Small Business

Seattle-based Amazon late last year hired Patton Boggs, a marquee Washington, D.C., lobbying group, to join two other firms on retainer as well as Amazon's in-house lobbyists in hopes of getting the Marketplace Fairness Act passed.

Accounting firms across the country are looking to the cloud to transform their client accounting services. They are looking to move from simply transactional bookkeeping services to higher value advisory services more in line with the CFO function.

Broad-based employee stock ownership plans, if properly designed, are the best way to ramp up productivity, new research finds.

Horses drive $3 billion in annual economic impact in Kentucky and create almost 41,000 jobs, according to the first in-depth study in decades of one of the state's signature industries.

Xero announces the upcoming launch of their complete US payroll feature at inaugural U.S. Xerocon.

Having closed 36 percent of all recent business loans made by the five major local credit unions, GTE Financial has reported seeing an uptick in small business lending.

Corporate Tax Network has partnered with LegalZoom to host a free weekend workshop for current small business owners and motivated entrepreneurs September 6-8 at the Irvine Marriott in Irvine, California.

Ines Sinko has spent the summer helping tourists pick out gifts and beach apparel at Boardwalk's Best Inc. in North Wildwood, New Jersey.