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Insights & News from Your Finance TeamWe spend a lot of time offering our clients practical advice on how they can grow their businesses – please see some of our articles below and feel free to share.
Top tips for buying new equipment for your business
If you are looking at developing your business then one of the first things that people look at is to buy new equipment. New kit can enhance your productivity, increase efficiency and allow you to produce new goods or provide new services. The problem is that there...
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How to Convert Your Business from QuickBooks or Sage to XERO (Easy and Fast)
There have been various advancements in business accounting, and amongst the most popular of them is the introduction of cloud accounting software – XERO. Because of the advanced unique features the cloud business accounting software offers, business owners and...
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Pricing Strategy to Drive Profitability
Getting the pricing strategy right for professional services such as architecture, design, and IT services can be challenging. The competition is tough, and customers are consistently demanding increased quality and tighter delivery timescales. With this in mind, the...
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6 Ways Dext Can Benefit Your Business
How many hours a week do you spend manually inputting information from your bills and receipts to keep your accounts up to date? Five? Ten? This tedious task can be incredibly time-consuming and takes away from other essential responsibilities – like growing your...
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Operating through a Pandemic: Key Lessons for Businesses
Living through unprecedented times is difficult for everyone but coupled with the added pressure of trying to operate a business simultaneously, it can feel overwhelming. Over the last several months, companies all over the country (and the rest of the world) have had...
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How to Build your Perfect Home Office
As the pandemic continues to restrict our lives, working from home looks like it may be our ‘new normal’ for some time to come, and while it does have its benefits (goodbye, office commute!), it can be difficult to get to grips with. While some elements of working...
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Spotting Scammers: Protecting your Business from Fraudulent Activity
Scams and fraudulent activity are notoriously hard to spot – that is, after all, why they work so well. Scammers are malicious, quick to adapt and are always coming up with new ways to pose as trusted organisations, concealing their real agenda from their victims....
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How to be Most Effective When Working from Home
Working from home is a position in which many of us have unexpectedly found ourselves this year. Some of us have relocated to dining room tables; others are holed-up in spare bedrooms, laptops balanced on piles of books; some are juggling meetings and childcare all at...
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Benefits of Hiring a Virtual Finance Director
As your business grows, so will the need for effective financial management. You may already have hired a bookkeeper to keep the basics in check, but as your business continues to prosper, you may feel that you need a more substantial service. This next step could be...
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Importance of Setting Goals and Objectives for the New Year
Fun fact: those who set goals and objectives are far more likely to succeed than those who don’t. Don’t believe us? Check this out… A group of researchers at the Harvard Business School conducted a study into the benefits of goal setting and found that those who set...
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How Cashflow Forecasting Can Contribute to a Positive New Year
While the last few months of the year can be challenging to navigate for the majority of business owners, that's when is time to be looking forward to the following year and thinking of ways to increase the likelihood of a positive new financial year. One of the best...
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How to Practice Mindfulness in the Workplace
Through the COVID crisis, Your Finance Team have concentrated on supporting clients with advice on their company finances and making sure they understand the government support available. However, more than ever, we have seen how COVID has created real anxiety amongst...
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