Why the West is struggling to balance the books
Businesses in the South West have been getting increasingly into debt during lockdown, with credit card bills and overdrafts mounting and…
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Grants, furlough – business reacts to Budget statement
Chancellor Rishi Sunak has used his Budget speech to set out plans to save jobs and stop businesses collapsing as the…
Smashing the glass ceiling of international payments
Comment by Yishay Trif The Web can be a cruel place, especially for small businesses. The internet promised a shop window to…
Governance
Nearly 2m miss tax deadline
Around 1.8 million taxpayers have missed the self-assessment deadline, figures from HMRC show. More than 10.7 million people submitted their 2019/20…
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Firms ‘theatened by dodgy R&D tax relief claims’
How finance and compliance professionals can stay one step ahead post-Covid
Technology
Covid’s new spike – bank service requests
Guest post by Reginald Twigg Just nine months ago, no one would have imagined that social distancing would be the normal…
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Diegesis secures two-year managed services deal with the ONS
Finance teams targeted as ‘email hijack attacks’ rise 22%
HR
How companies can use employee benefits in 2021
Guest post by Daniel Tannenbaum The past year and the pandemic have had a tremendous impact on businesses in many different…
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Opinion: is now the time to change your redundancy strategy?
Furlough and the perils of getting it wrong
Financial Management
Rescue options for financially-distressed companies
Legal view by David Mohyuddin QC The Government is asking for power to make temporary amendments to modify the impact of…
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Recovery scheme opens for business
