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Avoid a chaotic Christmas, sort your Self Assessment tax return as soon as possible

Avoid a chaotic Christmas, sort your Self Assessment tax return as soon as possible

Lee Murphy, managing director at The Accountancy Partnership, said “Christmas is one of the few times of year where business slows dow..

Negative Emotional Contagion: How to Stop the Spread

Negative Emotional Contagion: How to Stop the Spread

A smile is contagious but so are toxic negative emotions such as pessimism, cynicism, depression, fear, hate, panic, anxiety and suspi..

The Family Meeting Planner Helps Parents Lead With Intention

The Family Meeting Planner Helps Parents Lead With Intention

  As a father who has raised eight children (both biological and stepchildren) over the course of more than 20 years, Alex Mont-R..

PRESSURES ON RETENTION AS BUSINESSES ENTER 2023, ACCORDING TO VISTAGE QUARTERLY UK SME CEO CONFIDENCE INDEX

PRESSURES ON RETENTION AS BUSINESSES ENTER 2023, ACCORDING TO VISTAGE QUARTERLY UK SME CEO CONFIDENCE INDEX

     Q4 2022 findings:   80% of business leaders are specifically analysing retention as the key people metric    81% of busines..

LEONARD CURTIS STRENGTHENS DEBT ADVISORY TEAM

LEONARD CURTIS STRENGTHENS DEBT ADVISORY TEAM

  Business solutions group Leonard Curtis has enrolled some of its most experienced and respected personnel to a new debt adviso..

Accounting and accountants can save the world

Accounting and accountants can save the world

  Nature Needs to be on the Balance Sheet if we are to Reverse Biodiversity and Climate Crisis Research paper calls for Nature t..

Apple’s Australian workers go on Christmas strike demanding better wages, work terms

Apple’s Australian workers go on Christmas strike demanding better wages, work terms

(Reuters) – Apple Inc’s workers in Australia initiated a strike Friday afternoon, demanding better working conditions and ..

Who cares about copyright? Everyone should, because it impacts so many aspects of modern life

Who cares about copyright? Everyone should, because it impacts so many aspects of modern life

  By Glyn Moody Most people know about copyright, and have a vague idea how it works. But they probably assume that it is mainly ..

Amazon may be responsible for allowing Louboutin knock-off ads, EU court says

Amazon may be responsible for allowing Louboutin knock-off ads, EU court says

By Kate Abnett BRUSSELS (Reuters) -Online retailer Amazon.com may be deemed responsible for advertising of counterfeit Christian Loubo..

Banker bonuses go from boom to bust in jarring reversal

Banker bonuses go from boom to bust in jarring reversal

By Lananh Nguyen, Saeed Azhar and Lawrence White NEW YORK/LONDON (Reuters) -Bankers in New York and London are bracing for year-end bo..

Austrian regulator orders system-relevant banks to up capital buffers

Austrian regulator orders system-relevant banks to up capital buffers

BERLIN (Reuters) – Austrian banking regulator FMA said on Thursday it has ordered system-relevant banks in the country to increa..

UK watchdog fines Deloitte over SIG audit

UK watchdog fines Deloitte over SIG audit

By Tom Wilson LONDON (Reuters) -Britain’s accounting watchdog said on Thursday it had fined Deloitte LLP more than 900,000 pound..

BMW to make Solid Power’s battery cells under expanded agreement

BMW to make Solid Power’s battery cells under expanded agreement

(Reuters) – Solid Power Inc said on Wednesday it will offer some intellectual property rights related to its solid-state batteri..

Airbus pledges deeper industrial ties with India

Airbus pledges deeper industrial ties with India

(Corrects to remove word “just” in paragraph 7) PARIS (Reuters) – Airbus plans to deepen its industrial presence in ..

Financial services firms hiring flexible interims to safeguard earnings

Financial services firms hiring flexible interims to safeguard earnings

As the demand for financial services talent continues apace, CFOs have warned that the spiralling upward wage rises cannot be sustaine..

COP15 comment: Biodiversity Credits that boost conservation financing is significant

COP15 comment: Biodiversity Credits that boost conservation financing is significant

  The new UN study that reported on Monday, prior to the start of the critically important COP15 meeting in Montreal, that biodiv..

Climb Channel Solutions announces renewed partnership with IDERA in the UK

Climb Channel Solutions announces renewed partnership with IDERA in the UK

Climb Channel Solutions, an international specialty technology distributor and wholly-owned subsidiary of Climb Global Solutions, Inc...

AMS enters top 75 of employers in the Social Mobility Foundation Employer Index 2022

AMS enters top 75 of employers in the Social Mobility Foundation Employer Index 2022

  The Social Mobility Foundation (SMF) has launched its sixth annual Employer Index – the leading national study analysing the ef..

The recession won’t hit the tech sector

The recession won’t hit the tech sector

    By George Barnes, Co-founder and Director of Hamilton Barnes, the leading provider of talent solutions to the network en..

Yen retreats after BOJ policy tweak sparked surge

Yen retreats after BOJ policy tweak sparked surge

By Saqib Iqbal Ahmed NEW YORK (Reuters) -The yen fell in a choppy session on Wednesday, ceding some of the ground gained the previous ..

Weary Wall Street cheers improved consumer confidence

Weary Wall Street cheers improved consumer confidence

By Lawrence Delevingne and Amanda Cooper (Reuters) -Global stock markets rose on Wednesday, as U.S. consumer confidence rebounded in D..

Engie warns of hit from windfall levies, Belgian nuclear provisions

Engie warns of hit from windfall levies, Belgian nuclear provisions

PARIS (Reuters) – France’s Engie warned on Tuesday of an earnings hit from European Union approved windfall levies and lar..

Oil prices rise on U.S. drawdown, Chinese fears weigh

Oil prices rise on U.S. drawdown, Chinese fears weigh

By Shadia Nasralla and Rowena Edwards LONDON (Reuters) -Oil prices rose by more than 2% on Wednesday after data suggested a larger tha..

What does ‘good’ look like for legal sector IT security?

What does ‘good’ look like for legal sector IT security?

  By John Wareing, Legal Security Consultant, Red Helix The legal sector has seen rapid digitalisation over recent years, partly ..

UK SMEs press pause on innovation and rely on price rises ahead of 2023

UK SMEs press pause on innovation and rely on price rises ahead of 2023

  39% of SMEs have increased their prices over the past 12 months Just 13% of small/medium businesses have not yet had to make a..

Analysis-Russian gold removed from some Western funds after Ukraine

Analysis-Russian gold removed from some Western funds after Ukraine

By Peter Hobson LONDON (Reuters) – Hidden inside high-security bank vaults in London, Zurich and New York, billions of dollars&#..

Cost and fragmented data emerge as top barriers to reducing carbon footprint

Cost and fragmented data emerge as top barriers to reducing carbon footprint

  And only 38% business leaders rate their decarbonisation efforts so far as very successful New European report shows that lac..

SpaceX rocket sends first global water survey mission into orbit

SpaceX rocket sends first global water survey mission into orbit

By Steve Gorman LOS ANGELES, Calif. (Reuters) -A SpaceX rocket blasted off early on Friday carrying a U.S.-French satellite designed t..

WorkLife responds to growing demand for mental wellbeing support with bolstered offering and two new benefits

WorkLife responds to growing demand for mental wellbeing support with bolstered offering and two new benefits

  WorkLife by OpenMoney, the employee benefits platform, has partnered with ShinyMind and Wellness Cloud to help employers offer ..

Britain’s Purplebricks to cut more than 10% of jobs – The Times

Britain’s Purplebricks to cut more than 10% of jobs – The Times

(Reuters) – Purplebricks Group PLC, Britain’s biggest online-only real estate agency, will cut more than 10% of its workfo..

Construction firms relying on financial incentives as job applicant numbers tumble

Construction firms relying on financial incentives as job applicant numbers tumble

Skills shortages and the cost-of-living crisis have driven salaries up across construction, despite the demand for staff beginning to ..

PowerDNS launches second generation of PowerDNS Cloud Control

PowerDNS launches second generation of PowerDNS Cloud Control

  Operators can now more easily move from virtualized to cloud-native infrastructure, which is at the heart of the 5G revolution,..

EU opens antitrust probe into Broadcom’s $61 billion VMware bid

EU opens antitrust probe into Broadcom’s $61 billion VMware bid

PARIS (Reuters) -European antitrust regulators have opened an in-depth investigation into U.S. chipmaker Broadcom’s proposed $61..

Siemens Gamesa names Luijendijk CEO of onshore wind unit

Siemens Gamesa names Luijendijk CEO of onshore wind unit

By Andres Gonzalez LONDON (Reuters) – Wind turbine maker Siemens Gamesa has appointed its Asia Pacific boss Richard Luijendijk a..

Celebrating 46 UK organisations who have outstanding workplace training programmes with HRH The Princess Royal

Celebrating 46 UK organisations who have outstanding workplace training programmes with HRH The Princess Royal

    Her Royal Highness The Princess Royal, welcomed 46 organisations to Banqueting House in London to celebrate successfully achi..

BRITS DEMAND SALARY TRANSPARENCY, AS A FIFTH OF JOB SEEKERS REFUSE TO APPLY FOR A POSITION IF THERE’S NO STATED SALARY, ACCORDING TO NEW RESEARCH

BRITS DEMAND SALARY TRANSPARENCY, AS A FIFTH OF JOB SEEKERS REFUSE TO APPLY FOR A POSITION IF THERE’S NO STATED SALARY, ACCORDING TO NEW RESEARCH

  With the landscape of an unprecedented labour shortage, a new nationwide poll has revealed that businesses that don’t publish salari..

Milestone 50,000 users registered and £3million investment gained in pet care app’s first nine months

Milestone 50,000 users registered and £3million investment gained in pet care app’s first nine months

    A start-up pet care app which launched in March this year has reached a milestone 50,000 registered pet owners committed to i..