Is Your Small Business Wasting Money?

Many people dream of starting their own business. Even just the idea of it paints an idyllic picture, where you can finally choose your own career path, and follow it to success.

This isn’t unrealistic – if you make the right choices you can achieve a fantastic level of success, however you might define it. But if you imagine it’s going to be easy, you will be in for a rude awakening when you discover you’re not making money as quickly as you may have imagined.

Maybe you’re in that situation now. Looking through bills, statements and invoices, you might well be wondering where all your money is going, and how you can avoid losing money quarter after quarter.

As A SME, How Can You Improve Your Chances Of Getting A Commercial Mortgage?

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When you’re a small business owner, you’re likely to always be looking at how you can grow and develop your organisation.

Whether it’s to take on new staff or increase your product range, it all comes back to finances at the end of the day.

A lot of the time, your growth will be determined by your sales figures and the more you sell, the more money you earn and the more you have available to spend on your business’s development.

What Is Asset Finance And How Can It Help My Small Business?

A “lack of basic awareness” of asset based lending among small businesses is costing the UK economy billions every year, according to Susan Allen, chief executive of Royal Bank of Scotland’s asset finance department.

So what is asset finance, exactly – and how can it help your business?

Applying For Funding – Is It Really As Complex As You Believe?

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If there’s one thing the majority of small business owners don’t have, it’s an abundance of money.

Chances are you’ll have enough to get you going, an amount that’s likely to have been saved up over the course of several months or years, but aside from that, your future available spend is going to be based on the profit you make on your products or services.