Advice and Ideas for UK Small Businesses and SMEs
Articles and guides for UK small businesses on the always important topic of controlling and reducing business costs.
Business management
Make sure you keep a lid on your costs with this advice on economising on your printer.
Advice
Here, we look at five straightforward ways to help your business reduce office printing costs.
Accounting
Emily Coltman of FreeAgent lists ways to minimise the less apparent costs your business can incur.
Advice
Ian Nuttall started his first business with no budget, just a computer and an internet connection. Here, he tells SmallBusiness.co.uk how others can avoid small business debts too.
News
Business costs are rising faster for small operators than for larger businesses, research finds.
News
Small firms are being pushed to the wall by a vice of rising business costs, research finds.
Employing & managing staff
There are other ways of reducing your staffing budget without having to take the axe to your workforce.
Employing & managing staff
Simon Kite, a partner at chartered accountants Saffery Champness, offers some tips on how to cut costs but avoid the redundancy route.
Business management
Increasing the turnover of your business is not always enough to improve your profit margins. Cost control and reduction of overheads play an important part in managing the margins of small businesses.
News
On 21 August 2006, the Royal Mail is changing the way postage is priced to take into account size as well as weight under the new Pricing in Proportion (PiP) system and the campaign to educate businesses is underway.
Partner content
Philip Welsh, product marketing manager at Sage, explains why employers’ National Insurance contributions (NIC) are rising in April 2025 – impacting employee costs, cashflow and margins for firms
Business Technology
With fraud posing a significant threat to small businesses, Rachael Tiffen from Cifas addresses the role of digital skills in fraud prevention
Business Loans
Everything you need to know on what small business loans are and what types of loan are available for your business.