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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

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

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

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

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

Guidance For Your Business Post-Brexit Blog

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

Time to take a step back & look up? Blog

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

VAT & The Cashflow Crunch Blog

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

MAP & KUBIX Blog

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

Why we love XERO and why you should too Blog

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

Re-Structuring and Furlough with JRS Blog

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