No Accounting for Taste ep16: Viability, scale-ups and toys

It's episode 16! And as Tom points out in this week's show, the podcast is now old enough to buy a pack of smokes, get a railcard or drive a moped.

But burgeoning adolescence aside, this week's episode focuses on the notoriously tricky terrain of startups and scale-ups.

Our special guest is Stuart Budd, the commercial director of FD Works, a Bristol-based accounting firm that specialises in helping entrepreneurial businesses.

Enjoy the podcast, and if you’d like more information on the topics discussed here are the links:

• Supreme Court pulls plug on Pimlico employment case

• Termination payments: Fond farewells

• HMRC requires building contractors to charge themselves VAT

• Recruitment crunch: Death of a number cruncher

• Tears ‘R’ Us: The world’s biggest toy store didn’t have to die

• House of Fraser's woes is about more than e-commerce and real estate

• Mike Michalowicz, author of Profit First’s website (it’s well worth a look)

• Simple numbers, by Greg Crabtree

• Start with the why, by Simon Sinek

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