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SBA hosts ‘Salute to Small Business’

Financial Services 05/01/2023

PROVIDENCE – The U.S. Small Business Administration will host its annual “Salute to Small Business” luncheon on Wednesday, honoring the 2023 National Small Business...

Five Questions With: Jack Renza

Financial Services 04/17/2023

Jack Renza has taught accounting to thousands of the Community College of Rhode Island students since 1975. Many of those students have gone on...

R.I. CPAs to honor 4 local accounting ‘legends’

Financial Services 04/06/2023

CRANSTON – Four high-profile people in the local accounting sector will be honored on April 20 as part of the Rhode Island Society of...

Five Questions With: Melissa D. Travis

Financial Services 03/16/2023

Melissa D. Travis has been CEO and president of the Rhode Island Society of Certified Public Accountants since 2019. The society is one of...

Oliveira elected leader of KLR accounting firm

Financial Services 12/13/2022

PROVIDENCE – Rhode Island’s largest accounting firm, Kahn, Litwin, Renza & Co. Ltd., on Tuesday elected Paul Oliveira as its CEO effective January 2023. Oliveira succeeds...

Business groups seek steeper cut in tax penalty interest rate

Economy 01/31/2022

PROVIDENCE – Gov. Daniel J. McKee has proposed cutting the interest rate on delinquent taxes owed to the state of Rhode Island from 18%...

NEW NAME, SAME FACES: Steven Monacelli, right, co-founder of Rhode Island accounting firm Restivo Monacelli, talks with staff member Ann McQueeney. Monacelli says the firm’s acquistion by WithumSmith + Brown PC allows the agency to provide more services. Monacelli is now a partner at Withum. / PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

Local accounting firms disappearing in ‘upward mergers’

Financial Services 12/10/2021

Cranston accountant David E. Fontes has gone through four sets of business cards, email addresses and company logos in the last 17 years. But he’s...

READY FOR LAUNCH: Elizabeth M. Tanner, left, director of the R.I. Department of Business Regulation, and Melissa Travis, CEO and president of the Rhode Island Society of Certified Public Accountants, are preparing for a pilot program in which blockchain technology will be used for the credentials of the state’s CPAs. / PBN PHOTO/CASSIUS SHUMAN

CPAs playing key part in R.I. blockchain pilot program

Financial Services 11/12/2021

Twenty-five Rhode Island accountants are preparing to be guinea pigs for a digital ID program using blockchain technology that, if successful, could transform the...

ALWAYS IMPROVING: Bradford Soap Works Inc. machine operator Paula Panizza holds a bar of soap while CEO and President Stuart Benton looks on. Benton says he tries to get everyone to focus on incremental improvement every day. / PBN PHOTO/RUPERT WHITELEY

Bradford Soap CEO aims to clean more than hands on path...

Manufacturing 03/31/2021

PBN Manufacturing Awards 2021 Strategic Leadership: Stuart Benton, CEO and President, Bradford Soap Works Inc. A bar of soap has taken on a whole new importance...