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Grow Your Business with Financial Forecasting

Use Accurate Financial Forecasting to Grow Your Business For many businesses, forecasting is just a stretch too far on your limited resources. But if you are struggling to get your business to the next level, and if your finances are just too patchy to ever give you the confidence to make that jump then, ironically, forecasting is the very...

Xero with Zero Effort – Raise an Invoice

Invoicing with Xero Invoicing with Xero, could change your life! Do you remember when raising invoices were an enormous pain? When you had to copy across the amount and details from one software to another. Check to make sure the currency was in the correct format for that client, make sure you had given it the right unique invoice num...

Refresh Your Business Goals for the New Financial Year

SMART Business Goals for the New Financial Year The beginning of a new financial year is the SMART time to review your business goals and sharpen your focus on achieving them. But you’re really busy, aren’t you? You don’t have time to spend noodling with business plans and goals. Well, that’s an understandable position to take...

Making Tax Digital – What’s It All About?

Making Tax Digital – What’s it all about? The government’s Making Tax Digital initiative will change filing tax returns for businesses small and large. But what exactly is it? What is Making Tax Digital? Most of us have heard the phrase Making Tax Digital by now, but not everyone is up to speed on what it means. Making Tax Digital is...

4 Must Read Books For World Book Day

World Book Day Is Here! 1st of March is World Book Day and children across the country are struggling to school in the snow dressed as Harry Potter, Isadora Moon, Thing 1, Thing 2 and Peter Rabbit, to name just a few. It's a wonderful occasion that reminds us all how powerful books are in our cultural life and imagination. But it got us...

GDPR Preparation Stage 3

GDPR Preparation for SMEs Stage 3 – Right to be Forgotten, Breaches and Repeat. If you have been following the last 2 stages of our series on GDPR Preparation, you will be on the road to putting into place a reasonably robust start at GDPR compliance. You’ve identified the data, you’ve located it, you’ve categorised it...

GDPR Preparation Stage 2

GDPR Preparation – Protection, Legal Basis and Consent – Stage 2 In Stage 1 of GDPR Preparation we covered, Awareness, Assessing Data and Creating a Data Register. By this stage, you will have a solid understanding of what kind of data your company handles, how much you store and how it is stored. You have also started ...

GDPR Preparation for SMEs in 3 Stages

Stage 1 - Awareness, Data Identification and Creating a Register Getting ready for GDPR doesn't have to be as confusing as it appears to be. Read our 3 part blog designed to walk you through the stages, so you don't go crazy! 1 Awareness Make sure that the relevant people in your business are aware of GDPR and the reper...

7 Tips to Get Your Invoices Paid

Tips for Getting Your Invoices Paid Cashflow is vital for any SME, so one of the biggest problems facing small businesses is late payment of invoices. In Britain we are especially slow at paying our bills, in 2014 around 60% of small business owners were experiencing late payment issues – with the average firm owed over £38,186. This is a big...

GDPR – 8 Points You Need to Know

GDPR is on it's way But do you know what it is? The General Data Protection Regulation is designed to protect all EU citizens from privacy and data breaches. It comes into effect from May 2018, but the time to start preparing is NOW. Checkout our handy infographic with some of the main points you need to know abo...

Marginal Gains – How 1% Can Make the Difference

Marginal Gains In 2012, British Cycling wiped for floor in the London Olympics. Those were the salad days before the recent doping controversies kicked in, and according to their coach at the time, Dave Brailsford, they owed it all to marginal gains. British Cycling’s approach to Marginal Gains was to apply the concept of searchin...

Auto-Enrolment Made Easy – What are your duties?

Well, we all know why auto-enrolment was introduced. Not enough of us were saving into a pension plan and those that were, weren’t saving anything like enough to fund their retirement. So, it’s not surprising that in 2012 the government decided to change pension rules, and introduce auto-enrolment. Auto-enrolment makes it com...

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