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.

The Senate tax plan encountered its first outright Republican opposition this week, from a senator whose concerns might foreshadow the biggest business challenge ahead for the proposal.

Budget plans should be treated as living documents that provide guidance and direction, and are updated and adjusted as actual results unfold. How do finance teams get there?

Experts from PwC parse the differences between the tax reform bills on the treatment of pass-through businesses.

With the latest tax deadline behind them and the individual tax season ahead, accountants this time of year often realize that they are on a treadmill of never-ending deadlines with only brief periods of relief.

Startups and venture capitalists rarely get worked up over laws before they pass, but the tax plan currently winding its way through Congress is causing an uproar in Silicon Valley.

The American Institute of CPAs is reacting to Senate Republicans’ tax reform plan with its own set of priorities.

Partnerships, limited liability companies and other businesses could keep using state and local tax deductions that would be repealed for individuals, the chairman of the House tax writing panel said in a letter Thursday.

Time to exhale, sit back and think ahead to what you want 2018 to look like at your accounting firm.

The maker of tax-preparation and accounting software will start providing loans to small businesses.

President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans billed their tax overhaul for months as a benefit primarily for the middle class, but what they delivered Thursday was designed more to favor large corporations and some closely held businesses.