Cashless payments and SMEs
HMRC report indicates trends towards cashless payments will continue. Kay Brookes, partner at Bates Weston looks at how cashless payments can help with cashflow management.
What should you expect from your accountant?
Raise your expectations. The right accountant on your team makes a real difference to running your business day to day and helps you plan ahead with confidence.
Business impact of Coronavirus
Latest Business Impact of Coronavirus Survey (BICS) shows short term pressures on businesses and mixed effects on turnover. CBI calls for long term national economic vision and strategy.
Kickstart changes
The government has announced changes to the Kickstart scheme, lowering the threshold from 30 placements to allow SMEs to apply direct to DWP when creating smaller numbers of job placements.
Government publishes review of R & D tax relief regime
Government review of R& D tax relief indicates that the relief does promote R & D spending but that 51% of companies have never heard of it. Richard Coombs takes a look at the findings.