Business Planning & Forecasts

Financial planning is essential to the success of your business. Using forecasts will allow you to make informed, confident decisions.

Forecasts will give you an accurate picture of your likely profits and cash flow, allowing you to put your finances in order – whilst also identifying any gaps or improvement needed.

We will work as part of your team to prepare realistic, commercially aware budgets that enable you to set cash flow and profit requirements tailored to your business. Then providing a benchmark that you can measure your actual results against.

Doing so will allow you to manage your business better – and improve your bottom line. Our budgets and financial forecasts will also provide reassurance about the viability of your business to lenders, investors or any other necessary stakeholders.

Budget March 2024

1 month ago

In past years, the annual Budget was shrouded in secrecy. No one was supposed to know what was in the Red Box that the Chancellor held up outside 11 Downing Street on his way to Parliament. There was an element of suspense. Now it seems that most of the proposals were predicted in the morning papers – the television pundits were reduced to speculating whether Jeremy Hunt would produce ‘a rabbit from his hat’, but it turned out that the hat only contained what was expected.

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Autumn Statement November 2023

5 months ago

In the weeks leading up to the Autumn Statement, the press was full of speculation about tax cuts. This was a surprise, just over a year after the tax cuts announced by Kwasi Kwarteng were judged imprudent by the international markets, contributing to a fall in the value of sterling and increases in interest rates. Nevertheless, it seemed that a side effect of inflation was that higher incomes and prices had fed through into higher tax receipts; the Chancellor had more in his coffers – more ‘fiscal headroom’ – than had been predicted in the Spring, and commentators were suggesting what he might do with it.

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Lancaster Haskins

Lancaster Haskins

Lancaster Haskins