How to Reduce Business Expenses

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How to Reduce Business Expenses How to reduce business expenses How to reduce business expenses Table of contents Page 1. Introduction 3 2. Employee Costs 3 3. Rent – buildings and equipment 4 4. Utilities and telephones 4 5. Advertising 5 6. Production Costs 6 7. Conclusion 7 8. Reference List 8 2 How to reduce business expenses 1. Introduction There are numerous ways of reducing business expenses, some of these are very small and therefore easy to implement. Others are much more significant and therefore more difficult to achieve. For the purposes of this report I have chosen what I consider to be the most important of these. The largest expenses in a business are wages so the easiest way to tackle expense is by reducing wage costs. Then we can consider where your business is situated, the utility bills it incurs and advertising costs. Smaller reductions in expenses can be achieved through office expenses, and finally and in my opinion the hardest to achieve is a reduction in production costs. 2. Employee Costs There are many different ways to try to reduce expenditure on wages. Reducing working hours by putting employees on part-time or temporary contracts directly reduces the cost of the employee to the employer, and also the cost to the business from government, as part-time employees are entitled to fewer benefits than those on full-time contracts. For example if a part-time contract does not include Mondays, when a Bank Holiday occurs that employee is only entitled to one fifth of a weeks wages for the holiday instead of a whole day, and if that employee has not worked more than forty hours in the preceding five weeks, no entitlement exists, (Irish Statute Book, 1997). Numerous large multinationals are now using temporary contracts more and more and renewing them on a rolling basis. This
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