Aspen Publishers Offers Comprehensive, New Qualified Plans Self-Audit Guide
(NEW YORK, N.Y., August 28, 2007) – Professionals can now uncover hidden retirement errors and avoid fines with Aspen Publishers’ Qualified Plans Self-Audit Guide. The all-new loose-leaf Guide can help facilitate a thorough and successful self-audit of qualified retirement plans, providing easy-to-follow guidance and enabling professionals to determine how their plans stack up against the applicable legal and regulatory requirements quickly and easily. Aspen Publishers, part of the Wolters Kluwer Law & Business group, is a leading information provider for legal and business professionals and law students (www.aspenpublishers.com).
"No matter how well a plan is established and operated, there are almost always hidden errors arising, even where qualified third party administrators are involved,” said Michael B. Snyder, author of Qualified Plans Self-Audit Guide. “This manual walks you step-by-step through a review of the plan’s provisions, highlighting what the approved best practices are, how to recognize errors and how to know which errors you can correct on your own and which require professional assistance."
Qualified Plans Self-Audit Guide contains expert analysis of key legal and regulatory requirements impacting compliance – all supported by dozens of sample checklists and forms. This single volume guide allows professionals to:
- Understand and successfully implement the objectives of a self-audit;
- Determine whether the plan design remains appropriate and in compliance on an ongoing basis;
- Identify and correct problems properly and legally;
- Work with outside vendors and service products to maximize the value of their services;
- Reduce significant risk of exposure to the IRS and DOL penalties and participant claims;
- Improve overall plan operations, including cost reductions and much more.
In addition, Qualified Plans Self-Audit Guide includes coverage of the Employee Plans Compliance Resolution System (EPCRS), which was codified by the Pension Protection Act of 2006 (PPA) and is updated on a consistent, almost annual basis by IRS. The Guide will keep professionals up to date as these changes arise. The Guide helps professionals understand the history and application of the EPCRS, allowing them to identify and correct mistakes, with fines paid according to a pre-determined schedule.
About the Author
Michael B. Snyder, Esq., is an attorney practicing in Rochester, NY. He focuses primarily in the area of employee benefits issues, including ERISA compliance, qualified and nonqualified plans, and investments. Mr. Snyder is also the author of Aspen Publishers’ ERISA Fiduciary Compliance: A Practical Guide to Participant-Directed Investments, as well as 13 other treatises. Mr. Snyder previously served as Eastman Kodak Company’s Director of Benefits Strategy, developing and implementing long-term retirement, savings, bonus and health care plans. He was also the first president and chief operating officer of ESL Investment Services, Inc., which offers securities, mutual fund and annuity investment services to ESL Federal Credit Union members.
For More Information
For more information or to order Qualified Plans Self-Audit Guide, call 800-638-8437 or visit www.aspenpublishers.com. Price is $259; loose-leaf; supplemented annually.
About Wolters Kluwer Law & Business
Wolters Kluwer Law & Business is a leading provider of research products and software solutions in key specialty areas for legal and business professionals, as well as casebooks and study aids for law students. Its major product lines include Aspen Publishers, CCH, Kluwer Law International and Loislaw. Its markets include law firms, law schools, corporate counsel and professionals requiring legal and compliance information. Wolters Kluwer Law & Business, a unit of Wolters Kluwer, is based in New York City and Riverwoods, IL.
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