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How to make sure that everybody can benefit from the single-minded pursuit of profit
Many a business owner has sat in his boardroom, looked over his accounts for the umpteenth time and muttered darkly to his fellow directors: “Turnover is vanity; profit is sanity.” What may not be so obvious to everybody else in the room is how to track down that profit.
May 2008 issue, HR Network Scotland
Outsourcing to established partners adds up
Financial outsourcing solutions are becoming more sophisticated and businesses that have not considered putting their day-to-day accounting operations into the hands of a third party, should take the time to explore the possibilities.
14 March 2008, Business7
A Cool Head Required in the Buy-To Let Market
The doomsters have been out in force since last year warning of exceptionally tricky financial markets in 2008, not least for those who have invested in the property buy to let phenomenon. Now, it’s certainly true that a major issue facing many such participants is that properties bought on 3 to 5 years fixed mortgage rates of under 5 per cent are now coming to an end and new variable rate are significantly higher, perhaps as much as fifty per cent greater than previously. This means a huge rise in monthly interest rate payments.
19 February 2008, Press & Journal
Over-regulation is driving local pubs to the wall
A wave of restrictive legislation designed to control the way pubs operate is forcing the traditional Scottish bar to the wall, as more than one of my clients has made clear.
07 February 2008, Scottish Licensed Trade News
Carrot is better than stick when it comes to green issues
How do you feel about making a free and frank confession of all your company’s carbon footprint transgressions?
05 November 2007, The Herald
Why Disclosure of Audit Profits Should be Mandatory
One of the most significant suggestions made by the Financial Reporting Council as part of its investigation of ways to break the stranglehold of the Big Four on major audits is that auditors should be forced to disclose their profits on audit work. This is a suggestion of which I not only approve whole-heartedly, but which, if implemented, might just have a chance of achieving its aim.
November 2007 issue, Accountancy Age Best Practice
Why the Chancellor must be wary of turning a panic into a crisis
Nothing is guaranteed in life, so why should bank deposits be? This is the only possible reaction to Chancellor Alistair Darling’s unseemly rush to underwrite the risk assumed by savers in the wake of the Northern Rock fiasco.
27 October 2007, The Scotsman
Why filing accounts on time is in everyone’s interests
The persistence of late filing of accounts remains one of life’s great mysteries for accountants. Why businessmen and businesses – who, in every other field, will squeeze a penny till it squeaks – are content to pay substantial fines to Companies House is a perennial puzzle.
15 October 2007, The Herald
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