I have serious mixed feelings about the upcoming referendum. I have listened to all the arguments, read the booklet that No. 10 kindly sent me and perused the various websites and while I am leaning one way, I am for the most part undecided. I can't help have an instant distrust of the fear mongering [...]
A recent story in the Kent Messenger caught my eye. It was the tale of Tim Hale, the boss of a Maidstone based business, who returned from holiday to find his company's finance department had sent £20,000 to a scammer! It turns out, whilst he was away, his finance department received an email, supposedly from [...]
Running a loss making business is easy, anyone can do it. Running a profitable business is much harder. In order to make sure your business is profitable, you need to take care of several key areas. Ensuring each of these areas are profitable will help the business to be profitable. CUSTOMERS & JOBS Ensuring that [...]
You know how the saying goes... You can't please all of the people all of the time... Sometimes, even with all the best intentions in the world, you are going to let someone down and make a mistake. Most of the time, people are understanding; we are all human after all. Often it’s not the [...]
One of things I find most annoying, is when I take on a new client and they tell me that their accountant has recommended that they use an excel sheet for their bookkeeping. Don’t get me wrong I love spreadsheets. If I didn’t, they would probably throw me out of the institute of chartered accountants. [...]
The most consistently ignored bit of advice I have given, over the last fifteen years, is to people about to go into business together and that is to get a partnership/shareholder agreement in place before they commit to a new venture. I can understand why they ignore it firstly, there is a cost involved and [...]
Do You Need A High Quality Business Video? Superreel Productions can help you! This company strive to create the highest quality business videos available in Kent and the South East. They provide professional corporate videos that do not look like corporate videos. Hence the ‘business’ video look. Why do they prefer this method? Because it’s easy to make [...]
Whatever the industry your business operates in, you will probably suffer from a limiting factor of some description. Something that will limit your business' growth potential. At some stage, without careful management, you will reach the point where your growth is held back. The first thing you need to do when trying to break through these [...]
If you trade through a limited company and take your income as a mixture of PAYE salary and dividends, then you will probably be worse off after April 2016. This is because of the impending changes to the way dividends are going to be taxed. This change affects dividends you receive after April 2016 and [...]
If Day 1 of Xerocon was about small business, then day 2 was definitely focused on Partners. It was clear to me that Xero recognise that Partners are the face of their product and by empowering them with product knowledge, Xero will go from strength to strength. Xero’s mission is to help small businesses and [...]
