A selection of business news and articles to help make your business a success
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 skills in a deluge of receipts and bank statements. As much as we...
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 same as ever – our desire for protecting our finances and maximising...
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 IR35 and the new Making Tax Digital initiative were high on the agenda,...
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 steady ship, so to speak, are quite simple when you get down to it....
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 burden that comes with it, operating under an umbrella company is a...
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 contracts. On the other, the prospect of facing more tax liabilities may...
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 software, the virtual superpowers that make for heroic freelance work....
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 generous level of ‘take home pay’, you must stick within the...
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 essential to exorcise those demons if you want to stay on top of your...
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