Fractual or fractional ownership is the hottest new approach to buying luxury items that an individual would not otherwise be able to afford.
Fractual (fractionally actual) ownership allows a group of individuals to purchase a percentage of real estate, luxury car, resort, vineyard, restaurant, jet, yacht, artwork, or even a fine Rolex. Fractual owners or investors […]

It can be difficult for a business to give up control of important functions such as accounting services to an outside agency. Although the argument in favor of outsourcing may look good on paper, there is always the worry that some inept or even dishonest bookkeeper could damage the business.
Once a company has made the […]

If you own a business, no matter how big or small, then you may find that balancing your staff wages and ensuring all is done to keep up with new wage legislations is becoming an ever increasing, time consuming task. This is why you should look into the idea of payroll outsourcing and employing someone […]

Any company, big or small needs to manage its cash flow well, just as much as its sales and expenditure. There are many giants that were seemingly doing very well with steeply rising sales and running massive projects, spending lavishly on research and development backed with advertising campaigns, only to see them crash almost overnight. […]

There are a lot of people with finance backgrounds and it is a very competitive environment, however saying that there are a lot of jobs in finance out there and it can be a very rewarding job to do.
If you want to get a good background in finance, a good way to start is to […]

The first stage is to ensure the organisational chart clearly represents the management responsibility of each department and activity area. Financial accountancy and cost accounting should be integrated and aligned to enable detailed management information reporting and accurate financial records for each activity.
The cost and management information reporting system should be focused upon critical items […]

The essentials element of payroll administration in the UK is to accurately calculate the income tax and national insurance contributions deducted from the employee each pay period, produce payslips for each employee and account to the tax office for the payroll deductions.
Running a payroll system is natural for medium and large companies who may employ […]

Fixed assets are the long term items the business owns which the business has acquired and uses to generate business over a number of years. Fixed assets consist of tangible items such as land and buildings, plant and machinery, fixtures and fittings, vehicles and computers.
The numerical value of the fixed assets shown in the […]

Goal setting is crucial to the success of any business, but is particularly important for entrepreneurs in the bookkeeping service business who can become distracted with multiple priorities. Goal setting allows us to be proactive, instead of just being reactive. We’ve all had days where we leap from one crisis to another, but we know […]

It seems to me that, for large swathes of the public, the two “fiscal rules” that govern economic expenditure are, if not totally incomprehensible, at least too shatteringly dull to care about. One states that borrowing should not exceed the bracket of 40% of GDP whilst the other, the ‘golden rule’, refers to the balancing […]