A state representative from East Stroudsburg, Rosemary M. Brown, has introduced House Bill 858, which would encourage savings accounts with some of the excitement of a lottery or raffle.

Managers at Conrad Siegel looked at personal-finance statistics from a variety of sources and figured there must be a better way to help clients and their employees plan for a secure future. So the Harrisburg-based employee-benefit and investment-advisory firm set about to create online planning tools that would take at least some of the mystery, as well as the stress, out of financial planning.

Mike Breon spent part of his 20-year accounting career working to investigate questions from workers – their concerns and their tips about fraud – who had reached out through a company hotline.

Steven Buterbaugh, 54, is president and CEO of York-based McConkey Insurance and Benefits, which he joined in 1991.

For the first time in 20 years tuition will stay the same for Pennsylvania’s 14 state-run universities.

Honeycomb Credit, a Pittsburgh-based technology firm, has built a crowd-funding program that it is hoping to bring to small businesses across Pennsylvania.

The Board of Governors for the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education will be meeting over two days this week to decide on a number of issues, including setting tuition rates for the 2019-2020 school year.

When people think of forensic accounting, they often think of fraud investigations. The skill set, however, covers a much broader field, including business valuation.

Gettysburg-based ACNB Bank will have a second subsidiary bank in Maryland if a planned acquisition is completed with Frederick, Maryland-based Frederick County Bancorp Inc.

Digital and person-to-person payment services such as PayPal offer the convenience of clicking a few buttons – instead of cutting physical checks or going through the hassle of a wire transfer - but businesses and individuals alike should beware of the potential for fraud in these kinds of transactions.

After securing land development approval, Members 1st Federal Credit Union hopes to begin construction on a new headquarters in Hampden Township in early 2020.

Forensic accountants have seen a recent increase in the number of employee-fraud allegations. Financial crimes at work are becoming more prevalent, and they affect all businesses, small and large.

Orrstown Financial Services Inc. has hired a new CFO to replace an executive who resigned in March. Thomas R. Brugger will assume the company's lead finance role as of July 15.

Riverview Financial Corp. is closing two branches in western Pennsylvania and is opening two in the eastern half of the state, according to a regulatory filing by the company.

After a legal fight with Pennsylvania’s top lawyer, UPMC has reached a 10-year deal with Highmark Health, ending a battle over health care access in western Pennsylvania.