Issues of world poverty, lack of clean water, drought, famine and the lack of basic services seem like problems that are too big for any one person to tackle, and they probably are. But we need to ask ourselves, what is it that we can do to help people around the world to reinvent themselves to create better opportunities and lives other than simply give money.
More important than money are ideas. Ideas can be much more like a life compass and provide direction for the future rather than just give a small item that solves a need for just today. An idea can change a life, change a family, change a community and change a world. Just one idea, nurtured and grown with love and care can create better lives in distant places.
More important than money are ideas. Ideas can be much more like a life compass and provide direction for the future rather than just give a small item that solves a need for just today. An idea can change a life, change a family, change a community and change a world. Just one idea, nurtured and grown with love and care can create better lives in distant places.
Business is often thought about as being cut-throat, mean and nasty but a new form of entrepreneur has emerged that creates thriving and successful enterprises but focuses services on a need and solution that improves the quality of people's lives. This new type of entrepreneur creates social enterprises that can not only operate as a fully functioning for-profit business but reinvest profits back into the business to carry on the mission of hope and help.
The Myvesta Foundation has launched a new website, Business Idea of the Day, to provide ideas to spark the imagination and creativity of entrepreneurs around the world. These ideas are as simple as needing a bucket and sponge to start a new business or as complex and highly technical ideas that involve satellites and new technology.
People that never thought that they could own their own business have found themselves as budding entrepreneurs with just a cell phone to sell telephone access to local villagers, they've invested in small man powered irrigation pumps to help grow more crops, and even purchased small water cleansing systems to purify otherwise contaminated water for a village to drink.
The lack of access to opportunity does not occur only in distant lands down dirt roads, but also in the inner cities of America and Europe. Economic creativity is a vital key to help revitalize areas that suffer from a lack of investment and opportunity and rather than needing a hand out to make life better, an idea and a hand up through distant mentorship can be even more powerful.
It would be wrong to assume that the lack of economic opportunity is only a problem of the poor, those in inner cities or those lacking basic supplies. Even middle class individual and families, weighed down by personal debt and unable to gain more income through regular employment can find the ideas on Business Idea of the Day to create new financial opportunity to get out of debt without bankruptcy, credit counseling, another debt consolidation loan or other outside assistance.
All business ideas are welcome and with the help and support of many people around the world, hopefully the Business Idea of the Day site can become a global resource for people of all ages and opportunities to use to change a life for the better.
Those interested in access to the creative ideas for new entrepreneurs can subscribe to the free RSS feed and watch the new ideas appear, day after day.
Business is often thought about as being cut-throat, mean and nasty but a new form of entrepreneur has emerged that creates thriving and successful enterprises but focuses services on a need and solution that improves the quality of people's lives. This new type of entrepreneur creates social enterprises that can not only operate as a fully functioning for-profit business but reinvest profits back into the business to carry on the mission of hope and help.
The Myvesta Foundation has launched a new website, Business Idea of the Day, to provide ideas to spark the imagination and creativity of entrepreneurs around the world. These ideas are as simple as needing a bucket and sponge to start a new business or as complex and highly technical ideas that involve satellites and new technology.
People that never thought that they could own their own business have found themselves as budding entrepreneurs with just a cell phone to sell telephone access to local villagers, they've invested in small man powered irrigation pumps to help grow more crops, and even purchased small water cleansing systems to purify otherwise contaminated water for a village to drink.
The lack of access to opportunity does not occur only in distant lands down dirt roads, but also in the inner cities of America and Europe. Economic creativity is a vital key to help revitalize areas that suffer from a lack of investment and opportunity and rather than needing a hand out to make life better, an idea and a hand up through distant mentorship can be even more powerful.
It would be wrong to assume that the lack of economic opportunity is only a problem of the poor, those in inner cities or those lacking basic supplies. Even middle class individual and families, weighed down by personal debt and unable to gain more income through regular employment can find the ideas on Business Idea of the Day to create new financial opportunity to get out of debt without bankruptcy, credit counseling, another debt consolidation loan or other outside assistance.
All business ideas are welcome and with the help and support of many people around the world, hopefully the Business Idea of the Day site can become a global resource for people of all ages and opportunities to use to change a life for the better.
Those interested in access to the creative ideas for new entrepreneurs can subscribe to the free RSS feed and watch the new ideas appear, day after day.
Those wishing to contribute ideas to help others can visit the site at http://businessideaoftheday.com and register to submit ideas.
1) You call but your accountant isn't available, so you leave a message.
2) Your accountant gets back to you - but they do so a week and a half later.
3) Your company accounts are due, but your accountant doesn't seem to have filed them.
4) Every time you talk to your accountant for even half an hour, you get a bill in the post the next day. However, strangely, when you ask them to do something urgently for you, it seems to take far longer than it should.
5) You are certain that there are other ways of reducing your business tax burden and yet your accountant never suggests any to you.
6) You occasionally read up about new legislation that may affect the way you do business but only when you actively chase up your accountant does he or she give you any advice on these issues. Even though it's perfectly clear that your accountant knew about the new legislation and how it might effect you way before you happened to chance upon the information.
7) You find yourself wondering whether you are really getting good value for money. What exactly are you paying all that money for every year? Surely, it can't take that long to complete a tax return, can it ?
If any - or, heaven forbid, all of these points sound familiar to you, then it really is time for you to change your accountants.
Thankfully, there are accountants out there who will return your phone calls in a timely manner, who are proactive in giving tax planning and business advice and do - honestly - offer good value for money.
Luckily, changing accountants is not the arduous process you might think it is.
Both the Institute of Chartered Accountants (ICAEW) and the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) have strict guidelines by which their members must adhere.
Among other things, these guidelines cover how a IAECW or ACCA accountant must behave if a client wishes to change accountants.
Your current accountant must provide all the relevant documentation and information to the new accountants in a timely and efficient manner and may not charge for supplying this information.
This should mean that, if you are fed up with your current accountant and they are chartered by one of these professional bodies, you can simply find a better one and then contact your old accountants and ask them to pass on all the accounting related information to the new accountants.
Your new accountants will probably provide you with a checklist of information that they need and some of this information (ie: VAT returns and payroll details) may come from you, but often the process can be almost entirely hands-off.
Even if you are in dispute with your current accountants, this should not prevent you from making a switch. The Institute of Chartered Accountants (ICAEW) and the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA)guidelines state that, and here I'm paraphrasing liberally, your current accountants should not be able to hold you to ransom.
So, don't feel that you must stick with an accountancy firm who is not delivering the goods. Changing is not that difficult and you will almost certainly reap the benefits in the long run.
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