Step-Up Finance
Rising Froth: Assigning Value Discipline Just as the economists are said to be puzzled by ONS statistics showing a rise in employment during recession, I’m hearing some business owners being equally puzzled as to why, with an increasing roll-call of practicing solicitors, it’s difficult to find one they’re comfortable with. As essential facilitator as part of the buying /selling of businesses...
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Although annual inflation had dropped to its lowest in 3 years at under 3%, Inflation and Productivity research by the Forum of Private Business’s (FPB) showed, from those who took part in the referendum survey, inflation was running at 6%-7%, with the most common increase in costs for SME’s being energy. Also citing fuel and energy costs as a sector challenge, the construction industry saw...
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The man ‘flu hasn’t receded: meaning I’ve been at the receiving end of quite a few ‘told you so!’ from those near and (increasingly) not-so-dear as they remind me of their fore warnings – ‘It’s colder out there than it looks’, ‘keeping those wet socks on won’t help’, ‘feed a cold, starve a flu… where does it say drink plenty of whisky?’ Basically I’m being told...
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I sometimes don’t know which hard surface to bang my head against first. There’s the one waiting next to those who, being good at what they do in business adopt an attitude of possessing business acumen in specialist areas – to which they have no experience - or, the hard surface next to those businesses who follow these expansion of service offerings like a blinkered donkey following a...
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Shoot…! ….Before You’re Shot! Killing Overload…. Clearly for us in the Northern hemisphere, after tilting its maximum towards the sun in June, the longest day in terms of daylight hours has reached its peak for another year. Doubtless is the longest day for business owner-managers, with any changes occurring in different areas at the same time, over yet… and the...
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Old news, the UK is in recession (again) as the Office of National Statistics said Britain’s GDP fell 0.2% in the first quarter of 2012 after contracting by 0.3% at the end of 2011, forecasts were upset by a big fall in construction output and industrial output. Therefore, with a sinking-ship type economy, apt news via an Australian whose planning on constructing Titanic II in late 2013, with...
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Anything is Possible, Not Probable: In Business. In Finance. Any business managing to track a path throughout the last few years and get to now, which is the majority of small or micro business (and includes new entry), should be very proud. What next, what’s the future of your business? Why should you want to think about future business, you enjoy a peaceful life and don’t want to rock any...
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Fuzzy Numbers… 2 signatures were missing from the EU Fiscal Compact, UK and Czech Republic were the 2 out of 27 EU leaders who didn’t sign the new treaty, enforcing budget discipline and aiming to prevent huge debts and potential consequential bailouts. The ‘fiscal compact’, signed before any fiscal / transfer union or any devalue/ leaving, will now to go before national parliaments. 3...
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