Maire Loughran is a certified public accountant with fifteen years experience assisting new business owners and owns an arts and crafts business. She has lectured extensively on the subject of how to start a new business covering such topics as selection of business entity, business licenses and sales tax collection, bookkeeping and how to write a business plan. In addition to being the Arts and Crafts Business Guide at About.com, she is a university professor teaching graduate and undergraduate accounting, auditing and taxation classes.
