Preparing your business for a sale
Selling your business is a big move for any owner. You’ve built this company up, scaled it and put years of hard work into making the...
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Oct 23, 20232 min read
Your business guide to cloud accounting
Cloud accounting is the simple, online way to manage your business finances. Instead of working from a local accounting application...
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Oct 23, 20233 min read
What to look out for when buying a business
Buying an established business is a great way to enter into the business world, or to expand your existing business empire. But...
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Oct 13, 20233 min read
What home-office expenses are deductible for your business?
With greater use of home-working now the norm for many UK businesses, it’s important to think about the deductible expenses that you may...
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Oct 11, 20232 min read
Can business automation streamline your business?
How can business automation streamline your business? Business automation uses technology to streamline and simplify all the repetitive...
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Oct 9, 20234 min read
10 hot questions to ask yourself as a business owner
Running a busy and successful business means you often don’t have the time to step back and work ON the business. This can be a challenge...
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Oct 6, 20232 min read
How much should you pay yourself?
Being the boss means you get to make all the big decisions about your business – including how much to pay yourself in wages, salary or...
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Oct 4, 20232 min read
Your Q4 2023 deadlines for the diary
Staying on the ball with the latest accounting, tax and compliance deadlines helps you stay organised with your returns. Here are the...
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Oct 2, 20232 min read
Are you ready for an enterprise resource planning solution?
As your business scales, the complexity of your systems, data and management information will grow at a similar pace. And if you're using...
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Sep 28, 20232 min read
How can small businesses compete with the big chains?
In tough economic times, small businesses can struggle. Big multinational chains often have the scale to undercut local competitors and...
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Sep 25, 20233 min read
What business taxes will your company need to pay?
As the founder of a new company, there’s a long list of compliance tasks to get your head around – and one of the key tasks will be...
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Sep 22, 20231 min read
Flat Rate vs Hourly for Trade Professionals?
Attention all trade professionals! Do you have your skills & services down pat, but pricing is giving you a headache? Hourly rates might...
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Sep 20, 20232 min read
5 ways to overcome economic uncertainty
Economic uncertainty is an ongoing worry for any business owner. You can control your own financial management, but you don’t have any...
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Sep 18, 20232 min read
Plain English guide to depreciation
Getting to grips with the basics of accounting, financial management and business strategy can be a challenge. To make things easier,...
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Sep 13, 20233 min read
What’s an Employee Ownership Trust?
As a business owner, you probably want to leave a lasting legacy behind when you finally get to the end of the journey and decide to exit...
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Sep 11, 20232 min read
What makes you a good entrepreneur?
Do you dream about starting our own business? And, can anyone become an entrepreneur? When you look at the research, there are certain...
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Sep 11, 20233 min read
Getting in control of your inventory – to unlock efficiency and cashflow
As a manufacturing or product-based business, efficient stock management is a big part of running a smooth operation. But the way we...
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Sep 5, 20232 min read
Plain English guide to cashflow
Why is cashflow so central to good financial management? Here's our plain english guide. What is cashflow? Cashflow refers to the...
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Sep 4, 20231 min read
5 tips for running good performance reviews
When times get tough, it can be easy to let some of your people processes fall away as you concentrate on the basics of the business....
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Aug 30, 20233 min read
Plain English guide to corporation tax
Getting to grips with the basics of accounting, financial management and business strategy can be a challenge. To make things easier,...
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