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What can we learn from the collapse of Patisserie Valerie?
The collapse of Patisserie Valerie, the UK café chain that grew rapidly under Luke Johnson, executive chairman and major shareholder, is sobering not only for its investors but for British enterprise. A publicly listed group that seemed to be trading highly profitably...
Our top 3 tips to help you keep your 2019 financial resolutions
With January already running away from us, we’re getting to that part of the year when some of resolutions might already have begun to slide. Despite our best of intentions, real life has got in the way, like it always does. Clearly, resolutions help move us closer to...
Final Countdown towards Making Tax Digital
In the 2017 Budget the Government set out plans to roll-out digital tax returns from April 2018. Unincorporated businesses and landlords would have to file income tax returns this way, if their annual turnover exceeded the VAT registration threshold – although...
What is Making Tax Digital?
Making Tax Digital (MTD) is a government initiative to improve and streamline the way HMRC collects tax. It comes into force on 1 April 2019 and means, for affected businesses, a change to the way they prepare and file VAT returns. Specifically: HMRC’s online VAT...
Avoid Christmas Cash Flow Catastrophe with these top tips
If you work in retail, this is likely the time of year you get busier than any other time, but as a service business, you might find that things are starting to slow. No doubt you will also be preparing yourself for a quiet month in January. Trouble is, it’s also...
Why you should avoid putting things off until next year
December is nearly upon us once again and it might start feeling like our time left to get certain tasks completed in 2018 is running out. It won’t be long until we are looking ahead to 2019 (if we are not already doing so). At this time of year, it’s easy to get...
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