by Jon Davies | Aug 9, 2026 | Accounting, Business, Taxes, VAT, Web Event
Reserve your place here Most business owners want to pay less tax. There is nothing wrong with that. The important bit is doing it properly. That means claiming the reliefs HMRC intended you to claim, planning before key deadlines, and avoiding the temptation to put...
by Gareth Thomas | Jul 6, 2026 | Business
One of the most popular sessions at the Business Improvement Summit had Victoria Brown of High Performance Consultancy telling us about the massive changes to Employment Law this spring. We had so much positive feedback that we asked Victoria to write an article for...
by Gareth Thomas | Jul 4, 2026 | Accounting, Business
If you run your business through a limited company, there will usually come a point where you want to take profits out of the company and use them personally. For many owner-managed companies, the usual approach is a mixture of salary and dividends. Where the personal...
by Gareth Thomas | Jul 4, 2026 | Accounting, Business, Finance, Taxes
Director’s loan accounts are common in personal and family companies. Sometimes the company pays personal costs on behalf of a director. Other times, the director lends money to the company to help with cash flow. Either way, it’s important to keep proper records. If...
by Jon Davies | Jul 2, 2026 | Accounting, Business
I’m a bit of a mixed bag when it comes to newspapers. Every morning we “take” The Times on delivery. Partly because I enjoy reading it and partly because it supports the newsagent who employs Anna on her daily paper round! But online, I tend to read The Guardian...
by Gareth Thomas | Jun 15, 2026 | Accounting, Business
Reserve your place here There is a dangerous sentence we hear from business owners all the time: ‘We’re at capacity.’ Sometimes they are right. But often, when we look under the bonnet, the business is not really at capacity. It is full of bottlenecks, rework,...
by Gareth Thomas | May 21, 2026 | Accounting, Business
A practical live web event for business owners who want more control, fewer bottlenecks and a business that does not rely on them for every decision. If your business has grown, but your diary has become a mess of interruptions, approvals, emails, team questions and...