Valuation
Also called Pre-money, Post-money, Company value
What the company is worth — which means something different to an investor, a buyer and a tax inspector.
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12 terms filed under V, showing 1–10 (page 1 of 2).
Also called Pre-money, Post-money, Company value
What the company is worth — which means something different to an investor, a buyer and a tax inspector.
A clear statement of what you do, for whom, and why it is better.
Comparing what happened with what you budgeted, and asking why.
Also called Value Added Tax
A tax on most sales, collected by businesses on HMRC's behalf. The money in your account is not yours.
One VAT return a year with instalments through it. Less admin, less flexibility.
Accounting for VAT when money moves rather than when invoices are raised.
Also called Flat rate scheme, FRS
A simplified way of working out VAT: you pay a fixed percentage of your gross turnover and generally do not reclaim input VAT.
One of the most complex areas of VAT, and expensive to get wrong.
Where a service is treated as supplied for VAT. It decides who charges what.
The turnover level at which registering for VAT stops being optional.
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