How To Calculate Your Business Rates

How To Calculate Your Business Rates

Starting your own business is always an exciting venture. Driven by dreams of ambitious rags to riches success stories, who can blame new business owners for foreseeing themselves as future frontrunners in their given sector? However, much of that glamorous...
How Accounting Can Take Your Start Up To The Next Level

How Accounting Can Take Your Start Up To The Next Level

Finance is regularly considered one of the core pillars of any successful business. While money may not legitimately make the world go round, it is a pretty crucial factor in both measuring the success of your business and guiding it on its next steps. After all, if...
Do I have to pay my employees sick pay?

Do I have to pay my employees sick pay?

Whether it’s strep, sniffles or the stomach bug, we all get sick. As a business owner, you have to juggle both the wellbeing of your team and your business, and while you’re happy for an employee to take all the R&R and ibuprofen they need to get back on their...
Do I need an accountant to file my R&D tax credits? 

Do I need an accountant to file my R&D tax credits? 

As a creative business owner, you know better than anyone the level of innovation and experimentation your industry requires. This is the exact business model that R&D tax credits were designed to reward. Introduced in 2000, this scheme by HMRC incentivises...
How An Accountant Can Boost Business For Your Marketing Agency

How An Accountant Can Boost Business For Your Marketing Agency

Running your own marketing agency is no mean feat. Juggling the constant stream of responsibilities that are fired your way all while delivering quality work and keeping the clients happy can be a full on experience at the best of times. Here we run down just some of...
What is an R&D claim and does my creative business qualify for it?

What is an R&D claim and does my creative business qualify for it?

When you hear the phrase “research and development” you probably think of scientists in white coats, mixing chemicals in a lab. You certainly don’t do anything like that in your creative business, so you’ve always assumed you weren’t eligible for tax relief through an...