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Pension Auto-enrolment: Know your staging date

As with any other major change that occurs, planning is crucial to avoiding aadministrative nightmares when it comes to actual implementation, and the new pension requirements are no different. Pension experts are suggesting allowing up to 18 months to get

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Eight ways to manage stress

Stress is an increasingly common issue in today’s work environment, affecting more than 40 million employees across Europe. If left untreated, it also has the potential to lead to longer-term physical or psychological ill health. Unfortunately many people find it

Posted in Personnel & staffing

Remedy has the ears of the banking sector

As accredited advisors for the ibd Business Advice Group we are delighted to announce that ibd Managing Director Terry Forrester has been invited to join the board of The British Bankers Association (BBA) which he has accepted last week. Terry

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Getting paid – on time every time

As most experienced business owners know, a sale is only an order until the cash is in the bank. In the current economic climate, getting paid on time on a regular basis for the products or services you have provided,

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Get Started 18 – 30 Start-up Loan Programme

We are proud to have been appointed a delivery partner for the Get Started 18 – 30 Start-up Loan Programme. The programme aims to provide mentoring and financial support to young entrepreneurs, aged between 18 and 30, that would not

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Manufacturing Company

In January 2013, we made a decision to take the necessary action to push our Business to the next level ‘so to speak’.  This then led us to look at Business Mentoring as a possible way to achieve this.  We

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Effective Communication Skills: Part 1

Do you make these 5 mistakes when you speak to your team? I recall one of my degree modules. It sticks in my mind, not because it was a startlingly good module but rather it was the exact opposite. I

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Top tips – conducting effective staff appraisals

  Staff appraisals are an important activity but they should be used for the right reasons to get the best out of them. They should be used to develop an employee’s skills and therefore performance, and shouldn’t be used as

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Understanding and using KPIs

KPI is an acronym of Key Performance Indicator. They are designed in such a way as to give you a snapshot of your business in relation to the goals you have set for it. From it you should be able

Posted in Finance & Business Planning

Accounting systems in a growing business

Needs in a changing world   The minimum accounting requirement for most small businesses is the ability to produce monthly or quarterly accounts, but as a company grows its requirements are likely to become increasingly complex. The needs of these

Posted in Finance & Business Planning