Business Finance

A $100,000 H-1B fee, wage-based visa selection, and a shrinking foreign-born workforce are creating a labour squeeze that hits SMBs hardest. If you run a small business that depends on skilled workers, whether in accounting, engineering, healthcare, IT, or construction, the labour market just got harder and more expensive. A set of immigration policy changes […]

Three-quarters of the profession is nearing retirement. The pipeline to replace them is broken. For SMBs that cannot compete on salary, outsourced finance is becoming the default. The accounting profession in the United States is contracting at a pace that has moved from concerning to structural. More than 300,000 accountants and auditors have left the […]

Economists estimate U.S. recession probability between 10% and 40% as energy costs stack on top of a year of trade policy volatility. The Iran conflict, now in its fifth week, is compounding existing tariff pressures on U.S. small businesses through surging oil prices, disrupted shipping lanes, and rising input costs, adding a second simultaneous cost […]

The decision invalidated $160 billion in collected tariffs and erased $1.4 trillion in projected revenue. Replacement tariffs took effect four days later. On February 20, the Supreme Court ruled 6–3 that the International Emergency Economic Powers Act does not authorize the president to impose tariffs, striking down the broadest executive trade action since the Smoot-Hawley […]

A shrinking talent pipeline, rising costs, and a $4.7 billion market are reshaping how companies between $1M and $50M access financial leadership. Demand for fractional and interim CFO roles has surged 310% compared to 2020, with CFO positions now making up 51% of all C-suite placement requests, according to industry hiring data. The numbers mark […]