YESTERDAY, a researcher from a university contacted me to ask my opinion on the value of abbreviated accounts. My stance on this topic is unequivocal:...
View articleThe Road Haulage Association has been driven into action on behalf of its members who are experiencing delayed trade payments by large aggregates cust...
View articleThe story is typical of the very popular Zombie film genre; the world is in a crazy crisis. In the chaos, a sub-population of Zombie businesses is cre...
View articleThe initial success of a new SME lending service aimed at bypassing traditional banks may be getting the major clearers into a flat spin. Since its la...
View articleSerco: we treat others as we would wish to be treated ourselves Read More...
View articleYes, i admit it! I made a mistake in my Risky Business blog on the 6th September……but it was only a little mistake, honest! I predicted th...
View articleI wonder how long it will take following the publication yesterday of Sir Philip Green’s conclusions into Government spending practice before th...
View articleWell done to a whole range of MEPS led by German Socialist Barbara Weiler in sticking up for SMEs across Europe who suffer greatly from cash flow prob...
View articleJudging by the mood amongst credit and finance professionals at an industry Think Tank I attended this week, it’s no surprise the Bank of Englan...
View articleNews this morning that Britain’s six biggest banks have asked a credit reference agency to report on the creditworthiness of their customers in ...
View articleThe World Wide Web is a wonderful source of knowledge, but excessive use of the internet during working hours can land you in big trouble……...
View articleRecent research from the Forum of Private Business has revealed that despite pressure from Government on all public bodies to pay trade invoices to SM...
View articleAnyone who sees the problem of banks not lending enough to SMEs as a peculiarly British affair is very much mistaken. A few weeks ago over in the US, ...
View articleWhy shouldn’t the British government use credit rating tools to protect itself (and we, the taxpayers) from benefit fraudsters? Yesterday, David...
View articleRecently, i came across the rather disappointing Minstry of Justice Criminal statistics for England and Wales covering 2008 (the latest year published...
View articleIn this fast moving, head spinning, quick talking world we live in nowadays, it shouldn’t come as a surprise to see that even fraudsters have sp...
View articleSome people think credit managers are a gloomy bunch, but they’re usually pretty pragmatic by nature too. Graydon research conducted over the la...
View articleCall me naive but I always thought there was only one meaning to the phrase “Prompt Payment”. However, in the world of commercial “s...
View articleWell, here we go! The World Cup is about to kick off, and everyone is naturally going to be thinking a lot about the beautiful game for a good few wee...
View articleSpeculation abounds as to how tough HMRC will get with companies wanting to take advantage of the “Time to Pay” tax deferral scheme. There...
View articleFor the penguin, life is very simple. In order to survive the four worst months of an antarctic winter, they need 8 good months beforehand in which to...
View articleIt took approximately two months between the last government announcing the setting up of a Credit Adjuducator to help SMEs access bank finance, and t...
View articleOne wonders how the new coalition government, focused as it is on improving the public finances as quickly as possible, will view the ongoing Business...
View articleSlow trade payments are a scourge affecting the cash flows of countless British businesses. Government recognised this problem during the credit crisi...
View articleIf it wasn’t for the dreadful winter weather earlier this year, the 1st quarter GDP figures released today could have been a whole lot better. O...
View articleThe news today that UK unemployment has reached a 16 year high doesn’t exactly spell good news for an election campaigning Labour government, bu...
View articleOn a very strange day that has seen most UK airports close because of ash clouds from Iceland’s volcanic activity passing through our airspace, ...
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