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Understanding Costs
Understanding Costs: How do they behave? Firstly understanding costs and your business numbers help with a variety of things, including: Pricing of goods and services Business planning Cash Forecasting Controlling costs Understanding profitability of customers,...
Not For Profit & Private Businesses
Not for Profit & private businesses- they all count. Above all, businesses are typically classified as private or not for profit (NFP). Not for profits typically include many art organisations, charities, Community Interest Companies (CICs) and social enterprises....
Ready For Making Tax Digital?
Ready for Making Tax Digital ? There has been a lot of news and noise about Making Tax Digital (MTD). The purpose of this short blog is to remind you of the key points about MTD, which becomes live on 01-Apr-19. Making Tax Digital MTD is compulsory if you’re VAT...
Healthy Business, Healthy You
Having a healthy business is like having a healthy you A healthy business is what we all strive for. This blog will outline a five point approach for getting and improving business health, and how the approach has a lot in common with getting and improving personal...
Maintaining & Growing Business
Firstly maintaining and growing your business requires many things. For example, customer satisfaction, providing good products and services. similarly a motivated workforce, and good relations with suppliers also count. Growing your business Furthermore an area often...
KPI’s- Manage What You Measure
Take charge of your numbers It becomes challenging to know how your business is doing, your progress to your objectives, what you are doing right unless you are measuring and reporting your progress. These measures are commonly referred to as Key Performance...
Prepare For Making Tax Digital- MTD
Prepare for Making Tax Digital -MTD, of 01-April-19 will soon be upon us. HMRC have started sending out nudge letters to VAT registered businesses. We have already registered our own clients with HMRC and migrated them over to our preferred platform of choice, Xero. ...
Property & Tax- 5 Points
Property & Tax Five points Property Investors should take onboard when it comes to property and tax. 1 Consider the type of property and time frame of the investment, short term or long term. Property will either be commercial and/or residential property....
Cloud Accounting & Xero
Get started with Cloud Accounting and Xero Firstly financial and business information plays a vital role in the management of businesses. Furthermore it is used for numerous day-to-day operations to help: Comply with accounts, tax, PAYE and VAT obligations Tell us...
Keep Business Cash Flowing
Keep business cash flowing Firstly keeping business cash flowing is the most important financial commodity that keeps the business wheels rolling. Secondly cash is the life-blood of any business and is vital for survival, sustainability, investment and growth. As a...
Tax Return’s: Need To Know
Tax Return's Firstly there's three key tips in for you to consider if you haven't filed your Tax Return yet. More importantly the clock is ticking, the 31-Jan-22 is D-Day, and if late penalties will apply, even if no tax is owed. We’re in full swing here at I Hate...
Xero Conversion: Set Up Guide
Xero Conversion set up guide Set up Xero today! 1. Business legal name & associated registration and tax references 2. Financial year end for your organisation. 3. Logo, payment terms and a starting point for your invoice/credit note numbering sequence 4. Email...
Making Tax Digital- MTD
In the digital age, the UK tax system is evolving to become more efficient, effective, and taxpayer-friendly. Making Tax Digital (MTD) is at the forefront of this transformation, aimed at positioning HMRC as a global leader in digital tax administration. But what...
Managing Cash Flow
How to manage cash flow Firstly managing cash flow is paramount for all businesses. Revenue is vanity, profit is sanity, and cash is reality. Secondly cash, what gets paid into your banks or your wallets/purses is the life-blood of any business. Cash is needed for a...
Switching Off From Your Business
Today we're looking at the importance of taking time away from your business. In other words switching off from your business. So we thought it’d be nice to have a bit of a personal touch today by sharing with you all how we switched off from our business for a few...
Property & Capital Gains Tax Video
Firstly property returns are made by way of income (rentals and trading) and/or capital gains. This article will focus on the capital gains considerations for an individual residential property investor, post 5th April 2018. Property gains are calculated by deducting...
Look After Your Mental Health
Mental Health Here at I Hate Numbers we just wanted remind everyone to spare a moment and consider if you are looking after your mental health. From a business perspective we understand that we are all valuable business assets. That's why you need to take care of...
Work/Life Balance
Work Life Balance Do you need “More Time”? Most of us do Do you have the right work/life balance?- Most of us do not Firstly it’s really important to try and make sure you do have both. Secondly we are happy to introduce our kitty Scampi as he’s truly mastered the art...
More Money For Your Business
In business making more money is one of the things most of you want to achieve. During this week here at Pro Active Resolutions (PAR) we will be looking at ways to help you achieve this. We are going to talk you about proven Marketing strategies to financial know...
Idea To A Viable Business
Firstly lots of people have creative ideas that could potentially turn into a great viable business venture. However not a lot of these actually make it to the next step of actually turning it into a reality. Secondly converting a great idea into a reality is not...
Employee Motivation
Employee motivation is highly important for the productivity and growth of any organisation. As a result employees who are motivated by managers show good efforts, get involved in critical processes and on the whole remain loyal to the organisation. Therefore...