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Recurring internal meetings are rarely approved like a purchase order, yet they commit payroll, preparation time and senior attention every week. This practical audit sets out a simple cost-per-meeting formula and three tests for deciding whether a standing invite should become a memo, a monthly review or nothing at all.
Bundling goods and services into a single price looks like tidy commercial practice, but it can hand HMRC the argument that the highest rate of VAT applies to the whole. This piece sets out how the single and multiple supply test works in practice, where margins erode, and how to document apportionment before anyone asks.
The salary is the only visible part of a recruitment decision, and it is rarely the largest. This analysis builds a fully loaded year-one cost for a typical UK SME appointment and sets it against the cheaper, reversible option of buying capacity through process improvement instead.
Late payment is usually treated as a collections problem, but the wiser approach is to price and select for it before the quote is issued. This Galico guide sets out a practical stress test, contract terms and a credit-risk checklist for UK SMEs in 2026.