by admin | Apr 17, 2020 | Welcome
There’s been lots of talk about what’s available for business owners over the past week – YES, it’s only been a week since the govt launched their relief packages to help the economy – seems like a lifetime ago. While our accountants and financiers get their heads...
by admin | Apr 6, 2020 | Welcome
While businesses are left reeling in the wake of the Coronavirus pandemic life has become pretty scary and uncertain for many of us. I know, I am a small business just like you, navigating new landscapes. With so many moving parts, and the goalposts changing daily,...
by admin | Mar 16, 2020 | Welcome
There are very few of us who can say that we’ve been self-employed for our entire careers. Somewhere back in time there was a (drumroll)…Boss. Now not all of our previous Bosses were bad – but I’m sure we can all remember their deadlines, the raised voices, the...
by admin | Mar 9, 2020 | Welcome
A ‘Buy-to-let’ mortgage is specific to individuals (or companies) who are buying a property with the purpose of renting it out for a profit. We have all seen numerous television shows, normally in the mid-morning, where developers pick up properties for a song, ‘flip’...
by admin | Mar 2, 2020 | Welcome
We have touched on tax finance before in this blog, notably in December where we outlined some of the benefits of this service and what one needed to qualify for it. With the January deadline just past and April’s looming it is a good time to revisit this subject and...
by admin | Feb 17, 2020 | Welcome
– How You Can Make Sure they Don’t Affect Your Cash Flow Late payments are the scourge of small businesses and SME’s. If you are a business owner yourself take a look now at your accounting software and see how much is owed to you today? Now if all of that money...
by admin | Feb 4, 2020 | Welcome
Stock finance releases cash against your inventory that would otherwise be tied up as raw materials, work in progress or finished goods. According to Trade Finance Global Stock finance is a mechanism which releases working capital from stock such as finished goods or...
by admin | Jan 6, 2020 | Welcome
Not all of us who run SMEs are financial wizards or can afford to employ a finance department. We all start off with great intentions. It’s commonplace to have separate business bank accounts with payments ‘squirrelled’ away for savings, tax or VAT. But sometimes...
by admin | Dec 9, 2019 | Welcome
At the beginning of this year (2019) there were 5.82 million small businesses in the UK. That’s an almost incredible figure, meaning that there is a small business (0-49 employees) for every 12 or 13 people in the UK, including pensioners and children. It’s also 99.3%...
by admin | Nov 11, 2019 | Welcome
A brief search on Google will reveal a vast plethora of ads and advice for start up loans for new businesses and concerns that have been trading for less than 2 years. There are so many in fact that it seems a) remarkable that the take up on these funding sources is...
