Accountancy

How to improve your profit margins

If your profits are lower than you’d like and you’re not taking home enough money to cover your bills, let alone to make up for all the hassle of running…

Business

How to create a budget for your business

Businesses and individuals with plans are more likely to achieve those results. But how do you go about it? 1. Personal objectives – the objectives of owner managed businesses are…

Accountancy

How does your price compare?

Compare to what? How would you compare the price of a dress from Primark to one from Prada? How would you compare the cost of a smart phone to an…

Business

Forget your carbon footprint

Okay, that’s a bit of a ‘clickbaity’ title so I’d better elaborate. Hopefully you’re already trying to minimise the carbon footprint of your business and your home life but, once…

Business

What do you value?

Struggling to write this today as I hide in a café in the village while a house clearance company dispose of 14 years of my life. But I’m a natural…

Business

How much do you charge?

I’m always tempted to say “let me get my tape measure out and work out the length of that piece of string” but somehow, I bit my tongue and explain…

Business

What recruitment crisis?

On the one hand I hear people (accountants and other businesses) complaining about the lack of suitable recruits, on the other hand I see my kids’ clever school leaver friends…

Accountancy

Should you be selfish in business?

I believe that you should be selfish in business, but perhaps not in the way that you think. When you set up your business you gave up regular income and…

Business

Doing business on Deep Space 9

I’m a bit of a scifi geek and I love the Quark character who owns the bar in Deep Space 9. He has some great business traits. And some bad…

Business

How I manage to run three businesses (and still sleep 8 hours a night!)

People often ask me how I manage to run three businesses. It started 15 years ago when I set up Hudson Business Accountants and Advisers to fit around my small…