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Do you, or your partner, have your head in the clouds when its comes to your finances?

Posted on September 18th, 2019 by Pro Business | No Comments

Earlier this year news broke about the numbers of us who know nothing about our finances. Apparently, of those who live with partners, 33% of women and 19% of men have no idea how the family finances work and wouldn’t know where to begin if, for some reason, they had to suddenly pick up the

Is there a certain path to success?

Posted on August 18th, 2019 by Pro Business | No Comments

Last week, we had the pleasure of the company of one of our sons and his truly delightful girlfriend. So what? You might ask. Well, they are both self-employed opera singers, and as such, their job security is less than brilliant, though fortunately they are both energetic enough and talented enough to be working almost

Are all your business policies in place and up-to-date?

Posted on July 18th, 2019 by Pro Business | No Comments

Just at this moment, everyone in the office is doing the final polishing to their preparations for guiding clients into the world of Making Tax Digital. This is the brave new era when businesses (just VAT registered ones for now, but everyone else soon enough!) must make quarterly accounting reports to HMRC, supposedly to make

Learn to know your limitations

Posted on June 06th, 2019 by Pro Business | No Comments

Learn to know your limitations I love Alexander Pope – well, not personally, of course, because he lived between 1688 and 1744 – but I do admire his wit and his writing. He famously wrote couplets which are still relevant, and one that many of us know and use (often incorrectly – smack on the

Change is a foot…Possibly

Posted on May 06th, 2019 by Pro Business | No Comments

Spring is normally a time for change and for new beginnings and this year we could be confronting some of the greatest changes we have had to face for a long time. Whatever your view on leaving the EU, whether you think it will make for positive change or that it could be the worst

After Brexit

Posted on April 06th, 2019 by Pro Business | No Comments

After Brexit … If anyone begins reading this with the idea that all will become clear by the end, let me disabuse you right now! Sadly (though how I wish it were different, because thus could I make my millions), I have absolutely no idea how things will pan out for us all, but this

Choppy Waters Ahead

Posted on March 06th, 2019 by Pro Business | No Comments

As I write this, we are in the midst of the turmoil that is Brexit, and frankly, it’s difficult to know what to do and which way to turn in business! One thing I am sure of, however, is that there is absolutely no point in panicking, and equally, there is no benefit at all

Making Tax Digital – No Need to Panic

Posted on February 06th, 2019 by Pro Business | No Comments

I HOPE this reminder won’t come as a horrible shock to anyone with a small business, but the change to Making Tax Digital is approaching at a rate of knots. Consequently, in a few months all sole traders, partnerships and limited companies who are operating above the VAT threshold, will have to change the way they make their quarterly reports

“To Autumn…

Posted on January 06th, 2019 by Pro Business | No Comments

…season of mists and mellow fruitfulness…Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun…” BEAUTIFULLY expressed by Mr Keats and vet, it is also a season when HMRC will be doing its level best to bring in more arid more revenue to plug the huge levels of deficit the Government faces. By now, we all know the myriad devices

Beware of Scrooge the Scammer

Posted on December 06th, 2018 by Pro Business | No Comments

“WHATS Christmas time to you but a time for paying bills without money? quotes Ebeneezer Scrooge in Dickens’ A Christmas Carol. Thanks to some mean-minded, grasping, greedy and downright cruel individuals who designed a scam which is targeted at the most vulnerable and which is intended to take as much money from them as possible,

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