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The client assets rules exist for one purpose: if a regulated firm fails, the money and assets belonging to its clients should be identifiable, intact and returnable without joining the queue of…
Read articleLarge businesses do not experience HMRC as a series of enquiries. They experience it as a relationship, managed by a customer compliance manager, punctuated by a periodic business risk review that…
Read articleRestructuring advisory is the work of changing a business's shape — its balance sheet, its operations, or its legal structure — before circumstances change it for you. The word carries an…
Read articleMost owners sell a business once. The buyer across the table has done it eleven times, has a corporate finance adviser, a diligence team and a law firm, and knows exactly which points are worth…
Read articlePrivate equity and venture capital are both private investment in private companies, and that is where the similarity ends. One buys control of established, cash-generative businesses using debt…
Read articleSelling shares in a private company is not one transaction but several running in parallel: a commercial negotiation, a legal process, a tax analysis and a company law procedure. The commonest…
Read articleWorking capital is the cash your business has lent to its own operations — sitting in unpaid invoices, in stock on shelves, and offset by what you have not yet paid suppliers. Releasing some of it…
Read articleThe UK is among the easier developed markets to enter: a company can be incorporated in a day, there is no minimum capital requirement, no residency requirement for directors, and no general…
Read articleFarming is the only trade with its own income averaging rules, its own inheritance tax relief, its own herd basis and a subsidy regime being dismantled and rebuilt at the same time. It is also a…
Read articleForensic accounting is accounting done in the expectation that someone will argue about it. That single constraint changes everything: how evidence is gathered, how conclusions are expressed, and…
Read articleA procurement framework is a pre-competed agreement with a list of approved suppliers, from which public bodies can buy without running a full tender each time. For suppliers, getting on one is…
Read articleThe Green Book is HM Treasury's guidance on how to appraise and evaluate public spending, and it governs any proposal that asks for government money — a hospital, a road, a grant scheme, a…
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