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Cloud Expo Europe 2012

Yesterday I was at the Cloud Expo Europe event speaking about our experience at GJ in a presentation called 5 Years In The Cloud. It was a short pleasant train journey for me to Olympia in London. I count myself fortunate as it was in stark contrast to another speaker I met who had journeyed across from San Francisco.

The cloud has gone mainstream - the event was packed.  ...

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Graeme explains the associated companies rules

The number of associated companies determines effective rates of corporation tax and the extent to which tax is paid by quarterly instalment.

If you want to find out more then you can read Graeme's Taxline Article.

This pdf version of the article is reproduced with the kind permission of TaxLine who hold the copyright.

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Twinfield Online Accounting

We've been using Twinfield online accounting for over 5 years at GJ. Now our friends at Twinfield have put together a video explaining online accounting the Twinfield way. Keep up the good work chaps.

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International Trading in the UK

We've been out on location for our latest video. You may recognise some familiar London locations.

The video is for international organisations looking to establish in the UK. It's an area that we know well. Setting up a UK entity can be very rewarding. The UK is a large market in itself and the European Union is the single largest market in the world.

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Emily Coltman - new book Finance for Small Business

 

Over the years I have had the pleasure of meeting Emily Coltman at various times.  Emily is a super smart modern Chartered Accountant. She blends her professional skills with a crisp and clear plain speaking approach.

Despite being based in London and the geographical stretch to Carlisle, where Emily is based, our paths have a habit of crossing.  The most recent time being a few months ago when we literally bumped into ...

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Entrepreneurs Relief

 

 

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Leaders in practice

Our own Graeme Bursack is featured in this months Accountancy magazine. The ICAEW (Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales) have been  sounding him out to develop their new leaders in practice programme. 

Whilst technical excellence must be a given it is vital that management and leadership skills are not sidelined.  A successful business cannot survive on technical skills.  I know Graeme agrees and you ...

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The Social Media Juggernaut

Social media is a juggernaut.  Unstoppable just as the telephone and email were before it. 

Still not convinced social media is relevant to you?  Then may I suggest a few minutes of your time to watch the below video from our friends at Twinfield.



If you are still not sure how social media can help a small business then checkout... ...
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Online Accounting - Twinfield






Recently I met up with entrepreneur Andre Kwakernaat from Twinfield and captured some video footage for our blog. In this video Andre gives some tips for entrepreneurs and explains how they can keep control of their finances using online accounting.
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10 London business iPhone apps

At GJ we recently moved from Blackberry to iPhone.  Our IT sister company have synced Outlook to our iPhones and so the iPhone functions just like our old Blackberrys. The iPhone has proved very popular with our team.

Here are my current top 10 business apps:

iThoughts

Mind mapping tool that highlights the benefits of using touchscreen technology. An excellent tool for those that like the mind mapping approach.

Quickoffice

Excel and Word fun...