About your Business

Of the four million Managing Directors/Owners in the UK, you are not alone when you share all the same worries and frustrations of running your business. You are not alone when you are faced with the mounting pressures of compliance to rules and regulations. You are not alone when you have the constant worry about payments to suppliers, VAT, overheads, salaries, bank charges, rent, rates and the list goes on. You are definitely not alone when you are faced with customer pressure to reduce your prices, but yet deliver a higher level of service.

In fact, it's not unusual for you to feel that everything is going against you especially when most of your worries are centred on two key financial areas:

• The Profit and Loss Account
• The Balance Sheet

Because at the end of the day, these are the two essential areas by which every business measures its success - or its failure. In business the five measures most likely to attract your attention are:

1. Sales
2. Gross Profit
3. Expenses (or overheads)
4. Pre-Tax Profit
5. Cash

Running any business is not easy. In large companies, the MDs have access to a board of directors with executive responsibility for: Sales and Marketing; Operations and Logistics; Finance and Technical, Human Resources and Facilities. So, if there is a finance issue, the MD speaks with the Finance Director, or a sales issue with the Sales Director and so on.

But running a small business can be much more difficult as it's not feasible to have your own board of directors - the buck stops with you!  For you to be able to afford a single director such as those, you're talking about finding a salary of at least £40,000 per director, plus a car, expenses and everything else that goes with it.

At 2012 Logistics UK- Business Solutions we know exactly how you feel. We have been through it and, moreover, we have coped and we have made mistakes along the way. But most importantly we have learned from these mistakes and we feel totally confident in our ability how to advise and help Managing Directors run a successful business. And because we have lived to tell the tale, we know how to give 'practical advice that works'.