Report: The Big Business of Small Business

The basic needs of small businesses are easy to describe—they need to collect payment for goods and services and record the amounts. But they are also often not good at anything outside of the delivery of goods and performance of services. Increasingly, small business accounting products seek to remove the language of accounting from products used by those who often do not understand financial terms or business concepts. The web, meanwhile, has made it easier for entrepreneurs to develop accounting software and enabled companies of all kinds to compete internationally. Yes, small business is big business and getting bigger. Download to read about all these new developments.

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Sage North America has hired Ray Barlow as VP of accountant solutions. Barlow comes to Sage after leading Intuit's Accountant & Advisor Group at a time when that company was building a program to service accounting firms. At Sage, he has responsibility for the accountant business in North America.

There are 76 million Baby Boomers in the United States, defined as those of us
born between 1946 and 1964. Accounting firms across the country are full of
Boomers with 61 percent of all partners now over the age of 50, all marching toward
retirement.

Weaver, a Dallas, Texas-based accounting firm, has named six employees as partners. These include Sara Dempsey in assurance services, who joined the firm, in 2005 and Rob Myatt, in tax and strategic business services, who came to Weaver in 2006 as a manager.