Starting and growing an agency: taking on your first employee
When your creative agency or professional practice gets to the point where you can’t handle the work without expanding your team, you know you’re heading in the right direction. For the first time, everything isn’t on you. You can start to delegate, collaborate and...
Explainer: how to start a creative agency
After years of experience as a creative professional, setting up your own agency is the obvious next step. Perhaps you’ve found a particular niche that you want to dedicate more of your time to. Or maybe you want to work in a way that’s different to existing agencies....
What Spring Budget 2020 means for the North West, the creative sector and tech
Rishi Sunak, who has been Chancellor for less than a month, made his first Budget speech on 11 March, and, like most accountants, I was glued to the TV, taking notes. I’ve also dug through the supporting paperwork to see what was hidden there, because there’s always...
Online accounting has only just begun to change the world
If you weren’t already using online accounting software at the start of 2019, you’ve probably heard a lot about it since – especially if you’re running a VAT-registered business that was included in the introduction of Making Tax Digital (MTD). The new rules, which...