The Four Pillars of an Effective Project Risk Management Plan

By Jessica Forenza

An effective Risk Management Plan ideally considers multiple controls and intertwining processes that produce a system that doesn’t stop learning. Risk management planning is often a key project topic that comes to mind when strategizing towards a future state of a project, regardless of industry or company size. Risk management goes beyond a simple checklist…

New Jersey Increased the Charitable Audit Threshold: What Does This Mean For You?

By Jessica Forenza

Governor Phil Murphy signed into law Bills S844 and S2533 which revised New Jersey financial reporting requirements with the Attorney General for charities and excludes non-monetary in-kind donations, related to an organization’s tax-exempt purpose, from gross revenue for the purpose of reporting requirements. The legislation signed on January 18, 2022 is effective immediately. Under the…

Success of De-SPAC Deals in SportsTech

By Krysten Hambrook

In recent years, there has been a substantial increase in the number of companies that go public through a merger with a special purpose acquisition company (“SPAC”). A SPAC is also known as a blank check company and exists only to merge with another company. In a SPAC transaction, the private company becomes publicly traded…

Martini Partners Joins Its Practice with Withum

By Whitney Irish

Martini Partners, LLC, a public accounting firm headquartered in Encino, CA, joined its practice with Withum, a nationally recognized CPA and advisory firm with 18 offices and annual revenue of $360M, ranking in the top 25 firms in the country. Steve Martini, Founding Partner, Kevin Holmes, Assurance Practice Leader, Christopher Passmore, Managing Partner of Martini…

Top 10 Microsoft Teams Tips and Tricks You Need to Know

By Krysten Hambrook

In this post, we are sharing helpful Microsoft Teams tips and tricks to enhance your Teams collaboration journey. Through our work with various organizations, we gathered commonly requested tips and hacks that will help staff navigate day-to-day while in Teams. Microsoft Teams provides many ways to do things and we narrowed it down to 10…

Unintended Tax Consequences of PTO Buyback Programs

By Jessica Forenza

The COVID-19 pandemic has forced employers to get creative with their employee benefit programs to keep and attract talent. With employees working from home for the past two years, a new employee benefit option is becoming more popular – PTO buybacks programs. Offering this new benefit or loosening restrictions on existing PTO programs is great…

Phishing Can Cripple Your Organization – Are You Protected?

By Jessica Forenza

What is Phishing? Phishing is the fraudulent practice of using emails, websites, text messages, phone calls, or other means disguised as trustworthy to trick employees into providing critical information (e.g., passwords, bank information, etc.). Here are some interesting phishing statistics published by Tessian: 75% of organizations around the world experienced some type of phishing attack…