October 26, 2010

Small Business Owners Anticipate Growth Over Next Year

A new survey of small business owners from ADP show that despite concern about ongoing economic challenges, 52% of small businesses nationally expect to grow over the coming 12 months. Another 35% of small businesses anticipate their business volumes will remain the same.

Isaac M. O'Bannon

A new survey of small business owners from ADP show that despite concern about ongoing economic challenges, 52% of small businesses nationally expect to grow over the coming 12 months. Another 35% of small businesses anticipate their business volumes will remain the same.

That’s a shift in the level of optimism, given that 80% of those surveyed said their businesses have been negatively impacted by economic conditions of the past two years.

The findings point to operational efficiency as the main driver of expected growth. 53% of respondents from accounting firms, reported that spending less time managing payroll would lead to an increase in revenue. Many of these respondents are embracing technology as a means of reducing administrative burdens. 53% of accounting executives surveyed said they own a smartphone and 78% of these Smartphone users said they use them for business.

Read more about it and see the entire survey results at www.CPATechAdvisor.com/go/3155.

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Isaac M. O'Bannon

Isaac M. O'Bannon

Managing Editor

Isaac M. O'Bannon is the managing editor and digital content manager for CPA Practice Advisor (www.CPAPracticeAdvisor.com), drawing on two decades of experience covering the areas of professional accounting, taxation, business productivity and consumer technologies. . Prior to CPA Practice Advisor, O'Bannon was a consultant at firms in San Francisco, Denver and Tulsa, serving clients that included Logitech, Polycom, Hilti, Microsoft, the Stanford Research Institute, the University of Oklahoma's College of Engineering and other technology leaders. He is a U.S. Navy groundforces veteran (never a SEAL). Email: isaac.obannon - @ - cpapracticeadvisor.com . Isaac OBannon 2019 Cropped Small Headshot