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As we look ahead to 2024, small business accounting software is expected to grow even more. More and more UK small businesses are becoming more reliant on technology than ever before. Whether you’re a small business owner or run a large corporation, using the right accounting software can be the difference between success and failure. […]

A record number of businesses closed across the UK last year, official figures have shown. The data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) also reveals that the so-called business death rate surpassed the “birth rate” of new businesses being founded in 2022 for the first time since 2010. The figures show 345,000 businesses across […]

A former Director of Extra Energy Supply has been banned from running a business for six years. Mordechay Ben-Moshe, 48, was a Director of Birmingham-based Extra Energy Supply, which supplied around 130,000 household and business customers at the point it went into administration in December 2018. Extra Energy Supply was under investigation already At the time […]

Latest research is suggesting that the use of a Directors personal guarantee is on the rise in the UK. There has been a rise in The difficulty small business owners are experiencing accessing funding without having to sign a Directors personal guarantee has become clear according new analysis by Purbeck Insurance. The company say that […]

New figures released show a massive increase in Personal insolvency. The latest monthly figures from the Insolvency Service for England & Wales have indicated that personal insolvency numbers increased by 35.7% in October 2023 to a total of 9,881 compared to September’s total of 7,280, and decreased by 6.1% compared to October 2022’s figure of […]

Uk Business insolvency is officially on the rise. The latest figures from the Insolvency Service have shown that the number of business insolvencies in England & Wales for October 2023 was 2,315, 18% higher than in the same month in the previous year (1,954 in October 2022). The UK business insolvencies consisted of 256 compulsory […]

Small business owners have revealed that cash flow is the biggest challenge for nearly half of the respondents. Almost half (48%) of small to medium enterprises cited cash flow as the largest single challenge their business was facing, according to research by Millbrook Business Finance. This was followed by the cost-of-living crisis (32%) and energy […]

Yorkshire based Doubled Glazing giant Safestyle is facing liquidation. Only last week, the company, which has its HQ in Bradford, announced administrators had been appointed. Around 680 of its workers were made redundant as a result of the firm going into administration. The company failed after facing a series of pressures, including runaway inflation and […]

Late payments are a quiet, yet powerful economic disruptor. Whilst they impact businesses of all sizes, studies have shown small and medium enterprises (SMEs) and freelancers are particularly at risk, with the impact of late payments leading to extreme financial instability, debt and even closing down. Freelancers are very often self employed or small one […]