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Business advice to help you grow your SME and small & medium sized company and help you grow your company
Preparing Your Business for Sale
Whether you’re considering selling a portion of your equity or your entire company, it’s essential to prepare your business effectively.
Unplugging Distractions: Mastering Concentration in the Modern World
How often do you find yourself pulled away from your tasks by distractions throughout the day? The answer for most of us is “many times.”
New Report Sheds Light on Pregnancy and Maternity Discrimination
In an ever-evolving business landscape, the welfare of employees continues to be at the forefront of responsible leadership.
How can you fine-tune your working environment so everybody can be at their best?
Do you have an office buzz? Do you thrive in hustle and bustle? Or, does it drive you to distraction?
How a good person becomes a toxic leader
There are so many reasons in this world to be miserable. War, famine, poverty, pandemics, mental health crises, the list goes on. As leaders, we have the opportunity – nay, responsibility – to prevent the workplace being such a reason.
Redundancies and Trust: Can the two coexist?
Employment law experts have warned business leaders of the challenging optics in the face of the predicted influx of redundancies during 2023, alongside shifting expectations in a changing workforce.
How to plan for the death of a business partner.
It was Benjamin Franklin who once said “…nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.”
Rising Threat of ‘Hackers for Hire’: How End-to-End Encryption Software Safeguards Businesses
According to a new report from the UK’s cyber security agency, the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), the number of ‘hackers for hire’ is set to grow over the next five years, leading to more cyber attacks and increasingly unpredictable threats.
Embrace the Summer: A Season of Reflection and Renewal
The arrival of summer brings with it an invaluable opportunity to rejuvenate our spirits and refocus our energies.
How to bridge the gap between Seller and Buyer expectations in SME transactions?
For a founder or seller, the sale of a SME business will be one of their key life events. For a buyer it can be a springboard to a faster growth rate. In recent months buyer and seller expectations have changed in relation to SME transactions.
The Advantages of Using an Employer of Record: Streamlining Global Workforce Management
In the 18th century, at the beginning of the industrial revolution, human resources were valued no more than material resources. Today, the situation has changed radically. It takes several years, educational infrastructure, technology, and much more to educate a highly qualified specialist.
Do you worry about your employees’ use of social media?
TikTok, Facebook, Twitter and now Threads… social media provides employees with a million and one ways to bring a company into disrepute: from posing in uniform and bad-mouthing customers on a personal channel to making an ill-judged comment on their official page.
How AI can boost growth and improve productivity for SMEs
Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are the true backbone of the UK economy. This community of accountants, tailors, corner shops and everything in between make up over 99% of all businesses.
HMRC Gives Businesses Extra Week to Prepare for New R&D Information Form
HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) has announced that the rollout of the new additional information form that is required to support all claims for Research and Development (R&D) tax relief or expenditure credit has been pushed back by seven days.
