Fiducia TogetherCapital gains on business assets
Selling business assets, and the reliefs that reduce the tax.
Business A to Z
Every trade has words it uses without explaining. In business the cost of not knowing one is real: some of them are ordinary jargon and some of them are a decision that can take a house.
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500 terms, showing 71–80 (page 8 of 50).
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Capital gains tax
Also called CGT, Business Asset Disposal Relief
Tax on the profit made when you sell an asset, including a business or shares in one.
Cash conversion
How much of your profit turns into actual cash.
Cash flow
Also called Cashflow, Working cash
The money actually moving in and out of your bank account, and the reason profitable businesses still go under.
CDM regulations
Health and safety duties on construction projects. They apply to almost every project.
Change control
A formal process for agreeing changes to what was agreed.
Change management
Getting people to actually work the new way.
Charity governance
How a charity is run, and the duties trustees carry personally.
Chart of accounts
The list of categories your bookkeeping puts every transaction into. Boring, and it decides what your reports can tell you.
Churn
Also called Attrition, Customer churn, Revenue churn
The rate at which customers leave. The quiet number that decides whether growth compounds or treads water.
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