Budgets – one of my most requested finance training topics. For the UK the next national budget will be presented by Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak on March 3rd. We don’t yet know exactly what will be in it, but a look back to last year provide an interesting frame of reference. • On…
This is what you get if you search for a free picture of a company director… Sadly the reality will probably be different gender, have less hair, and no limo. Consider this question in a way which suits you. It could be that you are working in a company and have ambition to work your…
It has been an interesting week on Stock Markets, especially Wall Street. ICYMI: the shares of GameStop, a computer games retailer, have gone wildly up and down on price as a group of private investors have attempted to inflict losses on hedge funds who have been shorting the stock. There’s no getting away from this:…
Here is a photo of me at a networking meeting this week. As the UK continues with lockdown and compulsory WFH, this is how you do networking in 2021. Looking ahead, at some point we will be able to actually meet each other again – I look forward to that. But the online genie will…
With 2021 in full swing I am delighted to have attended a number of online networking meetings, and naturally the state of business was discussed together with some predictions and outlook for what’s ahead. I am struck by the number of comments such as “2020 was terrible, glad its over, 2021 will be much better.”…
In the UK we are now in Lockdown 3, not substantially different to life in the previous Tier 4, and before that Tier 3. Which means we know what to expect, including that it will be colder than Lockdown 2 and much colder than the gently warming lockdown 1. This means we all WFH where…