Apr 25, 2021 | Artists, Budgeting, Business planning, Cloud Accounting, Creative Sector, Money, Not For Profit Organisations, Self employed
What is your why for having your own business, whatever that, there are reasons Why your business must make a profit. Making profit must be at the top of your business goals, ignore that at your peril. Firstly, I am going to tell you why making profit is vital for...
Apr 11, 2021 | Accountancy, Budgeting, Business planning, Businesses & Brexit, Cashflow and lockdown, Creative Sector, management accounting, Money, Not For Profit Organisations, Self employed, Tax
You are here because you want to know Should you pay off your Bounce Back Loan . Many of you would have already received some notices from your bank advising you that your Bounce Back Loans are coming up for repayment. A key question is should you pay them back now?...
Apr 5, 2021 | Accountancy, Bookkeeping and Payroll, Business survival, Company benefits, Creative Sector, Ltd Company, Not For Profit Support, Self employed, Sole Trader, Tax
Sole trader or limited company and Choosing your business structure to save tax ? Previously I talked about the differences between a sole trader and limited company. What you need to consider when deciding what business structure, you should adopt. You cannot make...
Sep 6, 2020 | Creative Sector, Not For Profit Organisations, Not For Profit Support
How to kick start your Social Enterprise. What you need to know. What is a Social Enterprise? There are over 100,000 social enterprises throughout the country. Contributing £60 billion to the economy and employ two million people. Firstly, Social Enterprise, Charity,...
Aug 16, 2020 | Accountancy, Artists, Creative Sector
Most people think that there’s not a lot in common between accounting and the arts. But the two do have something in common – money. Even artists have to eat, and to make a living as an artist, you have to make money. It’s not about winning million pound commissions...
Aug 9, 2020 | Artists, Creative Sector
Developing fundraising ideas in the arts world. Ideas and SWOT analysis Gather together ideas from all of your stakeholders. Include colleagues, volunteers, donors, partners, users, competitors and beneficiaries. For example brain storming (or if you prefer, thought...