Financial advice and useful newsletters and helpsheets for small businesses
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Reducing your tax bill
- A lifetime of planning - retirement tax issues
- Alternative ways of investing
- Budget 2011/2012 Tax Rates and Allowances
- Business Partnerships; A bigger commitment than marriage?
- Capital allowance tax relief rule change 2012
- Having your cake and eating it - Learn about SIPPS and Property Investment
- Hedging your bets - Spreading your investments
- Inheritance tax planning
- Making tax based business decisions
- Paying me more and the tax man less
- Pre year end meetings
- Purchasing assets
- Reducing tax on my vehicles
- Salary Sacrifice
- Self Assessment Penalties
- The most tax efficient investments
- The Ultimate Tax-Efficient Business Structure - The benefits of LLP's and Hybrid Partnerships
- Tax Calendar
- Tax Protection Scheme
- The Problem with dividends
- The end of EBT's and EFRBS?
- Turning your business into a limited company
- What is a hybrid partnership?
- What is a Limited Liability Partnership?
- Ways to save tax within my business
Improving your management information
- Business records check update October 2011
- It's not the how, it's the why - Problems with accounting software
- Trend analysis in your business
- Understanding your break-even point
- Understanding Your Balance Sheet
- Using a computer for accounts and business
- Using computerised accounts packages to make business decision
- Which accounts package should I use?
Profit and Cash Flow Improvement
- Calculating the financial effects of business decisions
- Getting the right balance between customers and cash
- How do I finance a company car or vehicle?
- Turnover is vanity, profit is sanity but cash is reality
- Ways to reduce your telephone costs
- What to do when your business is in trouble
- Where has all my profit gone? - Understanding the link between profit and cash flow
Helping new and emerging businesses
- Accounting for Growth Why accurate, relevant and reliable accounts are a key factor in enabling your business to grow.
- Are you a prisoner of your own business? How to make your business less dependant on you!
- Is your business 'systems' led or 'personality' led?
- How I.T has helped us to grow our business
- I'd just like to thank...long term business plans and objectives for a successful business
- Setting targets and mesasuring Key Performance Indicators
- So own up, have you got an up to date business plan?
- You've got to have a system - How documenting business tasks makes it easier to work ON your business rather than in it.
Strategic Planning including growth and exit issues
- Have you got an up to date business plan?
- Long term business goals
- Employing the right people
- Making sure your employees are in the right roles
- Are you a prisoner of your business?
- The advantages of systemised businesses
- What we can learn from the England cricket team
- A4G Business Valuation Service
- A4G Strategic Planning Day
Making your business less dependent on you
Lawro's Social Media tips:
- Lawro's LinkedIn tips introduction
- Customise your LinkedIn URL
- Gaining Recommendations
- Gaining introductions through connections
- How to import your email contacts
- How to add your public profile URL to your email
- How to set up your profile
- Using the Advanced Search button
- Having a professional and helpful headline
- Social Advertising setting
Marketing your business
- What is Referral Marketing?
- Marketing your business using marketing plans and PR
- The most cost effective marketing strategy ever
- Lawro's LinkedIn tips
- The Silent Salesman - Cost effective marketing for your business
- Ways to lower your marketing costs Part one
- Ways to lower your marketing costs Part two
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Protecting and growing your wealth
- Finding the right mortgage
- Keeping the show on the road - The different types of insurance you should have
- National Employment Savings Trust (NEST) and Company Pension Schemes: The new law from 2012
- Planning effectively for your retirement
- Protecting you and your family
- The most tax efficient investments
- Understanding SIPPS
- Using pensions to buy a property
- Writing a will to protect your business
Employment Issues
- Additional bank holidays in 2011 and 2012
- Drafting an employment contract
- Employer legislation advice for small business
- Employing the right people
- Horses for courses - staff and team motivation
- National Employment Savings Trust (NEST) Compulsory Employer Pension Schemes
- The end of EBT's and EFRBS?
- What we can learn from the England cricket team
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