R&D Tax and Patent Box: Hiring the Right Capability
R&D tax relief and Patent Box are the two UK incentives most likely to be worth real money to an innovative business and least likely to have a clear owner inside it. Both sit between finance, tax and the technical teams who actually do the …
Employment Tax: When to Hire a Specialist In-House
Employment tax is the fastest-growing of the in-house tax specialisms and the one businesses most consistently under-resource. It sits awkwardly between finance, payroll, HR and legal, which means it frequently belongs to nobody until something goes wrong — a status challenge, a benefits error discovered …
SaaS Metrics for Management Accountants: ARR, NRR, CAC
Management accountants moving into SaaS discover quickly that the P&L is the least interesting page in the pack. The board reads ARR, net revenue retention, CAC payback and gross margin — and expects finance to own those numbers with the same rigour as the statutory …
Fractional Management Accountant: Does the Model Work?
Most descriptions of this role list responsibilities and tell you nothing about what the job feels like. The reality of management accounting is that it has a shape: the month is not uniform, the first week and the third week are almost different jobs, and …
A Day in the Life of a Management Accountant
Most descriptions of this role list responsibilities and tell you nothing about what the job feels like. The reality of management accounting is that it has a shape: the month is not uniform, the first week and the third week are almost different jobs, and …
Fractional Finance Business Partner: The Emerging Model
Fractional finance leadership is well established at the top of the function — part-week Finance Directors and Financial Controllers are now an ordinary way for mid-market businesses to buy senior capability. What is newer, and less well understood, is the same model applied one level …
How Many Finance Business Partners Do You Need?
Businesses building a business partnering capability almost always ask the wrong question first. They ask what a finance business partner does, then hire one, and only later discover that one person cannot meaningfully partner six commercial areas. The better question is the sizing one: how …
Month-End Close Speed: UK Benchmark Report 2026
Close speed is the most visible measure of whether a finance function is working. It is also the one most businesses quote without knowing whether their number is good. A ten-day close sounds slow to a listed company and enviable to a founder whose management …
Finance Salaries vs Inflation: A 5-Year UK Tracker
Between 2021 and 2026 the UK went through the sharpest inflationary episode in four decades and came out the other side with a pay landscape that looks quite different from the one it entered. For finance professionals the question is simple and rarely answered honestly: …
Consumer Duty MI: What Finance Must Produce
The Consumer Duty changed what FCA-regulated firms have to be able to demonstrate, and a large part of the demonstration is data. Boards must satisfy themselves annually that the firm is delivering good outcomes for retail customers, and that assessment rests on management information — …
