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I'm excited to be speaking at GROW Live 2021 next week. I’ll be joined by thirty-eight other experts ...

Limited Company Expenses: What Can You Claim?

If you have a new business it can be confusing to know what limited company expenses you are permitted to claim ...

Making Tax Digital For Income Tax

I reviewed someone's bookkeeping system as they were concerned about Making Tax Digital for Income Tax ...

Which Account Codes Should I Use?

It is very common for new bookkeepers and business owners to agonise long and hard about which account codes to use ...

Anti Money Laundering Supervision With HMRC

As a bookkeeper who chooses not to be a member of a professional body, you need to register to be supervised by HMRC ...

Getting A Bookkeeping Qualification

Although I offer training to bookkeepers in Xero and Sage50c it can help to make sure you have basic bookkeeping knowledge ...

Building Your Bookkeeping Business

A question I often see asked in bookkeeping groups and forums is where can I find customers or gain experience?

Understanding Sage Transaction Numbers

In Sage, every time you update anything which impacts the nominal ledger, it creates new transaction records ...

Spring Cleaning Your Sage 50 Accounts Software

When you have used Sage 50 accounts for years, running reports, doing the data check and backups, it can slow down ...

Sage 50 Software Update Available (27.2) For MOSS, OSS And IOSS

Sage has released a new update to their software to allow for changes in legislation coming in from 1st July 2021 ...

Adept Add-ons: Giving Sage50c Extra Functionality

Sage50c is a fabulous product that does a lot of what most companies need out of the box. But what if you need more?

UK Deferred VAT : Do You Need To Spread Your Payments?

Many of my clients deferred VAT payments at the start of the pandemic when the first lockdowns happened ...

Bookkeeping: Allocating Payments To Invoices

Starting out using a bookkeeping package for invoices and expenses can be quite confusing when allocating transactions ...

Xero Price Increase From September 2021

I am always impressed with Xero about how they invest in their accounting product and continually add updates ...

Starting A Bookkeeping Business - Part 2

When I started writing about starting a bookkeeping business I realised I had more tips than could fit into one post ...

Starting A Bookkeeping Business - Part 1

You don't need to have qualifications or be a member of a governing body if you're starting a bookkeeping business ...

Bookkeeping For Utility Bills

One of the biggest pains in the neck when bookkeeping is to account for the payments to utility companies ...

Sage50c: Update To VAT Return Labels

From 8 April 2021, HMRC is changing some of the VAT Return labels to reflect that the UK is no longer part of the EU ...