The word “recession,” by itself, has been known to send small business owners into a panic. But worrying is counterproductive. You can’t get anything done when you’re in panic mode.

Faced with tough financial times, more people are raiding their 401(k) accounts as if they were piggy banks.

With the unemployment rate at a two-year high and the housing market in a slump, “recession” is the word on everyone’s lips.

Snatch airline tickets when the prices drop, using online tool Yapta

Invoice management and chasing down late payers is a time-consuming and frustrating aspect of running a small or medium-size business. A team of collection agency professionals has designed a new billing and debt collection software application that aims to solve this headache ...

Choosing a new accounting software package for your business is not a decision to take lightly. Here are the steps to take in your decision-making process—and how to involve your accountant ...

Increase your wealth by hanging out with people with better money habits.

Floods, fires, hurricanes. When natural disaster strikes, it pays to be prepared.

Want to be the sort of customer who gets priority treatment?

After a decade of hype, banking via cell phones and other hand-held devices will become more mainstream in the coming years.

Yapta.com lets you take advantage of a little-noticed air regulation.

Small business success comes down to whether you can pay your bills and still turn a profit.

More business leaders expect the country's recent financial troubles to affect them more personally rather than their department and/or organization, says a new survey.

More business leaders expect the impact of the recent Wall Street troubles to impact them personally rather than their department and/or organization, says a new survey ...

People make resolutions to improve their personal lives around this time of year. So why don’t you do the same for your small business?

Tim Westergren has been rejected by venture capitalists approximately 350 times. His company, Pandora, has teetered toward failure repeatedly since 1999. Deal after deal has fallen through.

Big companies are like living laboratories for small firms: Watch them closely and you can learn much from their trials and triumphs.

One of the quickest, least capital-intensive ways for small companies to grow is to connect with a larger partner or brand.

Overextended home buyers with subprime mortgages have dominated news coverage in recent months. And the crisis is hitting small businesses, too.

Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield could only raise $8,000 to open their first ice cream store in Vermont. But that was a good thing.

If you process customers’ credit cards, beware:
A slew of recent lawsuits have hit retailers and restaurants charging noncompliance with a federal law that requires businesses to print only a truncated (partial) credit-card number on receipts.

The days of scurrying off to make a bank deposit (or sending an employee to do it) may be numbered.

In response to falling profits and outrage at their sky-high compensation, a few chief executives have made it known that they’re docking their own pay.

Markdowns are an often-unavoidable part of any business’s product sales and marketing strategy. After all, if you don’t mark down merchandise that’s not selling, you’re tying up cash that could otherwise be spent on salable goods.

If your company dishes out discretionary bonuses during the year, it may be paying out more overtime than necessary.