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Acumatica:
  • The Dangers of the Siloed Company,
  • Moving from Silos to the Connected Cloud,
  • Putting Your Customers at the Center of Your Business, and
  • Take the Next Step Towards Connected Construction.
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When individual employees or entire departments don’t have the right tools to share information and knowledge with each other—or they simply don’t want to—organizational silos [...]

By |2020-01-21T18:15:58-05:00October 2nd, 2019|AM Whitepaper, CICPAC, Construction, Resources|
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B2W Software has recently released a whitepaper titled "Driving Profitability with a Field-Centric Approach to Cost Management." In this whitepaper, they dive into these six essential steps:
  1. Transfer Data Seamlessly
  2. Collaborate Across Workflows
  3. Track Performance in Real Time
  4. Go Mobile
  5. Integrate Operations and Accounting/ERP
  6. Turn Data into Actionable Intelligence
Additionally, sections and a table discussing why not rely on accounting/ERP systems and putting it all together: a unified operational platform complete this comprehensive overview on driving profitability to cost management. [/fusion_text][fusion_button link="https://cicpac.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/2019-06-driving-profitability-with-a-field-centric-approach-to-cost-management-B2W-Software.pdf" text_transform="" title="" target="_self" link_attributes="" alignment="" modal="" hide_on_mobile="small-visibility,medium-visibility,large-visibility" class="" id="" color="default" button_gradient_top_color="" button_gradient_bottom_color="" button_gradient_top_color_hover="" button_gradient_bottom_color_hover="" accent_color="" accent_hover_color="" type="" bevel_color="" size="" stretch="default" icon="" icon_position="left" icon_divider="no" animation_type="" animation_direction="left" animation_speed="0.3" animation_offset=""]DOWNLOAD WHITEPAPER[/fusion_button][/fusion_builder_column][/fusion_builder_row][/fusion_builder_container]" target="_blank">Driving Profitability with a Field-Centric Approach to Cost Management

B2W Software has recently released a whitepaper titled "Driving Profitability with a Field-Centric Approach to Cost Management." In this whitepaper, they dive into these [...]

By |2022-11-29T09:51:10-05:00July 3rd, 2019|AM Whitepaper, CICPAC, Construction, Resources|
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How to be Worth Hearing
  • Building their Audience
  • Creating their Content
What Contracts Want
  • Answer the Question
  • Be Engaging
  • Be Human
How they Want It
  • Congratulations, your're a Media Company
  • Change the Channel
  • Nurturing their Trust
  • SEO, Email marketing and personal touch
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Marketing has perhaps never appeared more complicated, especially to those outside the trade. There’s SEM, SEO, inbound and content marketing, in addition to traditional direct [...]

By |2023-05-02T10:38:34-05:00May 23rd, 2019|AM Whitepaper, CICPAC, Construction, Resources|
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Reproduced with permission from our Associate Member, Beneco Retirement plan fees are complicated. Between administration, investment management, recordkeeping, consulting, revenue sharing, sub-TA and 12b-1, it isn’t always clear to plan participants or plan sponsors exactly what they’re paying, how much they’re paying or even who’s paying the fees. ERISA Section 408(b)(2) states that plan fiduciaries have to determine whether the agreements and compensation of service providers are “reasonable.” The rule requires service providers to supply plans with disclosures to help them determine if fees are “reasonable.” Beneco helps fiduciaries with this complicated determination by identifying:
  • All of the total plan cost components
  • The various primary drivers of retirement plan pricing
  • The role of revenue sharing

Cost Components

The three main components are administrative fees, investment fees and plan consulting fees. Administrative and plan consulting fees may be paid by the plan sponsor or the participant. Investment fees are always paid by participants and deducted from plan assets.

Primary Pricing Drivers

Several key factors can impact plan pricing. The larger the plan in terms of assets, the lower the plan sponsor out-of-pocket (per participant) costs. Other factors to consider include:
  • Number of plan participants
  • Average account balance
  • Service requirements
  • Plan design features

Revenue Sharing

Revenue sharing includes payments made by investment managers to service providers or plan consultants for a portion of the revenue generated from the management of a particular fund or funds. Historically, such allowance may or may not be known to a plan sponsor. Regardless, it’s imperative that plan sponsors with fiduciary oversight of their organization’s retirement plan understand the distribution systems that most investment management organizations use and how they share revenue. The most common forms of revenue sharing can include 12b-1 fees, shareholder servicing fees and sub-transfer agent (sub-TA) fees. In some instances, a portion of the investment management fee for proprietary funds may include some revenue sharing. The diagram below illustrates potential fund expenses.

Fiduciary Best Practices

Best practices dictate that plan fiduciaries must go through a prudent, comprehensive and measurable process of monitoring and documentation to ensure that only reasonable fees are being paid. This process includes:
  • Working with an experienced consultant who understands retirement plan fee components
  • Disclosing and documenting all fees from retirement plan service providers
  • Benchmarking fees annually for due diligence purposes
  • In-depth, live-bid benchmarking of fees, services and investments against alternative providers every three years to ensure competitive reasonableness
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Reproduced with permission from our Associate Member, Beneco Retirement plan fees are complicated. Between administration, investment management, recordkeeping, consulting, revenue sharing, sub-TA and 12b-1, [...]

By |2023-05-02T10:49:37-05:00April 12th, 2019|AM Whitepaper, CICPAC, Construction, Member News, Resources|
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Section 179D Energy Efficient Commercial Building Deductions

ICS Tax, LLC has released a white paper relating to the IRS tax memo published last month to the Section 179D Energy Efficient Commercial Building [...]

By |2020-01-21T18:17:43-05:00February 6th, 2019|AM Whitepaper, CICPAC, Construction, Resources|
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