Postponed VAT, Import VAT And The C79 Form

I have had a few queries about postponed VAT and the C79 form from HMRC. Postponed VAT is not compulsory ...

Making Tax Digital For Income Tax

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

What Sort Of Bookkeeper Are You Looking For?

There are many different sorts of bookkeeper or bookkeeping services open to you when you start a new business ...

Bank Feeds In Xero

The beauty of modern cloud accounting systems is many of them link to your bank and allow you to download transactions ...

I'm Speaking At Grow Live 2021

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

HMRC Are Cancelling VAT Direct Debits

In April 2021, HMRC started moving the VAT records of traders who are not signed up to Making Tax Digital ...

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 ...