Earlier this year, Jeri Self-Merritt, most recently a partner with the Spokane offices of Eide Bailly LLP, retired from her decades-long career in public accounting. Self-Merritt, 58, entered the public accounting industry in 1987. Since then, she has

For many, the days of collecting newspaper clippings are no more, but Dan Beach is intent on keeping memories alive for high school athletes and their families. Beach is the founder and CEO of SBLive Sports, a national high school sports media company

Determining how to allocate a business's profits can be a challenging task. Each dollar should be assigned to the right area to ensure financial stability and growth. I've developed the four-bucket method to conceptualize how business owners should

Since its opening in 2006, Spokane-based RiverBank Holding Co., the parent company of RiverBank, has maintained an unusual approach to community banking: The bank operates out of just one office, located in a four-story building at 202 E. Spokane Falls

Investors are as challenged as they've been in a while, with equity markets posting solid returns to start the year and story stocks-today's version being anything 'AI,” such as Nvidia-soaring to new highs, while recessionary concerns and

STCU, the Liberty Lake-based credit union with branches in Washington and Idaho, has launched STCU Business, a sister brand that aims to expand business banking services. STCU Business is led by three veterans of the financial services industry who

After the failures of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank in early March, a representative of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. sought out Susan Horton and asked her to share thoughts and advice for industry reform.

Inland Northwest economists are predicting a recession will set in toward the end of this year-later than had been previously anticipated-yet there isn't consensus regarding projections for the length or depth of a long-anticipated economic

Hospitals across the state of Washington suffered a total of $2.1 billion in operating losses in 2022, data compiled by the Washington state Hospital Association shows. The two largest health care organizations that operate in the Inland Northwest