Upcoming Events
2025 Technical Exchange
Unlike any other, the 2025 Technical Exchange is here to immerse you in an extraordinary one-and-a-half-day fly-in event. Join us on January 27-28, 2025, and prepare to be part of something exceptional. Collaborate with top experts and peers within a small group setting. This facilitates intimate conversations centered around the challenges specific to your cooperative or the cooperatives you're engaged with. Walk away with actionable insights and solutions tailored to your unique context.
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Educating Your Workforce on Retirement Planning
Discover how to effectively empower your workforce by understanding the current retirement savings landscape, including average 401k balances and industry trends. Learn to foster a culture that values benefits and enhances worker productivity through insightful education sessions. Gain invaluable insights into fiduciary responsibility and 404c protection, ensuring the protection of participants' interests. E
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Financial Dashboards for Internal Management Use
Unlock the power of financial data for driving informed decisions. Discover the critical financial information that fuels the decision-making process for managers and the C-suite, empowering them to steer your cooperative toward success. Dive into real-world examples showcasing how organizations leverage dynamic dashboards to transform mountains of data into actionable insights in real-time. Explore firsthand how savvy leaders harness these insights to make agile decisions, seize opportunities, and precisely navigate challenges. Don't miss this exhilarating journey into the heart of data-driven decision-making.
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Property Insurance: Alternative Strategies & Solutions
Join us for this 60-minute Zoom where Ross Milne, VP, Food & Agribusiness, Cottingham & Butler will provide an updated overview of the current property market and analyze the key factors shaping the landscape. The session will explore market drivers and present our outlook for 2025. But more importantly, we'll dive deeper into actionable strategies designed to help you achieve better outcomes in both the short and long term.
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Joint Ventures and Partnership Issues and How LLC Agreements Can Complicate
This session deep dives into the intricate world of collaborative business structures, offering insights into the challenges and potential complications inherent in joint ventures, partnerships, and limited liability company (LLC) agreements. Through case studies and expert analysis, participants will gain a comprehensive understanding of the unique legal, financial, and operational considerations associated with these arrangements.
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Cash Mastery: A Deep Dive into Forecasting & Management
Mastering cash flow is paramount. This 60-minute Zoom delves deeply into cash flow forecasting, management techniques, and the strategic application of budgeting. The goal of this session is to empower participants with the expertise and understanding needed to attain optimal liquidity, make well-informed financial choices, and steer toward sustained financial well-being.
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NSAC 2024 North Central Fall Meeting
Save the date for the NSAC North Central Fall Meeting on Thursday, November 21 at Pinstripes in Edina, MN! Join us for 6 hours of CPE, including 1.5 hours of Ethics, followed by a social hour and indoor bocce ball fun. It’s the perfect blend of relevant education, networking, and friendly competition—don’t miss it!
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Loper Bright Supreme Court Case and Implications for Tax Regulations
Join us for an overview of the recent June 28, 2024 decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo overruling the Court’s 1984 decision in Chevron v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. The Court in Chevron developed a two-part analysis doctrine of judicial deference to Executive Branch agencies where courts have routinely sustained agency regulatory interpretations of statutes as reasonable under the Chevron framework. In overruling Chevron, the Supreme Court undoubtedly opens the door for taxpayer challenges to the validity of certain unwelcome Treasury regulations promulgated in the last several years.
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In the Merger Mix: GAAP and Tax Strategies for Seamless Integration
Explore GAAP and tax considerations in the context of mergers and acquisitions; including accounting and tax strategies that foster seamless integration, ensure compliance, optimize financial reporting, and maximize the benefits of the combined entities. Patronage considerations pre and post-merger will also be discussed.
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