Managing Your Cash Flow

HR & Management 5 min read

Independence pay: This recruitment agency is managing auto-enrolment by itself

When it comes to auto-enrolment, niche recruitment agency BeecherMadden has already staged – and managed the process on its own terms.

Managing Your Cash Flow 3 min read

Big names including two English football clubs shamed in minimum wage offenders list

By 2020, 3.8m Brits will be on the legal minimum wage rate – and the government has relied largely on HMRC to levy fines of up to £20,000 per worker on companies that don't pay staff fairly. It also started “naming and shaming” offenders in the hope of deterring others from doing the same.

HR & Management 5 min read

The penalties for non-compliance with auto-enrolment

As a new piece of policy, aimed at boosting the pension pots of British workers and ensuring that we do not develop a dependency culture from lack of personal savings, auto-enrolment is now in full swing. But what happens to businesses which do not comply with its framework

HR & Management 5 min read

The definitive checklist for SME owners and managers for auto-enrolment

As the number of businesses reaching the date when auto-enrolment duties start, known as the staging date, Real Business has produced a comprehensive checklist to ensure business leaders are not forgetting anything.

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Managing Your Cash Flow 3 min read

Financial decision makers in the SME space are convinced fraud has damaged revenue

Research from Bottomline Technologies into the UK business payments landscape found that 53 per cent of SMEs have been impacted by financial fraud.

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Interviews 3 min read

SMEs, ignore the payments revolution at your peril

The wind of change in the payments world is gaining in strength as financial technology’s (fintech) potential to alter how, where and when payments are made is further explored and leveraged, World First COO Graham Stanton told Real Business.

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Managing Your Cash Flow 9 min read

The reasons why eight SME leaders chose to implement or encourage the Living Wage

With the National Living Wage (NLW) still being met with reluctance, we asked eight small business leaders what they thought of the Living Wage – and why they embraced it.

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Interviews 5 min read

The cash flow clinic: Its about a number of techniques, not one silver bullet

The old adage that “cash is king” has long dominated business speak, and is a reflection of the fact that the majority of business failures aren't because of a bad idea – but are to do with running out of money and having nowhere to go.

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Managing Your Cash Flow 5 min read

Finance directors have their say on what the most important economic issues are

Bringing together the results of the annual Real Business FDs’ Satisfaction Survey and discussions held at our maiden FD Surgery event, FDs from some of the nation’s leading growth companies worked through what is keeping them awake at night.