Paul Barnes, Author at Clients

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Recharging your Agency

All agency owners want to get new business in. They want the retained income to help them to sleep easier at night, coupled with some…

Paul BarnesAugust 10, 2017

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Improving Your Cash Flow

As a growing agency cash flow is often a major issue. The facts are you're probably employing people ahead of actually having the regular…

Paul BarnesJuly 26, 2017

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Sanity not vanity – why top line growth isn’t always the answer

When someone asks you the size of your agency, invariably you’ll probably respond with the number of staff you employ and your annual sales…

Paul BarnesMay 24, 2017

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Planning on growing your agency and need funding to do it?

Here’s just some of the things you’ll be asked for by either the bank (if looking for debt finance) or a potential investor (if…

Paul BarnesMarch 15, 2017

Saving Tax

Support small businesses: have your say about dividend tax

The Government is about to bring in changes to shareholder’s dividend income that will make it harder than ever for small business owners to make…

Paul BarnesJanuary 29, 2016

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The importance of valuing work in progress – and how to do it

When we first start working with a new client, there’s one key accounting lesson we educate them in as soon as possible. And that’s the…

Paul BarnesJuly 9, 2015

Becoming Profitable

Management Accounts: The beating heart of your business

Management accounts. Not a phrase that sets the pulse racing, is it? But they’re actually the beating heart of your business and the key to…

Paul BarnesMarch 27, 2015

Saving Tax

Xero Tips – Inventory Items

Many businesses sell or provide the same goods or services over and over again, and yet when raising invoices, they insist on re-creating the description…

Paul BarnesDecember 28, 2014

Cloud Accounting

Xero Feature: Customer Customisation

Regular readers will know how much we love Xero here and so every so often we show case a feature that we love.... Another great…

Paul BarnesOctober 21, 2014

Becoming Profitable

Reduce your Marketing Spend by 80%

Did you know that according to Bain & Company, it costs on average six to seven times more to acquire a new customer than it…

Paul BarnesAugust 27, 2014