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Financial Management

15 management decisions to avoid in a recession

From crippling cost cuts to ill-considered discounting, Marc Barber speaks to CEOs and entrepreneurs to find out what you should not be doing in uncertain times.

Financial Management

Financial Management

Top eight tax breaks for business owners

At times like this, business owners need to look at every possible means of staying cash-positive and tax breaks are a good place to start.

Financial Management

The PBR: what you need to do now

Whether you think the Pre-Budget Report is ‘what the country and business needs’ or ‘a reckless gamble’, it’s how it affects your business that matters.

Financial Management

Manage cash to survive, says Doug Richard

Maintaining an accurate 13-week cash forecast is essential to survive an economic downturn, according to former Dragons' Den investor Doug Richard.

Financial Management

Reducing currency exposure

Piers Cracknell, commercial director of currency specialist Moneycorp, comments on the pound's heavy fall against the dollar and assess its probable impact on growing businesses.

Financial Management

The falling pound and your business

In the past six months the pound has fallen by more than eight per cent against the dollar and the euro.

Financial Management

Currency dilemmas 

UK companies are adapting to sterling’s decline

Financial Management

Shareholder revolts on the up

Shareholder activism is on the march, provoked by bad corporate stewardship, the inevitable disappointments of business in a downturn, changes in the law and a new breed of opportunistic investor. GrowthBusiness investigates.

Financial Management

Currency dilemmas 

UK companies are adapting to sterling’s decline

Financial Management

Shareholder revolts on the up

Shareholder activism is on the march, provoked by bad corporate stewardship, the inevitable disappointments of business in a downturn, changes in the law and a new breed of opportunistic investor. GrowthBusiness investigates.

Financial Management

Constructive cost-cutting

Steve Barnes, CEO of online marketing company Infoserve, doesn’t much like the term cost-cutting.

Financial Management

Keep out: accountants at work

In many SMEs, the finance function simply doesn’t deliver the information the business needs.

Financial Management

How to reduce your tax bill

Death and taxes may be the only certain things in life – but there are ways of minimising the impact of the latter.

Financial Management

How to improve your year-end numbers

Research from consultancy firm REL suggests that public companies improve their year-end results through a number of well-established ‘games’.