From automating processes, improving management information, enhancing operations, to utilising the range of grant funding and tax reliefs available to SME businesses – there are many ways to enhance profitability in your business.
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Working closely with you and your team we gain a deep understanding of your business, what drives it, the challenges faced and its future requirements. A focus on technology and a hands on approach allows us to create operational efficiencies, improve performance and identify tax reliefs and government support available to your business.
Focusing on different areas and leveraging best practice we will create efficiencies and enable your business to perform better to enhance success, reduce costs and gain peace of mind allowing you more time to focus on strategic matters.
31/10/2023. Cash is important to any business. Too little and the business puts itself into financial difficulties and concerns around overtrading, too much and there is the risk that the business is not seizing opportunities in the marketplace or making the best use of that cash.
After a recent NIC reclaim tribunal was found in favour of the taxpayer, we are advising businesses on whether they too could be reclaiming NIC on car allowances.
11/07/2023. Good news for companies claiming under the Research and Development Expenditure Credit (‘RDEC’) regime, bad news for companies claiming under the Small & Medium Enterprise (‘SME’) regime.
26/05/2023. What is a P11D and when is the deadline? A P11D is a form submitted to HMRC where employers report any taxable benefits and expenses provided to their employees or directors that are not included within their salary. The deadline for P11D reporting for the 2022/23 tax year is 6 July 2023.
18/05/2023. The newly introduced penalties have been in effect since 1 January 2023, these changes are set to impact those SME businesses who are not prepared.
02/05/2023. Why management information is crucial to make business decisions, how do ensure I have robust and reliable information on how my business is performing?
06/04/2023. Capital reduction is the process by which a company reduces its shareholder’s equity through the repurchase and cancellation of shares or a reduction in statutory reserves. A capital reduction can enable a company to reduce its negative position, create distributable reserves or return capital to the shareholders.
April 2023. The global rise in inflation began in mid-2021 as economies re-opened following the COVID pandemic. Damaged supply chains were the prime issue, as well as China’s continued zero-COVID policy since the country’s cheap exports had been a prime deflationary factor in recent decades. Inflation was turbo-charged in February last year as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine caused energy prices...
April 2023. Even with persistent inflation and lingering economic fears, U.S. consumers (in particular) have surprised many with their desire to spend. This unexpected consumer resilience is helping to push the chance of an economic slowdown further away.
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