Previous Events

Client Workshops

Small informal client workshops aimed at de-mistifying business jargon. Topics will include how to read management accounts, HR issues, VAT, payroll information, bookkeeping tips.

Dates for 2008
26 February

6 February - Personal Tax - Pre-Year End Tax Planning

The end of the personal tax financial tax year may still seem months off but it will soon be here.

In advance of that, our tax department will be running a specialist Business Breakfast Forum focusing on ways to mitigate your tax liabilities. Ray Honeywill, one of our tax specialists, will show you ways of maximising your tax allowances and considering ways in which you can reduce your annual tax bill. Among other things, it will include tips on dealing with pension contributions and bonuses.

28 November - Successful Benchmarking

How do you know how well your business is doing? How can you tell if each part of your business is operating as effectively as it could be? The solution is to use benchmarking. There are two main ways to benchmark. The first is to benchmark departments or company performance at a given point in time and repeat the benchmark at a future date. The second approach is to benchmark your departments or your business against best practice in other businesses or industries and against competitors to identify best practices that could be implemented within your own organisation. In this Business Breakfast Forum, Jean Piercy will share her wide experience of how to:

identify suitable activities to benchmark
find a suitable partner(s) against whom to benchmark
gather the necessary information and develop an action plan
measure the results

She will also give real examples of the benefits gained and the common pitfalls to avoid.

Inheritance Tax Planning Seminar – Thursday 25 October 2007

The number of family estates liable to IHT has grown substantially over the past few years – as has the amount of IHT paid. Both figures are forecast to continue growing very rapidly. Following the success of our Inheritance Tax seminar last year, Griffins are re-running our FREE seminar to help you find out more about how to manage and reduce the potentially huge tax burden of Inheritance Tax (IHT). This seminar will:

Explain how Inheritance Tax works
Find out if you are liable to IHT
Give you steps that you can take to reduce IHT

The seminar is on Thursday 25 October 2007 4 p.m. - 6.30 p.m. at the Donnington Grove Country Club. Speakers from Grffins and the law firm Penningtons will give you the benefit of their expertise on all the planning, tax and legal aspects of IHT.

12 September - Planning for the Future

There are many reasons why you might want to start planning an exit from your business. Whatever your reasons you will want to maximise the returns from the sale of your business. Come to our Business Breakfast Forum, on Wednesday 12 September, when our specialist Bob Fidler will talk about how to:

value your business
groom your business to maximise value
find a buyer

The second part of this seminar will show you how to manage and protect any wealth realised through the sale of your business. Neil Buckingham from Griffins Financial Solutions, will give an overview of the options available including potential investment strategies and tax efficient pension planning.

6 June - Grow your business through referral marketing

Word of mouth referrals are one of the best ways of getting new business. A referral marketing programme can help double the number of referrals your business receives. It can impact positively on market position, market credibility, leads, customers, new sales, customer satisfaction and loyalty, referrals and business growth. This seminar will show you how you can harness the power of referral marketing to improve your business simply, quickly and at little or no cost.

The speaker, Vince Golder of Goldnet Referral Marketing has over 24 years of experience in marketing consultancy and IT training management. He is a renowned specialist on referral and joint venture marketing in the UK. Clients and partners have included NatWest Plc, Endsleigh Insurance, Cornhill, Esure, Norwich Union, BMW, Ford, Vauxhall and many SMEs

7 March 2007 - Increase profitability through greater efficiency

Increasing profitability of your business can be one of the most challenging aspects of your role, and identifying and addressing the inefficiencies can dramatically increase your profitability. The seminar will identify 7 key areas where resources can be wasted and provide attendees with a toolkit for auditing inefficiences in your organisation.

18 January and 15 February 2007 - Tax efficient investment in overseas property seminars

Together with Advocate International - A seminar about making the right decisions about what type of property to buy, in which country, and whether it is better for a company to make the purchase or buy privately will be discussed

8 November 2006

Recruiting Good People
The world’s major economies are all suffering from skill shortages. Paradoxically, this is occurring at the same time as many countries are still suffering high levels of unemployment
A glance at a survey conducted in the United Kingdom shows that almost half of companies in the Service Sector and nearly 60 percent of manufacturers reported difficulties in recruiting skilled people. These figures have worsened in the past several years

14 September 2006 - Reduction of waste in your business

A breakfast meeting at The Moat House Hotel, Sindlesham
We are working in conjunction with the Institute of Directors to put on four workshops during 2006

9 August 2006

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