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What’s ahead for farm tax in 2020?

Upcoming tax changes announced for the year impacting farming businesses

Is your Top Team Performing?

Briefing Note January 2020 

Law firms need to be agile if they are to successfully identify and respond quickly to threats to their businesses and to take advantage of opportunities. To be agile, law firms must focus strongly on change management, have quick response times to threats and strategic opportunities, have streamlined decision making processes and above all have capable people (including lawyers and those in management) who are open minded, flexible and prepared to learn new skills and ways of operating.

Cyber Security for law firms

Cybercrime is becoming big business, and cyber risk should be a focus for all businesses including law firms.

Outsourcing for law firms

Larger numbers of law firms appear to be outsourcing increasing aspects of their businesses as they look to build leaner and more efficient practices. Here our Strategic Business Adviser, Nick Palmer outlines some of the key issues.

Following a successful 1962 mission to orbit the earth, John Glenn (US astronaut and, later, politician) was asked what it felt like to sit in a rocket awaiting blast-off.

Does the size of your law firm matter?

Mark Baines, Legal Sector Manager reviews LexisNexis’ Is the Future Small? - the latest discussion paper in their Bellweather Report Series.

New Audit & Assurance Director joins our growing Glasgow Team

Martin Johnston joins Armstrong Watson's Glasgow team as Audit and Assurance Director from KPMG.

Digital transformation is changing business forever

As the digital revolution swiftly continues, here are some reasons why we all need to consider how well placed our own businesses are in these changing times:

The Magic of Deeds of Variation

A deed of variation is a tax efficient way for the beneficiary of an estate to redirect their inheritance to another person but must be prepares within two years of death

Understand your accounts and Cashflow

Lack of cash is usually the number one factor affecting a farming business not lack of profit.

An Added Value Audit

We have all heard many of the following phrases when discussing the requirement to have an audit:

‘We have to have one’

‘It’s just an overhead’

 ‘A necessary evil’

 ‘A box-ticking exercise’

But what if the audit process can really add ‘value’ to your business?

There are many ways in which an audit can really benefit you and your business, with just a few as follows: