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February Company Formations: Leap Year Accounting Reference Date
If your company is formed this February the accounting reference date will be 28/02. It will remain as 28/02 until the next leap year (which is 2016) when it will move to 29/02.
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Real Business Case Study: Adam Ludwin & Dominic Joseph
Welcome It’s the turn of Adam Ludwin and Dominic Joseph from digital advertising agency Captify to step into our real business hot seat. Founded in July 2011 by Adam and Dominic (when 23 and 26 respectively) Captify specialise in search retargeting and can already name brands such as American Express, British Airways, Orange, Warner Brothers […]
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What is the Last Members List?
If you take a look at the Companies House webcheck you may notice a field dedicated to the “Last Members List” and then a date. So what does this mean?
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Shelf Companies
We’ve given our “Ready Made Companies” page a fresh lick of paint, so fresh in fact that they’re now known as “Shelf Companies”. The new page displays available limited companies by the year that they were formed in. If you’re interested in purchasing a shelf company, here’s how the process works: • Select “Buy Now” […]
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What are Companies House eReminders and how do you set them up?
Companies House eReminders are an email notification system that let you know when a company’s annual return and annual account due date is approaching.
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The Certificate of Incorporation: Your Company’s Birth Certificate
The Certificate of Incorporation is a Companies House document that details the...
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Real Business Case Study: Vanessa Lenssen
Welcome Today we’re delighted to be interviewing Vanessa Lenssen, the entrepreneur behind GoLearnTo.com, a travel company who specialise in providing unique learning holidays. Since forming GoLearnTo.com in 2006 Vanessa has been shortlisted for Red Magazine’s Red Hot Woman Award in the online business category and also won the Shine Corporate Woman of the Year for […]
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The 5 Components of Business
As the Made Simple Group is all about, well, making things simple, I was encouraged to pare this post back to basics and come up with what I feel are the five main components of business. Get these right and you should never really go wrong. A niche idea The best businesses I’m seeing are […]
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1 in 5 Businesses don't secure their domain name before registering their limited company
Did you know 54% of small businesses have not registered their company name on either Facebook or Twitter? We, names.co.uk, recently undertook some research on businesses which showed some concerning results. 1 in 4 (28%) small business owners wait months after registering their company name to register their domain name which increases the risk of […]
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Real Business Case Study: Daniel Abrahams; Stevan Litobac
Welcome Daniel Abrahams and Stevan Litobac are the co-Founders of MyCurrencyTransfer.com & MyTravelMoney.co.uk. Founded in September 2010 (with a little help from Companies Made Simple!), the award winning foreign exchange comparison site helps over 100,000 visitors per month find a fairer, cheaper and more transparent deal on currency. Last October, the site won an OPP […]