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    Copyright headers

    When you say wireless, do you mean mobile broadband? Wireless and Mobile Broadband are completely different. If it's home broadband (but wireless) you should not have any problems at all. Mobile Broadband (i.e. through the mobile 'phone networks) do have these sorts of problems from time to time.
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    Libel Law

    Say Company A wanted to publically compare himself to Company B, C and D. Company A creates a chart that looks something like the following: ....................FREEPOSTAGE............................FREE GIFTS............................CUSTOMER REWARDS Company A -...
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    Points Reward Scheme

    Whats the best way to implement a points reward scheme and the software to do it? EXAMPLE: When a customer buys Product X they get Z amount of points which can later be redeemed against another purchase.
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    Accounting Advice

    You also have to look into the future of your business too. Too many companies revolve around accounting/book keeping, mainly due to the ease and simplicity of accounts, ledgers and the rest. But accounts don't paint a business picture (they only paint an overview), whereas moving into the...
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    'Revenue' Question - Please Help

    Might have to speak to accountant, but it might be a case of: REVENUE: £1000 COST OF SALES: £800 GROSS SALES PROFIT: £200
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    'Revenue' Question - Please Help

    Your revenue would be £1000 as this is the amount you recieve as the VAT refund. You would then pass £200 on as an expense account or similar. If you put your revenue as £200, when it came to reconsiling your bank/books, nothing would make sense. Plus, I have a feeling, it may even be fraud...
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    Accounting Advice

    At our business, we are using an ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) software. It's like very advanced accounting software, but not limited to this!! You can set up one PC to be the host for the ERP which will contain the main database. You can then have a remote PC connect to the ERP system -...
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    Owners Cash Input and the P&L

    OK, thanks. So, it's right to assume that it will have a negative impact on the P&L if I use the cash for expenses?
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    Ltd Co, Partnership, Self Employed and 4 Years No Accounts

    Hi I just wanted to say that I feel your frustrations - people always assume that if you have your own business, you must be making a packet every single month and could retire next year. You and I, like everyone else on this forum know that it ain't that simple and that the truth is very much...
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    Owners Cash Input and the P&L

    Ok, so let's say sales income is £10,000, expenses are £5000 That leaves the PROFIT BEFORE TAX at £5000 But let's say I put £2000 of my own cash to pay for some expenses. Is this £2000 part of the business revenue, or is it taken as a capital and that it would be common knowledge that by...
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    Owners Cash Input and the P&L

    Say I own a business and use my own cash to pay for certain expenses and add this cash into the business by inputting it into petty cash so it can be spent in the business. When creating the P&L report, should I include this cash investment I've made in the Revenue section?
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    Help with photos

    GIMP rocks. Always think about Opensource software rather than free. All the free ones are naff. Opensource are designed by people wanting to do something really good and build a product that really delivers.
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    Anybody use PaceRetail?

    Why not just pay around £40 A YEAR for webspace/domain and OSCommerce. Bob's yer uncle. Yea, you'll have to maintain it and add products yourself but that's a good thing because it gives you flexibility. www.weycrest.co.uk is my preferred vendor.
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    Asset Equity of Downloadable Goods

    Intuit Quickbooks Premier 2008