A selection of business news and articles to help make your business a success
Independent workers spend a lot of time trying to win new business. When there’s an opportunity in our sights, we’re prone to barrelling forward, rushing over the careful steps to an agreement that benefits us. Contacting professionals, for instance, may come within...
The riddle of Making Tax Digital goes on, throwing up questions left, right and centre. Progress has, by all accounts, been slow, and is hobbled further by our political situation. The Conservatives, unsurprisingly, have chosen to delay the scheme as they work out the...
At Bright Ideas Accountancy, we know how satisfying the contractor lifestyle can be. You pluck jobs from an array of clients, seeing to them one at a time, shaking off any complacency that’d otherwise fester in steady employment. But you shouldn’t assume your finances...
In a big organisation, cowed by cubicles and lunch breaks, we’re prone to pleasing others for the sake of it. Employee behaviours are hard to unlearn: usually, they make us choose the option of least risk, because we rely on others for our wage, and they have to see...
When it comes to self-employed benefits, few rank higher than the tax you can claw back for expenses. The nature of your business demands a certain standard of results: the tools and arrangements to meet it, in many cases, class as an investment. But it's not always...
Somehow, after a rollercoaster ride, you’ve found yourself in a capable freelancing position. So, what’s the next logical step? Hiring your first employee is a crazy thought, but you may be ready for it, since you’ve already gotten this far without any help. Yes,...
The reality of being your own boss is daunting. Suddenly, every hour counts for your earning viability, which can be ground to dust with a badly planned schedule. This includes your finances too – payments, invoices and tax returns are just a sliver of the obligations...
Often, we only tend to look at the immediate effects of our decisions. Going freelance, for example, strips away the need to answer to a boss, or head downcast into an office every morning – a fantastic reality, you may think. Yet there are compromises to bear, and...
Making it as a self-employed professional is never a walk in the park. Along the way, you’ll probably have met a few hurdles, but they haven’t stopped you. Somehow, things have turned out rosy as a contractor or freelancer. You’ve been officially ‘making it’ for a...
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