According to reports on the Internet, Charity Business, whose mission, according to their website, was “bringing the benefits of business thinking to charities”, unfortunately could not bring those benefits to their own business. The charity collapsed in December leaving a reported 50 charities bereft of outsourced services ranging from payroll and bookeeping to full finance function. Other reports [...]
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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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The Small Business Economic Forum, announced by Vince Cable and Mark Prisk, Ministers respectively in the new coalition government, got together on 18 October 2010 for its inaugural meeting.
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Last week, I gave a short speech to a group of 15 or 20 aspiring young business people who were putting themselves forward for Prince’s Trust funding. The event provided these young people with a few days of training and some tips from hard seasoned campaigners like myself.
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It never ceases to amaze me, even in these very difficult times, how every day of the working week; people from all over the UK are forming new companies.
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At the risk of being highly controversial, and in the knowledge that there are hundreds of thousands of people in the UK either already, or likely to be facing economic hardship, I wanted to write a post about why I think recession is a good thing. Of course, we haven’t in pure economic terms, actually [...]
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Ever since 1993, Companies’ legislation has allowed those below a certain size limit (by reference to turnover, gross assets and number of employees) to forgo their annual audit – the check by independent, fully-qualified auditors – to ensure that the annual financial accounts were reasonably stated and not misleading. Over the past 15 years or [...]
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I suspect that few of our contacts are regular readers of Accountancy magazine. Nevertheless, it does provide fertile ground for me in finding topics to write about. Additionally, now and then, it actually helps me professionally! One section of this historic publication, which I never miss, reports on professional standards. The page lists disciplinary and [...]
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The other night, driving home from the office, a cyclist clipped my wing mirror, turned to look at me, decided I was fair game and sped off through the traffic. Now I know this isn’t very PC or for that matter environmentally friendly, but I have to say that I am getting pretty fed [...]
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The number of people filling in tax returns has gradually increased over the last few decades to the point where it was calculated that in excess of 12 million people were dealing with this annual chore. In the last year or two, HMRC has made a conscious effort to start reducing this number by sending [...]
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