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This month's IT Informer includes:

• Free Lunch Seminar: HIPAA Compliance - What Medical Practices & Their Business Associates Need to Know
• How Wireless Technology Makes Buildings More Efficient, Comfortable & Profitable
• Skoda Minotti Technology Partners Named to List of Top Managed Services

Free Lunch Seminar: HIPAA Compliance - What Medical Practices  & Their Business Associates Need to Know

Most medical practices are aware of the HIPAA and HITECH requirements that affect their organizations, and...

CLEVELAND, OH (March 21, 2013) – There’s nothing like an IRS audit to rattle the nerves of even the most honest small business owner, and the current employee vs. independent contractor classification tax code greatly increases those chances. The problem stems from what experts call a complicated definition of who should be classified as an independent contractor (self-employed) or an employee. When applied accurately, the independent contractor classification allows a small business owner to...

This month's Tax Advisory Insights includes the following:

• Municipal Tax Reform
• New Medicare Taxes in 2013 Affect Higher Income Individuals
• New Simplified Option for Claiming Home Office Deduction
• The Fundamentals of 529 Plans
• Tax "Savings" After the Fiscal Cliff

Municipal Tax Reform

Ohio House Bill 5, which would establish uniform municipal income tax rules, was introduced on January 30, 2013. Tax Principal, Amy J. Gibson, CPA, was recently interviewed by the Plain Dealer for an article on this...

This past January, we kicked off our Skoda Minotti Speakers Series in Cleveland and Tampa discussing the 2013 Tax Updates - The American Taxpayer Relief Act & The Fiscal Cliff.  Topics discussed included:

• Business Tax Changes for 2013
• Personal Tax Changes for 2013
• Planning for the 3.8% Medicare Tax

Click here for your free copy of the presentation which was delivered by Michael Minotti, CPA and Partner.

Stay tuned!

Our March presentation will feature John Kallmeyer, Director of Visual Marketing at S...

This new blog series will take a closer look at formulating a cohesive brand message. Before you can craft a corporate brand message, however, you’ll need to take into account three key publics: your internal audiences, your external audiences and your competitors. Our first post in the series focuses on internal audiences and their role in the branding process.  

If you are considering a branding or rebranding initiative for your company and your strategic plan for getting at the essence of your...

This month's Strategic Connection includes the following:

• New Report Indicates 93% of Companies Using Inbound Marketing Increase Lead Generation
• 12 Ideas for SlideShare Content
• Web Design "No-Nos"
• Featured E-Book: Trade Show Marketing Strategy
• Skoda Minotti Speaker Series:  Trade Show Marketing Strategies:  How to Find Qualified Leads in the Crowd
   

New Report Indicates 93% of Companies Using Inbound Marketing Increase Lead Generation

Consider implementing inbound marketing into your online...

February 15, 2013 – Cleveland – Skoda Minotti Technology Partners is pleased to announce three new hires. 

Paul Tuttle – Tuttle joins the Technology Partners as business development director, bringing over 25 years of sales, marketing, consulting and development experience in both commercial and not-for-profit settings.  Tuttle has specialty training in the technology business development field, representing a wide spectrum of IT solutions from enterprise-wide VoIP, to mobile computing...

February 14, 2012 – Cleveland – Skoda Minotti Strategic Marketing is pleased to announce an educational seminar and lunch event, entitled, “Trade Show Marketing Strategies – How to Find Qualified Leads in the Crowd.”  The seminar is one of the several topics that will be discussed in the monthly 2013 Skoda Minotti Speakers Series.

The event will occur on Thursday, March 14 at the Employer’s Resource Council, and will feature John Kallmeyer, director of visual marketing in the firm’s Strategic...

This month's Strategic Connection includes the following:

• Latest Strategic Marketing News
  • 20 Great Homepage Designs
  • Bing Adds More Facebook Content to its Search Results
  • The Year's Top Marketing Lessons
• New E-book:
  • Pay-Per-Click Advertising Tips

Latest Strategic Marketing News:

20 Great Homepage Designs

Looking for inspiration for your next website redesign? Check out these 20 examples of great homepage designs.

Bing Adds More Facebook Content to its Search Results

In another example of search...

January 31, 2013 – TAMPA – Baumann, Raymondo & Company PA, a 35-year-old CPA firm located in Tampa, Florida will now be known as Skoda Minotti, concluding the final steps to their September 2012 merger with the Northeast Ohio-based firm.

Following the merger, Skoda Minotti now has offices in Cleveland and Akron, Ohio and Tampa, Florida.

Baumann Raymondo was one of five firms that merged with Skoda Minotti in 2012.  Other mergers included CPA firms, Lomax, Soful & Foster of Akron and Gerald M....

This month's IT Informer includes the following:

• 2012's Top Blog Posts
• Featured Whitepaper: Top 10 Things You Need to Know About the Cloud

Top 5 Technology Blogs of 2012

2012 was a great year for Skoda Minotti Technology Partners, thanks to trusted clients and contacts like you. We thought it would be helpful to round-up a list of the five most popular blogs written by our Technology Partners team in the past year to show you what other professionals are interested in reading. (Posts are ranked by...

This month's issue of Valuation & Litigation Advisory Insights includes the following articles:  

• Valuing Intangible Assets No Small Task
• The Backsolve Method and Sherlock Holmes
• It Ain’t Over ’Til It’s Over: Postclosing Disputes in M&A Transactions

If you have any questions about any of these articles, please contact our Valuation & Litigation Advisory Services Group at 440-449-6800.

Or, would you like to contribute content to an upcoming issue of Valuation & Litigation Advisory Insights? If so,...

January 17, 2013 – CLEVELAND – Skoda Minotti, a CPA business and financial advisory firm, is proud to announce that Joseph Yusz, CPA and  manager of business valuation and litigation advisory services, recently earned the Certified Valuation Analysts (CVA) designation, which allows him to perform business valuations as a service to both the consulting community and users of services.

The National Association of Certified Valuators and Analysts (NACVA)

The National Association of Certified...

So far, we’ve discussed a few things:

1. The Top Five Reasons Why Your B2B Company Should Have a Public Relations (PR) Plan
2. How Does Public Relations Fit into a B2B Company's Integrated Marketing Communications Plan
3. The Importance of Goal Setting in Your Public Relations Planning

Next, we’re going to talk about how you can (and should) target the appropriate audience through your public relations planning and efforts.

B2B PR Plan Element #2: Defining Target Audience

Even the most expensive PR and...

When an acquisition occurs, Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) requires that the value of the newly acquired company's intangible assets be determined and presented at fair value on the acquirer's balance sheet. However, it is often much more difficult, and a much more involved process, to determine the value of an acquired company's intangible assets compared to determining the value of its tangible assets.

Our own Sean Saari tackles this issue for Crain’s Cleveland Business in the...

In this inaugural issue of A&A Insights, we'll take a closer look at recent accounting rule changes, review proposed accounting rule changes and dive deeper into how new AICPA rules may provide GAAP relief for private companies.

We hope you find these updates helpful. Feel free to contact our Accounting and Auditing group at 440-449-6800 with any questions that you may have.

Accounting Rule Changes

Effective for 2012

• Fair Value Disclosures
• Health Care Entities
• Testing Indefinite-Lived Intangibles
• Multi...

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December 19, 2012 – TAMPA – Baumann Raymondo, a Skoda Minotti CPA firm, is proud to announce that senior tax associate, Rudy A. Mayoz, CPA, has recently been selected to join the American Institute of Certified Public Accountant’s (AICPA) National CPA Financial Literacy Commission.

“We are proud to have Rudy represent our firm as a member of such a prestigious program,” said Alex White, CPA and managing partner of Baumann Raymondo. “Rudy’s exceptional leadership skills and experience will...