Home » Financing » Page 47

Category

Financing

The financing channel looks at the different small business funding options available to start-up companies and established SME businesses looking to grow. Read a wealth of guides and tips to help manage your accounts and cash flow better, views on the future of business banking and where to source alternative finance.

Is your business missing out on asset based lending?

Many UK SMEs remain unaware of the benefits that asset based lending can offer them, Close Brothers research reveals.

Alternative finance

Government Grants

How one small business achieved a grant for its cleantech operation

Here, Carlton Cummins, founder of Aceleron, discusses how his business secured a grant for essential equipment.

Business Loans

What is revenue-based financing?

Fleximize’s Peter Tuvey looks at the rise of revenue-based financing, and how it differs to traditional forms of business funding.

Alternative finance

What are the best alternatives to a business overdraft?

The alternative finance market is stepping into the hole left by overdrafts by introducing a number of innovative products, writes Conrad Ford.

Financing

How to avoid costly, common SME business mistakes

Here, Rachel Mainwaring, operations director at Creditsafe, gives her top tips for avoiding those big mistakes that can cost your business.

Accounting

Separate work and personal finances from the start

Here's how to keep your personal and business finances separate.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Accounting

Institute of Fiscal Studies tax report fundamentally flawed says FCSA

The difference in National Insurance Contribution rates between employed and self-employed is not unfair, argues the FCSA.

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.

Accounting

A small business owner’s guide to IR35

As soon as you engage a freelancer, you are exposed to IR35, as Gary Elliott reveals.

Tax

What is a reasonable excuse for missing your tax return payment?

January blues, tube strike or Brexit are not 'reasonable excuses' to have missed your tax return payment.

Recommended Content

Employing & managing staff

The importance of vocational rehabilitation services for SMEs

In Aviva’s latest SME research*, 57 per cent of employers surveyed agreed that nowadays employees expect benefits to protect against loss of income or earnings. What do you offer your people?

Partner content

What are the benefits of business broadband?

Business broadband offers a host of advantages over standard domestic connections, here’s why you should be considering an upgrade

Partner content

How should I select my business broadband provider?

As with any supplier, it’s important to do your research and ask important questions before you select a broadband provider for your business. But what are the must-have things you should take into consideration?

Business Technology

Future-proof your business communications set-up

Landlines as we know them will be scrapped in 2027 – along with a raft of upcoming business changes. Here's how to ensure your communications set-up is fit for whatever the future brings