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What is the cloud, exactly?
Cloud computing is a pretty foggy subject, especially with regard to business and the on-again-off-again relationship we have with our data.
Continue reading Demystifying the Cloud: Cloud computing and what it means for your business
This is a question we get asked a lot and many people are concerned that the insurance will either be difficult to obtain or too costly, well don’t let that stop you from protecting your business because it really isn’t true!
For several years, dividends have proven to be a tax effective way for owner/shareholders to extract profits from their company. Whilst salary and bonuses are tax-deductible for the company, and will currently save 20% corporation tax, this saving does not fully offset the substantial costs of National Insurance contributions (NIC) which accrue when making payments through the PAYE system.
Many readers may be surprised to learn that auto enrolment has been in operation for large employers (250+) since 2012. The auto enrolment process will continue up to the final staging dates in 2017, but despite recent TV advertising campaigns from the Pensions Regulator featuring the larger than life character ‘Workie’, it seems some employers are still unsure or in some cases unaware of how this fundamental change may affect them and their employees.
Making it as easy as possible for customers and clients to pay increases our chances of getting the cash, improves cashflow and reduces all the admin burden of dealing with payments. Online payments are no longer purely the reserve of online retail, we’re now seeing service based businesses beginning to take advantage of the benefits of processing payments online. This means the long, drawn out processes of bank visits to pay in should hopefully be a thing of the past and businesses are able to get their payments dealt with efficiently and effectively.
Continue reading An Overview Of Online Payment Processing Methods For Your Business
I can’t stress enough how important it is to hit the ground running in January and make sure you’re already on target for your goals and objectives. It’s far easier to hit your targets when each month’s results are in line with your projections.
Contract hero or Unfair Zero? whatever you believe, the zero hour contract has certainly made its mark in UK Employment Law and the press.
The Consumer Rights Act 2015 (“CRA”) is the biggest single change in consumer law for three decades and as the New Year starts businesses will really see the CRA begin to bite.
More and more email accounts are getting hacked on a daily basis. In this blog we are going to go through how to keep your email account safe and protected.
Economist E.F Schumacher’s book of the early 70’s “Small is Beautiful” was a radical challenge to the 20th century’s intoxication with what the author described as “gigantism”. For several decades, mass production methods were producing cheaper goods than ever before and mass media and mass culture opened up new opportunities to a wider audience than ever. It was creating bigger markets and bigger political entities – his book came on the eve of the vote on the European Common Market in 1975 – but he believed such scale led to a dehumanisation of people and the economic systems that ordered their lives.