• Pritika Chakraverty
• Aniruddha Koppar
• Luke Mosely

Congratulations to each of you!

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The  (ASBTDC), based at the 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock School of Business, is continuing a program specifically designed to help student entrepreneurs at 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock.

ASBTDC introduced the Build Your Own Business (BYOB) program for 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock students who want to become entrepreneurs, start a side business or startup company, or have research with commercial potential.

ASBTDC is offering a free three-part webinar series this semester as well as free business consulting for students with entrepreneurial goals.

The spring 2022 webinars include:

• 聽Getting Ready to BYOB聽鈥� Feb. 25 鈥� Discussing what it means to be an entrepreneur, and what it means to be ready to Build Your Own Business.
• How to BYOB聽鈥� March 16 鈥� Laying out the process of starting your own business.
• BYOB Startup Story: Flyway Brewing聽鈥� April 22 鈥� Sharing how local brewing company Flyway Brewing started. Learn about the humble beginnings of the iconic beer and how owner Matt Foster built his own business.

The virtual Zoom sessions will be from 2-3 p.m. and will count towards a career development Career Catalyst badge for School of Business majors.

On the first and third Fridays of each month, ASBTDC business consultants will provide virtual office hours exclusively for 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock students from 1-4 p.m.

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A University of Arkansas at Little Rock student has placed second in a national legal writing competition for her paper that explores the increasing complications of taxing professional athletes during the pandemic.

Aleigha Smith, a senior accounting major and Donaghey Scholar from Cabot, received the second place award in legal writing from the Academy of Legal Studies in Business. Dr. Casey Carder Rockwell, assistant professor of marketing and advertising, mentored Smith.

鈥淭here exists a myriad of complications in the form of taxes beyond the standard federal and state,鈥� Smith said. 鈥淭hese taxes, called jock taxes, have been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic as the rules and regulations on how the income is taxed have evolved.鈥�

In the United States, the jock tax is an income tax levied against visitors to a city or state who earn money in that jurisdiction. Professional athletes are the targets of the jock tax, which requires them to pay income taxes outside of the states they live in for the time they work in other cities and states. The jock tax can force some professional athletes to file income taxes in as many as 15-20 states per year.

The COVID-19 pandemic brought a great upheaval to professional sports. When professional sports teams began to cancel events and stay home, states and cities lost the ability to earn income by taxing visiting players. In her paper, 鈥淲hat鈥檚 Up Jock?: Redefining Duty Days for Professional Athletes in the Wake of COVID-19,鈥� Smith argued that the jock tax is even more cumbersome to professional athletes during the pandemic and should be simplified.

鈥淭he jock tax helps pay for stadiums where professional athletes play, security, and extra police work during professional events,鈥� Smith said. 鈥淭he job of a professional athlete is much more than just playing games. It鈥檚 practices, spring training, workouts, and other publicity appearances. With the use of virtual workplaces, you have the potential for athletes to be double taxed on workdays, especially when athletes can zoom in to more than one meeting in multiple states on the same day.鈥�

Jock taxes are calculated by using the number of duty days that a person has income-related work in another state. The use of remote work during COVID-19 has reduced the number of duty days that athletes have in states. Some states and cities have added new restrictions to increase the number of duty days to ensure revenue is not lost when professional athletes work remotely.

With players using technology to attend practices and workouts remotely, the athlete can be in a different state than the rest of the team. This causes confusion in which state is entitled to count that day as a duty day and may result in double taxation of athletes by more than one state. Such confusion calls for a simplification to the increasing complexity of the issue related to digital duty days.

Smith suggested that individual states and cities should simplify their jock taxes to make it easier for professional athletes to file their taxes. Lawmakers could create a standard definition of a duty day that is applicable to all states and cities who require athletes to pay a jock tax. This definition would include both physical and digital duty days and eliminates the double taxation that occurs if an athlete, for example, has both a team meeting in person and a virtual workout with a team trainer in another state on the same day.

鈥淲ith the increasing complexity, simplifying the process to calculate jock tax liability would reduce the amount of complications and ensure the commerce provided by professional teams continues,鈥� Smith said.

A member of the 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock Accounting Society and Beta Alpha Psi, Smith said she became interested in researching the impact of jock taxes on professional athletes by combining her accounting studies with her love of professional sports.

鈥淚 have had an amazing opportunity to conduct my research, and through gathering information and examining tax code, I have a better understanding not only of the codes as well as problems faced by professional athletes, but also a myriad of other related topics,鈥� Smith said. 鈥淭his research started as an examination of tax codes as it related to the Super Bowl LIV, pre-COVID-19, and shifted given the unique situation created by the pandemic. I want to thank my research advisor, Dr. Casey Rockwell, for allowing me to explore those avenues and help me narrow down on what I truly wanted to explore.鈥�

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On February 5, 2022, Dr. John Hall was presented the 2021 institutional award for the Sun Belt Conference 2021 Faculty of the Year. Dr. Hall is an Associate Professor of Finance at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock Reynolds School of Business.

The Sun Belt Conference Faculty of the Year Award was established to recognize and promote the importance of exemplary faculty members in the lives of student-athletes at each member institution. Recipients of this award must have a record of outstanding teaching effectiveness both within and outside the classroom, the ability to inspire and sustain the academic and athletic development of student-athletes, and have a prominent role in the advising/mentoring of undergraduate or graduate student-athletes outside of the classroom.

For these accomplishments, as well as for his length of service, Dr. Hall was nominated for the Faculty of the Year Award by the 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock student-athletes.

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The 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock School of Business and the Arkansas Small Business and Technology Development Center (ASBTDC), based at 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock, have both been recognized in .

The 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock School of Business was named the Best Business School in Arkansas.

鈥淥ur School of Business, with its AACSB international-accredited status, ranks in the top five percent of business schools worldwide,鈥� said Dr. Robert Mitchell, director of the School of Business. 鈥淭his year, our undergraduate program was recognized as one of the top-tiered business schools in the U.S. by U.S. News and World Report鈥檚 Best Colleges Edition.鈥�

糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock School of Business students experience teaching, research, and service opportunities that serve as a foundation for their future business careers.

鈥淥ur business programs differentiate themselves by incorporating high-tech components across the curriculum as well as by offering high-flex course offerings, giving students the opportunity to attend class on campus, via Zoom, or fully online,鈥� Mitchell said. 鈥淥ur undergraduate and graduate programs are designed to provide career acceleration in today鈥檚 competitive job market.鈥�

Meanwhile, ASBTDC was named the Best Business Consulting Firm in Arkansas.

鈥淏eing named the Best Business Consulting Firm in Arkansas is truly an honor for ASBTDC,鈥� State Director Laura Fine said. 鈥淚 am very pleased that our team is being recognized for its outstanding work to help small businesses start, grow, and succeed. Building on four decades of experience consulting with Arkansas鈥� entrepreneurs and small businesses, we launched a strategic initiative two years ago to expand our consulting capacity.鈥�

Since then, ASBTDC has added four new regional offices to make consulting services more accessible to both rural and urban markets. They have also engaged partners with a wide range of expertise, experience, and industry knowledge to collaborate with ASBTDC鈥檚 full-time consultants.

鈥淭oday, we have a team of more than 75 people focused on making ASBTDC the first and best resource for small business assistance in the state,鈥� Fine said. 鈥淲e have a passion for client success, and our goal is to support Arkansas entrepreneurs with a suite of services to help position their businesses for growth.鈥�

The winners of the awards were selected by a panel of thousands of employees, employers, and entrepreneurs in Arkansas.

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On December 20, 2021, the winners of the Arkansas Business Reader’s Choice Best of Biz 2021 were announced by Arkansas Business. The University of Arkansas at Little Rock’s Reynolds School of Business was named the Best Business School in Arkansas 2021. Additionally, the Arkansas Small Business and Technology Development Center (ASBTDC) was named the Best Business Consulting Firm in Arkansas 2021.

The winners of the Best of Biz 2021 awards were selected by a panel of thousands of employees, employers, and entrepreneurs in Arkansas. In the words of Arkansas Business: “The winners and finalists have proven able to best meet the unique needs of businesses and business leaders in the state.”

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