If you’re looking at buying an existing business, you need to work out its true profitability and possible profitability. You need to compare the profits stated by the owner to the audited figures and look for costs which you could reduce – on property and suppliers, for example. Look for areas to “restate” (to change [...]

I wonder how many of us would join a company without knowing our salary and on target earnings. Not many I guess! Yet when I ask people especially when they are setting up in business what they want to earn in their first year, this simple question seems to throw them entirely. I get answers [...]

Do you want a career in Healthcare recruitment? We need an outgoing, articulate and ambitious individual with good communication skills. You may have some experience in sales and will definitely need to be a good administrator who is IT literate. We are willing to train the correct individual about healthcare recruitment but you must be [...]

One of the biggest claims management companies, Cartel Client Review, has been shut down by the Ministry of Justice (MoJ). The MoJ has been investigating Cartel since February after complaints from customers that they were owed money. Last week, Cartel’s associated firm of solicitors, CCLS, was shut down by the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA). Cartel [...]

Start Rose has taken much flak over the years for his grandiose job title of executive chairman and the refusal to bend to the whims of the corporate governance lobby by splitting the roles of CEO and chairman. But when it comes to understanding the great British public, Marks & Spencer boss Sir Stuart Rose [...]

Should the Tories get into power later this year, would-be small-business minister Prisk says that one of his first acts would be to scrap the organisation. “We believe that Business Link is failing in its task,” he says. “Many surveys show that only a small proportion of businesses use it, and those that do are dissatisfied [...]