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We miss you.

I’ve spent the last few days reading emails from people who are desperate to keep in touch with me, my personal inbox is overflowing with messages from companies struggling to keep me on their mailing list; funny enough I don’t recognise half of them! Alright, that’s a slight exaggeration but some I don’t ever remember signing up for any mailings; so now is a perfect time to use the opportunity and not reply. From 25th May a new law comes into force called GDPR, it basically means if you...

It's my money.

There are lots of ‘rules’ of business but something we frequently see is personal spend from business accounts; so why is it such a problem? After all it’s my money? Isn’t it?So, lets have some background to put some context into the problem. It’s very easy to see the money in your business as your own, for Sole Traders that is almost true but you should still keep in mind that business and personal income & expenditure have differing tax rules; unless you have very few business transa...

Banking on Disaster

After 10 days TSB Bank are still having problems with their computer systems, but what does this mean for those who rely on the bank to conduct their business? Even a look on TSB’s website is enough to know that things still aren’t right, phrases such as ‘some customers may still experience issues logging in’ are commonplace but if you’re a business trying to pay staff, your suppliers, or even just to check you are being paid it simply isn’t good enough. In the short term there is v...