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The importance of cash flow is a cold hard fact which concerns all business people. Yet despite the well known mantra that “cash is king” many businesses suffer serious, and often fatal consequences from allowing bad debts to accrue and failing to take action to recover cash that is sat on their balance sheet as debt.

Once the term of a lease has expired the situation can become complicated where a tenant remains in occupation. The complexity will depend on whether the lease is a “protected lease” under the renewal provisions of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954.

When two people decide to set up a company and are investing equally in terms of time, money and effort, they frequently do so by each holding 50% of the shares in that company and both being directors.

Absences from work can be very disruptive to a business. Persistent staff absences can lead to difficult situations and often employers cast doubt over the genuineness of frequent, short term absences.

UNISON, one of the UK’s largest trade unions, with over 1.3 million members, have won the right to have a judicial review of the introduction of tribunal fees. The review is set for October 2013.

From 29 July 2013, employers and employees will be able to engage in confidential, “off the record” discussions and negotiations about parting ways on the basis of mutually agreeable terms.

Is one of your employees not performing? Doesn’t fit in? Just isn’t right for your business? Are you worried about the rigmarole involved in letting them go?

A new companies act has been introduced. Who will it apply to? When will it apply? What are the changes? Do you need to do anything? Why is the change?

Australian band Men at Work, who had a global hit record with ‘Down Under’, are facing a huge legal bill after the Federal Court in Australia ruled against them in a copyright infringement case brought almost 20 years after the song’s first release.