How To Correctly Post Your Salary Journal

When doing bookkeeping training, one of the errors I come across is the incorrect posting of the salary journals ...

How To Ensure You Get Paid Quicker - Part 2

As a small business chasing debts myself, there is nothing more annoying than someone who just won't pay up ...

How To Ensure You Get Paid Quicker - Part 1

You've done the job, the customer is happy, you've sent the invoice, but they've not paid to your terms. What do you do now?

Custom Due Dates On Invoices In Xero

Xero allows you to add payment due dates on invoices to match the terms you give your customers ...

Paying Your VAT Bills After A COVID-19 Delay

Due to COVID-19, HMRC allowed businesses to delay paying your VAT due between 20th of March 2020 and 30th of June 2020 ...

The Importance Of Customer Reviews

What do you do if you need a service or help you have not needed before? It's time to read some customer reviews ...

Group VAT Returns in Sage50cloud or Xero

I received an email from an accountant admitting he had no clue how to do group VAT returns in Sage50cloud or Xero ...

Sage 50cloud New Feature: Attaching Documents

Sage is currently rolling out an update to their Sage 50cloud software to bring it to version 26.3.245.0 ...

Exciting New Xero Features

While we are all in lockdown I have been keeping my Xero accreditation up to date by learning about some new updates ...

Changes To Sage's Bookkeeping Offerings

Sage has announced that Sage 50 Accounts Essentials is being removed from sale for new customers ...

The Bounce Back Loan Scheme Opens For Applications!

This week, small businesses and sole traders can start applying for the bounce back loan scheme from their bank ...

Are You Eligible For The Self-Employment Income Support Scheme?

Many self-employed people can claim a grant to help them if their business has been affected by Covid19 ...

Sage 50 Accounts Update Is Available

There's a new Sage 50 accounts update available which is version 26.2.139.2. Don't worry if you haven't been offered it yet ...

Allocating Payments From The Small Business Grant Fund

With all the help for small businesses, it can be difficult to know where to put payments when bookkeeping ...

New Rules For Employment Allowance

If you are running your first new payroll in April then you have to opt-in if you are entitled to Employment Allowance ...

Processing Furlough Pay In Sage 50

I am just about to run my first pay on Sage 50 this week processing Furlough pay for a client's employees ...

Help! Hubdoc Went Wrong!

Hubdoc is a tool where you can upload invoices and expenses and the details are automatically extracted for you ...

COVID-19: A Summary Of The Government's Announcements So Far

Last week was incredible with fast-changing announcements, new rules and support measures for small businesses ...