Spending a morning with 17 young firm employees

The small business mentoring organization SCORE has compiled some new statistics demonstrating how much time and money small businesses spend each year on accounting, taxes and payroll administration.

Average paycheck size and cash on hand rose at small businesses in January, according to payroll service provider SurePayroll.

Louis Plung, managing partner of Louis Plung & Company LLP, believes in serving the community in which he lives and works.

The evolution of technology has changed the way businesses operate. While this reality has at times led to a more competitive work environment for accountants, it also provides an opportunity for accountants to enhance their role as a trusted advisor and focus on helping their clients grow their business.

WithumSmith+Brown can always be counted on to release a fun video every year to coincide with their annual State of the Firm celebration, and this year the firm pulled out all the stops.

Harriet Greenberg and Kim Dula of Friedman LLP encourage female CPAs to ask for what they want as it relates to their career growth, in an interview with Accounting Today managing editor Tamika Cody. Greenberg was recently promoted to co-managing partner at Friedman after this video was shot.

The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday that total nonfarm payroll employment rose by 252,000 in December, and the unemployment rate declined two-tenths of a percentage point to 5.6 percent. While job gains occurred in professional and business services, along with other industries such as construction, food services and drinking places, health care, and manufacturing, December's job losses in accounting and bookkeeping offset the gains in November.

Accounting and finance professionals who switched jobs last year saw an average salary increase of 13.24 percent, according to a new survey.

Employment and pay at small businesses continued to grow in December, although the number of hours worked by small business employees declined slightly last month, according to QuickBooks maker Intuit.

The House of Representatives passed the first piece of legislation of the 114th Congress on Wednesday, the Hire More Heroes Act of 2015 (H.R. 22), with overwhelming bipartisan support.

Employers in the private sector boosted their workforce by 241,000 jobs last month, according to payroll giant ADP, in a further indication of an improving economy.

The pace of small business employment growth slowed in December, according to payroll giant Paychex and the research firm IHS, but remains in positive territory.

Small business owners with between one and 10 employees are more optimistic about the economy than they have been in two years, according to a new survey by payroll provider SurePayroll.

Even as salaries rise, so do expectations

More companies are reporting an increased number of open accounting, finance and information technology positions, according to a new study.

Patricia Cummings, the co-managing partner of Citrin Cooperman's New York office, discusses how accounting firms should use diversity initiatives to enable more women and minority accountants to be hired and advance through the ranks, in an interview with Accounting Today managing editor Tamika Cody.

Payroll service provider Paychex has highlighted five key tax provisions that small business owners should evaluate before the end of the calendar year that could benefit their businesses.

Patricia Cummings, the co-managing partner of Citrin Cooperman's New York office, talks about the obstacles that women face at accounting firms, and how that might finally be changing at some firms, in an interview with Accounting Today managing editor Tamika Cody.

Payroll giant ADP provided a set of year-end tax and payroll tips and reminders to small business owners, their accountants and other advisors, to help streamline the tax-filing process.