Advice

Business Law & Compliance 3 min read

Paying tax must be just as ironclad for self-employed workers

While the self-employed helped Britain's economic recovery, Charlie Mullins believes legislation is needed to ensure the paying of tax is better monitored.

Managing Your Cash Flow 3 min read

Numbers are great but it’s foolhardy to rely on them exclusively

Simon Jones, founder of Hidden Value Partners, is a numbers man by trade but advises an approach that means listening to a company's people just as much.

Raising Finance 4 min read

Preparing to deliver an Oscar-worthy investment pitch

An investment pitch is a personal interaction, and a potential investor will be looking at you as much as at your idea. But too many budding entrepreneurs focus on themselves (the right clothes, the right hair, the right tone of voice) at the expense of preparing their business idea.

Raising Finance 2 min read

Agent Provocateur co-founder calls investors “fraudulent, negligent and incompetent?

The co-founder of British lingerie brand Agent Provocateur has attacked the private equity backers which bought his business, saying the firm ?will never recover" from letting it slide into administration.

Business Law & Compliance 5 min read

Drugs, theft and violence blighted the last few years of my business

Continuing with her series of articles charting the end of her furniture building business, Jan Cavelle describes how toxic members of staff created a self-perpetuating cycle of violence and destruction.

Managing Your Cash Flow 4 min read

Worrying about finding time for auto-enrolment” Then don’t

Over the next year alone, The Pensions Regulator has estimated there could be over 800,000 small employers just like you getting to grips with and trying to make time for auto-enrolment.

HR & Management 4 min read

How to encourage workplace collaboration and reap the benefits

Trends are always coming and going, but one that's stuck around for much longer than most is the focus on workplace collaboration and engagement.

Business Technology 4 min read

Are you spending enough on app security” Probably not

As anyone with a website will know, app security is always a concern, whether it's your website being disrupted by a DDoS attack or a cyber criminal hacking into your system to steal sensitive data.

HR & Management 4 min read

Provoking chaos in order to promote change

A recent survey found the number one concern in business was the ability to promote change. Some 84 per cent of the interviewed Fortune 100 executives said they had at least one change initiative linked to growth, productivity, competition and globalisation.