The Budget 2014 After years of austerity and fairly bland budgets, was it finally time for a budget to make everyone sit up and listen? With 14 months to the general election then this budget was going to be one to look out for. But what did it deliver? The Budget Overview Being an economist
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The Budget – Autumn Statement First things first, the Autumn statement is being made in December. Not really Autumn then… Which pretty much sums things up, not quite what they seem and a little confusing. So another budget which takes some thinking about. We are grateful to Menzies Chartered Accountants for their Budget commentary,
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Banking Regulation Maybe not top of your current affairs reading, maybe not even top half. For most people, business owners included it probably falls into ‘the last thing I want to read’, but it actually is quite important. Over the last few year we have become accustomed to bank bailouts. Add to that, banker bonuses,
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Spending review, spending review, that is about all we have listened to over the past few days. We have George Osborne quoting figures which most of us are unsure how many 000’s they contain. Bear in mind that the public are supposed to understand what is going on and then decide on the next government
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The media have been quick to jump on the UK’s loss of their AAA credit rating this week, but what is it and what does it actually mean? Credit Ratings are issued by independent companies such as ‘Moodys’ or ‘Standard and Poors’, they sell their analysis and intelligence to other companies, investors, banks etc. It
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