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Assessing your working capital requirements - 5 points to get it right

Cash, or lack thereof kills most small businesses within the first few years of starting up. Inevitably a good awareness of what you need...

From DIY Books to Outsourced CFO - Where do you start?

When it comes to a Company's accounting needs, there is sometimes a lot of internal confusion. Should we start with a DIY-Software type t...

Business Productivity Series - Integrated Automation and Business Planning

In our opinion, companies leak efficiency and consequently cash due to two main issues, Zero or limited automation Lack of business plann...

Smart controls - Building internal controls in a small business

“There's a storm coming, Mr. Wayne. You and your friends better batten down the hatches, because when it hits, you're all gonna wonder how...

Collate, Centralize, Manage - Why an investor (VC) should encourage portfolio compa

I met David and Angela in the summer of 2016 to speak about how to manage the numbers for their portfolio companies. Their investment man...

My Start-Up: Ages Apparel - Ross Okoye (Co - Founder)

Think Serengeti, Maasai Mara and a length and breadth of land so ancient and mesmerizing - everything about Africa signifies life as a wh...

Rod Drury's Key Note Speech - Brisbane 2016

Rod Drury's key note speech in Xerocon South - 2016 at Brisbane was rich with how the accounting industry's foremost software was formed ...

My Start-Up: The Big Bright Idea - Ian Simmonds (Founder)

I met Ian in Bournemouth in the summer of 2016 and thought, he seems to have wit and warmth. I wasn't mistaken. We caught up with him to ...

My Start-Up: Sports First Academy - Jamie Whittle (Founder)

Sport - an activity involving physical exertion and skill in which an individual or team competes against another or others for entertain...

My Business: Laceys Solicitors - Sam Freeman (Partner)

Yes, we literally had to change the name of our blog post this month from "start-up" to "business". We feature a versatile, long standing...

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