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New Bonadio Group division to focus on construction industry consulting
A new consulting division at The Bonadio Group plans to deepen the firm’s work with the construction industry even further. The Rochester–based accounting firm already has more than 200 construction clients across the state. Its new Bonadio Construction Consultants Division (BCC) is aiming to serve those clients as well as other contractors and construction-related businesses […]
Bonadio Group launches construction consulting division
The Bonadio Group is forming a new consulting division focused on the construction industry. The Rochester–based accounting firm’s Bonadio Construction Consultants Division (BCC) will provide
A.G. settles with companies in home-value inflation case
The office of New York’s attorney general has reached a $7.8 million settlement with companies it says contributed to the housing-market meltdown by helping to
Equity Crowdfunding: Issuers Assemble
More than five months have passed since enactment of the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act (the JOBS Act), and its much-heralded third article, the Capital Raising Online While Deterring Fraud and Unethical Non-Disclosure Act (the CROWDFUND Act). Only four months remain until the acts’ provisions are scheduled to go into effect, and for a business
Survey: Small-business owners uncertain about new 401(k) fee notices
New U.S. Department of Labor required 401(k) fee disclosures haven’t given small-business owners a shot of confidence about explaining their retirement-plan offerings, according to a new survey. The rules, which the Department of Labor’s Employee Benefits Security Administration put into effect this summer, require plan administrators to provide participants and beneficiaries with plan-related information like
Governor: NY property tax average stayed within cap last year
Property taxes in New York grew by an average of 2 percent in the first year since a law capping them passed, according to a
A.G. sends settlement funds to new foreclosure prevention program
New York’s attorney general will use money from a February foreclosure abuse settlement to replace the state’s expiring Foreclosure Prevention Services Program. The attorney general’s
Mackenzie Hughes seminar tackles election-year HR headaches
DeWITT — Business human-resources departments should be ready to head off potential problems resulting from this year’s heated political-campaign period, attendees of a recent Central New York seminar heard. “It’s election season,” said Christian Jones, a partner in Mackenzie Hughes LLP’s business department. “Along with that season can come some difficult issues for employers with
HSLD&G law firm diversifies into private-practice work
JOHNSON CITY — For more than three decades, the law firm of Hogan, Sarzynski, Lynch, DeWind & Gregory (HSLD&G) has provided legal services to school
Upstate venture funds back hurricane-protection firm
An Ithaca–based venture-capital fund has joined with the Rochester manager of another venture-capital fund to invest in StormBlok Systems, Inc. StormBlok Systems, based in the
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