Welcome

Moore and Smalley

Business growth week 13 - 17 May 2013

This week is Moore and Smalley’s business growth week.  Each day we’ll be posting a new blog offering information and advice on business growth.

In the first blog Damian Walmsley looks at how to develop a business growth strategy and identify growth opportunities.

A clear strategy detailing what you're going to do and when is essential to any business growth programme. It’s the route map showing how you will take your business from where you are now, to where you want to be in three to five years’ time.  Read more..

Damian's second blog sets out six of the most popular ways of growing a business.

The third blog in our business growth series outlines the fundamentals of diversifying a business.  

The Moore and Smalley blog and TV

Recent blog post: understanding the pros and cons of email marketing

Recent video: VAT tips for charities

Follow Moore and Smalley:

In the Spotlight

Charity finance teams stretched as pay remains static, suggests latest survey

The results of CFG’s latest People and Pay Survey, which was sponsored by MHA, have shown that more than 8 in 10 charity finance professionals are regularly working more than their contracted hours, with 50% of finance directors working 20% more - the equivalent of one extra day each week. This comes as salaries have remained flat across most roles this year, and the estimated average value of across the board pay awards is 2%, down from 2.6% in 2011 and 2.3% in 2012.

The survey, which attracted 358 responses, also showed:

• Salaries for most job titles remained flat or decreased slightly since last year’s survey.
• The average salary for a finance director is now £61,429, down from £66,531 last year, however this comes after a substantial uplift in 2012.
• 53% of charities made an across the board pay award in 2012, of 2.3% on average (down from 2.6% in 2011). 58% expect to make an award in 2013; however the average is expected to be 2%.

Click here to read more and see the key findings from the survey.

Careers

Accountancy rising star winner

Congratulations to Judith Dugdale winner of the North West Society of Chartered Accountants award for Accountancy Rising Star.

Judith is a corporate services director who joined Moore and Smalley in the year 2000 as a graduate trainee, qualifying as a chartered accountant in 2003.  She is now the youngest director at Moore and Smalley, and has held this position for over three years.   She is responsible for a growing portfolio of SME clients based across Lancashire and Cumbria.

Judith is a shining example of a young accountant who demonstrates great ambition for personal development and progression within her career.  Read more about Judith.

Moore and Smalley are always looking for the rising stars of the future so if accountancy is a profession that you are considering then joining us could be the springboard you need to a bright future.  For more information on the current opportunites available, our graduate recruitment scheme and what it's like working at Moore and Smalley please visit our Careers page.