Business costs

Articles and guides for UK small businesses on the always important topic of controlling and reducing business costs.

Business management

Do you know how much printer ink your business is wasting every day?

Make sure you keep a lid on your costs with this advice on economising on your printer.

Advice

Reducing office printing costs for your small company

Here, we look at five straightforward ways to help your business reduce office printing costs.

Accounting

The importance of thinking about hidden costs as a small business

Emily Coltman of FreeAgent lists ways to minimise the less apparent costs your business can incur.

Advice

How small businesses can avoid unnecessary debts

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

Rising costs for small companies could cause ‘winter of discontent’

Business costs are rising faster for small operators than for larger businesses, research finds.

News

Rising business costs crippling small businesses

Small firms are being pushed to the wall by a vice of rising business costs, research finds.

Employing & managing staff

Ways of reducing your staffing budget

There are other ways of reducing your staffing budget without having to take the axe to your workforce.

Employing & managing staff

Redundancy is not the only option

Simon Kite, a partner at chartered accountants Saffery Champness, offers some tips on how to cut costs but avoid the redundancy route.

Business management

How to reduce your business overhead costs

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

Be prepared for post pricing changes

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.