Small Business October 26, 2026
2026 Holiday Sales Forecast to Rise 4.2% to More Than $1 Trillion
By comparison, last year’s holiday sales rose 3.1% over 2024 totaling $972 billion.
December 1, 2020
68% of Remote Workers Say They Work on Weekends
Many people feel pressure to keep up with rising workloads and are putting in long hours to support their business.
November 28, 2020
PPP Forgiveness and Your Clients
Although the CARES Act Payroll Protection Program’s (PPP) loan application period closed last August, you most likely have clients who received funding and now need to plan for loan forgiveness. The rules changed since the program began.
November 28, 2020
Webinar Shows How To Speed Client Payments
With the pandemic causing vastly more businesses to have employees work remotely, including accounting and bookkeepers, its even more important that businesses who receive checks move their clients to the more secure and manageable process of ...
November 27, 2020
2021 Workforce Trends: People-Centered Initiatives, Business Agility Take Center Stage
Significant shifts to the workplace in 2020 are making way for a newly transformed world of work in 2021. The changing landscape this year has employers and workers looking to digital solutions to help them push through the challenges presented by a ...
November 24, 2020
AICPA Recognizes Three Tax Experts with Awards During Fall Tax Division Meeting
The American Institute of CPAs (AICPA) has announced that N.C. State University’s Poole College of Management’s Roby Sawyers, Ph.D, CPA, has received its Arthur J. Dixon Award. Also, Grant Thornton’s Jamie C. Yesnowitz, J.D., L.L.M. and Jeff Martin, ...
November 24, 2020
2020 Year-End Tax Planning: Georgia on My Mind
2020’s year-end tax and financial planning is unique. It will require consideration of the taxpayer’s facts and circumstances, existing rules, predicted election results in Georgia, and the potential of resulting retroactive tax legislation ...
November 24, 2020
2020 Review of Cetrom Hosting
Cetrom www.Cetrom.com From the 2020 reviews of hosting systems for accounting firms. Ideal Firm Cetrom is one of the premiere cloud hosting providers in the accounting vertical for firms of all sizes looking for a full-service IT hosting provider to handle all server, applications, and desktops. Cetrom is one of long-standing cloud hosting providers serving...…
November 23, 2020
AICPA Urges Congress to Support PPP Expense Deductibility
The AICPA is now calling upon its members to ask Congress to pass bipartisan legislation S.3612 and H.R.6821 – the Small Business Expense Protection Acts of 2020, or H.R. 6754 - the Protecting the Paycheck Protection Program Act – that will ensure the ...
November 22, 2020
Payroll Issues Under a Biden Administration
While President Donald Trump has filed numerous lawsuits challenging the election results, Thomson Reuters has examined how a Joe Biden presidency could have a significant impact on employers. This is particularly true in the area of wage and hour, worker
November 22, 2020
Self-Directed 401(k) Balances Show Steady Growth in Q3
The average account balance across all participant accounts finished Q3 2020 at $302,256, a 9% increase year-over-year and a 6% increase from Q2 2020.
November 22, 2020
Increase in Flex Work Leads Employers to Consider New Pay Models
Many survey respondents reported that these new arrangements will require hybrid compensation models that for some employers include paying employees based on their geographic home base when they relocate.
November 19, 2020
Workers Getting Tired of Video Calls
A new study shows video calls may be wearing on workers. More than three-quarters of professionals surveyed (76%) by professional staffing firm Robert Half said they participate in virtual meetings.