Elevate - for business leaders
Friday, August 27, 2010 | Posted by: Grant Thornton
Categories:
Economy
| Tags: business,
tax,
recession,
investment,
CEO,
budget,
ICAEW,
Scott Barnes,
recovery,
Michael Izza,
BCM,
Business confidence monitor
Confidence among businesses has fallen according to the latest ICAEW/Grant Thornton UK Business Confidence Monitor (BCM), indicating that the economic recovery will slow in the second half of 2010. Despite uncertainty as to the impact on the recovery of the Coalition Government’s plans to reduce public spending, the BCM’s financial performance indicators suggest that the financial health of UK businesses continues to improve.
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Thursday, August 26, 2010 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories:
Retail sector,
Thought Leadership
| Tags: innovation,
business,
report,
survey,
data,
business models,
retail,
analysis,
comment
Retailers desperately need to review or renew the way they do business in order to survive profound changes in the market and the economy – that was the finding of our recent
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Friday, August 20, 2010 | Posted by: Gary Woods
Categories:
Business advice,
Tax
| Tags: business,
tax,
VAT,
Gary Woods,
suppliers,
tax year,
expenditure,
reclaiming,
rise,
increase,
admin,
timing
“In the bleak midwinter, the VAT rate increase made moan…” Not quite the first line of the Rossetti poem, but the planned 2.5% increase in VAT from the beginning of next year will still bring a chill to both consumers and businesses. So what can be done to make New Year a little happier for both?
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Thursday, August 12, 2010 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories:
Economy,
Retail sector,
Thought Leadership
| Tags: innovation,
report,
survey,
data,
business models,
retail
…and suggests that it is time for retailers to move beyond cost-cutting as the main thrust in their business models. Read on for details of the full report.
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