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- Accounting And Reporting By Defined Benefit Pension Plans
- This report establishes standards of financial accounting and reporting for the annual financial statements of a defined benefit pension plan plan. It applies both to plans in the private sector and to plans of state and local governmental units. It does not require the preparation, distribution, or attestation of financial...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- New IRS Guidance on 401(k) Safe Harbor Rules Provides Flexibility for Plan Sponsors
- The Internal Revenue Service recently issued additional guidance on safe harbor requirements for 401k plans. Safe harbor contributions formulas became available for most 401k plans beginning with the 1999 plan year. This article discusses safe harbor rules; a plan sponsor does not have to perform the actual deferral percentage ("ADP")...
- White papers 2003-05-01
- New 401(k) Rules May Require Revising Nondiscrimination Testing
- The Treasury and IRS have issued final $401k and $401m regulations that "update and simplify" existing regulations to reflect legislative changes enacted in 1996, 1997, and 2001, and other guidance. The regulations apply for plan years beginning on or after January 1, 2006. However, plan sponsors are permitted to apply...
- White papers 2005-02-08
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- Pension Plan Updates Now Due Next Year.
- Byline:Peter L. Blank The Internal Revenue Service IRS will give retirement plan administrators more time to update their plan documents to incorporate changes mandated by Congress in recent years. An IRS deadline has been extended for one year, to the end of the 2001...
- Research articles 2000-06-29
- Outline Of A Basic Marketing Plan
- Creating a written marketing plan is only the first step to improved sales. Once completed, this plan should be shared with the entire company so that everyone understands the strategies and why resources are being allocated the way they are. Everyone in the company should have some input into the...
- White papers 1999-01-01
- IRS extends remedial amendment period for plan qualification changes
- The IRS has announced a one-year extension for employers to amend their qualified plans to reflect recent legislative and statutory changes. Thus, employers have until the end of the 2000 plan year to amend their pension plans, profit sharing plans, and 401k plans. The IRS originally advised that plan sponsors...
- Research articles 1999-08-01
- "Good Faith" EGTRRA Amendments Must Be Adopted in the 2002 Plan Year.
- Before the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001 ("EGTRRA") was enacted, tax-qualified retirement plans were allowed to comply with new law in operation until the date usually years later by which plan amendments were required. The Internal Revenue Service, perhaps recognizing that operational compliance can be difficult...
- Research articles 2003-01-24
- To change FSA deadline, modify plan documents
- As the consequence of a notice issued by the IRS on May 18, every employer that sponsors flexible spending accounts FSAs for its employees must decide whether to extend the deadline for reimbursement of health and dependent care expenses and how to communicate any decision to do so. Any change...
- Research articles 2005-07-01
- Tax Credit for Plan Expenses Incurred by Small Businesses
- If one is a small-business owner who established a retirement plan for one's business in 2002 or later, one may be eligible to receive a nonrefundable tax credit for expenses one incurred to implement the plan. This is in addition to any tax deduction one may receive for plan contributions....
- White papers 2004-01-21
- Northwest Adds Privately-Held Affiliate's Stock to Shore Up Pension Plan.
- By Martin J. Moylan, Saint Paul Pioneer Press, Minn. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Sep. 16--Northwest Airlines has put another $309 million of Pinnacle Airlines stock into its employee pension plans. It has also kicked in $60 million in cash. ...
- Research articles 2003-09-16
- How Wal-Mart Got It Wrong with Plan B
- Remember the big flap two years ago about Wal-Mart's refusal to sell Barr Pharmaceuticals' emergency contraceptive, Plan B? Approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in 2005, and granted over-the-counter status in 2006, the morning-after pill became a retail anomaly: a widely anticipated new product that retailers wouldn't carry,...
- Blog posts 2008-03-11
- The GM Pension Plan: A $100 Billion Problem Swept Under the Rug
- Five or so years ago, when General Motors was simply financially challenged rather than bankrupt, financial writers joked that GM was in truth a huge pension plan, funded by an automobile operation. It wasn't far off the mark: in 2004, each active worker was outnumbered by 2.5 GM retirees, and...
- Blog posts 2009-06-08
- Is General Motor’s Recovery Plan Too Ambitious?
- General Motors has already received $13.4 billion in loans from the U.S. Treasury and is seeking an additional $16.6 billion in federal assistance aid to avoid a potential bankruptcy. Critical to the restructuring plan the struggling automaker submitted to Congress in December was an underlying assumption that vehicle sales would...
- Blog posts 2009-03-11
- Sam Zell's Plan D: It's All About Buying Time
- [Guest post by Ken Doctor, Content Bridges]Sam Zell's House of Cards has fallen flat. Today's bankruptcy filing changes everything and nothing. If we still have the capacity for amazement, after a year of subprime meltdown, worldwide recession and the election of Barack Obama, Tribune going banko would be stunning....
- External links 2008-12-09
- Fiat's Five-Year Plan For Chrysler Leaks Early, Local Distribution In Question
- DETAILS OF A special ‘five year plan' to resuscitate US carmaker Chrysler have leaked early, thanks to sources contacted by the Wall Street Journal. The plan, lead by Fiat and new Chrysler CEO Sergio Marchionne, calls for a number of Chrysler, Jeep and Dodge models to be retired or redesigned...
- News items 2009-10-29
- The Plan
- Regardless of what you may read and hear in the coming days, not one of the countless journalists, analysts, and community leaders who gathered in Auburn Hills to hear Chrysler's new business plan yesterday really knows what the ailing automaker will look like in 2014. Not even group CEO Sergio...
- News items 2009-11-05
- FAA's Flight-Plan System Crashes Again, Delays Hundreds of U.S. Flights
- A software configuration problem in one of the routers within the FAA's telecommunications infrastructure system in Salt Lake City shut down the flight-plan and traffic-flow system Nov. 19 for about four hours all over the United States, the FAA said. The routing problem also shut down the system's second data...
- News items 2009-11-19
- Gap Gambles Little with Growth Plan
- Gap will try a little of this and a little of that to get sales growth going, but maybe too little. The company announced that it will build on a prototype test and remodel 50 of its Old Navy stores as part of a plan to move...
- Blog posts 2009-06-15
- BANKERS PETROLEUM LIMITED - Announces Three-Year Plan.
- Bankers Petroleum Announces Three-Year Plan Albanian Production to Increase to Approximately 20,000 boed by Year-End 2010; Restructuring for U.S. Subsidiary in 2008 CALGARY, March 25 /CNW/ - Bankers Petroleum Ltd. (TSX:...
- Research articles 2008-03-25
- Obama "too Big to Fail" Plan Blasted in Congress
- By Kevin DrawbaughWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration's new proposal for tackling financial risk in the U.S. economy, unveiled just two days ago, came under attack on Thursday from Congress and regulators, with questions raised about its funding and scope.U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner scrambled in a congressional hearing to...
- News items 2009-10-29
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