MW Interim Finance re-iterates the “wise words” that continue to be relevant as the UK economy stutters through another year of turmoil. “Many companies have finally recognised a need to either, “restructure for survival” or, “take advantage of the recession to make the changes necessary to benefit from an economic upturn”. However, recognition that change is required [...]

It has been just over a week since the UK comprehensive spending review, (CSR)), which was keenly awaited but with no surprises on the whole, except there were copious figures quoted and a time frame of 2014 / 15 to turn the country around. The upshot was work longer, pay more taxes, and suffer reductions [...]

This week leaders of some of Britain’s biggest businesses gave an emphatic endorsement of the coalition Government’s decision to cut spending immediately in order to pay down the UK deficit. That of course is the private sector view, however the suggested 25% cuts in the public sector have not engendered the same reaction from those [...]

It is official the UK is no longer in recession BUT it barely crawled out of negative growth in the final three months of 2009 according to official figures. The marginal 0.1% growth between October and December ended a record six straight quarters of decline but was well below the 0.4% expected increase. The Office for National Statistics [...]