Payroll

Technology, as opposed to new hiring, is driving much of the growth at small businesses, with 72 percent of small businesses doing more business online than they did a year ago, according to a survey by payroll service provider SurePayroll.

Private sector employers added 200,000 jobs from June to July, with the job gains distributed across all sizes of businesses and in many industries, including professional and business services.

Payroll giant ADP has introduced myAline, online and mobile financial management technology to give employees visibility, information and access to help them better manage their money and make more informed spending decisions.

Total nonfarm payroll employment increased by 195,000 in June, and job gains in April and May were revised upward, but the unemployment rate was unchanged at 7.6 percent, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday.

Private sector employment increased by 188,000 jobs from May to June, according to payroll giant ADP, providing further evidence that the economy is slowly recovering despite payroll tax increases and government spending cuts.

Intuit has released an iPad and iPhone app for Intuit Online Payroll, just a few months after unveiling a similar app for QuickBooks Online.

Cloud accounting and small business finance tool maker Wave has added the Payroll Tax Service for in 10 U.S. states with more coming later in the year.

Amit Jain of ADP Small Business Services discusses how the accounting firm of tomorrow will be different from accounting firms today, in an interview with Accounting Today editor-in-chief Daniel Hood.

Amit Jain of ADP Small Business Services discusses the challenges of growing an accounting practice, retaining clients, increasing cash flow, recruiting and retaining staff members, and dealing with regulatory complexity, in an interview with Accounting Today editor-in-chief Daniel Hood.

The South Atlantic, West South Central and Pacific regions had the most private sector job growth in May, according to a new report by payroll giant ADP, with Texas, Florida, California and Georgia leading the way.

The unemployment rate rose a tenth of a percentage point to 7.6 percent in May as employers added 175,000 jobs, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

ADP said Thursday that it has helped U.S. businesses find more than $1.4 billion in tax credits in 2012.

Employers in the private sector added 135,000 jobs from April to May, according to payroll giant ADP, which represented an increase over the previous month, but still indicated some softening of the employment picture.

Payroll provider SurePayroll said it is seeing rising optimism among small business owners, even as hiring and average paycheck size declined at their businesses.

ADP is enhancing its ADP Tax Credits software to help companies capture Work Opportunity Tax Credits for hiring employees.

Lots more partnering to discuss this week as well as my take on a certain cloud ERP vendor's impending annual meeting of customers and resellers.

Senate Appropriations Committee chair Barbara Mikulski, D-Md., urged Internal Revenue Service Acting Commissioner Steven T. Miller to do more to keep unscrupulous payroll service providers from cheating small businesses out of unremitted withholding taxes during an IRS budget hearing.

CompuPay, Inc., a BenefitMall Company, has formed a channel partnership with open source ERP product maker Open Systems, which will provide its resellers and end users access to CompuPay’s PayrollOnline service.

The unemployment rate fell a tenth of a percentage point to 7.5 percent, the lowest rate in five years, as employers added 165,000 jobs in April, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday, sending the Dow Jones Industrial Index above 15,000 points.

Small business employment in the U.S. increased in April, according to figures from Intuit, while average compensation and the hours worked decreased.