An independent study commissioned by Dun & Bradstreet shines a light on the complexities of the modern financial leaders role – highlighting a community under intense pressure to balance traditional accounting tasks with more strategic revenue-generating activities. Of the 200 UKfinancial leaders surveyed, almost three-quarters (71 per cent) believe finance teams are under too much pressure to
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2017 sees UK dividends pumped up by weaker pound
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2017 saw a brisk start for UK dividends, according to the latest UK Dividend Monitor from Capita Asset Services, which provides infrastructure, services and expertise to clients across the capital markets. The headline figures are impressive, but growth was rather narrowly based. It depended heavily on large exchange rate gains, and a stronger-than-expected rebound in
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UK retail sales post biggest quarterly fall since 2010
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British retail sales posted the biggest quarterly fall in seven years during the first three months of 2017, as rising prices since last year’s Brexit vote started to pressure consumers. Retail sales volumes contracted 1.4 per cent in the first quarter following a 0.8 per cent rise in the last three months of 2016 according
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British SMEs enter the election season on a wave of optimism
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While Theresa May can’t guarantee the support of the small business community before the election season, she can be reassured that its confidence in its own growth is the highest in four years, according to the latest Enterprise Index results from Smith & Williamson, the accountancy, tax and investment management group. The Enterprise Index, a
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UK micro-businesses remain bullish despite fears over the economy
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Freelancers and micro-business owners are proving resilient despite their fears over the UK economy, according to new research from cloud accounting software company FreeAgent. In a survey of more than 700 owners of micro-businesses, commissioned by FreeAgent and conducted by OnePoll, just one in ten (ten per cent) respondents say they thought the UK economy
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New research reveals workplace stress map of the UK
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More people in the South feel ‘burnt out’ and ‘on edge’ because of work pressures, compared with those in the North or the Midlands, according to new research released today by Crunch Accounting. However, the overall picture of workplace stress is not encouraging, with figures show that it affects a concerning proportion of workers across
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UK SMEs spend £60 billion per year accessing expert consultants
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Nearly half (49 per cent) of small businesses avoid hiring external consultants because of over inflated costs, with more than a third (36 per cent) citing scepticism about their level of expertise as a barrier. The research, commissioned by Zeqr finds SMEs in the UK spend over 570 million hours researching and briefing externals specialists to help
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Anti-business Budget and Article 50 fail to knock SME appetite for borrowing
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Britain’s small and micro businesses have shrugged off an ‘anti-business’ Spring Budget and uncertainty around the triggering of Article 50, as the average value of borrowing or funding enquiry on the National Association of Commercial Finance Brokers’ (NACFB) findSMEfinance platform increased by over £5,000 in the four weeks from 8 March. While the number of finance
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Caffeine addiction: employee coffee trips costing British businesses
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The average worker spends just over 22 minutes a week nipping out to coffee shops to satisfy their caffeine habit. That’s nearly 18 hours a year. With the average British pay packet now more than £500 a week, that means our caffeine fix is costing bosses £259 a year per employee. And with the UK’s
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SMEs frustrated with high cost online advertising
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New research by online advertising experts Expressly reveals that 24 per cent of small-to-medium businesses believe current advertising systems, such as those pioneered by Google and Facebook, need to be more effective. More than a quarter of SMEs find current methods of online advertising too expensive. According to the survey, 34 per cent of SMEs use
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