Two expanding regional accountancy firms with Financial Planning arms are to combine following a £20m takeover deal. Surrey-based Chartered Accountants SKS Business Services has acquired North East-based chartered accountants Bailey Group. SKS’s acquisition of Bailey Group expands the firm’s geographical reach with the addition of an established base in the North East, the firm says. […]
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Implementing The WAVE Method To Build A Diversified Marketing Strategy
Executive Summary Growth is a real challenge for many advisory firms, from the advisor who got into the business to help people (not market to them), to the advisor who’s ‘great’ in front of prospects (with a strong ability to sell their value) but struggles to find prospects to get in front of in the […]
Audit committee cybersecurity disclosures rising in proxy statements
Public company audit committees continue to increase the level of their disclosures around cybersecurity in proxy statements, according to a yearly analysis performed by Audit Analytics in cooperation with the Center for Audit Quality (CAQ). The biggest increase in audit committee disclosures involved cybersecurity, according to the 2020 Audit Committee Transparency Barometer report published Monday […]
Food delivery volumes in India reach pre-Covid-19 peaks: Zomato’s Deepinder Goyal
Food delivery volumes have touched pre-Covid-19 peaks, the top Zomato executive said. In a post on microblogging platform Twitter, Deepinder Goyal, the founder and CEO of Zomato, said he expects the sector to continue growing at around 15-25% month-on-month for the foreseeable future. A number of cities are now at more than 120% pre-Covid-19 peaks, […]
Streaming platforms see growth explosion as pandemic propels podcasts to popularity
The coronavirus disruption has launched India’s media landscape into the third V front of voice, after video and vernacular. Only one third of Indians own a smartphone, and even fewer are conversationally fluent in English, given that the opening of the voice frontier promises a deepening of the digital media in the ocuntry. And while […]
Online liquor delivery remains a non-starter due to steep delivery fees, lack of clear guidelines
Online liquor delivery remains a non-starter, four months after markets like West Bengal, Jharkhand and Chattisgarh permitted the same, said company and industry executives, attributing the slow burn to steep delivery fee charged by aggregators Swiggy and Zomato and lack of clear guidelines. Online food delivery, in contrast, has reached pre-Covid numbers. “Charging cost of […]
GIC, Sequoia in Razorpay’s $100 million round; valuation may hit $1 billion
Illustration: Rahul Awasthi Payments company Razorpay has closed a $100 million financing round co-led by GIC, the sovereign wealth fund of Singapore, and existing investor Sequoia Capital, in the process topping $1 billion in valuation, and becoming the first Indian neo-bank to hit that benchmark. Existing investors of Bengaluru-headquartered Razorpay, which includes Palo Alto-based financial […]
How do you find someone to help you with the bookkeeping for your business?
When maintaining your accounts records becomes too much as your business grows and you realise you need some help how do you find someone to help? Maybe you will decide to use someone you know – the PA you use already, a friend or family member or someone you met at a networking event. Maybe […]
Covid-hit banks offer cracking deals on ecommerce during the festive period
Illustration: Rahul Awasthi An unsteady revival of the consumer economy has set off a discounting war among leading banks in partnership with online platforms and brands, as ecommerce is one among a handful of sectors that are expected to see growth in the festive period. Bankers and ecommerce executives ET spoke to said tight competition […]
How can Kiwi SMEs leverage the latest Xero Small Business Insights for their business?
As we continue to live with the impacts of the global pandemic, small businesses across different regions and industries in New Zealand have fared differently. Through Xero’s Small Business Insights (SBI), we’re able to see trends in revenue and employment, and paint an accurate picture of the New Zealand small business economy using real data. […]