New state pension scheme in place

The State Pension changed on 6 April 2016. If you reach State Pension age on or after that date you’ll get the new State Pension under the new rules. The new State Pension is designed to be simpler than the old system, but there are some complicated changeover...

Autumn Statement

George Osborne today delivered his first Autumn Statement as Chancellor of a standalone Tory government. But he should be used to this by now as it was his third pronouncement of the year, the first being his pre-election Budget in March and then his summer Budget in...

Business plan

Around this time of year many of you will be thinking about next year, looking at your results so far this year and wanting to target next year and make it much better than this year. It is the time of year that most of us consider writing our business plan. I bet...

problem staff

Do you have problem staff? I was in a meeting on Monday with a whole bunch of successful entrepreneurs. These, like any entrepreneurs, even successful ones have their ups and downs and a fellow entrepreneur who had recently taken on an apprentice faced one such down....