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Ole Hansen, futures and fixed income manager at Saxo Bank, explains why today's low oil prices may not be the godsend for growth companies they seem to be.
Is the PBR an early Christmas present for businesses, or will it bring on a Boxing Day-style hangover? We ask entrepreneurs and experts for their verdict.
In the past six months the pound has fallen by more than eight per cent against the dollar and the euro.
In many SMEs, the finance function simply doesn’t deliver the information the business needs.
Research from consultancy firm REL suggests that public companies improve their year-end results through a number of well-established ‘games’.
Following Chancellor Alistair Darling's first pre-Budget report to Parliament, we asked private equity players and entrepreneurs for their reaction to the abolition of taper relief and a new capital gains tax rate of 18 per cent.
If you’re looking for a finance director (FD), or aspiring to become one yourself, you should be aware that this position now carries with it a range of responsibilities and opportunities extending far beyond its traditional finance functions.
As every entrepreneur knows, growing a company is fraught with perils. Your business model, for instance, might have worked well up to a certain stage of development, but may prove woefully unsuitable at the next one. Key customers or suppliers may let you down.
It would be unfeasible to run any enterprise of scale without extending and accepting credit. Trade credit is actually a crucial source of funding for companies and is on average ‘twice the size’ of bank credit, according to the Credit Management Research Centre (CMRC).
It costs businesses nothing, can raise millions of pounds for charities and there’s even the possibility of a grant to help set it up, but the Give As You Earn scheme is being under-used as it seems too good to be true.
Bringing a business back from the brink is a black art that requires ingenuity, guile, commercial courage and nerves of steel. GrowthBusiness highlights four of the best British business fightbacks of the past year.
Late payments and outstanding debts are the curse of growing businesses. Bad payers can really mess with your cash flow and, in some extreme cases, businesses have gone bust purely because the revenue due wasn’t received.
Bartercard is an innovative service that allows growing business to trade with each other without using hard cash. UK managing director Ian Jones talks to GrowthBusiness.
More than a quarter of businesses have successfully charged interest under the late payment legislation – and this figure looks set to grow.
This unique research report provides a comprehensive assessment of AIM and reveals the best-and worst-performing stocks on AIM of last year.
A comprehensive report on VCTs and over £1 billion in investment trusts just waiting to be invested in fast growth ventures.
The 2007/2008 AIM Guide contains essential information for anyone interested in the Alternative Investment Market.
Business XL is written by leaders for leaders. The magazine is a fountain of inside information and knowledge, which can only be delivered by people who have started, bought and grown their own business.
M&A Magazine is the leading mid-market monthly corporate finance publication in the UK.
The challenges David Ferry faced when starting and growing his business, Ferry Financial.
David Ferry set up his business, Ferry Financial, because he believed there was a better way to do financial management
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