Business Skills for New Entrants
Agricultural business (agribusiness) management is essential when building or developing an agricultural business. By using tools such as cashflows, accounts, record keeping, and benchmarking, enterprises and business performance can be analysed. This can lead to reducing costs, increasing efficiency and profitability.
Business skills aid informed business decisions and equip people with the skills for applying for tenancies, joint ventures, borrowing finance, preparing for interviews, etc.
We have numerous resources on the following topics:
- Getting Started & Business Planning
- Taxation
- Funding & Budgeting
- Bookkeeping

Jump to sections:
Getting Started
Starting Out in Arable Agriculture
Funding & Budgeting
Taxation, VAT & Bookkeeping
Tax Basics for New Entrants
Watch our webinar recording where George Gauley and Chloe McCulloch from SAC Consulting cover the basic points surrounding business structure and income tax for new entrants to farming. This meeting was hosted in January 2020. This webinar contains reference to trading/financial years which is now outdated following basis reform.
Crofting Matters Podcast - Tax and VAT for Crofters
It might not sound that interesting, but, especially these days, understanding what you can and should be doing with accounts and tax is important to save unnecessary expense and keep within the law. Margi Campbell, an expert in tax and vat, gives some insight into what crofters can do to improve their finances. It’s a confusing topic, but in this podcast we chat about the different terms, and what they mean in practice for crofters who are self-employed or employed, or vat registered or not. Read more >>
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