Much congratulations, Elliot and Syed!
We are pleased to announce that Syed Hassan Raza and Elliot Ainley have passed their advanced Quick Books examinations. We are fully committed to staff training and professional development which helps us all to serve our clients more effectively. – By Stephen...
Congratulations, Yuri!
Yuri Mancoca, our Accountant QBO Pro Adviser, is now a QuickBooks Online Advanced Certified ProAdvisor! To attain this level of QuickBooks Online knowledge marks him out as ‘the best of the best’! – By Stephen Handley, FCCA
Data protection and privacy
In accordance with General Data Protection Regulations, we are setting out below our policy concerning personal data for your information: PRIVACY POLICY All client data is kept strictly private and confidential and will not be shared with any third parties...
Employers: take note
WORKPLACE PENSION SCHEMES From April 2018, there are changes to workplace pension schemes which have to be put into effect to comply with the law. At present, employers and employees pay 1 per cent each of staff salaries into workplace pension schemes. This...
Strength in numbers
We have recently found a useful source of business contacts from which you may benefit. It was suggested to us by the telephone engineer who put in our new telephones and intercom. It is called Business Network International (BNI). It is a group of business owners who...
Congratulations, Deborah!
We are also delighted to announce that our staff member Deborah has now passed her advanced Quick Books examination and her Free Agent examination. Free Agent have confirmed that we may now call her a Free Agent Expert, and Quick Books have confirmed that she is a...
We are a Free Agent Partner
We are delighted to announce that, as of February 2018, we have achieved Free Agent Partner status. You may, if you’ve just started out in business, have been offered Free Agent software for free by your bank. If you have, we suggest you may like to get in touch with...
General Data Protection Regulation
I was recently having a chat with one of our clients, and one matter that came up in the conversation is how unfortunate it is that we in Britain seem to take everything so very literally. For example, when the European Union made a law that the greengrocers of this...
Never stop giving
I am very concerned about what I see in the media about charities like Oxfam. I am not going to stop watching movies because of Harvey Weinstein. Similarly, I am not going to stop giving to charity because of badly behaved individuals working in the charity sector. I...
Other matters
This blog is based on points from the Chancellor’s 2017 Budget. • Next April, the annual personal allowance will be raised to £11,850. A personal allowance is the amount of money that you can earn, or other income you can receive, before you start...
Enterprise Investment Scheme
This blog is based on points from the Chancellor’s 2017 Budget. The Government will double the annual allowance for people investing in knowledge intensive Companies through the Enterprise Investment Scheme. Enterprise Investment Scheme Investments attract tax...
Capital Gains Tax
This blog is based on points from the Chancellor’s 2017 Budget. From April 2019 (once again, from more or less the day after we are scheduled to leave the EU) all non-resident individuals will be charged capital gains tax in full on disposals of UK...