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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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The Essentials of Finance Maturity: Providing the Bedrock of Digital Agency Growth

A digital agency’s growth and prosperity is aided by having the right financial foundations. To some this might mean how much cash there is in…

Paul Barnes

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The Finance Maturity Curve – Mapping the Growth and Development of Your Digital Agency

An agency’s growth often outpaces the effectiveness of its finance function. A well optimised back office is essential in ensuring you are growing in the…

Paul Barnes

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Guidance For Your Business Post-Brexit

The legislation around Brexit is far-reaching. So to help guide you through the complexities, we've created this guide to break it down. We'll be focusing…

Paul Barnes

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Time to take a step back & look up?

It’s a fact of life (and death) that eventually all of us will have to exit our business one day. Either in an organised way…or…

Paul Barnes

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VAT & The Cashflow Crunch

Many businesses have deferred some VAT or other taxes over the last few months to help with cashflow. This took the pressure off for a…

Paul Barnes

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MAP & KUBIX

We asked one of our valued clients KUBIX, a full-service digital agency based in the heart of Birmingham, what led to their decision to choose…

Paul Barnes

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Why we love XERO and why you should too

I'm a self-confessed XERO fangirl. I recently joined MAP as a Client Financial Controller. Initially, I was drawn here because of how Paul and the…

Rachel Armstrong

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Re-Structuring and Furlough with JRS

Jim Lister, Partner at BLM Solicitors examines the latest changes to the government's coronavirus job retention scheme (JRS), and how it fits with change planning.…

Paul Barnes

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CBILS vs BBLS

As we progress through the coronavirus epidemic, we are beginning to see digital agencies seek options for maintaining their cash flow. In response, the government…

Paul Barnes

Working with MAP

Working with MAP: How easy is it to switch to MAP?

We consistently see the same situations when agencies are thinking about working with MAP. I know you may have been thinking about moving accountants for…

Will Jarvis