Small Business

August 12, 2019 

President Trump announced last week that new 10 percent tariffs on an additional $300 billion in Chinese goods will take effect on September 1. Coupled with 25 percent tariffs imposed on $250 billion worth of imports over the past year, the new round ...

August 12, 2019 

A contractor not returning your calls? Consider calling next year. Remodelers are having one of their busiest summers ever, but that’s likely to change.

August 12, 2019 

Megg Dillon, 36, has been wanting to redecorate her Santa Monica, Calif., apartment, so she appreciated physically seeing the items she usually browsed online. “I do like that pineapple,” she said to her friend, referring to the fruit-shape cutting board inside home furnishings retailer Wayfair’s pop-up shop at the King of Prussia Mall. “How cute...…

August 8, 2019 

Now that we’ve passed the mid-year point, it’s a good time for a quick refresher course on what your business clients need to know about choosing their legal structure. Your clients’ business entity type has legal, financial and administrative ...

Nellie Akalp

August 5, 2019 

After years of postwar growth in an art market that has weathered cyclical ups and down, this decade’s explosion of wealth has flooded the market with billions of dollars, bidding up the value of marquee and contemporary artists such as ...

July 31, 2019 

Small businesses in the U.S. are largely positive about the prospects for the future of their respective firms with regard to revenues, profitability, and employment. That’s according to the new Insight Summary Report from Mercator Advisory Group. The report, Payment Cards and B2B Payments: Riding a Wave of Positivity, is the first of three from...…

July 24, 2019 

As students gear up to go back to school and college, families plan to spend more than ever on supplies ranging from pencils and backpacks to computers and dorm refrigerators, according to the annual survey released today by the ...

July 22, 2019 

In 2018, the first year of licensing, the state Bureau of Cannabis Control worked with local law enforcement to serve six search warrants on unlicensed pot shops and seized some 1,594 pounds of cannabis worth $13.5 million.

July 22, 2019 

At issue is whether a website is a “public accommodation” like a physical store within the meaning of the ADA. In a brief filed with the court, the RLC and NRF explained that the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals stretched the definition too far by ...

July 22, 2019 

Despite expectations of how artificial intelligence (AI) will change work, only 42 percent of technology industry CEOs plan to upskill a majority of their workforce during the next three years, according to a new 2019 KPMG report:

July 15, 2019 

Today’s point of sale systems have evolved immensely from those original cash registers, with touch screen monitors, scanning devices, and the ability to seamlessly accept debit and credit card anywhere now the norm.

Mary Girsch-Bock

July 15, 2019 

QuickBooks Desktop Point of Sale 18.0Intuitwww.quickbooks.com From the July 2019 Review of Point-of-Sale Systems QuickBooks Desktop Point of Sale 18.0 is well suited for small to mid-sized retailers that are using QuickBooks financial applications. Designed for on-site installation, QuickBooks Desktop Point of Sale is available in three versions; Basic, Pro, and Multi-Store, with the Multi-Store...…

Mary Girsch-Bock