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The Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) decision both to complete the previously announced £75bn of asset purchases and to extend it by another £50bn underlined both the uncertainties surrounding its effectiveness and the severity of the deflation risk in the UK economy.

The Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) is right to resist calls to raise interest rates to defend its credibility.

Roger Bootle’s response to January’s MPC meeting

The public sector is embarking on a journey into the digital era, and real estate will play a key role in meeting some of the challenges along the way.

The Revenue has published revised guidance on the test for determining whether employer contributions to occupational pension schemes are tax deductible.

Decision making is an integral part of life. The busier we get, the less opportunity we have to create the time, space and capacity to self-inform the decision making process.

Matt Watts examines the implications of the recent EIS changes.

The European Parliament has published a non-binding resolution on distributed ledger technologies and blockchains (blockchain technologies).

2011 was a very successful year for farm businesses, with profits hitting their highest levels for 15 years.

Most farm types realised an increase in FBI for the year to February 2009.

As the UK makes progress towards a ‘Green Industrial Revolution', Shepherd and Wedderburn is committed, through our Green Recovery Strategy and enhanced Sustainability Policy.

In the markets, 2004 will be remembered for oil prices shooting through $50 a barrel and the extraordinary weakness in the U.S dollar. We have seen the pound euro rate go through some wild fluctuations - anywhere from 1.41 to 1.52 - and the year has been filled with economic uncertainties which is the one thing markets dislike.

Today’s SMEs are the household names of tomorrow. Those were the words of Vince Cable as the UK Government launched the GrowthAccelerator for small businesses two years ago.

By unveiling a package of measures the government has appealed to public-sector procurement workers to work more closely with UK IT suppliers in order to give firms in the country the best possible chance of securing contracts with central and local authorities.

At its most basic the "Enterprise Value" of a business, the value ignoring any surplus assets or debts, is a function of the cash generated by a business and the expected rate of return required by the buyer.