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The Finance Zone PART 12: Company cars, vans and bicycles Richard Baker looks at the tax rules governing company cars, vans and bicycles The Finance Zone Part 11: Monitoring business performance
Richard Baker explains how three simple steps can help you monitor the performance of your business and understand what it means on a day-to-day basis
The Finance Zone PART 10: Staff benefits Richard Baker explains how you can make benefits a considerable enhancement of an employee’s remuneration package The finance zone PART 9: VAT for pharmacists VAT is an extremely complicated area. Accountant Richard Baker offers a quick guide to the five most important things pharmacists need to remember. The Finance Zone: Part 8 – when to expand and raising finance The decision as to whether to expand your business is a significant one, but when is the right time? Richard Baker offers four key indicators. Finance Zone: Part 7 – budgeting for locums For many, the life of the locum provides a number of advantages – the main one being flexible working arrangements. One of the main disadvantages of being a locum is the administration that goes with being self-employed. The Finance Zone part 6: Profit extraction 30/06/2010
When planning how to extract profits from your company as tax efficiently as possible, the best place to start is estimating what your profits are likely to be, says
Richard Baker
The Finance Zone Part 5: Retirement planning 11/06/2010 The earlier you start planning your retirement the better, says accountant Richard Baker The Finance Zone Part 4: Business planning. It’s important for all, regardless of size, says accountant Richard Baker. The other benefit of keeping upto- date management accounts is that tax planning is much easier, enabling you to make timely decisions in order to minimise your tax liabilities. PART 3: Inheritance tax 30/03/2010 Ask most people about inheritance tax and they will tell you it’s a tax paid by the very wealthy when they die. A succinct summary, but the accuracy of it can be challenged in a number of ways, says accountant Richard Baker
Finance Zone: Part 2 17/03/2010 PART 2: Tax issues for pharmacy buyers and sellers. Accountant Richard Baker offers tips on saving tax when buying or selling |
This month, Anne Hutchings discusses the intricacies of family taxation. From asset equalisation to separation and divorce, this chapter of Pharmacy Finance is your essential guide.
Should you worry about the possibility of a tax office (HM Revenue & Customs) investigation into your business accounts? The answer is ‘probably’, more so if your record keeping is poor and your accounts are not in line with what the tax office expects.
As LPCs gathered for their annual conference in London, service troubles and finance were among the hot topics raised. Chris Chapman and Hannah Flynn report 
Oral care is bucking the OTC trend, with pharmacy outperforming grocery in share growth. Chris Chapman reveals how to make the most of this £820m category
Lawyers Adam Rice and Anna West answer eight frequently asked questions. Here’s what you need to know if the worst happens.
As PSNC reveals yet more compensation for errors made by NHS Prescription Services is likely to be needed, Zoe Smeaton asks if pharmacies can ever have faith in the payment system 
The second live C+D Senate saw sector leaders gather at the C+D Conference to ask whether a new funding model could secure pharmacy's future. Hannah Flynn reports
The first live C+D Senate saw sector leaders gather at the C+D Conference to debate the ‘shocking’ results revealed by C+D’s 2010 PCT Investigation. Hannah Flynn reports
Widen your range and link products to advice to make the most of the £70m slimming aid market, says Kathy Oxtoby
After a low incidence of colds and flu in 2009-10, this season should deliver stronger growth in the winter remedies sector. Sarah Thackray reports on how to boost your share of the £265m market
For the first time in three quarters, the category M tariff has seen a decrease in overall reimbursement from October. See how October’s tariff will affect your bottom line
