Growing businesses need people. You only have 1 pair of hands, and unless you want to spend all of your time bogged down in admin and firefighting problems, you will need people (whether employees or subcontractors) to do all of the things that you either do not have time to do or [...]
Some businesses find it easy to find customers they are tripping over the work and can’t cope with the amount they have, but many find it difficult, and the biggest worry is where is the next customer coming from. Recycling bins up and down the country are full of ‘junk mail’ [...]
As I look back over 2021 and consider what a tough year it’s been, I start to wonder what 2022 will bring. I spent some time looking through our blog library to see what we thought was worthy of writing about in 2021. In January 2021, we laid down the gauntlet [...]
Fairy Tale of New York is playing on the radio, tinsel has appeared on the monitors and our logo has changed. Yes, you guessed it, it’s Christmas time! So, it’s time to wheel out our annual advice for the season of entertaining and celebrating, on what you can and can’t claim [...]
A Furnished Holiday Let (FHL) is a tenancy that only entitles the tenant to occupy a fully furnished, self-catering property for a limited period. This is distinctive from a normal let, which is not normally furnished and has a longer-term tenancy basis. Owning and renting property on a buy-to-let basis is [...]
One of the smaller changes in the Autumn Budget was that you now have 60 Days, instead of the previous 30 days, to report and pay the CGT on capital Gains on residential property disposals. Clearly 30 days was proving too short a time frame for tax payers to meet. If you are [...]
Businesses are started for a multitude of reasons by people with a plethora of motivations. For most, running a business is a lifelong learning curve full of interesting and exciting challenges. Growing that business is all about eliminating bottle necks and problems that get in the way of that growth and [...]
Each quarter we attend an update run by Xero where they share the latest news and features. Here is what they ran through in their November update: Contacts New user experience Xero have refreshed the ‘list view’ page in contacts to make it easier to create and manage customer and supplier [...]
I would like to say a huge Thank You to Paul Andrews and Jules Serkin, for inviting me to talk about Accsys Accountants and other business matters on the Business Bunker Radio Show on Channel Radio yesterday. It was a great experience to see behind the scenes and [...]
It’s still true to say that the Jury is still out on cryptocurrencies. Finance and Business gurus from Warren Buffet to Elon Musk have commented both negatively and positively on them, and the second-largest economy in the World, China, has made transactions in them illegal. But all this is window dressing [...]
