If there are inconsistencies between a small business program application and tax returns, it can cause hiccups at the SBA. The takeaway A concern should never select a primary code without at least checking the size standard associated with it. A good code is one that is broad, but ...
One 2023 study found that businesses saw a 19% average increase in these fraudulent chargebacks – with more than half of these respondents saying that friendly fraud is now a significant or moderate concern for their business.1 Unlike third-party fraud, where a shopper uses another person’s ...
A. D. Freiberg's "Market Research For Small Business," was omitted because its subject matter does not concern personnel problems. Dael Wolfle's paper, "Protecting Small Business from Psychoquacks," has been omitted at the author's request.—Ed....
A business continuity plan (BCP) audit can be performed internally or with the assistance of a third-party audit firm. Audit objectivity is critical to reviewing and updating the plan, so an outside firm might seem preferable, but an internal audit team offers a deeper familiarity with the bu...
Over time, they offer a return on investment, but usually not within the first year. If cost is a concern, consider using self-service BI tools, which do not require IT support for onboarding or minor adjustments. Complexity Depending on your knowledge of business tools, you might have to...
There is alsosemi-supervised learning, which combines aspects of supervised and unsupervised approaches. This technique uses a small amount of labeled data and a larger amount of unlabeled data, thereby improving learning accuracy while reducing the need for labeled data, which can be time and labor...
For businesses large and small, the seemingly magical promise of generative AI is that it can bring the benefits of technology automation to knowledge work. Or, as a McKinsey report put it, “activities involving decision making and collaboration, which previously had the lowest potential for autom...
Over the next few years, the major players in quantum computing—as well as a small cohort of start-ups—will work to steadily increase the number of qubits that their computers can handle and improve how the technology functions. Progress in quantum computing, however, is expected to remain ...
Being a good parent is,of course,what every parent would like to be.But defining what it means to be a good parent is undoubtedly very __1__,particularly since children respond differently to the same style of parenting.A calm,rule-following child might respond better to a different sort ...
For small businesses, the biggest change in the new year will be the arrival of a presumably more business-friendly administration in Washington.