Accounts are simple in theory, but all too often extremely complicated in practice. Thanks to that unwanted but unavoidable fact, your business could be losing surprisingly high amounts of money through duplicate payments and other sorts of accounting mistake. An accounts payable audit can enable you to find these, thereby saving money that you have already wasted and preventing the same thing from happening again. You may be under the impression that your company is already as smoothly-run as it needs to be in this area – or perhaps you merely think that these sorts of errors are unavoidable, and the price of doing business. However, this is not true, as recovery audit software will prove. The most reliable estimates suggest that somewhere between 1 in every 1,000 and one in every 200 payments is a duplicate – which means that between you are maybe overpaying between 0.1 percent and 0.5 percent in just those cases. That has a high cost associated.

That’s only one example of accidental overpayments. There are an awful lot of others – not least when devious suppliers intend to take advantage of the faults in your accounting system and end up costing you money through basic fraud. It’s not nice to consider, but it’s something you should bear in mind: if you haven’t, then there always the chance that someone else has – all with a cost to your company. In this economic climate, no one should be throwing money away like that.

All in all, overpayments are an expensive business. An accounts payable audit of the last few years for a medium-sized business could easily show a six-figure discrepancy – money that could have been used to pay staff or invest in hardware or training. Duplicate payments occur because accounts systems often only have relatively basic safeguards in place, and mistakes (and dishonesty) do occur. A typical accounts payment will require a dozen different pieces of information to be entered into the database – plenty of room for human error. recovery audit software can eliminate most of these. In fact, it would be surprising if the software didn’t more than pay for itself the first time it was used. Moreover, it’s worth acting fast. Duplicates and other mistaken payments can be corrected – but only if the supplier involved is still in business. If you wait around for too long, you may find that more and more of them are no longer operating, meaning that you have no chance of reclaiming the lost funds.

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When you’re organising a big journey for a large number of people, there are a few limited options open to you. You can arrange for everyone to make their own way there – something that results in varying travel times and some people generally getting lost. You can arrange to meet centrally and take public transport, which is uneconomical and impersonal. You could try signing people up to car-share, but this is likely to be an administrative headache – and is also costly, since you are still taking a number of cars. Another alternative is to opt for luxury coach hire (or, if your group is only 16-19 people, minibus hire). Coach hire London is a good way to make your journey, since you can choose a firm that provides all the conveniences you need for comfortable travel.

Modern luxury coaches come with a good range of facilities to make your trip as smooth and enjoyable as possible: air-conditioning, drinks machines, wash rooms, DVD and CD players, and tables. In fact, these state-of-the-art coaches are a world away from the awful cattle trucks known to most people from unwelcome school trips, in which every mile was a trial and travel sickness was thrown in at no extra cost.

There are other benefits to luxury coach travel, beyond comfort. Economies of scale come into consideration in a way that simply doesn’t apply if you are taking several cars – even if you are lift sharing. If you are journeying with a group of 50, it is much cheaper per-person – even if you are paying for a driver. This also has benefits to the environment. Furthermore, on particularly long journeys there is the advantage of not arriving at your destination tired – important if you are going on holiday or to a sports fixture.

Coach hire London is a great way to avoid all of these problems, and luxury coach hire is a far more comfortable and relaxing way to travel than the train or bus. Coaches come in various sizes; minibus hire tends to be the best choice for smaller groups (up to 19 people), and there are mid-sized coaches that accommodate up to 33 people. For the largest groups of 40 or 50 people, there are still coaches available. If your group is bigger than this, you can still get two or more coaches from the same company, enabling you to arrive at the same time.

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High employee turnover is one of the biggest problems for hoteliers and restaurateurs in ‘Asian Tiger’ destinations. While there is a huge amount of demand for hotel jobs in Hong Kong, Singapore, and other markets experiencing financial boom, new employees – especially those recruited from outside the territory itself – often end up staying for only a few months. This is a negative contrast with the traditions of grand old hotels like those of mid-twentieth century Europe, which are epitomized by butlers who’ve been in their position forty years, or head waitresses who worked their way up from a chambermaid position and now know every regular by name.

There’s a huge amount of benefit to Asian hotels in developing these employees. If recruiters for hospitality jobs in Singapore and hotel jobs in Hong Kong focus on employing people with the kind of dedication, passion and resourcefulness that we see in these classic movies like Grand Budapest Hotel or Some Like It Hot, their locations can be places that visitors come back to again and again and again. Filling hotel jobs in Singapore with employees who prioritize learning regular customers’ names and preferences, and keeping databases of the most popular cocktails or favourite room service requests in their heads, will bring loyalty to the brand. And making a hotel into an institution is something that all hoteliers dream of. There are so many hotel jobs in Singapore and Hong Kong because these are great business and tourist destinations – but imagine how many more guests and quality employees can be attracted when the hotel itself is a tourist destination!

So if a manager is looking to make his or hotel into a classic brand, what should she or he be looking for when filling hospitality jobs in Singapore and Hong Kong?

Professionalism is obviously extremely important – nobody trying to fill hotel jobs in Hong Kong or Singapore underestimates the importance of staff who quickly learn what they are doing and where they need to be at all times. But almost equally as important is personality: the ability to be deferential while still leaving guests feeling that they’ve formed a bond, and the flair that stops a high quality hotel feeling staid.

Of course, it’s impossible to recruit an old-timer – it’s only their long years of experience at a certain hotel that makes them brand institutions. But if recruiters looking to fill hotel jobs in Singapore, Hong Kong and other luxury markets focus on personality, resourcefulness and creativity, they can recruit employees who’ll quickly become familiar faces in the region’s tourist industry.

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A good London schoolwear supplier doesn’t just sell school clothes. They give you peace of mind and the knowledge that purchasing school uniforms doesn’t have to lead to days of searching the high street for every little item your child needs – often with the child in tow.

Shopping for clothes online has lots of benefits. For starters, when you buy online – anything, whether it’s clothes, books or computer hardware – you tend to see better prices. That’s because if you buy from a store you’re also paying for their overheads: rent, utilities, staffing costs and so on. Not only that but they’re likely to be situated somewhere pricey, on the high street where footfall is higher and shops are more competitive. With an online schoolwear supplier, it doesn’t matter where they are selling from. You place your order and it’s sent to your door.

Convenience is another obvious benefit. It’s a lot simpler and less effort to do your shopping on the web than it is to find the time to travel to the shops and physically search for what you want. You can buy what you want in your lunch hour at work or in the evenings, rather than take a day to get your child kitted out for next term. It also doesn’t matter when you shop – the internet doesn’t have opening hours.

One potential sticking point is sizing, though this doesn’t have to be an insurmountable problem. Take careful measurements and use existing clothes to check what you need and you should be able to order school clothes that fit perfectly without any trouble. On the off-chance that there is a problem, you can just return them and have them switched for a different size. Once you have used the same supplier once, you will have a much better idea of how their clothes fit, so it will get easier and easier as time goes on.

A worthwhile London schoolwear supplier will have more than just school clothes. You can treat it like a one stop shop, finding everything that your child needs – stationary and calculators, shoes for clubs and sports as well as school uniforms. Some will even offer a school delivery service, so even if you leave things until the very last minute you can still make sure the required items will be waiting for them when they arrive at the school gates.

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Shops to let in North London have, like all commercial property north london, suffered in recent years. The credit crunch and resulting recession hit properties hard in capitals across the world. In many of these, prices have still not recovered. In London, however, the picture is unexpectedly different. Commercial property took a real hammering as the economy nosedived, and prime office space in particular was badly hit. That meant a couple of things. Firstly, yields rose quite strongly as sale prices fell but rental prices dropped less sharply. Secondly, there were significant opportunities for outside investors who recognised a bargain when they saw one – which is what happened not long afterwards. The relative strength of the Euro against the pound meant that investors on the continent (as well as further afield) made the most of the depressed prices. Whether it was a high-rise development in the Square Mile or a shop for sale in London, it could be seem as a potentially lucrative asset.

This dynamic led to a strong bounce back in property prices in the capital. This was supported by a relative dearth of additional development. As the long-awaited recovery appears on the horizon – subject to further shocks from the Eurozone – the bottleneck this will cause is expected to nudge prices even higher once again. Things in London aren’t exactly ‘business as usual’ but the picture there is far better than in other areas of the country, which helps as well. The GDP figures that the nation awaits from quarter to quarter are not a reliable local indication, since they are not uniform; London and the southeast, in particular, are in a much stronger position economically than elsewhere.

Shops to rent in North London can thus be seen as an investment opportunity. Property has fallen from grace as an investment in recent times, being blamed as a key strand of the global economic traumas that are still working themselves out. commercial property north london doesn’t play by quite the same rules as property elsewhere – office space, industrial, retail or otherwise. This means that, assuming you’re able to be in it for the medium-term, you can expect to make a profit on your purchase. A shop for sale in London might not have the prestige of a skyscraper on Canary Wharf, but with a little research you could find it yielding the same kind of return on investment.

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If the following situation sounds familiar, it may well be that you are in urgent need of a phono stage.  Your speaker system is all hooked up and ready to roll, your amplifiers are connected, but nothing seems to be making any sound.  Those speakers were not made for silence – why is the sound failing to come through?  The reason may be something to do with the fact that the majority of modern amplifiers are not fitted with an input socket marked turntable, so they cannot be connected unless you have a phono preamp.  This is basically an electronic circuit or stage that deals with the correct amplification of the phono cartridge and sends it to the amp or audio system. It is also often termed a phono stage or a phono amp, but these terms all mean the same thing.

It is important not to let all these different terms confuse you – this is simply a box that connects a turntable and an amplifier.  However, if this sort of sound technology is all rather unfamiliar, it can be difficult to choose which one to buy.  In order to make this choice, it is worth gaining some appreciation of how the phono amp works.  It is all down to changes in technology, as when vinyl records were the norm, integrated amplifiers always had an input for the record player or turntable.  However, when analogue sources started to become digital in origin, this no longer seemed important.  As digital sources have similar voltages, all that was needed a simple switch that selects between inputs.  For this reason, the ‘passive preamp’ was created.  This is not a preamp, rather, these boxes contain switches and relays.  The phono amp thus ensures that you achieve the ideal level of amplification.

Obtaining and setting up the preamp is remarkably stress free, even for those who are not particularly technologically savvy.  Setting up the system is just a matter of obtaining a phono-stage, linking up the turntable to it, and hooking up the output from the preamp to your amplifier.  As prices can vary widely, it can be difficult to decide which one to go for, but it is important to be aware that the quality of your sound will to an extent be dependent on the phono amp you decide on.  A very cheap preamp is generally unlikely to provide you with very good quality audio, but equally, some budget preamps are dressed up as very costly ones.  It is generally safest to opt for a mid-priced product.

It is important, therefore, not to be confused by the technicalities.  The phono stage, the phono preamp and the phono amp all have the same function, that of connecting your amp to your turntable.  Having found an amplifier that works, your music system should be ready to go. After this point, whether you are a part time DJ or just planning a party, you should find that all your records sound better than ever before with the right kind of amp to channel the beats.

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If you’ve had to consider how to sell a school or how to sell a day nursery, you’ll realise that it’s not as easy as putting your house on the market. For one thing, the sector is rather different from the residential market or other areas of the commercial property market. If you are looking into how to sell a church or other religious building, you will need to take into account other constraints – including ensuring you have mandates from your organisation or members to allow you to do so.

These non-residential, institutional buildings come under a certain planning category of D1 and D2. As you can tell from the kind of buildings involved, this is a niche market – and so there are proportionally fewer potential buyers – as well as having particular requirements attached to it. Because of the special nature of the sector, you should look for an estate agent who is used to dealing with these types of premises. Otherwise, you could find you are approached by a slew of unsuitable buyers, or have to wait a long time for a sale. The best agency will move in the right circles and have good knowledge of the market, as well as plenty of contacts. These kinds of building are frequently in good demand, so they should not pose a particular problem to sell per se. But you do need to find someone who can link buyer and seller.

Preparation for sale may need to be more careful than for other properties, and may be more complex. These buildings may have been owned for decades or longer, and important documents may have been lost or destroyed. You will need to find the required documentation before instructing your solicitor, or take the right measures to address its lack or replace it. You may also need to get key members of your organisation to sign permission documents.

When researching how to sell a day nursery, how to sell a school or how to sell a church, one of the first steps will be to locate a reputable and experienced estate agent. They will be able to explain the process to you, undertake a valuation – often for free – and advise you on other important matters such as budget and legal requirements. This is a complicated field and there is room for misunderstandings and problems if you get it wrong. However, the right professionals should make the process smooth and easy for you.

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Bad sales presentations can be found in every tier of business and government. There are several very simple points that are well-accepted – in theory – to improve Powerpoint design and create winning sales presentations. In practice, though, people don’t seem to be able to adhere to them. That has a major negative effect on the outcomes. A speech that could have captivated and enthused an audience instead leaves them bored thanks to a convoluted, amateurish or nonsensical slideshow. A sales bid that could have resulted in a high-paying contract is dead in the water. Reputations are eroded; leaders who are skilled at speaking lose their listeners.

It’s no wonder that firms are turning to professional outfits to put together their presentations, complete with Powerpoint slides: these consultants are skilled at creating an overarching narrative in which your Powerpoint presentation complements the spoken content – not distracts from it or undermines it. They will also train your employees to do it themselves, if you prefer.

If you are putting together your own slides, bear in mind a few basic points. Keep things simple. You’re not looking to duplicate on the screen what the audience is hearing from the stage. Summarise information in short, pre-digested chunks – bullet points are good for this. Don’t be tempted by some of the flashier effects Powerpoint offers: it’s all too easy to use them, thanks to the software’s relative simplicity, but in practice they hardly add value. They just end up as a distraction.  And don’t just limit the amount of information on any one slide: limit the number of slides too. If your presentation is so complicated that it needs a long series of slides to make it clear, something is amiss anyway. You can’t expect your audience to leave with the total content of your talk in their heads. What you do want is for them to take away a  handful of clear, meaningful points. That’s far more effective than overloading them.

Effective sales presentations is about choosing what to show visually. Many sales presentations overlook this and do not distinguish between information that is communicated aurally and visually. Powerpoint presentations are very well suited to simple, graphical communication – even if those visuals conceal a wealth of complex detail, as in the case of graphs and charts. They are not suited to large volumes of text. Short captions and summaries are fine, but don’t assume your audience will take in much more from the screen.

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Shops to let in north London are just one of the top opportunities currently offered by commercial property London. One of the interesting things about a shop for sale in london is that this might provide a more stable form of investment than other kinds of property. There has been enough in the news about house prices stalling, although this always has to be seen from a country-wide perspective. Overall, residential property is set for a somewhat brighter future in 2013 than it enjoyed in 2012. Some disappointing dips across England and Wales and in the north especially pulled average figures down, but in London residential property saw a 7 percent jump on last November’s prices. Prices across the city now average £365,000, with some areas commanding significantly higher prices.

Residential property is just one sector. Office space is a second line of commercial property London, but the last few months and years have shown the volatility of this. At one point, not long after the crash of 2008, the cost of office space was down 40 percent – and almost 50 percent in some areas. This was followed by a sharp uptick, due to the low number of new developments and the consequent bottleneck. Still, as many people lost out heavily as gained on the low prices, and much of the cash came from foreign investors who were in a position to grab a bargain.

Retail space, by contrast, has been a lot more stable. Shops to rent in north London are a better long-term prospect, at least for those who are able to put their money in and wait it out for at least a few years. Consequently a shop for sale in london might be a firmer prospect for a landlord looking to make an investment into commercial property London. Retail space tends to follow nominal GDP growth relatively closely, as might broadly be expected. Despite the ups and downs of a business cycle, this means that if you take a long view things should broadly continue upwards, and never drop too badly. Office space, on the other hand, is affected by other factors, including the development cycle. The volatility that this brings to the sector can be worrying for landlords, unless they plan to hold onto the property for decades. Naturally, as sales prices fall yields rise, so if you judge your timing well it can nevertheless be a lucrative market.

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There’s a rule that firms that start in a recession tend to be leaner and tougher than those which get going in happier times. The same is roughly true, though to a lesser degree, of businesses that survive a recession. Some make it because they slim down and make every pound count; others only because they have cash to rely on and not because their model is viable. Either way, a recession is a good time to make sure that waste is at a minimum and you are making the most of every opportunity. That goes for your accounts as well as advertising and product design or service provision. An accounts payable audit can show up where you have been going wrong for possibly years, without realising it – those areas such as duplicate payments where you have been throwing money away, only because your accounts processes aren’t up to the job of locating where errors and fraud are most likely to occur. Thus recovery audit software can have two helpful purposes: it can enable you to demand back money lost in past overpayments, and it can help protect you from making the same mistakes again in the future.

When a company starts out, its accounts might be fairly simple. A rather limited number of suppliers and clients (perhaps just one of each), and small, predictable outgoings. That’s easy enough to keep track of, but when your business increases you might find yourself adding new clients and complexity to a system that was never intended to keep up with it. That becomes time-consuming to administrate, for starters. Sadly, it also becomes vulnerable to errors, and even dishonesty. Even a single invoice itself is quite complex, with maybe a dozen different fields of data. The scope for mistakes is large, and multiplies with the number of clients you have. Plus, some will always be unscrupulous and willing to see whether they can take advantage of your system’s inadequacies by sending duplicate invoices.

Duplicate payments are the single largest category of overpayment, but there are many others. That’s why recovery audit software is so vital: it enables you to find exactly where the errors are creeping in, and to plug the gaps. Given that an estimated 0.1 percent of payments are spurious, an accounts payable audit can save a lot of money – especially if your business works on high numbers of transactions. In fact, it can make all the difference between going under and staying afloat – and will stand you in good stead for when the economic climate brightens.

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