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Staff Benefits Blog

Staff Benefits

  Tax Free Benefits Some benefits can be provided without any tax or NIC costs, such as: Pension contributions Company mobile phones Childcare Support Any…

Paul Barnes

Covid and the health of your Balance Sheet Blog

Covid and the health of your Balance Sheet

Has Covid affected the health of your Balance Sheet?   At my age, I have benefitted from Double vaccinations, a Winter Flu jab and just…

Stuart Brown

Finance Digital Transformation Blog

Finance Digital Transformation

UK finance departments have been slow to adopt digital transformation despite acknowledging that manual processes lead to critical errors and payment delays.   Research into…

Will Jarvis

COP26 and the SME Net Zero challenge Blog

COP26 and the SME Net Zero challenge

Following on from COP26, the accounting industry has called on urgent action to be taken to standardise and simplify carbon reporting to help SMEs join…

Stuart Brown

Extracting value from a business Blog

Extracting value from a business

Taking money and value out of your company.   There are up to 25 ways for a business owner to extract value from their business.…

Paul Barnes

Digital Agency Plans International Expansion with Support from MAP Blog

Digital Agency Plans International Expansion with Support from MAP

London-based digital marketing agency, AccuraCast, was formed in 2004 and employs ten people. The company, which devises data-led marketing plans to help businesses to expand…

Paul Barnes

Upp B2B goes on an automated journey with MAP Blog

Upp B2B goes on an automated journey with MAP

Upp B2B is an award-winning business-to-business (B2B) brand marketing agency based in MediaCity outside Manchester that was established four years’ ago following a merger. Soon after…

Paul Barnes

Paid Media Agency Doubles in Size During Pandemic Blog

Paid Media Agency Doubles in Size During Pandemic

Launch Online was able to make bold business decisions with support from MAP.   Exeter-based digital advertising agency, Launch Online, was established by Jaye Cowle…

Paul Barnes

Why Zero-Emission Cars Are Good For Business Blog

Why Zero-Emission Cars Are Good For Business

With concerns over climate change hitting the headlines, it is perhaps appropriate that the company car tax regime seeks to encourage ‘green’ choices; and rewards…

Abusina Qureshi

How to Buy a Business BlogCorporate Finance

How to Buy a Business

The stages of an acquisition usually follow this process, irrespective of the size of the deal. Some stages are more fluid and may begin sooner…

Paul Barnes

Developing an Acquisition Strategy BlogCorporate Finance

Developing an Acquisition Strategy

The more savvy entrepreneurs are making strategic acquisitions. Either buying companies who are competitors, or diversifying a little (such as vertical integration) or a lot…

Paul Barnes

MAP Provides WilsonCooke With The Foundations For Growth BlogCorporate Finance

MAP Provides WilsonCooke With The Foundations For Growth

WilsonCooke has grown by 35 per cent during the pandemic and is preparing for acquisitions. Manchester-based brand, digital and marketing agency WilsonCooke has been in…

Paul Barnes

How to Increase the Value of Your Business BlogCorporate Finance

How to Increase the Value of Your Business

Ask three people what a business is worth and there's a good chance that you will find three different figures as business valuations are definitely…

Paul Barnes

When Teams Disagree About Their Exit Routes BlogCorporate Finance

When Teams Disagree About Their Exit Routes

Running a business as part of a team allows you to play to each other's strengths, but when you disagree on the long-term strategy for…

Paul Barnes

The Process of a Business Sale BlogCorporate Finance

The Process of a Business Sale

Unless you have aspirations to be a serial entrepreneur, selling your company is usually a once in a lifetime experience which can be quite intimidating…

Paul Barnes

How Extended Finance Maturity Completes the Leadership Picture Blog

How Extended Finance Maturity Completes the Leadership Picture

Finance is an essential function of any business, but it can also complete the leadership picture and enable the development of an increasingly sophisticated digital…

Paul Barnes

Budgeting & Forecasting Blog

Budgeting & Forecasting

The difference between a budget and a forecast: A budget is a detailed financial plan for the businesses financial year A forecast is the expected…

Paul Barnes

Capture it to Maximise it Blog

Capture it to Maximise it

Most business owners accept how important their intangible assets are to their company’s success – their brand, their customers’ loyalty, internal processes, systems and know-how…

Paul Barnes

Enhanced Finance Maturity: How Digital Agencies Can Transform Numbers Into Narrative Blog

Enhanced Finance Maturity: How Digital Agencies Can Transform Numbers Into Narrative

No one expects you to be able to see into the future, but you can use data and commercial experience to plan, actively manage and…

Paul Barnes

Why I signed up to the Life Centred Accountant manifesto Blog

Why I signed up to the Life Centred Accountant manifesto

I’ve always felt I had a sense of purpose. A driving force inside me that goes way back to my teens. At school and through…

Paul Barnes