No matter what kind of business you run, you’re going to want to increase sales and grow your revenue. Whether you’re looking to scale-up, consolidate recent growth, reinvigorate new growth or seeking growth in preparation for an exit - we've been there, and we can help.
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Growing your business profitably and sustainably can be difficult. You may find yourself wearing many hats until your business is at a size where you can hire more employees to support growth. As your business grows and matures so will your infrastructure and staffing needs. Different skill levels are required to cover everything from your growing headcount and new regulations to communicating with a wider customer base. You should be able to focus on what you’re best at and what really inspires you, leaving us to take care of the rest
We will help you build a plan that everyone in your business can get behind and deliver. We’ll help you set realistic but ambitious growth goals and identify the barriers that could hold back future growth.
And because we know what it’s like to run your own business, we make sure our advice is practical, effective and works for you. Our experienced team analyse your business and offers advice on areas from expansion to new opportunities.
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.
23/05/2023. A brand is a long term investment and a key pillar to your business development and marketing activities. While companies have worked to reinvent and update their operations to stay competitive, there is a risk of neglecting to update their brands.
16/05/2023. Over the past few years, HMRC’s attention has been focused on the pandemic and as a result HMRC have had little time to review other key areas. As the admin burden of the pandemic lessens, attention is starting to return to day-to-day compliance matters, one key area being “vehicle classification” for benefit-in-kind purposes.
16/05/2023. In difficult economic environment many business owners are considering how they can get the most out of their sales teams to deliver growth or even just to sustain their current market position. Our Management consulting team have outlined 3 areas of focus to increase sales performance.
April 2023. March was a huge month for developments in artificial intelligence (AI). GPT-4’s impressive performance on coding tasks and standardized exams raised many questions about what jobs would be automated. In finance at least, we believe that humans plus AI will beat AI.
24/04/2023. Private equity investment focuses on securing capital that can be used to facilitate your growth plans or de-risk your investment by extracting capital from the business.
24/03/2023. As your company’s profits increase, you may fall into the Quarterly Instalment Payments regime. This article provides a useful summary of QIPs, their rules, and what to consider.
24/02/2023. The National Minimum and National Living Wage (collectively referred to as “NMW”) rates are increasing from 1 April 2023. At its highest, this is an increase of 10.9% (for 21–22-year-olds), and 9.7% across the National Living Wage, and all other age rates.
23/02/2023.As we move into 2023 in a challenging economic landscape many businesses are facing cash flow pressures. By reviewing your corporate tax affairs there could be government incentives in place to support your business’s cashflow. In this article we will discuss making a claim for the accelerated carry back of losses to generate a corporation tax repayment.
20/01/2023. The super deduction was introduced from April 2021 and was scheduled to run for two years, its main purpose was to encourage companies to continue/expand capital expenditure, as corporation tax rates were also scheduled increase to 25% and there was a fear that companies would pause capital expenditure in preference of higher tax relief in two years time.
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