Many business analysts agree that the first three years of a business’ life are the hardest.

Kingston Smith can help you with the key issues you will need to consider in the early days of your business’ life.

If you are starting up a business or planning to go it alone there are a number of things you should think about. Your dream can become a reality, but to achieve your goal there are many crucial commercial, financial and taxation issues to consider. We can lead you through the key factors when starting your own business.

We have helped many people start and develop successful enterprises.

Some of the issues we can help you deal with are:

• Keeping control of your finances
• Complying with regulations
• Keeping your customers happy
• Building a successful team
• Longer term considerations
• Personal well-being and development
   

We can help you achieve your goals through:

• Monitoring your performance
• Providing up to date management accounts
• Protecting your intellectual property
• Helping you to comply with regulations regarding employment, data protection, VAT and PAYE
• Building a healthy and prosperous business, planning for the future
• Helping you to build a successful team
   

Raising finance for a technology company can be hard due to the lack of assets that can be used as security, and the uncertainty of future cash flows.  We can help with the business plan and reviewing appropriate sources of finance. This will often impact on the share structure of the business.

Business angel finance is commonly used for technology contacts. As a sponsor of both the British Business Angels Associations and the London Business Angels, we are closely involved in the business angel market, and can help companies at an early stage to prepare for external investment and help source it.

Whether your company is in 'start-up' mode or is a more established business, finding the correct balance between employer costs and employee benefits is crucial.  Our employee benefit consultancy provides clients with a comprehensive service to help them to recruit, retain and motivate the right employees, essential to the success of any business.

From initial research through to implementation and administration, we provide guidance on all aspects of a great and cost effective benefits package including: 

• Total rewards/flexible benefits
• Benefit communication
• Group pension planning
• Group risk - death in service, long-term sickness/disability cover, private medical insurance, dental and critical illness cover
• Planning tools

Not only do we help you create the most appropriate employee benefits package, we also liaise directly with the recommended insurers and benefit providers, meaning you don’t have to. We do the searching, the consultancy, the implementation and the administration.  This approach means you only have to deal with one organisation, making your life easier while still keeping costs as low as possible.