Claim Expenses From Your Own Business

When you are a business owner, especially in the early days, it can be convenient to claim expenses personally ...

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 ...

Keeping Your Sage Tidy

When you have been running your Sage accounts for a few years, it can be worth having a declutter and a bit of a tidy up ...

Do You Know About My Bookkeeping Handholding Service?

Bookkeeping can be a lonely pastime. You'll definitely benefit from my Bookkeeping Handholding Service ...

Alison's Top 5 Blog Posts Of 2021

It's been a great year at Silicon Bullet HQ, but it hasn't been without its challenges, but I've blogged all year ...

Bokio Is Starting To Charge For Its Bookkeeping Software

You know when things are free it really is too good to be true, so I did expect Bokio to charge at some point ...

Making Tax Digital For VAT Extended

From April 2022, all VAT registered businesses will be expected to register for Making Tax Digital for VAT ...

Xero: Don't Forget To Update Your Workplace Pension Settings

Xero has updated its payroll software to include a new pension re-enrolment feature that makes administration easy ...

Building A Bookkeeping Business: Finding New Clients

So you have set up as a bookkeeping business and you are now out there looking for clients ...

New VAT Codes In Sage50cloud From 2021

There have been so many changes with how to record VAT in your Sage50cloud software over the last year ...

Sage Warning: The Tax Code Selected Is Reserved

We had a really weird problem with a client's data this week. Sage kept saying the tax code selected is reserved ...

Sage 50cloud Accounts V28 Released

Sage has now released Sage 50cloud accounts, but I recommend clients not rush to download it yet ...

6 Things A New Bookkeeper Needs To Consider

Being an independent bookkeeper gives you flexible working hours and the ability to choose the companies you work for ...

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 ...

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 ...