July 28, 2014
Retail Federation Forecasts Improved Revenues for Second Half of 2014
The largest association of retailers in the U.S. has mixed news on the economy, but overall the forecast is sunny.
July 28, 2014
Small Business Speed Coaching Heads to Seattle
Beer maker Samuel Adams has announced it will host its next small business Speed Coaching event in Seattle, marking the first time the event has headed to the state of Washington.
July 28, 2014
Financial Restatements Fell Significantly During Past Decade
An in-depth academic analysis of trends and characteristics of restatements to public company financial statements in the United States in the 10-year period following the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) reveals a substantial drop in the number and severity of restatements.
July 28, 2014
Bloomberg BNA to Co-Host Transfer Pricing Conference In Toronto
Speakers at Event on Critical Transfer Pricing Issues Include the Honourable Mr. Justice Marshall Rothstein of the Supreme Court of Canada
July 28, 2014
Higher Minimum Wages Cause Many Restaurants to Shift Practices
When California's minimum wage jumped from $8 to $9 on July 1, owners of restaurants, coffee shops and bars braced for the fallout. They would either have to bump up prices and risk losing customers or absorb the hit and deal with slimmer margins.
July 26, 2014
Feds Charge Pennsylvania Woman with Embezzling $562K
Felicia Anne Straub knew that her boss suspected someone was embezzling from the Whitehall Township repo business where she worked as an office manager.
July 22, 2014
Pay Raises for Recent College Grads Fall Short of Average
Salaries for recent college graduates have risen at less than half the pace for all U.S. workers since the recession, an analysis by the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco found.
July 22, 2014
Improving ‘Quits Rate’ Shows Workers Have More Confidence in Job Market
Five years into recovery from the Great Recession, the economy is still too weak to stimulate the kind of dynamic labor market in which workers routinely move from one employer to another, building their careers and bank accounts and advancing the nation's long-term growth prospects.
July 21, 2014
Ex-Cons Get Boost to Start New Businesses
Ted Stanton lives in a 120-square-foot subsidized room in the Tenderloin district of San Francisco, which he has converted into an incubator for his candy startup, Good Karma Karamels.
July 21, 2014
Former Director of Georgia State Fair Convicted of Embezzlement
Jurors deliberated about 90 minutes before finding the former Georgia State Fair director guilty of fiduciary theft. The trial began Monday in Bibb County Superior Court.
July 18, 2014
California Sees Increase in Productivity, Decrease in Jobs
Manufacturing jobs in California have decreased dramatically -- 40% of them gone in less than 25 years -- but productivity in the state is leading the nation.
July 16, 2014
Xero Offers Integration with Online Banking Platform
The online small business accounting system Xero now has the ability to integrate with Silicon Valley Bank, a technology and start-up focused financial institution, the companies announced on Wednesday morning.