What Can We Look Forward To in 2015? It has taken me a few weeks to sit down and pen my thoughts for the 2015 changes as like many of you have voiced in recent days, I too started the New Year with that feeling of ‘here we go again’. For those in the accountancy […]
A statement for the people Tony Jadzevics, Director at Evans Weir gives his thoughts on the 2014 Autumn Statement. This year you will notice that our autumn statement round up has come out a little later than others. The reason for this is because we wanted to spend some time going through the fine detail […]
A survey conducted by the Forum of Private Business (FPB) reveals that sme costs have risen by 4.7% in 2014. This is despite the Consumer Price Index (CPI) rate of inflation falling from 2.7% in September 2013 to 1.2% in September 2014. The key factors in increased sme costs were reported to be energy, transport […]
Changing annuities: sales fall more than a third and rates drop in summer 2014 The number of annuities sold fell by more than a third between the first and second quarters of 2014, according to the Association of British Insurers (ABI). The figures reveal that 27,902 fewer annuities were sold in Q2 than in Q1 […]
Small businesses will be exempt from an RTI penalty until March 2015, HMRC has announced. HMRC will phase in quarterly penalties for late RTI returns by business size, starting with those who employ 50 or more staff on 6 October 2014. Businesses with 49 or fewer employees will have until 6 March 2015 before penalties […]
According to research by BDRC Continental SME’s are relying less on ‘Core’ traditional finance options (overdrafts, loans and credit cards) today, than in 2012. In Q2 2012, 36% of SME’s were relying on a number of business forms of traditional finance, but that figure has dropped to just 30% in the same quarter of 2014. […]
Several recent reports that consider the SME business finance market have thrown up a mixed bag of results, suggesting the environment is still less than favourable for seeking additional funding. The reports and surveys run by venture capital firm Albion Ventures and YouGov (on behalf of Simply Business) turned up an array of different messages […]
We know, we know… .. you have got enough to think about running a business, but it is worth knowing that in just 12 months our first payroll clients will have arrived at their ‘staging date’ – the point at which they have to be up and running with auto enrolment. We have been working […]