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IRS Extends Tax Deadlines Until May For Helene Victims
Avantax Acquires SEP Financial Services
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How Long Can Curbside Pickup Keep Restaurants Afloat?
Many cities have created temporary curbside food pickup zones for takeout and delivery on busy streets to aid restaurants. They posted signs, covered up parking meters or put up barricades. And even after most states later began allowing limited ...
Covid Economy: Parents Expect to Spend More on Computers and Desks
While the number planning to buy laptops is essentially unchanged at 37 percent rather than 36 percent, the number buying accessories such as a mouse or flash drive is up at 26 percent from 21 percent and the number expecting to buy desks or chairs to ...
July Saw Increase in Retail Sales as Shaky Recovery Starts
The U.S. Census Bureau said that overall retail sales during July were up 1.2 percent seasonally adjusted from June and up 2.7 percent year-over-year. That follows an 8.4 percent month-over-month increase in June. Retail sales have been climbing after...
Hotels Facing Historic Wave of Foreclosures Due to COVID-19
The report shows that $20.6 billion in hotel CMBS loans were 30 or more days delinquent as of July, compared to $1.15 billion as of December 2019. The highest volume of delinquent hotel loans during the Great Financial Crisis was $13.5 billion.
Biz2Credit Partners with Sage for Small Business Loans and Financing
Through this deal, clients of accountants in the Sage network will gain access to capital through Biz2Credit's small business funding platform, which has arranged more than $3 billion in financing to thousands of small and mid-sized companies over the ...
American Express to Acquire Small Biz Lender Kabbage
Under the terms of the agreement, American Express will acquire Kabbage’s team and its full suite of financial technology products, data platform and IP built for small businesses. Kabbage’s products include access to flexible lines of ...
What to Do When Small Business Clients Go Out of Business
More than 100,000 small businesses have closed since the pandemic began. With no clear end in sight, one major question has come to the forefront for CPA firm leaders as both their own firms and their clients struggle financially: What happens when ...
Protecting Small Businesses from Fraud
The ways small businesses have been handling their bookkeeping and accounting for years are quickly becoming obsolete. Antiquated and manual processes leave small businesses vulnerable to fraud from both the inside and the outside.