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 Choosing your best Business Structure

 Choosing your best Business Structure

When setting up a business one of the first considerations you will have to make is Choosing your best Business Structure.  The common options are whether to operate as a limited company, a sole trader, partnership, or a charity! In this episode of ‘I Hate Numbers’ I...

Budgets are your business financial story

Budgets are your business financial story

Budgets are your business financial story.  Budgets convert your business story and action plan into financial terms.  Check out my previous podcast which talks about why your business plan is a smart way to map out your future story. Budgets is this weeks episode of...

Working from home

Working from home

Nearly half of the UK workforce are now working from home, and for many, it’s a new experience. Far from being an opportunity to relax in front of the television and send a few emails, it actually brings its own challenges. The ongoing coronavirus pandemic and social...

Planning your business journey

Planning your business journey

“If you fail to plan, you are planning to fail” - Benjamin Franklin.  That saying applies perfectly to business planning, or as I like to see it, planning your business journey. In this episode of ‘I Hate Numbers’ I am going to be talking about Planning your Business...

Migration to cloud accounting

Migration to cloud accounting

In this podcast I talk about the steps required in regards to migration to cloud accounting. Last week’s episode talked about how cloud accounting connects you more easily to your numbers. Likewise helping navigate your business present and future with ease. “There is...

Recording and capturing your numbers

Recording and capturing your numbers

Recording and capturing your numbers is a must do if you want to take your business seriously.   Last week’s podcast looked at the how bookkeeping gives life to your financial and business activities – and helps you make money. In this episode of ‘I Hate Numbers’ I am...

Bookkeeping: Your business words

Bookkeeping: Your business words

Today’s episode of I Hate Numbers is about Bookkeeping: Your business words. Travel back to Ancient Mesopotamia, Babylon, Assyria & Sumeria and you will see they have got their bookkeeping & accounting sorted. Documents from ancient Mesopotamia show lists of...

Break-even

Break-even

Welcome to today’s episode of I Hate Numbers where we talk about break-even. Making profits is what your business should aim to do. The financial milestone before that is for you to break even. Knowing your break even gives you better business insights, greater...

Knowing your costs makes you money

Knowing your costs makes you money

Welcome to today’s episode of I Hate Numbers.   Knowing your costs makes you money, a statement of the obvious perhaps.  Certainly with statements of the obvious we sometimes forget business basics. In this podcast episode I am going to take a real cool way to look at...

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