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 [...]
There was a budget today apparently – but you may not have noticed, due to the lack of significant changes that will impact you, our clients, directly. Much of the announcements centred around additional funding being allocated to public services which, I suppose, made a change from the theme of more recent announcements, with furlough, [...]
Running your own business is a risk, stepping away from a regular pay cheque for the uncertain profits of a business, is a risk. But you can’t stop there, because if you want to grow your business you are going to have to leave your comfort zone time and time again. [...]
Businesses are started for many reasons and the main reason, underneath all the other ones, is to make a profit. No one sets out to make a loss and an occasional monthly loss is not a problem, but this blog explores consistent losses. Why do some businesses make consistent losses? To [...]
On my way to the office this morning, I passed 3 petrol stations all with queues of traffic and I couldn’t help thinking back to the last fuel crisis – I think it was a tanker driver strike – and the stress of trying to run a business when you don’t [...]
It’s become quite the business buzzword, “VA”. But what exactly is a Virtual Assistant? In simple terms, they are multi-skilled, solution finding administrators who have ninja-like skills when it comes to multi-tasking. They are flexible, they are skilled, they are efficient, and they are virtual. So not only can they serve [...]
Covid-19, and the Government’s response, has posed the most severe peacetime challenge to the UK economy in living memory. But real and sustained growth is attainable for the prepared business. Whilst the latest Office for National Statistics data indicates that the UK economy is 4.4% smaller, in GDP terms, than it [...]
I am sure it didn’t escape your attention that Boris Johnson was on TV this week announcing a new tax / increase in national insurance and dividends. The announced increase is 1.25% on top of the current National Insurance already deducted from employees and the self-employed. Possibly the most interesting (or [...]
