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How Accounting Can Save You Cash
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31 Jan 2012 16:18
With the first month of the year drawing to a close, businesses everywhere, as we know from our clients, are still looking at ways of cutting costs. Thankfully the numbers of redundancies has slowed down when compared to a last year and the year before as business owners seek new ways of trimming the monthly bill.
This, of course, includes fees for accountancy work carried out on a company’s behalf by its preferred firm. Depending on the size of the company and the amount of people it employe...
How County and City Enterprise Boards Can Help Your Business
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27 Jan 2012 14:25
County and City Enterprise Boards (CEBs) exist to provide support to new and existing small businesses in the commercial sphere, and it’s important to know how to go about getting this help when it’s needed.
There are three types of financial support offered by CEBs: Priming Grants, Business Expansion Grants, and Feasibility Grants. Priming Grants are for businesses that are still in their start-up period and can only be granted within the first 18 months of a business setting up. Estab...
Networking’s a Numbers Game
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20 Jan 2012 16:53
Many business owners dread January – it’s the time of year that despite best laid plans, the year ahead can seem uncertain, especially if there’s less work to do than there was in the lead up to Christmas. However, while it may be a quiet time for day-to-day operations, this month provides the perfect opportunity to get out and sell your business.
Of course, it’s not an easy thing to do and it’s often difficult to know where to start, but with a little research, findin...
Dealing with Insolvency
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13 Jan 2012 17:14
You may have noticed the National Competitiveness Council’s Annual Report was released earlier this week. In it, the Council said that the cost base has not fallen nearly enough in Ireland to return the country to a position of competitiveness. It offered suggestions and recommendations to help the Government boost competitiveness – however, most of the suggestions revolve around cutting costs and public sector reform, which we’ve all heard before. In fairness to the Council, in th...
