The strength and sophistication of Powerpoint means that it is now extremely easy to put together sales presentations that are accompanied by all kinds of additional data and information. Powerpoint presentations are practically de rigeur in the industry; without one audiences feel that there is something left out. However, the relative difficulty of effective powerpoint […]
Accounting errors are a part of life, but they can have a terrible effect on your business. They come in many and various forms, some of which are more obvious than others. One of the most common forms, duplicate payments, tend to be down to simple invoicing error or fraud. These alone are guessed to […]
At long last, it seems that the green shoots are here. The latest GDP figures showed a slow but welcome 0.3% for the quarter. More importantly, confidence is finally accelerating, with a major study showing it is at its highest level since 2010. Of course, the capital has always played by slightly different rules and […]
Forward-thinking companies have been able to manage their invoices and other document processing completely electronically since the 1960s. But in the twenty-first century, electronic document management has evolved, with the use of software as a service (SaaS), cloud technology and other advanced forms of new technology for business, to become almost universal in firms which […]
Many people have never heard of an accounts payable audit, or the recovery audit software that can redress budgetary errors. The truth is that however careful your staff, mistakes will always occur; this is true in any department, as well as accounts. This means that discrepancies will inevitably happen, and in many cases that means […]
Powerpoint presentations have long been a double-edged sword. Strong sales presentations using decent Powerpoint design can be a great asset to a company. A bad presentation, put together by someone who doesn’t know what they are doing, can be a liability. One of the issues with Powerpoint, as well as its advantage, is that it […]
In the current economic climate, the aftermath of the financial crisis is adversely affecting the mood of young entrepreneurs. Many new businessmen and women are understandably tentative in these restrictive circumstances when it comes to investing in commercial property London or looking seriously at shops to rent in north london. This is partly because loans […]
The internet has long been hailed as an inclusive and democratising resource proffering a staggering wealth of information and useful services. However, many people still feel cut off from the so-called age of information by the singular fact of living in a location where high-speed web connections are harder to obtain. Good news is on […]
Few have gone without feeling the pressure on their finances since the recent banking crisis. Instead of merely worrying in its wake though, some extra measures tailored specifically to managing payments may be recommended to those wanting to avoid making losses. Indeed, it will be of particularly great importance to corporations and government agencies with […]
I had been giving sales presentations for years when my boss took me to one side and started to question why my performance was not as strong as the rest of the team’s. He asked me to show him one of my standard powerpoint presentations, to give him a better sense of what I was […]
