PLAN NOW TO MINIMISE YOUR 2021 & 2022 TAX BILLS By Dave Hickey It’s Race Week in Galway and, as ever, I was told yesterday: “We won’t feel it now until Christmas”. While it’s still only July, there is something to be said to looking ahead to the end of 2022 to see what can […]
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By Dave Hickey Recently someone asked me why she needed a business plan if she was getting all the funding she needed from friends and relatives. It appeared to me as if she was thinking of a business plan as just a fund-raising tool. In fact, a business plan is much more than that: It’s
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By Dave Hickey In our previous post we looked at some of the underlying challenges of inflation and interest rate rises. Today, three of DHKN’s experts focus on how you can take action now to develop plans to deal with the potential outcomes over the next couple of years. Stephen Crowley, Partner DHKN “The most
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By Dave Hickey What’s my break-even point? Can I afford to pay salaries this month? What margin should I be aiming for on this new product/service? Many entrepreneurs and managers can’t answer questions like these because they haven’t yet acquired the necessary financial intelligence. Nobody gave them a test in finance skills when they decided
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By Dave Hickey What is the Gender Pay Gap? The Gender Pay Gap is the difference between what is earned on average by women and men based on average gross hourly earnings of all paid employees. It doesn’t distinguish between job types, experience, qualifications or working patterns. A Gender Pay Gap in an organisation does not,
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By Dave Hickey This is part of a piece I wrote almost two years ago about ‘staying on top of the numbers’. Too much of it is still relevant. In Ireland we’re great at keeping score. Whether it’s in sport, socially (whose round is it?) or in family life (whose turn to do the dishes?).
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Some tips on how to manage the stress By Dave Hickey A few years ago, I interviewed business leaders from a wide range of businesses and backgrounds for the local newspaper. One CEO of a fairly recent start-up was talking about managing cash and struggling to meet payroll every month. He told of some months
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