December is our busiest month of the year. We have lots of limited company deadlines* for companies with March year ends as well as personal tax return deadlines* in January.…
How SMEs can scale without cashflow chaos
Scaling is both an opportunity and a risk for businesses. It isn’t for everybody and you may prefer to stay small and focus on improving your profitability instead, in which…
10 reasons to use a mentor
Experience – unlike a coach they can offer real world advice as they’ve been where you are before and survived Some mentors, like me, are also qualified coaches so they…
“Your success in life depends on your ability to speak, your ability to write, and the quality of your ideas, in that order” Sir Patrick Winston
Professor Winston is a computer scientist and director of the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory 1972-1997. Somebody renowned for the quality of his ideas, and yet he promotes communication over this. …
Les bons comptes font les bons amis
It’s a French saying that means that keeping good accounts makes for good friendships. Usually this means that debts should be settled promptly. I’ve written before about how important this…
Create without restraint
I saw this on a social media post yesterday and it got me really excited. (Okay, accountants clearly have a different tolerance for excitement compared to the rest of the…
Be a Joy Seeker
Marie Condo goes through homes clearing out anything that isn’t essential unless the client can honestly answer the question ‘Does this bring me joy?’ My suggestion is that we should…
Building a business can be as painful as walking on Lego
I read this somewhere last week and it is so true. Whilst there are great highs on the roller coaster of business there are also some real lows. So what…
Charge what you’re worth, not what your competitors are worth
Pricing is often difficult when you first start your business, and you may well have based your initial prices on what your competitors charge. But you soon learn where you…
How was your holiday?
Hope fully you managed some time off (or have a break lined up) from your business without too much hassle. When I ran Hudson Business Accountants and Advisers, I remember…