- Your Benefit Plan Limited Scope Audit Report May Soon Look Different…
- IRS Provides Form 5500 Filing Relief for California Wildfire Victims
- Borrowing Limits for Participants with Multiple Plan Loans
- Treatment of the Annual Compensation in Defined Contribution Plans in a Short Plan Year
- Best Practices for Plan Sponsors: The Importance of Internal Controls and Audit and Investigation Readiness
- 403(b) Plans Must Be Universally Available – Is Yours?
- IRS and DOL Provide Additional Hurricane Harvey Relief
- IRS Expands Ability of Retirement Plans to Make Loans, Hardship Distributions to Victims of Hurricanes Harvey and Irma
- Do You Know How Controlled and Affiliated Service Group Rules
- IRS Extends New Guidelines for Documenting Hardship Distributions to Section 403(b) Plans
- Retirement Plan Limitation Changes for 2017
- IRS Expands Ability to Make Safe-Harbor Plan Amendments
- The SIMPLE Retirement Plan Gets Simpler
- DOL Contacts Plan Sponsors with Tips on Selecting a Plan Auditor
- IRS to Focus on Audits of 403(b) and 457(b) Plans
- Merging Employee Benefit Plans
- Concerns with Equity Based Compensation – The Danger of Dilution
- How Do I Use the DOL’s Lost Earnings Calculator?
- The IRC 409A Trap – Executives Beware!
- Suspending Safe Harbor Contributions During the Plan Year
- Roth Rollovers
- Time for Your Plan’s Checkup!
- Employee Benefit Plan Oversight
- Defined Benefit Plan Hidden Risks
- Are You Sure Your Plan Sponsor is Tax-Exempt?
- Where Are Your 401(k) Plan Documents?
- Office of Inspector General for the DOL Issues Inquiry Letters to Some Plan Sponsors
- 408(b)(2) Disclosure Guides
- Pension Funding Relief
- Are Your TPAs Booking Journal Entries to Your Plan? Are You Sure?
- Tax-Deferred Stock Rights for Offshore Funds
- When Does a Benefit Plan Have to File with the SEC?
- Annuities in 401(k) Plans?
- Late Remittances CONTINUE to be a Problem
- Top Employee Benefit Plan Tips for March
- How Long Do You Need to Keep Your Plan Documents?
- Do April Showers Bring May Plan Auditors?
- Investment Policy Statement for Employee Benefit Plans
- Diane Wasser Speaks at FAE Conference
- Denise Finney Speaks to the Tennessee State Society of CPAs on Independence
- Kriste DeAngelo Speaks at NJSCPA Conference
- Timeliness of Participant Deferrals for Employee Benefit Plans
- Actuarial Valuation and Actuarial Census for Defined Benefit Plans
- Recent Accounting Pronouncements – Applicable for Employee Benefit Plans
- Alternative Investments in Employee Benefit Plans
- Alternative Investments in Employee Benefit Plans – Part 2
- Simplification of Employee Benefit Plan Disclosures