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Financial Management

Five ways to make your business more competitive through better energy management

To mark Big Energy Saving Week, Phil Scholes, SME sales and marketing director at npower, offers advice on how small and medium sized businesses can give themselves an edge over their competitors by reducing their cost base through better energy management.

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Financial Management

What you need to know about online business finance options

Despite the struggles for SME businesses to secure finance, the number of options available continues to grow. Clive Lewis, head of SME issues at the ICAEW, provides a guide to what is out there.

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The pragmatist’s guide to currency management for businesses expanding overseas

While growing a company in new territories can be a baptism of fire, currency management need not hold back a business, as Halo Financial director David Johnson explains.

Financial Management

How to release finance from its administrative burden

Stuart Evans, chief technology officer at Invu, explains how using electronic and automated invoice processing can ease the strain on finance departments.

Financial Management

Time to invest in Cuba?

View from the dealing floor. Eduard van Nes works on IG's dealing floor in London. He looks at the influx of investment arriving in Cuba and the growing entrepreneurial culture.

Financial Management

How will the bedroom tax affect houses sold with long term tenants?

The bedroom tax is having a big affect on the way in which landlords manage properties.

Financial Management

Less capital on hand for SMEs to invest

A fall in the amount of cash SMEs have readily available to invest in the business has been noted by new research carried out by Bibby Financial Services.

Financial Management

Focus on finance: Transform your business inspiration into success

Steve Attwell, managing director of SMB UK & Ireland at Sage, takes a look at the finance function's journey from shoebox to FD, offering practical tips for business owners and their advisers.

Financial Management

Less capital on hand for SMEs to invest

A fall in the amount of cash SMEs have readily available to invest in the business has been noted by new research carried out by Bibby Financial Services.

Financial Management

Focus on finance: Transform your business inspiration into success

Steve Attwell, managing director of SMB UK & Ireland at Sage, takes a look at the finance function's journey from shoebox to FD, offering practical tips for business owners and their advisers.

Financial Management

Thinking about the options for finance as an SME

Growing businesses are often scared of the idea of accepting external finance, but funding is in many ways just another supply to be procured, argues Stephen Welton.

Financial Management

Using a pension to fund the business after war upheaval

When Michelle Gill decided to return to the UK to help run her father's business, the last thing on her mind was their pensions. But, they proved to be a business saviour.

Financial Management

Dragons’ Den exposure for businesses failing to ignite funding search

Entrepreneurs entering Dragons' Den to pitch for investment are failing to pursue the traditional forms of business finance before taking their businesses on the show, new research shows.

Financial Management

Know your numbers: Bean counting makes your business stronger

While keeping a firm grasp of the company financials was never something he enjoyed, for James Uffindell, founder and CEO of Bounty Network, it is something he's learnt to take seriously.