Don’t get your fingers burned on VAT tax issues
As the Great British Bakeoff returns for a seventh series, Emily Coltman gives her top tips for helping make sure your VAT cake doesn’t collapse.
Accounting
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.
As the Great British Bakeoff returns for a seventh series, Emily Coltman gives her top tips for helping make sure your VAT cake doesn’t collapse.
Accounting
Business Loans
In this piece in association with Boost Capital, we look at the debt funding options to choose for an emerging business.
Accounting
Businesses are either finding the process of digital tax compliance foreboding, or don't even know what it is. Could this be a serious deterrent to start a business?
Accounting
Businesses in the construction sector have been hit hardest of any UK sector by longer waits for their invoices to be paid, with delays increasing 22 per cent in the last year from 67 days to 82 days.
Accounting
Nearly half (43 per cent) of micro-business owners and freelancers don’t know what Making Tax Digital is, a study finds.
Accounting
Business managers are spending a remarkably short time on expenses approvals, according to a study.
Government Grants
We talk to a business owner about how he used money from grants for branding and website design, chemical analysis and packaging orders.
Alternative finance
Russell Gould looks at the initial Brexit fears and explains why, one month on, some Fintech companies are set to flourish.
Government Grants
We talk to a business owner about how he used money from grants for branding and website design, chemical analysis and packaging orders.
Alternative finance
Russell Gould looks at the initial Brexit fears and explains why, one month on, some Fintech companies are set to flourish.
Accounting
Here, we tell the cautionary tale of a business owner who was the victim of an unfavourable visit from the taxman.
Small Business Banking
Here, five small business owners and managers give their views on what banks could do to better serve early-stage and smaller companies.
Government Grants
Tom Craig's company received a £16,000 grant from a local council and the Creative Quarter, which offers support for start-ups in the Nottingham area. Here, he talks about how he secured the cash.
Small Business Banking
Amid warnings from Natwest that businesses might have to pay to hold cash, we look at the implication of negative interest rates in the SME community.
Business Technology
To run an optimal business, you must have optimal tech. We explain why you must upgrade your business technology on a regular basis
Investing in a franchise
Starting a new business is an exciting venture. But – especially in well-established industry sectors – a key question is whether it would be better to buy a franchise or go solo.
Partner content
Read here for 16 tried and tested tips and tricks to improve potential cash flow problems