by admin | Jan 2, 2015 | Blog, Business, Business Finance Junction, Economy, Finance, News, Noteworthy News
From January 1, changes to EU VAT place supply service rules to digital services. This means the place of taxation will be determined by the location of the consumer, not the location of the supplier; VAT for such things as ebooks and downloads will be payable to the country where the service is bought instead [...]
by admin | Dec 5, 2014 | Blog, Business, Economy, Finance, In Business, Miscellaneous, Small Business Blog
Sometimes going unnoticed, local traders’ offerings are available all year round. Building on research by American Express, who founded the initiative in the U.S. a few years ago, which illustrated there were benefits to a community and its sense of well-being when support of local businesses had been embraced. There’s a simple message; Use It [...]
by admin | Dec 1, 2014 | Blog, Business, Economy, Finance, In Business, Monthly Musings, Small Business Blog
Carving a Story: Fact is Stranger than Fiction Bring It Down Warning: I once had the misfortune of speaking to a man about life insurance a week before he died, his death hadn’t been anticipated; he was the victim of an accident. The family holiday was much more inviting and distracting than talking with me, [...]
by admin | Dec 1, 2014 | Blog, Business, Business Finance Junction, Economy, Finance, Monthly Musings, News, Small Business Blog, Uncategorized
The Bank of England stress test results on the British banking system are being issued December 16, alongside its half-yearly financial stability report. The tests focus on the housing market and the Bank’s ‘adverse scenario’ which has a correction factored in. Tenancy checks for private landlords in the West Midlands are liable for a ‘Civil [...]
by admin | Nov 15, 2014 | Blog, Business, Economy, Finance, Market Update, Small Business Blog
The final rounds of numbers for the year are out from the Bank of England’s Quarterly Inflation Report. To recap a recap, unemployment has seemingly been the guiding light of the indicators and, although falling, the rate of unemployment remains at 6%. So to wages, with the average weekly earnings growth showing slight (a word [...]
by admin | Nov 1, 2014 | Blog, Business, Business Notes, Economy, Finance, In Business, Monthly Musings, Newsletter, Small Business Blog
How Squeezing In Your Business Works Market trends continue to be inconsistent with the consequential effects showing a lack of consistency. No, really!? Who’d have guessed? And then what happens with such elementary information during our times? Yet more talk of the better business bastion: planning? Pleeeeze....Change the story! Shifts happened. Measuring returns on investments [...]
by admin | Nov 1, 2014 | Blog, Business, Business Finance Junction, Business Notes, Economy, Finance, In Business, Monthly Musings, News
B of E has said that mortgage approvals for house purchase fell in September, from August, with the biggest drop since July 2013. A tougher leverage ratio is anticipated in specifying the minimum amount of core capital a bank must hold as a proportion of is total assets, regardless of how risky or safe a [...]
by admin | Oct 1, 2014 | Blog, Business, Economy, Finance, In Business, Newsletter, Small Business Blog
How to Match Science with Finance Pure gold, my Sunday lay ahead with no pressing commitments.... and what better start than good coffee alongside pastries in sufficient size to alert the diabetes police. This is the time my brain gets to defrag, even occasionally managing its level of a Newton moment (akin to looking [...]
