As the Chancellor prepares her Spring Statement amid ongoing concerns over the rate of inflation, there are suggestions that a third of businesses are planning to implement price increases to help ...

More than 300,000 small business owners are planning to cut jobs in response to the Government’s planned rise in employer National Insurance contributions due to come into effect in April. A survey of ...

More than half of students would be more engaged with their future pension savings if they knew the funds were invested in environmentally sustainable ways to tackle climate change. A survey of more ...

Entrepreneurs made £182.7 billion from selling their businesses in the past five years, according to latest HMRC data. It shows that last year’s figure was £33.5bn in the last year alone, down ...

Solopreneurs are, by definition, optimists. As they are working on their own, they know it all comes down to them. There is no-one else to share the load. But, as optimists, they see what can be done, ...

Health and fitness appear to be top priorities when it comes to rethinking career paths in 2025. Researchers who analysed Google data throughout 2024 found sport and fitness as the most searched-for ...

UK businesses encountered more than 753,341 malicious attempts each to breach their online and IT systems last year – four per cent higher than in 2023. A new report suggests businesses encountered an ...

The 2025 line-up of the UK’s 100 most dynamic female entrepreneurs has been announced by Small Business Britain as part of its f:Entrepreneur #iAlso100 campaign. The campaign is designed to showcases ...

The time it takes to prepare month-end accounts is increasing significantly, according to new research. Over half of UK finance decision-makers admit that it currently takes over a week to prepare and ...

Number of women in executive roles on FTSE-250 boards falling The number of women holding executive directorships on FTSE-250 boards has fallen in the past two years, a drop of 11… ...

Separately, almost half of UK consumers cite concerns about payment security as a key reason for abandoning their shopping at the online checkout. With Black Friday in mind, ecommerce businesses are ...

budget they need to drive greater efficiencies while raising levels of customer satisfaction. Today there is a new battle to be fought, and a new area for CFOs to aware of. It concerns how ...