Tag: Business Services

S&S Sells, Keeps Growing Business

Scot Hundley and Scott Eccleston have sold their interest in S&S Creative Landscapes LLC of Bentonville.

Tax Work Bolts for Bombay (John Ervin Commentary)

Outsourcing, the trend of sending jobs overseas, which has primarily affected high-paying manufacturing and information technology jobs, is now starting to sweep through the accounting profession.

Cost Segs Defer Taxes, Save Clients Big Money

Scott Gammill will do anything to save a property owner money. But to do so, he has to count electrical outlets, linear feet of Ethernet cable ? anything the Internal Revenue Service might consider personal property ? and document its age and cost.

Alternative Minimum Tax Sneaks Up On Mid-Incomers

What was meant to keep high-income taxpayers from slipping through loopholes is beginning to hit more and more mid-income level folks.

Siloam Hospital Rebounds Its Books

After Penny McClain arrived at Siloam Springs Memorial Hospital in May 2002, she returned to her then home in Gulf Shores, Ala., only once, to change clothes.

Williams Will Retool For Teaching Position

After serving as dean of the University of Arkansas? Walton College of Business for the past 12 years, Doyle Zane Williams said he will take a year to ?retool? before returning to the classroom to teach accounting in the fall of 2006.

For Xmas, Buba?s Got a Brand New Bag

Shopping for the person who has everything? Here are a few unique, high-end items available in Northwest Arkansas for last-minute Christmas gifts.

Ink & Toner Exchange Inc. Opens in Rogers

A new business has opened in Rogers offering professional remanufacturing of ink and toner cartridges for all sorts of printers.

Kizer Leaves U of A, Starts Seminars

Tim Kizer left the University of Arkansas on Dec. 2 to head Doing Business in Bentonville, a series of seminars aimed at vendors to Wal-Mart Stores Inc.

Beall Barclay No. 1 on Accounting Firms List

Beall Barclay & Co. of Fort Smith is the region’s largest accounting firm.

Good People, Training Help Smaller Companies Compete

Eric Duca & Associates Inc., an ERA real estate agency with offices in Springdale and Rogers, is on track to do $55 million in sales this year with just 17 or fewer agents working throughout the year.

Study to Look at Northwest Railroad

Matthew Griffith, a designer at the University of Arkansas? School of Architecture, said he plans to study the feasibility of a light-rail system that would connect Fayetteville to the headquarters of Wal-Mart Stores Inc.

Title Co. Sees Clearly

Clear Title LLC has been shacking up in the Mill District building off South School Avenue in Fayetteville.

United Bank Gets New CFO

Greg Allen is the new executive vice president and chief financial officer of Springdale?s United Bank.

Guard Changes At A.G. Edwards

In February, Jim ?Doc? Holladay will retire from A.G. Edwards & Sons Inc. in Fayetteville. He has been a broker there since 1964, the year he graduated from Arkansas Polytechnic College and the year A.G. Edwards opened the Fayetteville office.

Beall Barclay Provides Patience, ?Wealth Care?

Since July 2002, Beall Barclay Wealth Management LLC has grown a base of more than 750 clients split between about 400 at its Fort Smith office and the remainder in Rogers.

Act Now on Deductions (James P. Weller Commentary)

James P. Weller, the manager of Wealth Transfer Planning at Bank of Arkansas in Tulsa, offers timely tax tips for business owners.

Smith Barney Planning Rogers Digs, More Pros

Smith Barney, a financial services firm owned by Citigroup Global Markets Inc., plans to open a 5,500-SF office in Rogers? Pinnacle Hills area in the first quarter of 2005 and move most of its Fayetteville staff to that location.

Stephens Inc. Runs with Bulls

The Fayetteville office of Stephens Inc. handles about 7.5 percent of the Little Rock firm?s $10 billion in assets under management.

Rural Chamber Group Revs Up Members

Don Barnett, co-owner of Good Faith Realty in Pea Ridge, is chairman of the newly formed Regional Chamber of Commerce Serving Northwest Arkansas and Southwest Missouri. The group represents six towns along a 30-mile stretch from Avoca to Seligman, Mo.

Fort Smith Metro News Briefs: Charter school progress, and ‘Serious Fiber’ in downtown Fort Smith

Harps, NationsBenefits partner to expand access to benefits card

Walmart leaders note company history, push AI adoption

ArcBest raises its guidance for the second quarter