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Practical thinking on finance transformation, ecommerce operations, and getting small businesses found online.

Finance Transformation

December 2025 The Finance Leader's Guide to Systems Integration → December 2025 How to Fix a Finance Function You Have Just Inherited → November 2025 When to Hire Your First Finance Director → October 2025 What Good Management Accounts Look Like → September 2025 The Three-Tier Problem: Why Finance Automation Projects Miss the Point → September 2025 The Intercompany Problem: Why Multi-Entity Businesses Get This Wrong → August 2025 Why Your ERP Implementation Will Fail (And How to Stop It) → August 2025 How to Manage an Audit Without It Wrecking Your Quarter → July 2025 How to Run a Finance Transformation Without Losing Your Team → July 2025 Cash Flow Forecasting That Actually Works → June 2025 Transfer Pricing for Growing Businesses: When It Becomes Your Problem → May 2025 The Hidden Cost of a Finance Function That Nobody Trusts → April 2025 Building a Finance Team From Scratch → April 2025 How to Build a Board Pack That Gets Read → March 2025 ERP vs Spreadsheets: When to Make the Jump → March 2025 What a Finance Director Actually Does (And What They Should Stop Doing) → February 2025 The Real Cost of a Bad Month-End Close → February 2025 From Founder to Finance Leader: What Crossing That Line Teaches You → January 2025 Why Change Management Is a Finance Problem → January 2025 Why Finance Functions Fail at Scale →

Ecommerce & Digital

December 2025 What Happened When We Lost Our Biggest Retail Channel Overnight → November 2025 Amazon Europe: What the Data Actually Shows → November 2025 Ecommerce Exit Planning: What Buyers Actually Look At → October 2025 What International Ecommerce Actually Costs: The Numbers Nobody Puts in the Business Case → October 2025 How to Manage a Product Launch Financially → September 2025 How to Read Your Amazon Analytics: What the Numbers Actually Mean → September 2025 Amazon Advertising: What Your ACOS Target Should Actually Be → August 2025 Building an Ecommerce P&L That Actually Tells You Something → August 2025 Why Your Ecommerce Business Needs a Finance Function Before It Thinks It Does → July 2025 Customer Returns: The Hidden Cost Ecommerce Businesses Do Not Model → July 2025 Subscription Commerce: The Financial Model Explained → June 2025 Multi-Currency Ecommerce: The Financial Controls You Need → June 2025 What DTC Really Means for Your Margin → June 2025 How to Price for International Markets Without Destroying Your Margin → May 2025 International Ecommerce: The VAT Problem Nobody Talks About → May 2025 What Your Ecommerce Metrics Are Not Telling You → April 2025 The Inventory Problem: Why Stock Management Breaks Growing Ecommerce Businesses → April 2025 The Wholesale vs Ecommerce Decision: How to Model It Properly → March 2025 How to Choose the Right Ecommerce Platform for a Product Business → March 2025 How to Build an Ecommerce Budget That Survives Contact With Reality →

Small Business Digital

December 2025 Building a Trades Business That Runs Without You: The Digital Foundation → November 2025 Getting Reviews on Google: The Exact Script That Works → October 2025 The Five Automations Every Small Irish Business Should Have → October 2025 When a Small Business Should Start Google Ads → September 2025 How I Built a Quoting App for a Gardening Business in a Weekend → September 2025 How I Manage 50 Client Websites Without Losing My Mind → August 2025 Local SEO for Tradespeople: What Actually Works in Ireland → August 2025 The Annual Digital Review Every Small Business Should Do → July 2025 Why Facebook Is Not a Website → July 2025 How to Write a Trades Website That Wins Jobs → June 2025 The Quoting Process That Costs Tradespeople Hours Every Week → June 2025 WhatsApp Business: The Free Tool Most Irish Tradespeople Are Not Using Properly → May 2025 How to Get Your Business to Appear on Google Maps → May 2025 Why Your Website Is Getting Traffic But No Enquiries → April 2025 Five Things Every Trades Website Needs to Convert Visitors to Calls → April 2025 The Google Ads Mistake Most Small Businesses Make → March 2025 What a €49 Per Month Website Actually Gets a Small Business → March 2025 How Much Should a Small Business Spend on Digital Marketing? → February 2025 Google Business Profile: The Free Tool Most Tradespeople Ignore → January 2025 Why Your Trades Business Is Losing Jobs to a Competitor With a Worse Website →