Restaurant boom In the not too distant past, the hospitality sector has enjoyed a highly positive surge in business. Eating out was very popular among millennials, who generally have a different attitude to meals out than their parents. Baby boomers…
The breach Social media behemoth Facebook is currently at the centre of a massive data protection scandal. The breach is top news across the globe, with CEO Mark Zuckerberg appearing before the US Senate today. The scandal concerns the details…
Spring Statement 2018 Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Hammond presented his first Spring Statement to Parliament last week. The Spring Statement allows people and businesses to plan for the future. Politics often goes over our heads in this busy life,…
International Women’s Day 2018 It should go without saying that businesses should always support female employees and encourage them to grow. Happily, we have made great strides towards workplace equality in recent years. However, there is still a long way…
Brexit As we all well know, Britain voted to leave the European Union 23rd June 2016. Since then, there has been much worry and concern about what Brexit will bring. Many businesses owners are optimistic and hopeful for the post-Brexit…
What is AI? The advance of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has come on leaps and bounds in recent years. Many are welcoming this groundbreaking step as representing a new frontier in technology. However, some are more wary of the changes that…
Too much power? The Economic Affairs Committee has said that HMRC has recently been given some broad powers without effective safeguards. HMRC have introduced high penalties which are designed to deter taxpayers from appealing. The committee has claimed that this…
As April 2021 approaches, employers are reminded of some of the statutory changes that are upcoming, along with some crucial details that should be kept in mind especially when it comes to the minimum wage, contracting, and the furlough…
Everyone always starts out with good intentions to keep all their books up to date, but as other parts of running a business start to take more and more time up you find that the dreaded bookkeeping is left until…
You might be forgiven for ignoring last week’s budget given that we have an election in six week’s time and an emergency budget soon after. We know that not all of the measures will come to fruition, but two trends are likely…
Social Media Social media is arguably one of the fastest growing and ever changing technologies in use today. An estimated 2.46 billion people use social media across the globe. Therefore, most forward thinking businesses should be jumping on board the social…
Corporate social responsibility In this increasingly progressive world, it is becoming more commonplace for businesses to have an awareness of corporate social responsibility. ‘CSR’ is a corporation’s initiative to assess and take responsibility for the company’s effects on environmental and…