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Wednesday 16th May 2018
GDPR is coming
The implementation date for the EU Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is 25 May. Despite Brexit, UK businesses will need to comply. In order to maintain business links with EU countries, the UK will need to create EU equivalent rules and regulations. GDPR is an example of this and must be ...
Wednesday 25th April 2018
Creating a great business strategy
When many of us think about business strategy, academics and expensive business consultants tend to spring to mind. The good news is that creating a really great business strategy doesn’t have to be complex. Put simply, a strategy is what you need to get your business from where it is ...
Wednesday 18th April 2018
How to use Google Analytics effectively
Google Analytics is a free service which allows you to analyse visitors to your website. You could have thousands of visitors to your firm’s website every month, but those visitors don’t mean much if you don’t know anything about them. Google Analytics is one of the best of ...
Wednesday 28th March 2018
Are you sure you or your workers are self employed?
Last year we reported that the House of Commons Work and Pensions Committee published a report calling on the Government to close the loopholes that allow “bogus” self-employment practices, which burden the welfare state but reduce the tax contributions needed to sustain it. Most of ...
Tuesday 20th March 2018
Mobile Device Management
Bring your own device (BYOD) policies have become increasingly popular in the last number of years. However, this has meant that small and medium sized businesses have faced new challenges in terms of how to manage company data held on the personal devices of employees. In addition to security ...
Wednesday 21st February 2018
Learn from the best
We can all learn something from the world’s leading businesses like Apple, Google, Salesforce and Amazon. These firms have invested millions of pounds in order to find new and better ways to run their various business lines. Here are some tips that can apply to almost any business: Focus ...
Wednesday 17th January 2018
New Year resolutions to save tax
At this time of year we think about New Year’s resolutions. It is also a good time to start planning your tax affairs before the end of the tax year on 5th April. An obvious tax planning point would be to maximise your ISA allowances for the 2017/18 tax year (currently £20,000 ...
Wednesday 20th December 2017
Key trends to watch in 2018
Technology and innovation are driving the evolution of most businesses these days. Here are some of the key business trends to watch out for in 2018. Blockchain and cryptocurrencies A blockchain is a digital, decentralised, public ledger of all cryptocurrency transactions. Blockchain is a way ...