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Colin Mills shares his top tips on achieving a smooth exit strategy. Getting a solid exit strategy in place is probably one of the most important aspects of your future, but what you perceive your business to be worth is often based more on emotion than hard facts.

The 2007 Budget led to a decline in EIS and VCT investments. But new incentives and benefits announced in the 2008 Budget look set to build an appetite for EIS.

The 2006 Budget signalled major changes to the EIS and VCT regime. Now that the market has had time to digest these changes, we consider the merits and pitfalls.

Global equity markets have made a positive start to the New Year driven by improving investor sentiment, a steady flow of encouraging economic data from the US and a wave of liquidity in the form of the ECB’s LTRO manoeuvre.

Recent turmoil in financial markets around the world has led to increasing uncertainty. There have been a series of headline-grabbing events.

Simon Peskett talks through ten key questions you should be asking your finance team to help you manage your business. As a business owner, there are some crucial questions that you should be putting to your finance function to assess whether the financial performance of your business is being maximised.

Guy Rigby considers the different offshore business models available to companies looking to expand overseas.

"Dreams is still my baby," says Mike, who almost bought the company back last year.

Proposed reforms for the fruit and vegetable sector, to which the EU Commission has now agreed, will mainly affect the UK’s SPS and POs.

New technologies behind Total Reward Statements present opportunities to streamline HR processes and revolutionise a company’s approach to employee benefits says Chris Murray.</P> <P>For finance directors, it can be difficult to view HR departments as anything other than an expense – but it doesn’t have to be that way.

Our analysis of the LLP financial statements submitted by the top 100 law firms throws up some interesting trends.

The nation's obsession with bricks and mortar has been well documented and seems unlikely to alter anytime soon.

Furnished Holiday Lets are once more in the news with the Pawson case.

There is still a requirement for benefits to be drawn at age 75.

A checklist of tax-planning issues for partners.

RSPs are an opportunity for employers to offer employees shares above the limits imposed by the tax favoured approved share schemes.

This briefing note contains comparisons of the rates of tax affecting two types of business structure for a typical UK trading or professional business with UK resident owners and employees.