We are hosting this national SDA webinar at the Seattle office of ZGF Architects, LLP. This annual update for A/E firms will cover HR, payroll, and accounting issues that have changed in 2015, or are due to change in 2016, as well as a sharing of best practices and lessons learned.  You will take away updates on the following topics:

HUMAN RESOURCES

• Affordable Care Act Update for all firm sizes
• Cafeteria SPD changes needed for health insurance changes
• FLSA – will you be in compliance with the new regs in January?
  • Job Descriptions – primary duties identified
  • Will they affect classifications of current employees?
  • Email/phone calls outside of business hours
• Accrual leave policies – Do they need changes?
• FMLA update
• Employee vs Independent Contractor – New 3-factor test

PAYROLL

• Payroll updates for 2016
• Form 1095 – it’s really here now — Health plan reporting requirements for 2014-15 & W-2
• Payroll software readiness for Form 1095 & implication for weekly payrolls

401k

• Fiduciary responsibilities – What message is being given to departing employees?
• Traditional vs Roth – What do millennials want?

YEAR-END REPORTING

• Slicing and dicing your data to satisfy marketing, management, and accounting needs
• Benchmark your results

Presenter

Deborah Gill, CPA, CGMA, CDFA is the Chief Financial Officer at Precision Measurements, Inc. (PMI), a 50+ person land-surveying firm located in Virginia Beach, VA.  Before joining PMI in July 2014, Deborah was the Director of Business Operations at Clark Nexsen, PC, a 550 person multi-disciplined architecture, engineering, planning, and interior design firm located in VA, NC, GA, and DC.  She has also owned her own firm, Profit by Design, Ltd., providing consulting services and Deltek Vision support to over 100 clients in the Virginia and North Carolina area.  Deborah has worked in the A/E/C industry for over 30 years.

Deborah has provided many seminars on both accounting and human resources topics to SDA, AIA, NSPE, IFMA, and VSCPA in person and through webinars at the local and national levels.  She is a Past National President for the Society for Design Administration, where she has served as the National President on two separate occasions.  She is a 10 for 10 leader of the Hampton Roads United Way Women’s Leadership Council.

No shows and cancellations after December 6 will not be refunded.