The Latest

Federal financial regulatory agencies and the Conference of State Bank Supervisors have issued a statement aimed at encouraging more banks to lend to small businesses.

Optimism among small business owners improved slightly last month, according to a new survey, but business owners nevertheless remain depressed over the economy.

A new survey of small business owners indicates that 52 percent have experienced negative health effects, both physically and mentally, from the recession.

Deming, Malone, Livesay & Ostroff, a CPA firm based in Louisville, Ky., has joined the BKR International association of accounting and business advisory firms.

Senate Democrats have begun circulating a draft version of the jobs bill they plan to introduce, with a series of tax breaks and tax extenders designed to lure Republican support.

A coalition of charities, aid groups, unions, and movie actors and directors has launched a campaign calling for a global 0.05 percent tax on banks’ speculative financial transactions, with the proceeds going to combat poverty and climate change.

A series of surveys conducted in the past decade suggests that CFOs may be staying in their jobs longer.

Shoeboxed.com has introduced a service that scans in piles of receipts from an accountant’s various clients, archives the documents, and allows the accountant to view and manage the receipts via the Internet.

Andrew Coombs and Jennifer Laydon have been named the recipients of Bentley University's 2010 Gray, Gray Gray Fund Scholarships.

There’s a certain amount of suspense these days in our nation’s capital about what’s going to happen not only with health care reform, but also financial regulations.