MDH expand their corporate finance service offering

The Corporate Finance Network today announces that MDH has joined their network of corporate finance specialists

The Croydon-based firm, led by Michael Hemme, specialises in advising entrepreneurial businesses as accountancy and business growth specialists.  MDH has already achieved significant success winning awards such as “Firm of the Year”,

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MAP supercharge their corporate finance resource

The Corporate Finance Network today announces that MAP has joined their network of corporate finance specialists

The Manchester-based firm, led by Paul Barnes, specialises in advising digital creative agencies from across the UK and was established to provide a fully-outsourced finance function for those clients.  As these businesses grew over the years,

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Small business owners reporting sharp rise in stress as restrictions continue

The owners of small businesses in the UK are reporting increased levels of stress and anxiety as they try to plan a route back to profitable trading, according to a survey from ACCA UK (the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants) and The Corporate Finance Network (CFN).

A figure of 37% business owners said they were feeling more stressed and anxious than normal in June – which is more than double the figure for May (16%).

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One in five small businesses believe full trading recovery will take two years

Small businesses expect a long, slow road to recovery to pre-pandemic levels of trading, according to a survey from ACCA UK (the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants) and The Corporate Finance Network (CFN).

The gloomy prediction emerges from the SME Tracker, which surveys accountants about their clients. It shows that 20% of SMEs are convinced that full recovery to pre-pandemic levels of trading will take up to two years.

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One in five small business owners struggling with mental health issues after a year of disruption

Small business owners are reporting a mental health and welfare crisis as they wage a constant battle to save their businesses, according to a survey from ACCA UK (the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants) and The Corporate Finance Network (CFN).

The SME Tracker for March revealed that one in seven bosses (13.6%) were feeling unable to cope with work pressures,

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UK SMEs increasingly considering closing businesses in the face of perfect storm of issues

Small to Medium Sized Enterprises (SMEs) in hard hit sectors are increasingly starting to move to close down their businesses, according to a survey from ACCA UK (the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants) and The Corporate Finance Network (CFN) which has polled its accounting firm members.

The SME Tracker revealed that in February two accountancy practices reported that 20-25% of their SME clients had already liquidated or wound up,

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