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Contractor Financing White Paper

How to improve your chances of obtaining a loan in today’s tight credit environment.

Defining and Managing Risk

Article by Gary Climes, CPA, Partner - Andrews Hooper Pavlik PLC
Is your organization at risk? This article can help you determine the answer to this question.

Financial Planning 101: Review Your Life Insurance

Article by Tim Holsworth, CFP®, CLU, ChFC, President - AHP Financial Services Inc.
Learn the benefits of having your life insurance policy reviewed.

Financial Statements: An Opportunity to Tell Your Story

Article by By Marcus Doxey, CPA - Andrews Hooper Pavlik PLC
These tips can help you build effective financial statements!

Finding a Niche - Create Your Own Competitive Advantage

You’ve cut out all unnecessary expenses, taken a sharp pencil to your bids to make sure you don’t miss out on any reasonable opportunity, and tightened up billing and collections to maximize cash flow.

Fraud Risk Prevention

Article by Gregory Soule, CPA, CFE - Andrews Hooper Pavlik PLC
Learn how to prevent fraud within your business.

Information Security Risks Affect All Organizations

Article by Andrew Kersh, CPA - Andrews Hooper Pavlik PLC
Is your system secure?

Is Your Nonprofit Organization at Risk?

Article by Duane Reyhl, CPA - Andrews Hooper Pavlik PLC
Managing a nonprofit organization can be stressful! This article can help put your mind at ease.

Joint Venture Risks That are Often Overlooked

With credit still tight and sureties still cautious, more and more contractors are considering joint ventures as a way to get their businesses moving again.

Preparing for the Employee Benefit Plan Audit

Article by James Hunsanger, CPA - Andrews Hooper Pavlik PLC
Do you have an employee benefit plan approaching? This article can help you prepare!

Profit Clue

Great tips for contractors.

Putting Incentives to Work

One electrical contractor recently used a provision of the Energy Policy Act of 2003 to salvage a project that was in danger of being postponed – and earned an attractive tax incentive at the same time.

Question and Answer: R&D Tax Credit

Q: I keep hearing that contractors can qualify for an R&D tax credit. Is this something I should look into?

Ready or Not…Here Comes the Michigan Business Tax (MBT)

Article by Mark Hooper, CPA, Partner - Andrews Hooper Pavlik PLC
This article reviews some of the interpretative debate surrounding the MBT.

SOAR to Strategic Excellence™ in 2011

Article by Gary A. Climes, CPA, Partner - Andrews Hooper Pavlik PLC.
AHP provides a new tool to allow businesses to truly SOAR - and become high-performing or world-class performers.

Survival of the Fittest - How to Manage Your Business in a Slowly Improving Economy

Article by Suzanne Verity - PKF North America
This article provides timely tips to help manage your business as the economy improves. Mark Freed, Andrews Hooper Pavlik's partner overseeing services to the construction industry, provided input for the article.

The Lending Environment and Its Effect on Your Business

Article by Andrew Kersh, CPA - Andrews Hooper Pavlik PLC
Will you qualify for a loan when you need it? This article will help you prepare!

To Deduct or Not to Deduct…That is the Question

Article by Carrie Hindmon, CPA - Andrews Hooper Pavlik PLC
Determining which business travel expenses qualify for deductions can be challenging. Applying a few simple principles can assist you in clarifying a somewhat foggy subject.