HSBC has launched a brand new Business Growth Grant competition. If your business has a turnover of between £100,000 and £2m and you are looking to grow and expand then this could be for you. You need to demonstrate how the grant will help you boost your business, either here in the UK or overseas. [...]
With all the recent gloomy predictions for the UK’s economy, George Osborne today outlined a range of new measures intended to drive growth and support small and medium-sized businesses. Key points included in the Chancellor’s Statement were: A new National Loan Guarantee Scheme worth £20 billion will see the Government underwriting loans to small enterprises, [...]
Being able to work out your cash flow is a key task that all business owners should be able to do. The up and down nature of revenue within many small businesses necessitates the planning of cash flow. Seasonal factors and one off large orders can easily give an unbalanced perception of the cash flow [...]
You may well ask the question what does a business advisor do? The answer will always vary depending on the personal knowledge of the person who is responding and at what stage they are at in their business. A simple description of the role of a business advisor might be ‘a person who translates the [...]
It must be some six years ago I first met (virtually) Emily Coltman who was at the time working for a regional firm of accountants. Emily was not long qualified but she was very interested in new technology and how this could help the smaller business, so no wonder that Emily has ended up as [...]
In the world of small and medium sized businesses change is an on-going feature of running a business. Some of the changes that occur are beyond the control of business owners. Frequently these changes emanate from statutory obligations to which the business must comply. For example changes that are instigated by Companies House or more [...]
Last week England made international news for all the wrong reasons. The pictures and video footage tells one story, the aftermath of people’s lives tells another story. An untold number of business owners are attempting to count the cost of the damage that has been done to their business. As a business owner one of [...]
It really is scary to think about how much debt America has accumulated. We are used to talking about millions and billions, but when it goes into trillions it starts to become difficult to fully comprehend how much money we are talking about. Regardless of the sums of money being spoken about it does reinforce [...]
No one seems to be sure whether the economy has or has or not emerged from a recession. There is constant speculation as to whether the economy will go into a double dip, that is appearing to emerge from the recession and then bouncing back into recession again before taking a continued steady path towards [...]
Selling to your mum, your family or your friends is unlikely to generate sufficient revenue to keep your business running or to make you a healthy profit. It is also unlikely that they will be able to give you the critical ongoing for feedback that your business will need for survival. Recent announcements about the [...]
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