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Recruiting Newsletter May 2021
New Opportunities: McConnell Jones is looking for talented individuals in: Washington DC:Auditors, Staff to Senior Manager Texas Preferred, Open to Nationwide:IT SOX Auditors For more openings, please visit LinkedIn and our websiteThomas Jones Appointed President of...
Introducing McConnell Jones’ New Hashtags
As McConnell Jones rebrands with a new website, graphics, and color scheme, we have also made changes to our social media pages. MJ connects with nearly 3000 followers on LinkedIn, including most of our employees and it is our most used platform. Because of this, we...
5 Key Steps to Calculating Paycheck Protection Program Loan Forgiveness
Organizations who received a Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans should look to maximize their loan forgiveness. The following outlines five key steps for PPP Loan forgiveness; look over these steps now to prepare for maximum loan forgiveness: Step 1: Track...
Top Questions for Those Receiving Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) Loans
The Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) Loans are helping many businesses keep their workforce employed during the COVID-19 crisis. Earlier this week, congress provided the SBA with an additional $320 billion for the PPP Loan program to backstop the initial $349...
How to Request Loan Forgiveness?
Initial guidance in the legislation indicates that a borrower should submit to their lender an application to request loan forgiveness and supply the lender with the following documentation relating to the covered period: Documentation verifying the number of FTE and...
Special Rules for Self-Employed (Schedule C Taxpayers)
In addition to the permitted use of Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) funds, a sole proprietor may use PPP funds for owner compensation replacement per the following guidelines below: Owner compensation replacement for a sole proprietor is defined as 2019 Schedule C...
Deadline Extensions of Audited Financial Statements and Other Reports
Changes are everywhere due to COVID-19 including regularly scheduled filing deadlines which are now being adjusted by the government. One of the most significant for nonprofits with federal funding is a six-month submission extension on any OMB compliance audits that...
Accounting Support During Remote Work Orders
COVID-19 has presented challenges that many businesses and organizations never contemplated. Bookkeeping and accounting functions,while working remotely, may be one of the many critical tasks you’re struggling to figure out. In this time of crisis, keeping your...
New Employer Tax Credits Under CARES Act
Many businesses that have been severely impacted by coronavirus (COVID-19) will qualify for two new employer tax credits – the Credit for Sick and Family Leave and the Employee Retention Credit, both a result of the new CARES Act. McConnell & Jones is keeping a...
Economic Injury Disaster Loans and Grants
These grants provide an emergency advance of up to $10,000 to small businesses and nonprofits harmed by COVID-19 within three days of applying for an SBA Economic Injury Disaster Loan (EIDL). To access the advance, you first apply for an EIDL and then request...
Paycheck Protection Program
The Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) is an SBA Loan that helps businesses keep their workforce employed during the COVID-19 crisis. The government will forgive all PPP loans if all employees are kept on the payroll for eight weeks and the money is used for payroll,...
Small Business Debt Relief Program
This program will provide immediate relief to small businesses with non-disaster SBA loans, in particular 7(a), 504, and microloans. Under it, SBA will cover all loan payments on these SBA loans, including principal, interest, and fees, for six months. This relief...
Expanded CARES Tax Relief Information for Small Business Owners
The CARES Act includes business tax relief including employee retention credits, delayed payroll payments, increased business interest deductibility, and accelerated recovery of alternative minimum tax credits among other forms of relief. The following paragraphs...
Benefit Plan Provisions in the CARES Act
The Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES Act), a $2.3 trillion aid package designed to help the economy as it suffers from the effects of the coronavirus pandemic, contains several provisions that affect employee benefit plans. Key provisions as...
Administrative Professionals Day Interview with Kelly Watson
In celebration of National Administrative Professionals day, we are spotlighting our very own “super-admin” Kelly Watson. We had a Microsoft Teams interview and asked Kelly what it’s like being an Administrative Professional in 2021 and much more!
Password or Passphrase, Two Sides of the Same Coin
As discussed in the previous post below, we determined that the average user of technology is required to memorize many different login credentials and a helpful tool is a password manager. In this post I will discuss the somewhat controversial topic, at least in...
McConnell Jones Announces the Promotions of Firm Members
Firmwide Dynamic Growth Has Fueled Promotions and New Hires McConnell Jones, a top 25 CPA firm based in Houston, is pleased to announce a number of promotions in its Audit and Strategic Services group. Despite the pandemic economy during the past year, the firm has...
McConnell & Jones Announces the Promotion of Micah Clinger to Partner
McConnell & Jones is pleased to announce the promotion of Micah Clinger to a partner in the firm. Clinger joined the firm in May 2020 as an Audit Director and has extensive experience performing financial and single audits for education, not-for-profit, and...
More Passwords, More Problems
During the past decade, the number of passwords we need to remember has grown exponentially. I am old enough to remember a time when I only needed to remember three passwords: one for work, one for personal email, and one for a forum of which I was a member. Now, at...
Simple Steps Employees Can Take to Ensure Greater Network Security in a Remote Work Environment
There are many aspects of IT security that we must consider in our new world where working remotely has become the norm. For the most part, the ability to work remotely requires the ability for employees to be able to connect to their firms’...