CPA – Prompting Punctual Payment   SME BUSINESS NEWS A weekly round-up of press news and comment affecting your business Tuesday, 30th January 2018 www.cpa.co.uk   FINANCE   Carillion collapse shines light on late payment epidemic The Times’ James Hurley

The beginning of the end for dodgy parking firms? A stringent new code of practice that will ban rogue parking operators who fail to observe its rules from accessing driver data and issuing charges, thus effectively driving them out of

Spiralling Costs Sink SMEs 29th January 2018. Last week RSM reported that personal insolvencies were on the rise, and now it seems that company insolvencies are kicking at its heels. According to new research, in 2017 the number of companies

Optimism in Financial Sector Drops 29th January 2018. Optimism among financial companies have deteriorated for the third quarter in a row in the final three months of last year, according to a  new survey. This highlights how issues such as

 Business Rates Relief Fund Not Going Far Enough 29th January 2018. A relief fund worth £300 million set up for small businesses, and by Chancellor, Philip Hammond, has failed to do its job. The fund, which was set up to