Like so many other small business owners, I am so angry!

I was reading this week how the Internal Revenue service was found to be targeting certain conservative groups. Wrong, wrong, wrong! C'mon guys, as a small business owner I know you've got some serious power at your disposal. You...

Okay, I'm one of those evil, "fear-mongering" Republicans that you read about who are worried about Obamacare.

Worse, I'm a Republican business owner who's also a Certified Public Accountant. Ugh! But please don't hate me. I like puppies. Really, I do! I think Barbra Streisand is a great singer and...

It's 1893.

My great grandparents, after years of suffering persecution and hardships at the hands of the Cossacks in central Russia, gather all their belongings and, knowing no English and fearing for their lives, journey thousands of miles from their homeland to the United States. It's 1933 and my...

Kim Jong-un? I know how he feels. Really, I do.

The young ruler of North Korea has been getting a lot of bad press nowadays. Within the past few months, Jong-un has launched test missiles, re-positioned other missiles for a potential attack on his neighbors, threatened a nuclear war with...

This is the story about a mini-cab company in London. And customers. And technology. And Manchester United Football Club.

Although we reside in the U.S., my wife grew up in northwest London and her family still lives there. So for the past 22 years we've visited London as a...

A client was very upset with me. We had sold him software a few weeks ago and he called because he needed help. When I explained to him that all of our services are at an hourly rate he was shocked. "You mean I have to pay you to help...

The third anniversary of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), otherwise known as Obamacare, came and went recently without much fanfare. But think about it: healt hcare reform has been reality for three years now. And it's about to become really real for every business owner in just nine months.

That's...

Ever seen House of Cards?

It's a new TV show starring the brilliant Kevin Spacey and a fantastic cast. Spacey plays a ruthless Congressman in current day Washington, D.C. There are 13 one-hour episodes altogether and my wife and I watched the last eight of them just this past...

James is a client of mine who runs a 30-person roofing company in northeast Philadelphia. Last week one of the people in his office wasn't feeling well and called in sick. It was no big deal. She got paid for the day. The next day she was back at work....

When I was at KPMG, a very large international accounting and consulting firm, it was (and likely still is) all about utilization. Or in other words: how "chargeable" we were to the firm. Or in other words: how productive we were. Or in other words: how much money were we...

A wild and mysterious thing happened last week. The company that owns Girls Gone Wild, and all its related brands, went bankrupt.

Everyone who owned a TV set during the '90s and early 2000s knows about Girls Gone Wild. They secretly filmed college girls on spring break taking their...

Marissa Mayer, the CEO of Yahoo!, made big news last week. In an internal memo she told her employees that they must now come in to the office to do their work. In other words: no more working from home.

No more working from home? Say it ain't...

You know what's worse than getting a notice from the IRS? It's getting one of those "request for information" forms from the state of Michigan. Or any other state for that matter.

Just ask Cindy. She's the controller at a Pennsylvania based client of mine. This company has the misfortune...

Manti Te'o. Beyonce. Lance Armstrong. My God, can you not trust anyone anymore?

Sadly, that's the state of things. And it's the same on Wall Street. The Dow hovers now around 14,000, which is amazing when you consider it was near 6,000 just a few years ago. But don't get...

It's 2013 and you know what? It still sucks to be a woman in the workplace. And if you want to be CEO of a large company? Good luck with that too.

Sure, things have improved. Just watch an episode of Mad Men and you'll see what our mothers and...

For small businesses, the days of uncertainty are over. At least for the next two years. The inauguration this week proved that. The president's speech laid out his objectives. It was partisan. It was passionate. It summed up his beliefs and his agenda. And from what I can tell, his...

By now you've read about the trillion dollar coin, right? The idea was debated heavily by economists and pundits just last week.

It works like this: The president needs more money to keep his government in business. Because it's running massive deficits the money has to be...

First let me come right out with it: I have feminine tastes when it comes to movies and television. Sure, I love watching The Godfather, Homeland and any Tarantino film. But I enjoy just as much a rerun of Sex and the City and I'm looking forward to the next...

The fiscal cliff crisis has been averted!

But wait... no one seems happy. The Democrats want more tax increases. The Republicans want more spending cuts. And small business owners like me are divided. So is this latest solution good for my business? Will it be good for the American...

I'm not going to lie: the holiday season isn't much fun for the typical small business owner.

It's not that we don't enjoy the holidays. Or that we don't have that special Christmas spirit. It's just that the holidays are, well, kind of costly. Many of us shut down for...