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For those of you working for companies with June year ends, hopefully your budget was set and approved before the start of this financial year. For others you may be in budget planning mode. This series of blogs is designed to help you have more confidence in budget management,...

Becoming a director is an important and impressive milestone in someone’s corporate and commercial life. There can be many benefits of being a director – increased responsibility, decision making powers and an opportunity to help shape the future direction of the organisation. It may also present an opportunity to...

Bookings are now open for our Feb/Mar 2020 program:   Session 1 – Thursday 6 February 2020 Session 2 – Thursday 20 February 2020 Session 3 – Thursday 5 March 2020 Session 4 – Thursday 19 March 2020   Margot Foster AM of The Boardroom School & Cherry Birch...

Hands up all of you who love budgeting! Hmm – thought so!  So do you view it as a necessary evil or does the very word fill you with fear and dread? I hope, for your sake, it’s not the latter! However whenever I ask participants what is the...

Have you formulated this year’s financial strategy (whether for your company, business unit, department or organisation)? It could of course be that you are already halfway through the year and it has been well underway for some time. So how is it going? What are the chances that you...

In the last few months, I have been talking more and more about financial engagement – yet I have been asked more than once to explain what I mean by this term.

The start of a new year can mean that you are once again in planning mode. What can you do to take the business forward? In common with many other managers, you may have some great ideas – but of course they need funding. How can you secure the...

How important is it to have financial acumen in your role? Is this a subject in which you feel confident? Now whilst upskilling does involve time and money but is there something more holding you back?

Recently I was asked by one of our major clients to run a workshop for their staff on personal finance. Now whilst in our approach to helping managers with their financial acumen skills, we often start with personal finance before progressing to business finance – demystifying all the jargon...