About

Ben Lobel was the editor of SmallBusiness.co.uk from 2010 to 2018. He specialises in writing for start-up and scale-up companies in the areas of finance, marketing and HR.

Accounting

Avoid self-as-stressment next year: Get your books in order now

Emily Coltman gives her top tips for getting your books in order now, so you can avoid a self-assessment headache next year.

Finding and selling to customers

New product development: Organising to identify customer needs

In this article, we offer some guidance to help companies organise their customer needs intelligence teams.

Business management

How small businesses can ditch the ‘start-up’ label

Anne de Kerckhove shares five top tips that will help SMEs shake off the start-up label and move into the larger playing field.

Accounting

Don’t pay for pants: How your small business can tackle expense fraud

A manager must be sensitive to different workplace cultures around expenses, argues Dafydd Llewellyn.

Office & home working

Why tech businesses, both large and small, need a lab of their own

Here's why small businesses should consider building and developing an in-house lab.

Tax

How to avoid the new tax on partnership loans

Until now, there has been no legislation in place which brings loans made to partnerships and sole traders into the charge to tax. This situation will be changing soon, as Lesley Stalker discusses.

Marketing