Accounting February 28, 2026
Voting Opens for 2026 Readers’ Choice Awards!
Voting in the 2026 Readers’ Choice Awards is now open. Readers can vote for the programs, hardware, services, and other technologies they use and trust.
June 18, 2013
Online-only retailers branching out into physical stores
Across the country, retailers that existed only in cyberspace are now opening -- or thinking of opening -- traditional stores at a time when e-commerce's explosive growth has spawned a slew of dire predictions that brick-and-mortar retailing will become irrelevant or even extinct.
June 18, 2013
Survey: Oil and gas jobs to increase in 2013
Survey reveals nearly half of hiring managers plan to increase hiring in the next six months.
June 17, 2013
The top factors that keep staff engaged and productive
Flexibility, corporate culture and rewarding high performance are important to cultivate happy and productive employees, according to the Q2 2013 Engagement Study commissioned by Randstad, the second largest HR services and staffing company in the world.
June 17, 2013
New online payroll service automatically maintains state and federal payments
Wave has announced the addition of Payroll Tax Service in 10 U.S. states.
June 17, 2013
New York CPA Society endorses new FASB tax proposal
The New York State Society of Certified Public Accountants (NYSSCPA) expressed agreement with a proposal from the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) that, if implemented, would standardize the treatment of net operating loss carryforwards or tax credit carryforwards on financial statements.
June 17, 2013
State may end its sales tax holidays
Introduced in 2002, the back-to-school tax holiday was promoted as an opportunity for lower income families affected by tax hikes to buy school supplies and clothing for their children. It is held from 12:01 a.m. on Friday until 11:59 p.m. on Sunday on the first weekend of August.
June 17, 2013
Housing market showing “real progress”
Soon after the freefall started in 2008, building companies folded, real estate agents found different careers and buyers learned they could make offers as low as they wanted. Builders, agents, buyers and sellers scrambled to alter their strategies and business plans to find success or keep businesses open.
June 16, 2013
New York bookkeeper admits theft of $800,000 from Buffalo employer
The bookkeeper on Friday admitted stealing nearly $800,000 over 10 years from the Buffalo property company where she worked.
June 16, 2013
Are there enough new buyers to keep housing market rising?
First-time buyers like Valenti and Barbieri are key to the health of residential real estate. So there is concern, at least on the national level, that there might not be enough of them to sustain the housing recovery.
June 16, 2013
Sales tax rate in Arkansas rising 0.5% starting July 1
Arkansas residents will soon be paying a bit more sales tax as a result of a ballot initiative for state highway improvements that voters approved last November.
June 16, 2013
California Governor seeks elimination of enterprise-zone tax credits
A battle is raging over a California program that grants businesses tax breaks for creating jobs but prevents the public from knowing who got them and why.
June 14, 2013
Did bank oversight enable $54M fraud by city controller?
City attorney says that inaction by bank led to the largest municipal theft in U.S. history.