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Join us for a FREE Webinar on June 21
Monday, June 21, 2010
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM CDT 
There is a lot going on in Washington right now, so allow Larry Kopsa CPA to show you his ‘crystal ball’ on how the following may affect your business:Health Care Reform, PCI (if you take credit cards and you don’t know about this make sure you tune in!), CAP and Trade, Value Add Tax, New Tax Laws, Hire Act, and the Union Check Card. In this one hour webinar, Larry will show you how these items could potentially affect your bottom line.
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Small-business bank accounts increasingly are being targeted by cybercriminals. The criminals use sophisticated programs to gain access to bank accounts through online portals, then add payees to the company's accounts. Shawn Henry, assistant director of the Cyber Division at the Federal Bureau of Investigation, said losses have amounted to hundreds of millions of dollars in the last year or so. The Wall Street Journal
Small business groups have complained that they got short shrift from the economic stimulus bill. It seemed like small business was completely ignored. Now as the government finally starts to deal with unemployment, President Obama now seems to agree. The problem is that some of the rhetoric that is being discussed to help small business clashes with his policy goals like health care reform, cap and trade and the card check bills.Forbes magazine recently had a good article articulating the issues.Click the link below to read the full story:http://www.forbes.com/2009/12/08/barack-obama-credit-small-business-washington-obama.html?partner=alerts
According to all the business publications, the recession is supposed to be over. How come most of my small business clients would not agree? Well, surprise surprise! As stated in the article below, the business magazine economists forgot about the importance of us small business people. We do make up a large part of the economy.Small-business recession is still holding back recoveryhttp://www.smartbrief.com/images/briefs2/common/storyicons/icon_analysis.gifGoldman Sachs economist Jan Hatzius has argued that troubled small businesses aren't being taken into account in the official estimation of gross domestic product. "We have argued that the weakness of the small business sector may mean that real GDP in the third quarter in fact grew more slowly than the 3.5% 'advance' estimate," Hatzius wrote, according to this blog post quoting him. In fact, Justin Fox writes, the unemployment numbers for small business are substantially worse than those for big business. Small business isn't getting the credit it needs, and is still suffering in the recession, Fox argues. TIME/The Curious Capitalist blog
(Yahoo! Small Business) -- Smallbusinessanswers.yahoo.com reports that with higher unemployment, many Americans are looking to launch their own business. "But many people do a lousy job of picking businesses they can realistically turn into a profitable operation," the article notes. According to small business experts, some of the most difficult businesses to operate profitably are: "Restaurants; direct sales; online retail; high-end retail; independent consulting; franchise ownership; and traffic-driven Web sites." See the article at <http://smallbusinessanswers.yahoo.com/overrated>
