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The Chapter 11 Pre-Filing Data Package: What the Accountant Must Provide
For a small company, Chapter 11 is a last chance to reorganize rather than liquidate, and the first weeks set the course.
May 19, 2015
2Checkout and FreshBooks Partnership Delivers New Online Payment Options to Small Business Owners
2Checkout, global payment provider, today announced it will partner with cloud-based account software FreshBooks to provide FreshBooks’ customers with an option to seamlessly accept international payments from both Asia-Pacific and emerging markets.
May 15, 2015
3 Tips to a Better SALT Engagement Letter
The engagement letter not only sets out what services you will provide, it lays the groundwork for the client's role in making those services achievable. You can describe your plan to prepare tax returns, but that plan is contingent on the client ...
May 15, 2015
QuickBooks Workhub Helps Accountants and Small Biz Owners Streamline Management
Now, business owners can manage all of their backend processes from one central hub. Workhub is built off Intuit’s QuickBase platform, but is designed from the ground up to meet the unique needs of small- to medium-sized business owners.
May 15, 2015
Are Smart Phones Smart Enough? Who Needs a Smart Watch?
Like the legions of smartwatches that came before, however, today’s generation will ultimately fail to grab the imagination -- or the wallets -- of the public.
May 13, 2015
Sage Life Platform Gives Small Businesses Greater Insight
Sage Life was developed to give small businesses an always-on network for collaborating across their organization, while helping to "cut out delays, uncertainty and wasted time."
May 13, 2015
Sage and Salesforce Partner for Business Accounting, Payroll, CRM
With this partnership, Sage has built a new solution called Sage Life on the Salesforce1 Platform, an enterprise Platform as a Service [PaaS], which enables small businesses to run completely in the cloud.
May 11, 2015
The Best and Worst Cities to Work for a Small Business
Small businesses collectively make up 99.7 percent of all U.S. employer firms, employ nearly 49 percent of the private workforce, pay about 42 percent of the private payroll, and created 63 percent of all new jobs added during the past 20 years.
May 11, 2015
H&R Block Seeks Staff for National Small Business Accounting Unit
Block Small Business, H&R Block’s suite of cloud-based, centrally-supported services offered to small businesses throughout the country, will be hiring six positions over the next six weeks and an additional 15 to 30 positions in the next 12 months.
May 11, 2015
Women and Generation Xers Take Lead in Creating New Startups
Women are more likely to found startups than men (57 percent versus 43 percent), and contradicting conventional wisdom about the conflict woman face when it comes to business and family, most women (55 percent) reported a "great" work-life balance.
May 11, 2015
Women vs. Men in the Boardroom: Report Offers Unique Look at Corporate Directors by Gender
In the past two years, 24 percent of all new S&P 500 directors named have been women, compared to the current 18 percent women-to-men ratio, according to a new report from Big 4 accounting and business consultancy PwC.
May 10, 2015
Say Goodbye to Internet Explorer
When Microsoft releases Windows 10 later this year – rumored to be toward the end of July – one familiar application will be missing from the desktop. After two decades as the flagship browser for the Windows operating system, Internet Explorer is going a
May 10, 2015
Sage One Accounting Gets New Features, Subscription Pricing Model
New features and a new pricing model are now available to small businesses who use Sage One Accounting, a cloud-based small business accounting, invoicing and management system from Sage North America. Sage One Accounting is available in free and premium subscription versions, offering features for electronic invoicing, cash flow management, and financial analysis. Designed for...…