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Understanding Your Directors Loan Account

As soon as you incorporate your business into a Limited company and become a director of that company, it becomes a separate entity from you.…

Paul Barnes

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How a Holding Company Can Bring an Added Level of Protection to Your Agency

You’ve been building your agency for a few years now and it has its challenges the same as most do. It can be turbulent at…

David Arden

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How To Attract, Retain and Motivate Your Agency Team Through The Use of an Employee Benefit Trust

High calibre employees are like hot cakes in the digital creative sector at the moment. Every week here at MAP HQ we’re involved in conversations…

David Arden

Cloud Accounting

The Connotations of Bookkeeping VS The Reality and The Importance of The Role It Plays Within Your Agency

When people think of bookkeeping, the connotations associated with the word aren’t great - boring, laborious, difficult. Here at MAP it’s interesting, streamlined and straightforward.…

Sam Jedrzejewski

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Data Collection Systems – Streamlining Your Financial Information

In order for you to make the key financial decisions in your business, you must first be able to access reliable and up to date…

Will Jarvis

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How You Can Get Cash In The Bank By Utilising The Creative Tax Reliefs Available For Your Agency

You might be familiar with R&D tax credits, a popular and often very valuable form of tax relief for the digital creative industry. However, there…

Abusina Qureshi

Cloud Accounting

Find The Profit Opportunities In Your Agency Using Xero’s Cost Centre Reporting

Knowing the profitability of the clients, departments, projects and services in your business is essential for making informed decisions on where you are taking the…

Finlay Keigher

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What To Consider When Choosing A Bonus Scheme For Your Agency Team

It’s no secret that one of the biggest problems agencies can face is being able to attract and retain staff. More often than not agencies…

Abusina Qureshi

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The Big Deal Benefits Of Outsourcing Your Bookkeeping

The task of bookkeeping is often underestimated in businesses. It appears to be a fast and simple job to get transactions entered into an accounting…

Helena Westall

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How To Overcome 11 Of The Most Common Reasons For Not Getting Paid On Time

Almost half of invoices are paid late. And one of the biggest issues we see agency owners facing day in and day out is getting…

Olivia Cartwright

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“If we just push through this next phase, it will all get easier…”

How many times have you found yourself using that line? I hear it all the time from agency owners, and sometimes it's true. But often,…

Paul Barnes

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Everything That You Need To Know About Capital Allowances

Many digital and creative agencies have very little spend on fixed assets, this being a piece of kit or equipment that’s (theoretically) going to last…

Paul Barnes

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How To Make Forecasting Revenue A Focus For Your Agency

Most agencies we work with have a CRM system that helps to manage pipeline opportunities. You can keep track of deals with both new and…

Paul Barnes

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How Your Pre Year-End Tax Review Meeting Can Play A Critical Part In Adding Cash On To Your Bottom Line

Running a business is hard. Growing a business is even harder and if like the majority of agencies, you have struggled to scale retainer income,…

Paul Barnes

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The KEY Tax Opportunities Available For Digital Creative Agencies

Right now there are opportunities to generate cash in your agency that are much simpler than the sweat, blood and tears that goes into searching…

Penny Barnes

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The Agency KPI’s: How To Build A Profitable And Predictable Agency

Having worked with agencies for some years now, I have seen a wide-ranging approach to data and KPI’s from tracking nothing to data overload. Data…

Paul Barnes

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Taxation magazine: Change and challenges

Check out the latest edition of Taxation Magazine, featuring our very own Paul Barnes. Paul features in an article, Changes, and Challenges written by Adam…

Penny Barnes

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What It Takes To Build A WIN-WIN Agency

I have yet to meet an agency that doesn’t want to provide the maximum value it can to its clients. Most of us set up…

Paul Barnes

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The Four Financial Systems to Ensure a Profitable and Predictable Agency

You’ve worked hard on your financial plan, you understand what the targets are, what clients you want to work with and what services you’re going…

David Arden

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The 3 Key Steps To Understanding Your Profit

So you’ve got your top-level numbers sketched out. You know roughly what profit you’re aiming for in 3 years time, 1 years time and the…

Paul Barnes