It’s the final day of the month-end close. Your finance team opens a client's books, and they are nearly balanced, but a few unexplained payments ...

Following a FOI request by the Telegraph newspaper, the paper reports that 186 employees have been sacked so far out of 354 investigated. This was ...

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For a business required to register for VAT, the effective date of registration (EDR) is determined by law, not by choice. However, if a ...

Are politicians capable of tax and regulation simplification?”  To sign off on what has unintentionally become tax month for this column, ...

In light of the new Companies House rules I am updating my client onboarding proceedures. If we are an ACSP and verify clients using software, does this ...

Imagine your client, a flourishing subscription company, is celebrating a milestone: their thousandth customer. Yet, their elation is tempered by a ...

Afternoon,  Here’s (unsurprisingly) some more MTD news for you all – agents can now register for HMRC’s new MTD support service [1].

With the reported pressures on public finances and a potential £50bn black hole to fill, there has been plenty of speculation in the press and on social ...

Business is entering its intelligent era, and small businesses can no longer afford to rely on manual systems. For too long, financial management has been ...

The current agents only took over in early 2023 and received poor handover information from their predecessors, creating a chain of inadequate record-keeping that now prejudices our ability to secure ...

Director only payroll for 2024-25 has been processed a salary above the Secondary Threshold (paying employer NI). In March 2025 a new member was ...