UK Business News

Small business owners are being offered the opportunity of  financial training for key accounts staff in the latest government initiative aimed at SMEs.
“Accounting staff really are the unsung heroes of the small business community,” said Adam Harper, Director of Professional Development at the AAT.  “Keeping on top of developments in legislation is a technical challenge [...]

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Cash-strapped small businesses are losing out on the chance to defer a potential £7.7bn of tax payments due to poor finance skills and a failure to seek out professional advice.  So says a report from the Association of Accounting Technicians (AAT), the leading professional education and membership body for accounting staff, listing the three [...]

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The Employment Research Institute reports that SMEs are the place to be for employees if they want the best chance of being recognised and having input to the bigger decisions.
The key benefit of being employed by a smaller company is that of not having to tackle
layers of bureaucracy and self-concerned management to get thoughts heard and [...]

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Some of the UK’s top Universities have taken a defensive stance against intensive, longer
term-time business degrees aimed at appealing to employees and employers.
By running 48 week courses and bringing down course durations from three to two years the government aims to give business what it wants.
However, most unis are set to resist this innovation, most [...]

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