Small business

Stephanie Otero, the vice president small firm advocate at the AICPA, talks about the issues and opportunities that face the firms that make up the backbone of the profession.

The report highlights the PCC's accomplishments and activities from the year, its agenda priorities, stakeholder engagement and strategy moving forward.

PCC chair Jere Shawver is on a mission to increase awareness of the group that represents the perspectives of privately held companies on accounting standards.

By the time they realize it's too hard to do in-house, it may be too late.

The professional and business services sector, which includes accounting and tax preparation along with other services, lost 30,000 jobs, ADP reported.

Minimum wage increases in some states and localities helped boost payrolls a small amount in February at small businesses, according to Paychex.

If you have business clients who are considering changing their LLCs or C corporations into S corporations, now is a great time to discuss the pitfalls.

Small business owners are losing the equivalent of 33 working days a year due to financial stress, according to a report from Xero.

The tax-filing season for individuals just opened recently, but businesses already got a head start on various tax incentives in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act.

Small business job growth and wage growth last month largely followed the same pattern as late last year, payroll company Paychex reported.

Knowing exactly who you serve — and why — is becoming one of the most powerful competitive advantages a small firm can develop.

The OBBBA reshaped several baseline assumptions for 2026 planning around state and local tax, above-the-line deductions and updated inflation adjustments.

Hourly earnings growth at small businesses continued to decelerate in December, reflecting a pattern for much of the year, Paychex reported.

Going from a financial professional working for someone else to a business owner running your own firm requires shifting your way of thinking.

A federal appeals court reversed a lower court decision involving the Corporate Transparency Act, finding it to be constitutional, although it remains on hold.

Missing the window to make these decisions before year's end means losing a full year of potential savings.

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By helping business owners shore up their metrics, you can help them boost their enterprise value and add more value to your relationship.

Small accounting firms can scale intentionally, sustainably and without compromising what makes them special.

Small businesses in particular lost a total of 120,000 jobs.