Office Assistants

January is a month to think about a fresh start, spring cleaning, de-cluttering and reviewing aspects of your business. One of these could be your pricing strategies.

It wasn’t the best start to the New Year for many people. The bad weather had caused misery over Christmas and continued since.

November 4th, 2013 saw the start of the first National Bookkeeping Week. It sparked a discussion of how the bookkeeping can make or mar a business. Done well, it can help you to grow and blossom. Done badly, it can cause your downfall.

It’s official. Business inflation is still more than twice as high as that for consumers. In 2013 it is running at over 6%. On a positive note, it is not quite as high as 6.7%, which was last year’s statistic. Office Assistants discuss.

The Chancellor’s Autumn Statement wasn’t all doom and gloom. There is some heartening news for small businesses, despite his assurances of continuing austerity measures. Essex bookkeepers Office Assistants explain.

Loughborough University’s Deputy Director of its Centre for Global Sourcing and Services, together with the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants and SKS Business Services, recently published a report entitled Accounting for Growth.

Do you have a plan for business growth? It really helps to have a long term vision, and a plan to make each of the small steps you can take to bring closer to that final goal. First though, you need to be aware of your strengths and weaknesses.

October 1st 2013 was one of the Red Tape Freedom Days, on which the government introduced a number of reforms in the regulatory requirements of small businesses.

According to Hartmut Wagner, MD of Cloud Solutions Exact, “many SMEs who are eager to grow are not doing themselves any favours, particularly with so many of them expressing concern over their cash-flow.”

Pension auto-enrolment started a year ago and over 1,600,000 have been enrolled, with about one in ten opted out. If you have eligible employees, by now you should be well into your planning for this in your business.