Since it started in 2005, I’ve been a committed viewer of The Apprentice. Critics argue that the programme has somewhat lost its way in recent years, that the ‘candidates’ are there for the media exposure rather than the job itself. When I think about who I would have hired out of this year’s candidates I [...]
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Despite recent encouraging unemployment statistics, parts of the country are bracing themselves for major job losses as the spending cuts bite. This is particularly the case in areas of the country where the public sector played a prominent part in the local employment make-up and this seems to be the case in much of [...]
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The business model of UK Inc is an interesting one to consider. Unlike most organisations, it is almost completely unable to influence the top line, as much of its revenue, the tax take, is dependent on the performance of businesses and individuals over which it has little control. Of course, it can, through pricing i.e. [...]
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As a long term business resident of Clerkenwell, (we first came here in 1989 when it was little more than a ghost town), I have watched the area develop beyond all recognition over the last few years.
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1st October 2009 saw a number of major changes within the Companies Act.One such change was the introduction of a Service Address for Directors.
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HMRC have announced that they are changing their banking arrangements for the purposes of VAT. The notice itself, which must have been sent to many thousands of businesses up and down the land, advises VAT registered businesses that they are changing to two new commercial banks namely Citi and Royal Bank of Scotland Group. As [...]
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A radical alternative, proposed by the CBI, recommends that workers whose firms are suffering a fall in demand be paid to remain at home. The proposal states that staff should be paid a nominal weekly wage of £130 to which both the Government and the employer would contribute. The employees would then stay off work [...]
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Some of you will have read previously about smoothie maker Innocent and its attempt to get its crushed fruit drinks exempted from VAT.
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For those of you waiting with baited breath to hear the latest in the ongoing saga relating to what has now become known at the Pringles case, I can advise you that Procter and Gamble, the manufacturers of the eponymous potato snack, lost their appeal court case. As a result, they will be forced to [...]
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A recent report in Accountancy informed its readers that accountants have been pipped to the post by lawyers in the area of extra-marital affairs.
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