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Keeping employees active and connected to the culture are apparent through the management software provider's extracurricular activities.

Chaitanya Ejner, senior associate – tax, KPMG LLP, has considerable experience in the R&D credit space across industries such as financial services and IT engineering working directly with client engineers to qualify and support R&D credit claims. He also works closely with a team of engineers and business experts in developing and automating credit claims processes.

Gregory A. Bocchino, partner – tax at KPMG LLP, is the national leader of KPMG's Accounting Methods and Credits practice and has more than 20 years of federal income tax accounting methods and credits experience.

Ajay Wanchoo, managing director – tax at KPMG LLP, leads transformation initiatives with a global team of specialist engineers and business experts and contractors, who provide deep technical analysis of client IT investments and develop client-facing solutions in the cloud leveraging artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies.

Joshua Ronen is a professor of accounting at New York University Stern School of Business and co-editor of the "Journal of Law, Finance, and Accounting." Professor Ronen teaches courses in managerial accounting, financial accounting, advanced topics in financial accounting, and financial statements analysis. Ronen has been with NYU Stern for nearly 45 years. His primary research areas include capital markets, disclosure, earning management, economic impact of accounting rules and regulations, financial reporting, legal liability of firms, transfer pricing, agency theory, corporate governance, and fair valuation. Ronen has written numerous books including "Accounting and Financial Globalization," "Off-Balance Sheet Activities," "Entrepreneurship," "Smoothing Income Numbers: Objectives, Means and Implications," and "Earnings Management." He has been published in many academic journals including and publications including The New York Times, The Accounting Review, Journal of Accounting Research, Journal of Accounting, Auditing and Finance, Abacus, Management Science, Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Organizational Behavior and Human Performance, Stanford Journal of Law, Business, and Finance, and Journal of Financial Markets. In addition to his work at NYU Stern, Ronen has lectured at University of Canterbury, Tel-Aviv University, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, National University of Mexico, University of Toronto, University of Chicago, Hebrew University, and London School of Economics among many others. He has also been a consultant for numerous organizations, including especially law firms as expert witness in the area of securities litigation. His suggestions for reform in the accounting profession have received critical acclaim by legislators and in the media. Ronen received his Bachelor of Arts in Economics and Accounting at Hebrew University in Israel, and his Doctor of Philosophy from Stanford University. Professor Ronen is also a licensed CPA in Israel.

David Silberman is senior advisor at the Financial Health Network and former associate director, research, markets and regulations at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

Properly aligned health plan incentives will produce better benefits and no deductibles for employees, lower costs for employers and more compensation for brokers.

A new survey shows that employees are putting their pups first when it comes to their work-life.

Trey Ditto, CEO of Ditto PR, explains how company retreats strengthen his employees' connection to their work and each other.

David Stone is Founder and CEO of RetireOne, an independent platform for fee-based insurance solutions.