by Susie Kevern | Feb 5, 2021 | Managing Business Finance
How do you keep control of marketing spend in a growing business? How much should your business be spending on marketing? Is it an investment in the future or just a cost? Marketing spend is a difficult sell to accountants – there is no way of guaranteeing that...
by Susie Kevern | Feb 1, 2021 | Managing Business Finance
What’s the most effective way of controlling spending in your business? Previously I have talked about whether or not a budget is an effective tool to control spending and concluded that it’s not. A budget is a tool for building an overview of strategy and assessing...
by Susie Kevern | Jan 28, 2021 | Managing Business Finance
Budgeting for real life is a never ending challenge: most likely you’ll be wrong, the only uncertainty is by how much. But, as I’ve talked about before, it is an exercise worth persevering with. An effective budget is a vital tool for building a successful business....
by Susie Kevern | Jan 15, 2021 | Managing Business Finance
Did you work out a budget for 2021, as per normal? Have you thrown it out yet?! It’s easy not to bother at the moment; last year showed how little certainty we really have when we try to plan ahead and the last 12 months have made it clear that that’s not changing...
by Susie Kevern | Nov 23, 2020 | Managing Business Finance
It can be difficult to get practical advice for micro business, especially when you’re on a budget. In an effort to share good advice and help every business thrive despite the current restrictions the team at North Devon’s Business Action magazine has...
by Susie Kevern | Sep 22, 2020 | Managing Business Finance
Why is it that all year end accounts look the same? Does that reflect the information that readers need? Accounting regulations are massively complicated and I am not disputing the need for that; it is important to make sure that any two sets of accounts can be...
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