If you want to grow your business at some stage you will need to take on your first employee.  It can be daunting because there are many things you need to consider.  But once you have taken that first step you are on your way to developing…

If you are a provider of services to your customer how often do you review the service you provide to them?  Are you providing the service they want or the service you think they want?  Do they know what they want or do they trust y…

HMRC have numerous tools and calculators available on their website.  Whether you want to get an estimate of the tax you may have to pay in the current year, your Statutory Maternity Pay entitlement or whether you want to find out if you qualify…

Businesses fail for many reasons but nearly all of them cite outside forces working against them - rent or rate rises, parking charges, delays caused by suppliers, no support from the bank, etc, etc. What they don't think about is that maybe …

I was chatting with a business owner today who said there are only two advantages to being self-employed - you can go on holiday when you like and you can work with who you want to. That started me thinking - are there really only two adv…