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New minimum wage rates have just been introduced, providing a good time for employers to ensure they’re up with the pay play – remembering the cost of breaching these laws can be more painful than many realise.

If you’ve ever been at the helm of any venture, you don’t need me to tell you about the hard graft, long hours and sheer breadth of critical decision-making required to keep a business’ engine room firing.

In his song, Italian Restaurant, Billy Joel sums up a piece of fraud prevention advice I regularly give to small business owners: A bottle of white, a bottle of red … perhaps a bottle of rose instead.

It’s hard to believe two months have zipped by since Christmas – but what happens if, in the weeks since, that much-loved gizmo that was waiting for you under the tree has gone kaput?

Aspiring Law’s BizClub® 2017 workshop series gets off to a cracking start for the year with an eye-opening – and potentially business-saving – seminar presented by forensic accountant and fraud expert Graeme McGlinn.

There’s a quote from Benjamin Franklin that’s as true today as it was in the 1700s when he became one of the United States’ founding fathers and thought leaders: “If you fail to plan, you are planning to fail”.

A gift voucher – that perfect little something when we’re completely stumped on what to get “the person with everything”, or when postage is best kept super lightweight … and if there’s a fickle teenager to buy for.