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A selection of great tools, business guides and articles to help make your business a success
Essential New Year’s Resolutions For The Self-Employed
If you ask us, the closing curtain of each year causes more stress than succour for the businesspeople of the world. There’s a raft of final payments, client assignments, bills and personal...
Spread The Love This Festive Season
The mince pies are sitting nicely in their half-opened sleeves, and fairy lights are probably looping around your office. Christmas is almost upon us! Hopefully, with the help of Bright Ideas...
Bah Humbug: How To Avoid Festive Paperwork Woes
Now is the time to reflect on the year gone by and take stock of our finances. Sitting at your desk, you might find there’s an awful lot of paperwork to sift through, suffocating your organisational...
3 Financial Lessons To Learn From 2016
Taking stock of the year, you’re doubtlessly analysing what went right and what, in hindsight, could have been different. Regardless of the changes, you may have experienced, one thing remains the...
How Does The Autumn Statement Impact Freelancers & Contractors?
As the number of self-employed professionals in the UK swells to 4.79 million, many freelancers and contractors kept a close eye on Westminster for the Autumn Statement 2016. Proposed changes to...
How To Avoid Cash Flow Problems
The wheels of finance don’t always turn smoothly. As a freelancer or contractor, cash flow is your main concern, and anything impeding it is likely to give you a headache. Yet the means of manning a...
How Do Umbrella Companies Work?
Millions of people ply their skills as a contractor, working on jobs for several weeks or months at a time. For professionals who want the freedom of self-employment, without the administrative...
Becoming VAT Registered As A Contractor
Hitting the VAT threshold is a bittersweet moment for any contractor. On the one hand, it’s a sure sign that you’re doing something right, drawing in an ever-increasing salary from high-value...
Must-Have Software For Contractors And Freelancers
The modern age has made beautiful gains in our pursuit of independence. Now, it’s possible for an independent professional to make a living from the comfort of their home. A lot of that is down to...
What Percentage Of Your Pay Should You Be Taking Home?
When knee-deep in the quest to jumpstart a freelancing or contracting career, it’s easy to forget one important thing: how much are you going to pay yourself? Tempting though it may be to allocate a...
Bad Bookkeeping: A Nightmare That Never Ends
Halloween is almost here. Whatever your darkest fears may be, we bet that losing control of your finances is one of them. Bookkeeping can make the best of us howl furiously at the moon, but it’s...
Setting Up Your Pension As A Contractor Or Freelancer
Leaping into the unshackled territory of freelancing or contracting has many perks, most of which involve separating yourself from the whims of an employer. While this freedom is certainly something...
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