There may be relief available to reduce your corporation tax loss
9 Nov 2020
Discover what earnings per share means and how to calculate it
Keep your business books balanced using the accounting equation
Find out what an accounting period is and how it’s used in business
Discover our top 5 start-up business tools and what makes them so great
8 Nov 2020
Teeming and lading is a type of accounting fraud
A unit trust is a form of open-ended group investment
A credit sale is essentially a form of buy-now, pay-later sale
A statutory audit is a review of an organisation's financial records
A lump-sum payment is a portion of your pension that you can take upfront
A letter of credit is a guarantee of payment from a bank
Discover the meaning of provisions in accounting and how it’s used
Find out how debt measures up with the leverage ratio
What is a negotiable instrument, and how is it used? Find out here
Are you using key performance indicators (KPIs) effectively?
Here's what you need to know about indexation for companies
Learn Jaccard Similarity and MinHash, a technique to efficiently estimate set similarity at scale for tasks like near-duplicate detection.
7 Nov 2020
Created: November 2020 Size: 42x23cm Paper: Fabriano Bristol 250gsm Pens: Pigma Micron, Sakura Gelly Rolls
Created: November 2020 Size: 42x30cm Paper: Fabriano Bristol 250gsm Pens: Pigma Micron, Uni-ball Signo UM-153, Mechanical pencil
6 Nov 2020
Find out what insurable interest is and how it works in real life
A mental toolkit for prioritizing and designing. Facing a mountain of work as a one-person design team is daunting.
5 Nov 2020
The Blender project has existed for more than 20 years. During this time, its codebase has grown organically, with a […]
4 Nov 2020
Welcome to Part Three of our series, Breaking out of legacy, nine lessons for Business Leaders. In Part One, we explored leadership cultures and actions and in Part Two, we explored customers, data assets and ensuring you had focus.
3 Nov 2020
Counterparty risk tells you if a party is likely to default on their obligations
Make smarter investments using a fundamental analysis strategy
Find out what the benefits of financial intermediaries are in business
Job costing can help businesses keep on track with a budget. Here’s how
Methods like Promise.all, Promise.allSettled, Promise.race, and the rest are really excellent for managing multiple Promises, allowing for our apps to embrace async and performance. There are times, however, that limiting the number of concurrent operations may be useful, like rate limiting or simply not wanting to put a server under massive stress. Enter an simple utility for limiting Promise concurrency:…
Discover how a zero-based budget could boost business efficiency
Find out how time value of money can help you make better investments
Learn why intrinsic value is so important for investors
2 Nov 2020
Exploring the WDAC Microsoft Recommended Block Rules (Part II): Wfc.exe, Fsi.exe, and FsiAnyCpu.exe
BohopsIntroduction In Part One, I blogged about VisualUiaVerifyNative.exe, a LOLBIN that could be used to bypass Windows Defender Application Control (WDAC)/Device Guard. The technique used for circumventing WDAC was originally discovered by Lee Christensen, however, it was not previously disclosed like a handful of others on the Microsoft Recommended Block Rules list. If you are […]
Glommio (pronounced glom-io or |glomjəʊ|) is a cooperative thread-per-core crate for Rust & Linux based on io_uring. It allows you to write asynchronous code that takes advantage of rust async/await, but it doesn’t use helper threads anywhere.
There are 5 mindset shifts that CIOs must embrace to be able to drive towards building a more resilient and modern digital business.
1 Nov 2020
Learn how to optimally smooth time series data using kurtosis to highlight anomalies. Prioritize user attention with this smoothing technique.
30 Oct 2020
And why we're celebrating International Men's Day.
Christina talks about the issues around mental health for the black community.
Cost-volume-profit analysis helps you make sure you’re making money
Are you taking all your deductions? Find out more about capital allowances
Are balloon payments a good option for your business? Find out more
Reduce volatility in profit and loss statements using hedge accounting methods
29 Oct 2020
Earlier this week I was looking for an old photo, and while browsing I came across a photo I took of my whiteboard in my office at Microsoft in 2004. Or rather, it was two photos; I’ve crudely stitched them … Continue reading →
The time has come for Kuma — the platform that powers MDN Web Docs — to evolve. For quite some time now, the MDN developer team has been planning a radical platform change, and we are ready to start sharing the details of it. The question on your lips might be “What does a Kuma evolve into? A KumaMaMa?” The…
Understand everything you need to know about floating charges and fixed charges
Welcome to the first deep dive of the Building GitHub blog series, providing a look at how teams across the GitHub engineering organization identify and address opportunities to improve our internal development tooling and infrastructure. At GitHub, we use the Four Key Metrics of high performing software development to help frame our engineering fundamentals effort. As we measured Lead Time…
Here at GitHub, we pride ourselves on providing a first-class developer experience to you, our customers. We’re developers, too, and we love that the features that we build for GitHub.com make your day easier — and make ours easier, too. We also know that the more we invest in the infrastructure and tooling that powers GitHub, the faster we can…
Explore the features of debt securities with GoCardless
Understand when to buy a call option and when to sell a put option
28 Oct 2020
The October 2020 release of the Python Extension for Visual Studio Code is now available. This was a short release where we addressed 14 issues, and it includes debugpy 1.0! Keep on reading to learn more. The post Python in Visual Studio Code – October 2020 Release appeared first on Microsoft for Python Developers Blog.
Earlier this month, David’s heartfelt posting about leaving Mozilla made the front page of Hacker News. Traffic increased by 800% to his already-busy website, which slowed and eventually failed under the pressure. Request Metrics monitors performance and uptime for David’s blog, and our metrics tell an interesting story. Here’s what happened, why, and what you can do to prepare your…
AV-TEST places Cisco Umbrella first in secure web gateway to protect remote workers With so many employees working remotely during the global pandemic, businesses are having an even harder time keeping their users, devices, networks, applications and data safe. According to Ponemon Institute, organizations who believed they were effective at mitigating risks, vulnerabilities and attacks […] The post AV-TEST places…
Ionic is a great component framework that can build both iOS and Android apps from the same source code using Capacitor. In this video I have explained how to generate a signed Android release APK version using Ionic application and publishing on Google play store. For this process you need a Google play console subscription that costs $25 for life…
Being part of the team that puts together the Thoughtworks Technology Radar is a privilege, and now in our tenth year I’m proud to say I’ve been part of every Radar to date. Every time is full of interesting discussion and insight and it’s always true that there is more we’d like to say than can fit into the Radar…
Welcome to Part Two of our series, Breaking out of legacy, nine lessons for Business Leaders. In Part One, we explored leadership cultures and actions. Here, we’ll explore the influence your customers and data assets will have in your modernization. We’ll also look at another critical decision you’ll need to make: what you are going to stop doing in order…
27 Oct 2020
UK customers can now benefit from easy to set-up and manage monthly payments.
Learn the basics of Flutter: CLI, widgets, alignment, lists, themes, navigation and networking. The post Flutter Crash Course for JavaScript Developers appeared first on RisingStack Engineering.
Get insights into the business benefits of decentralized identity
26 Oct 2020
Find out why a company's book value is so significant
Find out how the weighted average cost method works and how to use it
Find the best Making Tax Digital compatible software
Find out how to calculate marginal revenue and why it’s so important
Learn why the gearing ratio metric matters to investors
Forensic accounting helps sniff out financial crime
Find out how a fixed interest rate can help make your outgoings more predictable
Believe it or not, there are advantages to having zero balance
Make sure your new launch is a success with a go-to-market strategy
A suspense account is essential for holding unknown amounts
What are sinking funds? Find out everything you need to know, right here
Management accounting is something every business needs
Learn how to take your finances seriously with double-entry bookkeeping
Tax payments made late or too early count as deferred tax on the balance sheet.
There are numerous reasons to want to know which files have been added or modified in a git repository, one of which is your text editor highlighting those files. Another use case is running tasks against only files which are presently changed, like lint or other validation routines. So how can we identify files which are added or changed? Like…
21st Century Transformation: Harnessing digital to build resilience in the face of disruption
Thoughtworks InsightsThere has been more innovation in the last few months than over the last several years.
23 Oct 2020
Focus your resources by performing a customer segmentation analysis.
An internal audit could keep your business on track. Here’s how
Learn more about the pros and cons of technical debt
Reserves are profits that have been set aside for a specific purpose
Operating leverage reveals what percentage of your total costs are fixed
See our consolidated financial statement definition
Aging reports for accounts receivable can help improve your financial health
Learn about mezzanine financing, a hybrid loan option for small businesses
Learn about debentures and how they can help businesses secure extra funding
Note: all the code in this blog post is available in my DemoCode GitHub repo, under Functions. For most of 2020, one of the projects I’ve been working on is the .NET Functions Framework. This is the .NET implementation of the Functions Framework Contract… but more importantly to most readers, it’s “the way to run … Continue reading A Tour…
22 Oct 2020
Business consolidation can help cut costs and improve operational efficiency
Learn more about the forward rate equation with our simple guide
Interim reports are financial statements for periods of less than one year.
London-born, Nigerian-raised. Babagbemi Joseph shares the story of his name.
Find out how compound interest can grow your savings even faster
We’ve made a lot of progress on moving forward with MDN Web Docs in the last couple of months, and we wanted to share where we are headed in the short- to mid-term, starting with our editorial strategy and renewed efforts around community participation. The post MDN Web Docs: Editorial strategy and community participation appeared first on Mozilla Hacks -…
Find out how much cash your business is burning through
The accounting cycle is something every business needs to know.
Did you notice anything unexpected about the speaker lineup at our annual technology event XConf Online in Australia this year? If you didn’t get a chance to attend, take a look at our promo shot:
A few companies may still be holding out hope - but if there was one thing the business and technology leaders who gathered for the 2020 edition of Thoughtworks Live UK were in agreement on, it was that there is not likely to be a return to normal. The good news is that with the right capabilities and mindset, this…
20 Oct 2020
Critical factors to consider when evaluating a SASE vendor With more users, devices, applications, and data located outside of the enterprise, the existing security models are falling short. The future of network security is moving to the cloud. Secure access service edge (SASE) is a network architecture that combines WAN capabilities with cloud-native security functions […] The post How to…
Find out how to protect personally identifiable information (PII)
Blender 2.91 has made major improvements to cloth sculpting, vastly improving the usability of these tools.
As October ushers in the tail-end of the year, we are pushing Firefox 82 out the door. This time around we finally enable support for the Media Session API, provide some new CSS pseudo-selector behaviours, close some security loopholes involving the Window.name property, and provide inspection for server-sent events in our developer tools. The post Coming through with Firefox 82…
Sometimes, innovation is born in the midst of a crisis. Unexpected challenges and a sense of urgency force companies to look for new ways of keeping the business going, even as the odds stack up against them. This was the case for one of our biggest customers Matalan, a major fashion and homeware retailer in […] The post A Pandemic…