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Help your Franchisees Be Ready For ‘Making Tax Digital’
5 Simple Ways to Help your Franchisees Be Ready For ‘Making Tax Digital’ As the franchisor, you will have responsibilities to keep your franchisees informed of changes and influences which will have an impact on the individual businesses operated by your franchisees....
Maximising your cashflow in your marketing business
8 steps to better cashflow for marketing & digital marketing agencies Whether we have enough money in the bank to pay our staff and freelancers and to invest in the growth of our business can be a big concern for marketing agencies. So here are 8 steps you can...
When is the right time to change bookkeeping software?
With the marketplace now being full of different options for bookkeeping software, we are seeing more businesses change their bookkeeping software and so this question becomes very relevant. Software options include Sage (various versions), Xero, Quickbooksonline,...
Curing the cashflow headaches – a checklist for better cashflow for trades businesses
If you have an electrical, landscaping, construction, carpentry, plumbing or other trades business, we know that cashflow in your business can be a real headache. Juggling and prioritising who to pay first because you don’t have the money in your business to pay...
Regular bookkeeping – leave it out!
Are you a trades business who isn’t VAT registered and therefore pulls together all their accounts paperwork for their business in one go? You then either experiences the pain of entering all 12 months information into a spreadsheet or deliver it to your bookkeeper or...
Don’t lose your customers or your business through cyber crime
Before I start I should say that we don’t pretend to be cybercrime experts but we wanted to share with you some of the information we have recently been given to help you protect your business from the risks. So, a couple of things have happened recently which have...
Is there something holding you back from outsourcing the things you shouldn’t be doing in your business?
As business owners ourselves who started off, as you do, with doing absolutely everything in our business, it wasn’t a quick or easy decision for us to start to outsource some of the tasks we have been doing ourselves as part of running the business. However, we...
Finding the Right Accountant for You
I came across this recent blog from Intu Bookkeeping about choosing the right accountant which is well written and there are some really good questions in there to ask when you are choosing an accountant. From a bookkeeper’s perspective, we obviously work with many...
How to get more time to grow your business
As business owners, we are always looking for more time as somehow there doesn’t seem to be enough. When we started our business, perhaps we hadn’t anticipated all the things we would need to do to run our business in addition to actually providing the products or...
10 step checklist for better cashflow
10 step checklist for better cashflow As a business owner, whether we have enough money in the bank to pay our staff and suppliers and to invest in the growth of our business can be a big worry for us. We all know that poor cashflow can kill what seemed on the...
What happens when your bookkeeper moves on or retires?
5 tips to making sure you have it covered when your bookkeeper moves on or retires The reason for writing this blog is that we have come across quite a few situations recently where we have been recommended to go and talk to a business losing their bookkeeper and...
Why leaving all your bookkeeping to the financial year end is no longer an option
2 big reasons why you can no longer do your bookkeeping just once a year Are you a busy business owner who pulls together all their paperwork for their business once and year and then either delivers it to their bookkeeper or accountant just before the year end or...