Who edits this
Editor: Andy Jackson
Business Stuff is edited by Andy Jackson, who runs Buzz Accounting, a UK fixed-fee accountancy practice, and who has built, bought and integrated accountancy firms himself. That's the reason the money and tax writing here goes further than most business media manages — it's written from dealing with the consequences of it, not from a press release.
Articles carry a “Business Stuff Desk” byline because the research, drafting and checking is a team job rather than one person’s column. Andy edits it, and the buck stops with him on anything published here. If something on this site is wrong, he is the person to tell.
If you want to see what that looks like in practice, the longer reads are where the working out is shown, the free calculators are the same thinking with the maths already done, and the book reviews are where we say plainly which ones are not worth your time.
How this is written, and how it is paid for
Two things are worth knowing before you take anything on this site as advice.
The first is where it comes from. Business Stuff is published by the team behind Buzz Accounting, a UK fixed-fee accountancy practice. That is the reason the money and tax writing goes further than most business media manages: it is written by people who deal with the consequences of it. It is also the reason to be clear about the boundary — anything on this site is general information, not advice about your situation, and the difference matters most on exactly the topics where it is most tempting to ignore it.
The second is money. Where we link to a book, the link usually earns a small commission if you buy through it. It costs you nothing extra and it has no effect on whether a book gets recommended or what rating it is given — several of the books reviewed here are told, plainly, not to bother with. We would rather say so and lose the commission than build a list nobody can trust.
What we will not do
No hustle content. No screenshots of revenue dashboards. No five-figure-month claims, no courses about how to sell courses, and no pretending that the difficult part of business is mindset when it is usually cash.
We also try hard not to publish the same article as everybody else. If a story is a press release with the numbers rearranged, it does not go up. If a topic has been covered properly somewhere else and we have nothing to add, we would rather link to them.
Where the name came from
This site was Business News Tips (businessnewstips.co.uk) before it was Business Stuff. The old name described a content strategy; the new one describes what people actually came for. Everything published under the old name is still here, and old links still work.
Getting in touch
Corrections are welcome and get made. If something here is wrong, out of date or has been overtaken by a rule change — which happens constantly with tax thresholds and employment law — tell us and we will fix the page rather than quietly leave it up. The fastest route is the Facebook group, where the article ideas mostly come from anyway.