Funding. Sooner or later, every business needs an injection of cash. Whether it is for launching a start-up, investing in new technology, or financing an expansion, sourcing fresh funds can be crucial. That funding may take a variety of forms – loan, investment, grant – but regardless of the route taken, funder confidence is vital. […]
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Wanted in England: An accountant from Ireland.
Are you an Irish qualified chartered accountant with one or two years’ post qualification experience? Do you fancy working for an accountancy practice that’s based in one of the most vibrant areas of London? Then you could be just the person we’re looking for. We want to recruit somebody like you to join our team […]
Corporate social responsibility – keeping it local
First published in NURSERY MANAGEMENT TODAY in their November/December 2013 issue and reproduced here with the magazine’s kind permission. Carol Cheesman explains how you can establish your corporate social responsibility by giving it a local twist There are numerous benefits to be derived from businesses engaging with their local community. In many cases, both the […]
How can a business owner prepare before seeking finance?
In this article for franchiseseek.co.uk: How can a business owner prepare before seeking finance? Carol Cheesman offers advice to franchisors hoping to raise finance and explains how they need to prepare.. In looking at how a business owner can prepare before seeking finance Carol explores these 4 important questions: What key points should business owners […]
What are Limited Liability Partnerships?
A Limited Liability Partnership (LLP) is a hybrid of a Partnership and a Limited Company. Only introduced in 2001, it combines limited liability with the flexibility of partnerships. An LLP has a separate legal identity so it can be more preferential than a sole trader and has the tax status of an ordinary partnership. This […]
Tax simplification
The Government has announced its intention to adopt a number of proposals made by the Office of Tax Simplification (OTS) aimed at small business. The Government has indicated that the proposals should apply to unincorporated businesses with a turnover up to the VAT threshold of £77,000 and that they should continue to apply to businesses […]
Carol Cheesman on owner-managed businesses (video)
My name is Carol Cheesman. I’m the Senior Partner of a firm of accountants based in Islington – right opposite the Business Design Centre in Islington. We’ve been going just over twenty years. In fact we’re about to celebrate our twenty-first anniversary. We’re a little bit unusual as a firm of accountants. In that we […]
Striking Off a Company
The House of Commons recently passed the Enactment of Extra-Statutory Concessions Order 2012, thereby giving legislative effect to six extra-statutory concessions including Extra Statutory Concession C16 which deals with the tax treatment of distributions to shareholders when a company is struck off without a formal winding up. Under ESC C16, HM Revenue & Customs has […]
The Bribery Act 2010: What should you be aware of?
The Bribery Act 2010 (“the Act”) received Royal Assent on 8 April 2010 and came into force on 1 July 2011. The Act is concerned with bribery and not, for example, fraud, theft, Money Laundering or Companies Act offences. The Act contains 2 general offences dealing with the offering, promising or giving of a bribe […]