Monthly Archives: September 2010

Choosing Your Company Name – Characters and Symbols

Stressing the importance of a company name is pointless – let’s just leave it at “it matters”. So in this series of blogs we’re going to touch on the restrictions imposed by Companies House in regards to what you can … Continue reading

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Company Formation Sector Reluctant to Apply for finance

Throughout the recession, the majority of feedback from the small business and company formation sector, has been that limited access to finance is the main challenge faced by enterprise in the current economic climate However, a recent report conducted by … Continue reading

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The Impact of Pension Reform on Company Formation

When the coalition government first came into power, David Cameron promised an ‘enterprise led recovery’. Consequently, in its ‘Emergency Budget’ the coalition made certain concessions to the SME and company formation sector to help small business and support company formation, … Continue reading

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Company Formation on the Up in the Capital

While the media has been saturated with stories of how small businesses in the north are finding it much tougher than businesses in the south, a report last week discredited the claims and claimed that more research needed to be … Continue reading

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Lack of Finance is Universal say Company Formation Report

The findings of a recent survey found that while finance is limited throughout the country the situation is much worse for small business owners situated up north than it is for their southern counterparts. However, today the findings of this … Continue reading

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What the Spending Review Means for Company Formation

As business owners up and down the country anxiously wait to see what impact the government’s spending cuts will have on their businesses, the Confederation of British Industry has come out in force to urge the government not to cut … Continue reading

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Is Funding for Company Formation Tougher to get in the North

It is a well documented fact that the majority of small businesses have found gaining access to additional finance increasingly difficult throughout the recession. Indeed, despite poor market conditions and an overall decrease in consumer confidence, many small business owners … Continue reading

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Small Companies hit Hardest by Finance Slump

According to the most recent statistics released by the Bank of England, the amount of finance given to small businesses has dropped by over twenty seven pillion pounds since the credit crunch began. While banks are increasingly directing significant resource … Continue reading

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Forming A Dormant Company – Don’t Be Fooled

Let’s keep this one brief. Forming a dormant company is exactly the same as forming a trading company. You still need a company name, you still need a company director and you still need a shareholder. The formation process is … Continue reading

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Free Company Secretarial System – Too Good To Be True? No

At the beginning of August we launched our innovative and simple to use Company Secretarial System. Aimed primarily at accountants (but by no means restricted to them) the free system allows users to manage all their Limited Companies from one … Continue reading

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