Creating a great business strategy

When many of us think about business strategy, academics and expensive business consultants tend to spring to mind. The good news is that creating a really great business strategy doesn’t have to be complex. Put simply, a strategy is what you need to get your business...

A good coach is a good manager

In addition to ensuring the achievement of business objectives, managers are responsible for encouraging growth, confidence and ambition in employees. Effective leadership techniques have evolved over the last few decades and the way that managers interface with their...

How to use Google Analytics effectively

Google Analytics is a free service which allows you to analyse visitors to your website. You could have thousands of visitors to your firm’s website every month, but those visitors don’t mean much if you don’t know anything about them. Google Analytics is one of the...

Taking a lodger? Don’t forget to claim “rent a room” relief

HMRC are carrying out a review of rent a room relief to discover whether the scheme, introduced back in 1992 provides the right incentives for the rental market. The current scheme exempts from tax, gross rents up to £7,500 where rooms within the taxpayer’s main...

Tax efficient extraction of profit from companies for 2018/19

The new tax year means that many directors of family companies will be considering the most tax efficient method of paying themselves. For many years accountants and tax advisors have suggested that director/shareholders should extract profit by paying themselves a...