Alison Tosh

Now is the perfect time to give your business a spring clean, cleaning out all those unwanted or unnecessary expenses and improving your competitiveness. All businesses owners aim to maximise turnover, and ultimately profit, but this can be hindered by an increased expenditure which can go unnoticed. We have years of experience benchmarking costs and coming up with innovative solutions to support profitable growth. Keeping a close eye on those business outgoings is crucial for a successful business.

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On Wednesday the Spring budget was the first of two budgets in 2017, and the last time the UK will have a Spring budget, as it now moves to one annual budget each Autumn.

The budget document may have been considerably lighter on content than normal but it still packed a few surprises.

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The statutory reporting obligations of all charities has been updated under the new Charities (Accounts and Reports) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2015. What does this mean for your charity?

Who is affected?

All charities registered with the Charity Commission for Northern Ireland must comply with the new law relating to charity accounting and reporting.

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As a business owner, it is ideal to be continually up to date with technology. Do you own a Microsoft 365 package? Are you aware of some of the extra programmes you can make use of in this package to help speed up your business processes? 2017 is set to bring exciting new updates some of which are already released and ready to trial for free and purchase. Check some of the new features out today.

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What does National Minimum Wage mean?

The national minimum wage is the minimum pay per hour an employee should receive depending on their age. Please note you must be at least a school leaver to be entitled to the national minimum wage. The national minimum wage rate is reviewed annually by the Low Pay Commission.

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The first invention of a computer seems like a million years ago. Many work places used to hire equipment whereas, nowadays people carry their technological phone in their pockets.

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Here at RBL we know all too well that there are sometimes not enough hours in the day. So of course we understand that when you are running a business, you can be stretched in a thousand different directions.

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