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 October 2018 Small Business Channel

October 15, 2018 

October 2018 Small Business Channel

Small Business Optimism Hits New Highs By Isaac M. O’Bannon, Managing Editor Small business optimism is at an all-time high in a new study. The latest quarterly Wells Fargo/Gallup Small Business Index, which measures small business optimism, had an overall Index score of 118, 12 percentage points higher than last quarter and the highest level...…

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October 15, 2018 

6 Types of Services Subject to Sales Tax

Historically, most states exempted services from sales tax – for a good reason: When states first began to levy these taxes around 1930, people spent more of their money on tangible goods. However, according to the Bureau of Economic Analysis, those ...

Mike Plaster

 The Why and How of Bots for Accounting Firms

October 15, 2018 

The Why and How of Bots for Accounting Firms

Engagement with clients and leveraging your brand is done easier and made stronger with Bots. This emerging technology has promise today and in the future. While applying some Bot technology may be more technically difficult for you to apply without ...

Randy Johnston

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October 15, 2018 

The Cloud: Streamlining Workflow and Automation

As an example of how accountants might leverage the cloud’s capabilities, clients can just scan or take a snapshot of invoices to be paid using an app. Those images go into a document storage system, where an optical character recognition (OCR) system ...

Chandra Bhansali

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October 14, 2018 

Accounting for Political Contributions

We scoured the Federal Election Commission website to find relevant information for accountants who are working with political candidates and campaigns. The following material is excerpted from published reports of the Federal Election Commission.

Gail Perry