Small business

Accountants and tax pros share the most questionable ventures they were asked to advise clients on.

Ceterus, a Charleston, S.C., firm that provides managed bookkeeping and tax services for quick-service restaurants, has acquired Sandwich Math, an accounting and bookkeeping firm that focuses on sandwich restaurant franchises.

Use this time of year to do some casual research.

Paychex reported the ninth consecutive month of declines in small business job growth for November, with wages also falling slightly.

The tax reform bills passed by the House, and soon to be passed by the Senate, have many similarities. And you can count on measures that are the same in both bills to end up in the final version to be signed by the President.

A majority of small business owners oppose the tax reform plans now being considered by Congress, according to a new survey.

The White House wouldn’t oppose removing from the Senate tax plan a controversial provision to repeal the individual health-care mandate of the Affordable Care Act, budget director Mick Mulvaney said, a move that could help secure the vote of key Republicans.

Accountants are in fourth place in a new ranking of how different industries fare in terms of return on equity.