Accounting June 28, 2025
Nominations Open for 2025 Innovation Awards
The Innovation Awards highlight technologies that are shaping the profession and small businesses through increased collaboration and productivity.
September 16, 2013
Federal Agency Rules Against Debit Card-Only Paychecks
Paying employees exclusively with debit cards -- like a local McDonald's franchisee had been -- is illegal, federal regulators have determined.
September 14, 2013
Nonprofits & the IRS: 5 Risk Areas to Watch For
As the Internal Revenue Service Exempt Organization division twists and turns in the wind over the recent scandal involving undue scrutiny on certain tax-exempt applications, nonprofit managers and practitioners might wonder how this will impact them.
September 12, 2013
Calif. Man Convicted of Embezzling $550K from Payroll Service
A 35-year-old Watsonville, California man was convicted of felony embezzlement Tuesday after he skimmed money from two San Jose companies and left them delinquent on their taxes.
September 12, 2013
California Governor Backs Raise in Minimum Wage to $10/hr
California Governor Gerry Brown Jr. joined with top leadership in the state's legislature on Wednesday to announce their support for a new bill that would raise the state's minimum wage.
September 12, 2013
Solution Helps Employers Meet Shared Responsibility Requirements of ObamaCare
Employers with 50 or more full-time equivalent employees on their payroll during the previous calendar year have a "shared responsibility" under the Affordable Care Act (aka, ObamaCare) to offer minimum essential coverage to their full-time employees.
September 12, 2013
Financial Expert Lists 3 Things Every Woman Should Know About Money
‘It’s a Relationship That’s Not Going Away,’ Advises Female Financial Expert.
September 10, 2013
The Key Healthcare Reform Provisions Employers Should Know
To help business owners stay on top of health care reform, Paychex, Inc., a leading provider of payroll, human resource, insurance, and benefits outsourcing solutions for small- to medium-sized businesses, has outlined below, provisions of interest to business owners and their employees that are expected to take effect in 2014 or sooner, and those delayed…
September 9, 2013
Are You Suffering from a Professional Disconnect?
If you’re like me, your mobile device is an indispensable tool that you use on a daily basis to manage your personal life. The list of digital tools that I use is a long one.
September 9, 2013
Detroit pension fund pays out nearly $1B in bonuses
One of Detroit's two pension funds handed out nearly $1 billion in bonus cash payments over two decades to retirees and active employees' retirement accounts instead of reinvesting the extra earnings for the future, according to a Free Press review of city records.
September 9, 2013
The Benefits and Challenges of Cloud Accounting
Accounting firms across the country are looking to the cloud to transform their client accounting services. They are looking to move from simply transactional bookkeeping services to higher value advisory services more in line with the CFO function.
September 6, 2013
Study shows employee stock ownership plans boost productivity
Broad-based employee stock ownership plans, if properly designed, are the best way to ramp up productivity, new research finds.
September 6, 2013
Horse breeding a $3B industry in Kentucky – Creates 41,000 jobs
Horses drive $3 billion in annual economic impact in Kentucky and create almost 41,000 jobs, according to the first in-depth study in decades of one of the state's signature industries.