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COLUMN: Neil Warwick - Comply with latest red tape rulings

nebusiness.co.uk — Mon, 21 May 2012 23:04:00 GMT

COMPLIANCE is a big issue for a number of companies. Even identifying what compliance means and defining what it covers can provoke heated debate. It also gets swept up in the whole debate over too much red tape in this country.

COLUMN: Neil Warwick - Time to give business a spring clean

nebusiness.co.uk — Mon, 14 May 2012 23:01:00 GMT

DESPITE what recent downpours and flooding would indicate, we are actually heading from spring to summer.

Too much red tape hinders investment

nebusiness.co.uk — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 23:01:00 GMT

THROUGHOUT the whole term of the coalition Government, there has been a movement to reduce red tape in the UK.

Added burden to firms of Bribery Act

nebusiness.co.uk — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 00:01:00 GMT

THE implementation of the Bribery Act into UK law was not a smooth transition. While the Act received Royal Assent on April 8, 2010, it did not come into force until July 1 last year after three false starts.

Leading the way in small firm finance

nebusiness.co.uk — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 00:02:00 GMT

WITH unemployment a hot topic at the moment, especially given recent unease about the Government’s unpaid work placement scheme which has featured so heavily in the media, it was timely that the North East should host the national summit of the Community Development Finance Association (CDFA), the parent body of Community Development Finance Institutions (CDFIs) in February.

Is life really so grim up North?

nebusiness.co.uk — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 07:00:00 GMT

THERE are a whole host of clichés about the effects economic conditions are having on the UK.

Expect tougher regulations and tighter financial terms

nebusiness.co.uk — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 00:01:00 GMT

AS WE come to the end of the year and look ahead to the next, it could be a year of two halves – with the impact of new legislation in one half and a hardened use of existing legal tools and processes affecting business in the other.

SME survey attracts attention of Whitehall

nebusiness.co.uk — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 23:01:00 GMT

GIVEN current worldwide economic uncertainty and recent unemployment figures in the UK, it would be easy to become despondent.

What is an SME and why are they important?

nebusiness.co.uk — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 23:01:00 GMT

IN 2010, the Department of Business Innovation and Skills commissioned a report on private sector enterprises to determine just how important SMEs are to the UK economy.

Trivia does count for something

nebusiness.co.uk — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 23:01:00 GMT

RARELY do lawyers get asked to participate in pub quiz teams as there is an assumption that all they really know about is obscure pieces of legislation.