Month: November 2018

Student Loans – How do they work?

The first topic to be introduced as part of our Personal Finance feature is UK student loans and how they work. There is a common misconception amongst students surrounding tuition fees and the copious amount of ‘debt’ that…

Digital Services Tax

For years large tech companies such as Google, Facebook and Amazon have paid minimal tax in the UK despite having enormous revenues. For example, Google paid tax of £50m on revenues of £5.7bn, Facebook paid £15.8m in tax…

Budget Reaction from an Expert

Following the Autumn Budget 2018, we paid a visit to Hazlewoods, one of the UK’s Top 30 independent Chartered Accountants and Business Advisers, to obtain budget reaction from tax expert Ruth Dooley. Here is what she had to…

Budget Report 2018

‘Era of Austerity is finally coming to an end’ The Chancellor has delivered his Autumn Budget, the first Budget on a Monday since 1962. There were several headline measures including extra funding for the NHS, schools, high streets…

Hostile Takeover

We are proud to announce our newly revamped UoG Accounting and Finance blog, The Financial Review.  We look forward to providing interesting and informative articles relating to our subject community. In order to keep you up to date we will be posting:…