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What’s the Difference Between Budgeting and Financial Forecasting?

Budgeting and financial forecasting often come hand in hand when it comes to the financial management, development and direction of a business. Although they are both similar processes, they do have some key differences. These financial tools allow businesses to plan for growth and it’s vital for your accounting team to have a solid understanding […]

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Can An Accountant Help With My Tax Return?

Business owners are a talented and skilful group. Being able to successfully run a business, keep on top of training and hiring their employees alongside all of the other challenges that owning a business has. But, a complaint that accountants hear all too often is that they struggle when it comes to filing their tax […]

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What Are The Qualities That Make A Good Accountant?

A whopping 71% of small business owners in the UK use accountants to prepare their taxes. Whether you’re a small business owner or you sit on a board of directors for a large company, the last thing you want to do is worry about the company accounts. After all, bookkeeping and accounting requires a lot […]

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Should Accountants Be Proactive?

In today’s world, most businesses do reactive accounting. This means that they produce a set of accounts and financial records only when they are legally required to do so. At times such as year-end (those two little words that make your blood run a little colder), you can be so busy dealing with the day-to-day […]

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Preparing VAT Returns – how can an accountant help?

If you have just started up your own business, it may be worth deciding whether you need to be VAT registered from the outset or not. This may sound daunting to a new business owner but having this arranged from early on may help you later on down the line should it become obligatory for […]

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5 reasons why you need an accountant for a limited company

Whether you have recently set up a limited company or you have been managing your finances independently until now, hiring an accountant to help manage your limited company’s finances can efficiently help you elevate your business. Accountants can play a vital role in the success of a business. Although many small limited companies choose to […]

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Our Top Tips For Start-Up Businesses During Lockdown

You might have had a vision of having your start-up business up and running by now, but as the third Coronavirus lockdown is now in full swing, you probably feel like the process has been put on hold. However, you shouldn’t let the lockdown affect your business vision and goals. In fact, now could be […]

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Have You Prepared Your Business For Brexit?

You may have been preparing your business for Brexit for the past four years now, but we are finally coming to an agreement that will create significant change to your business. From 1st January 2021, these significant changes will particularly affect your business if you are going to be doing business with EU companies, importing […]

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What The Furlough Extension Means For Businesses

You might have read our recent article about how to prepare your business for the end of furlough, but a lot has changed since then. Following the government’s recent decision to enforce another Coronavirus lockdown, there is now a plan to extend the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme from the start of December until 31st March […]

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Postponed Accounting For Businesses Post-Brexit

What Is Postponed Accounting? Following on from the Brexit deal, the current law regarding VAT on imported goods is going to be changing from January 2021. However, postponed accounting has been reintroduced to help businesses with this change. Postponed accounting post-Brexit will mean that any VAT registered business will not have to pay VAT on […]

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