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Addressing The Symptoms Of Pharmacies’ Cash Flow Ailments

PYMNTS

Taxes, minimum wage, global trade tariffs — there are a lot of regulatory changes weighing heavily on the minds of U.S. Mordis pointed to CVS’s acquisition of pharmacy benefits manager Caremark in 2006, while just last month CVS received approval from the U.S. small business owners.

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How to keep good employees

Independent Banker

of adults have left a job to get away from a manager as a way to improve their overall life. Source: Gallup, “State of the American Manager” report. One community bank that has found success in retaining its best employees is $180 million-asset Malvern Bank in Malvern, Iowa. The reasons for the inadequacies of some managers?

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Deep Dive: How Not To Lose A Bundle On Bundled Taxes

PYMNTS

Merchants’ marketing departments may find bundling useful, but their accountants are less likely to see it positively — determining individual items’ tax obligations in the different states into which they are sold can be challenging, and putting offerings into bundles only magnifies complexities. Unpacking States’ Unbundling Policies .

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Community Banks and Our Retirement Problem

Jeff For Banks

I recently read a report by the US Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions titled The Retirement Crisis and a Plan to Solve It , led by Senator Tom Harkin (D: Iowa). The employee can save all of the needed savings tax deferred. Retirement Assets Should Be Pooled and Professionally Managed. that reads.

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Cultivate a better ag lending process: 7 best practices

Abrigo

Takeaway 3 Better ag lending workflows streamline document collection and management and increase credit analysis accuracy. . The most recent Iowa Farm and Rural Life Poll on farmers’ use of communications and computing technologies found in 2020 that 66% of farmers said they use a smartphone, up from 30% in 2014. Efficient processes.

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Banking's Top 5 in Total Return to Shareholders: 2017 Edition

Jeff For Banks

Today, NPL/total loans is a manageable 0.94%, and the Bank ROA/ROE year-to-date is 1.22% and 11.61% respectively. Actually, the Bank had a one-time after tax litigation settlement (from a 2002-04 event) of $6.2 They hit their challenges hard, and had the CO lifted a little over two years later. million on assets of $1.4 Then, kaboom!

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Fintech Fundings: 30 Companies Raised $330 Million First Week of August

Fintech Labs Insights

Cloud cash and treasury management solutions. Self-employment tax payments. HQ: Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Tags: SMB, payments, tax prep, accounting. Total raised: $245 million. HQ: Oakland, California. Source: Crunchbase. Latest round: $22.7 Total raised: $95.1 HQ: San Diego, California. Source: FT Partners. Robo-advisor.