Sep 11, 2013 | B2B Marketing, Content marketing, Uncategorized
Guest blog from Rob Skinner, MD at Skout PR, a specialist business to business PR, social media and digital content consultancy. This is the second in our series on delivering B2B content marketing. In the first post we touched on the challenge of making your B2B...
Sep 10, 2013 | asset management
Blog Article by BASDA member Real Asset Management For any organisation facing merger or acquisition activity, maximising value is a major challenge. And while cash rich companies are keen to expand where possible, no organisation wants to acquire a business that is...
Sep 9, 2013 | Business Software, cabinet office standards hub
Tim Cole, Chair of the BASDA eBusiness SIG has submitted a ‘Challenge’ on the Cabinet Office Open Standards Hub proposing a Single Format for Utility and Sustainability Data, citing the work that BASDA has already done in this area (Green XML, Utilities XML) and...
Sep 9, 2013 | BASDA Members, Business Software, Uncategorized
In June 2013 HMRC granted small businesses a reprieve by delaying the necessity for RTI compliance until October 2013. HMRC then announced a further extension until April 2014 for businesses with fewer than 50 employees, while they get to grips with the requirements...
Sep 9, 2013 | Business Software
This year’s awards focus on applications used by accountants in business and practice. So awards will be up for grabs in the following categories: Accounting/bookkeeping Financials/ERP Business intelligence Expenses Payroll Tax Accounts production...
Sep 4, 2013 | B2B Marketing, Content marketing, Uncategorized
Guest blog from Rob Skinner, MD at Skout PR, a specialist business to business PR, social media and digital content consultancy. Research from the Content Marketing Institute and the Direct Marketing Association revealed that we are content hungry nation of B2B...
Sep 4, 2013 | e-invoicing, Government Digital Strategy, Interoperability
BASDA gained a mention in the June 2013 Government publication of their strategy for an information economy in partnership with Industry. “For UK businesses, particularly small and medium sized enterprises, to realise the full benefits of e-invoicing, it is...
Aug 20, 2013 | VAT working party
The EU are now considering the option of following the principle set out for services, where VAT would need to be charged, by the supplier, at the VAT rate of the country of destination. This could mean that a UK exporter would have to know the tax rates and tax...
Aug 7, 2013 | Identity Assurance, Information security
The forthcoming implementation of Identity Assurance is the biggest change to the way that we, as software developers, help our customers to submit forms to HMRC. In stages, starting from October 2014, services that currently rely upon the Government Gateway...
Jul 8, 2013 | Computer Science
With Michael Gove’s changes to the National Curriculum, it has got to be good news for the UK software development industry that there is a change to focus on writing computer programs rather than just using them? Computing will teach pupils how to write code....
