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Vermont, with high business loan approval rates, high minority-owned startup growth, low unemployment, and lower income disparities, takes the spotlight as the number one state for minority entrepreneurship.

The group will discuss the key challenges and opportunities facing firms and professionals, and develop strategies for future firm success.

COSO has provided thought leadership and guidance for organizations in areas of internal control, enterprise risk management, fraud deterrence, and governance.

In the past year, operators report needing to find new suppliers, removing items from their menus, adjusting portion sizes or substituting lower cost items all in response to elevated food prices.

The Census Bureau said overall retail sales in January were down 0.8% from December but up 0.6% year over year. That compared with increases of 0.4% month over month and 5.3% year over year in December.

FinQuery’s unified platform for contract and spend intelligence enables companies to manage, account, optimize, budget and forecast these major areas of spend.

Despite the AICPA’s extensive efforts, in coordination with many other stakeholders, to inform small businesses of their new obligations concerning BOI reporting, many remain broadly unaware of their reporting requirement.

The IRS listed several red flags of a questionable employee retention credit claim to help businesses resolve incorrect submissions.