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WHAT IS THE SWIFT SYSTEM: WHAT BUSINESSES NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THIS MESSAGING SYSTEM


Small businesses depend on financial intermediaries like banks to manage their money and facilitate wire transfers to pay their workers, suppliers, and manufacturers overseas. In turn, banks use SWIFT to process most of these cross-border payments between firms banked in different countries. This article lists what you need to know about the SWIFT messaging system.

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SCHOLARSHIPS, STIPENDS, FELLOWSHIPS, HONORARIA: ESSENTIAL 1099 AND 1042-S REPORTING AND TAX WITHHOLDING COMPLIANCE


October 20, 2022 | 2.00PM EST

Does your institution make payments through Accounts Payable to students, instructors, researchers and academic visitors?  Internal procedures might identify a payment as a stipend or honorarium, fellowship, grant or scholarship – but what these have in common in tax compliance is a set of specific regulatory requirements which will determine whether payments are subject to

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HOW TO MAKE SENSE OF YOUR PAY STUB


Every so often, Jenny Redes gets a call from an employee who has recently discovered their pay stub. They typically have questions about what all the various numbers mean, and the human resources professional says that’s understandable. “It’s a lot of information,” says Redes, a Society for Human Resource Management certified professional and human resources

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IN AN OWNERSHIP CULTURE, PEOPLE SPEND MONEY LIKE IT’S THEIR OWN


When we talk about changing culture in an organization, it rarely starts with finance, but maybe it should. Why? Because finance has a significant impact — good or bad — on the culture of any organization. In an Executive Session at AFP 2021, Gary Bischoping, partner at Hellman & Friedman, and Greg Milano, founder and

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HOW BANKS CAN MEASURE HIDDEN ESG RISKS?


Banks and other financial institutions are increasingly accounting for environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors in their portfolios. A particular area of focus has been on the environmental component, especially around decarbonization. Adopting a strategy focused on ESG or decarbonization, however, is easier said than done – in part because the strategy is only as