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Can the Construction Sector Overcome Early 2025 Setbacks?

Our last detailed report on the UK construction industry in early November 2024 showed that its finances appeared to be stable but at a relatively low base line. The average financial rating remained at 42 out of 100, and 35% of companies stayed at heightened risk of insolvency. On the other hand, debt was rising, gearing increasing and the percentage

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Economic Overview

Economic Overview for April 2025

In an unwelcome verification of the Chancellor’s repeated reminders that we are living in a ‘changing world’, within hours of her Spring Statement her fiscal goal posts were facing an unceremonial relocation by the threat of 25% tariffs on all motor vehicles and parts exported into the USA. This followed hard on the heels of post-Statement observations by numerous economists

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US Tariffs

How will US tariffs hit the UK?

How will America’s ‘Liberation Day’ hit UK businesses? After weeks of increasingly fevered speculation, we finally know how the main thrust of the pivot towards protectionism in the US might affect the UK economy and what UK exporters will have to deal with: Tariffs will be charged at 10% on all goods exported by the UK to the USA, with

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How will the Spring Statement affect UK business?

Major fiscal events are always a game of winners and losers. This Spring Statement was no different, though given the weak state of the UK economy and global uncertainty this was an even more precarious financial tightrope balancing act than many. The urgent need to boost defence spending was largely dealt with through the controversial slashing of the international aid

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Economic Overview March 2025

Economic Overview for March 2025

The mood for the UK economy may be somewhat less than positive as it lurches sluggishly just above and below the zero-growth line, but our parochial worries pale into insignificance set against the implications of what is unfolding in Washington. Running a business, never mind planning for and investing in its future when global trade relationships and tariffs are being

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The role of a forensic accountant in litigation

I read a great thought piece about why the Prince Harry v News Group settled at such a late stage and it got me thinking about the role forensics has to play. For those blissfully unaware of the traumas of litigation, there are many reasons why a case may never see the inside of a court room. The article makes

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