Risky business
Mahmood Reza explains the importance of good risk management to the health of an organisation.
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For the record
Mahmood Reza explains how balancing the books maintains a company’s equilibrium.
The good, the bad and the uncomfortable
Kooj Chuhan examines the dangerous lives being lived on our doorstep, and looks at how artists can support migrants and refugees.
Success and succession
Rick Bond explains the need to prune the dead wood from your board of trustees to encourage new growth.
Testing times
Mahmood Reza examines the possible implications of the economic downturn for arts organisations.
Creating accessible websites
Mark Atterbury offers advice on how best to reach disabled and deaf people online.
Leadership – Leadership – hit or myth?
Jodi Myers reflects on why leadership training initiatives are only part of a much bigger picture.
Creating business
Sinead MacManus looks at the vexed relationship between business, theatre and innovation and argues for new ways of thinking.
Policy Matters – Long-term thinking
In the first of an occasional series, politicians from across the spectrum argue their own case for arts funding and policy. In th…
Mission, Models, Money – Towards a healthier arts and cultural ecology
As the Mission Models Money programme draws to a close and looks to the future, Clare Cooper and Roanne Dods report on the evidenc…
Personal Finance – Keeping control
Mahmood Reza shares advice for artists and freelances
Mission, Models, Money – Innovation nation
Bridging the communication and research & development divide between cultural organisations and the technology sectors is beco…
Personal Finance – Individual giving
Arts charities could make more use of individual donations. Mahmood Reza considers the tax implications of giving to arts organisa…
2020 Vision – Future marketing
In the second of our series looking at the arts world of the future, Alice Walton casts her mind forward to 2020 and asks how arts…
Personal Finance – Expenses and tax
In the latest of an occasional series looking at managing personal finances, Mahmood Reza distinguishes between the types of expen…
Heritage Challenges – The challenge of new technologies
Creative technical solutions have to be found if an ancient theatre is to retain its heritage whilst meeting the demands of today&…
Personal Finance – In good company
In the latest of an occasional series looking at managing personal finances, Mahmood Reza investigates the tax implications of com…
Essential Finance – Compare and contrast
Effective comparisons within organisations’ accounts can help cut through the columns of figures to provide a true pict…
Essential Finance – Revenue and customs investigations
Mahmood Reza looks at what happens when the Inland Revenue or Customs and Excise request an inspection.
Essential Finance – A beginner’s guide to VAT
Mahmood Reza provides an ABC of VAT.
Essential Finance – Making financial statements work for you
In the final instalment of his series on financial reports, Mahmood Reza looks at cash-flow statements and the management use and…
SoundingBoard – Changing pitch on cultural diversity
Nadine Andrews thinks it is worth revisiting the cultural diversity agenda in the arts.
Arts in the curriculum – Drive for creativity
Schools Minister David Miliband writes about the Government’s efforts to place the arts and creativity at the heart of the c…
Essential Finance – Financial Statements: Appreciating depreciation
In the second of a series of articles about financial reports, Mahmood Reza examines how profit is calculated and unravels the mys…
