February 3, 2014
Small Business Employees Give Their Bosses a B-Minus
Are you a small business owner? How do you think your employees rate your management capabilities. Or, if you work for a small business, how do you think your bosses are doing?
February 3, 2014
Contest Gives Small Businesses Chance at $5,000 Marketing Grants
Few organizations know as much about small businesses as Intuit, the maker of QuickBooks, which is the most widely-used small business accounting and management software in the world. Now, Intuit is giving back.
February 2, 2014
GoldieBlox Wins Super Bowl Commercial From Intuit
Whether you were rooting for the Seahawks or the Broncos, or just watching for the commercials, you still probably didn't enjoy watching it as much as the owners and employees of one small California-based business.
January 29, 2014
Tax Expert Speaks on Impact of Health Care Reform
The new health insurance laws still have many individuals and small business owners scratching their heads. In an effort to help those in North Carolina, Tim Robinson, CPA, tax director at the CPA Firm of Hughes Pittman & Gupton, LLP, in the Raleigh-Durham area, recently spoke to financial executives on compliance with the Affordable Care…
January 27, 2014
SBA Loans Can Help Small Businesses Who Employ Reserve Soldiers, National Guard Members
Small businesses that suffered economic losses when the owner or a key employee was called up to active duty are eligible to apply for a low interest loan of up to $2 million from the U.S. Small Business Administration.
January 24, 2014
Rethinking The Social Media Strategy
It is popular among my learned accounting colleagues to portray the elders of the profession who have not signed on to the concept of a Social Media Strategy as some kinds of latter day Luddites.
January 23, 2014
Indiana and Illinois See Jobs Growth
Small businesses are hiring, and employment at smaller firms grew in Illinois and Indiana last month.
January 22, 2014
Tips for Tackling Small Business Finances in 2014
Online accounting software maker Xero has released a new collection of critical tips and advice from accountants that is designed to help small businesses improve operations in 2014.
January 21, 2014
Amazon to Start Collecting Sales Tax in N.C.
Amazon.com will begin collecting sales tax in North Carolina beginning Feb. 1, a company official confirmed Monday.
January 20, 2014
What Small Businesses Need to Know About Health Care Tax Credit
Starting this year, the credit goes up to 50 percent for for-profit entities, and 35 percent for tax-exempt ones.
January 17, 2014
Why Business Credit Cards Can Turn Company Accounting Into a Nightmare
With one-man firms comprising roughly 40% of the accounting services industry, according to IBISWorld, and around one-third of all CPAs admitting to a bit of moonlighting in a 2008 Bay Street Group survey, it’s clear that a large segment of the industry has more than just its clients’ small business needs to deal with.
January 15, 2014
Xero Accounting
With Xero, financial data and documents are stored in the cloud. Instead of transferring datafiles, you and your clients just login to see the same set of data. We call this the single ledger. Log in online anytime, anywhere on your Mac, PC, tablet or phone and see up-to-date financials. It’s small business accounting software...…