Search results for: “engagement”
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Ten things you should know about short term medical insurance
how the Affordable Care Act affects short term medical insurance
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Six successful strategies in the search for affordable health insurance
health insurance shopping tips
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What are the risks of not having an employee benefit plan document
The risks of failing to maintain small business employee benefit plan documents
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Non-permitted contingent fees and commissions for CPAs
Over the past month two of my web sites have received a growing numbers of visitors from Google and Bing search queries requesting examples of non-permitted contingent fees for CPAs. It appears that they come from multiple sources but I can not explain the sudden public interest. The reason, I suppose, is that I’ve written about two…
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reflections on Kent State 1970
In 1970 the Ohio National Guard, armed with bayonets on M1 rifles, marched on and shot unarmed students at Kent State University who were engaged in a civil protest event that authorities had not approved. Although there were political agitators at Kent State that week, all of those shot were university students. I was only 9…
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Evolving risks of unauthorized practice of law
revised March 10, 2016 This post contains information collected in several attempts to clarify and digest opinions about the unauthorized practice of law as it pertains to my own employee benefits practice. I presented these issues to two of my own attorneys in 2013 and neither was able to offer an opinion at that time. I am looking…
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Ehealth financial results and strategy are surprising to Freedom Benefits
The most recent financial operating results reported by health insurance industry leader E-health were startling to me as the owner of the much smaller Freedom Benefits. Submitted applications for individual and family plan products decreased 78% in the second quarter of 2014 compared to the prior year. We consider Ehealth to be our most direct and…
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Reflecting on my tortuous journey to become a CPA
Tonight I was reflecting on the long tortuous process of getting my CPA license and considered that perhaps it might be one of the most twisted paths to get into the profession. You might find the details amusing: For the first 19 years of self-employment my practice functioned in the area of compensation and benefits…