According to the Business Journals, the Small Business Administration’s Office of Advocacy, has saved small businesses $1.6 billion dollars in compliance costs in 2015. The agency works with federal agencies to ensure they comply with the Regulatory Flexibility Act, which was passed to help find ways to reduce the burden of new regulations on small businesses. Read more...

The percentage of business executives who are optimistic about the U.S. economy going forward dipped below 50 percent for the first time since early 2014, according to the third quarter AICPA Economic Outlook Survey, which polls chief executive officers, chief financial officers, controllers and other certified public accountants in U.S. companies who hold executive and senior management accounting roles. Hiring plans also continued to soften from late last year. Read more...

What do you know about micropayments? Probably not everything that is included in this infographic.
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