Archives for 2016

If you are a business owner do you have the skills you need to process the payroll for your employees? It is not always as straightforward as you think and you will only find that out when you have an angry employee or two demanding explanations or HMRC contacting you.  Is it worth the risk? […]

Anybody who attended the Swindon Expo at the Steam Museum in June may have come across our stand with our new banner asking “Are you burying your head in the sand about Auto Enrolment?”. Visitors were keen to play our “bury your head in the sand” game with the winner being offered a choice of prizes […]

We are very proud of our Investors in People plaque.  It has pride of place in our office reception so that it can be seen by our visitors and by us every time we walk through the hallway.  It reminds us what a great team we are and how hard we all worked towards achieving […]

If you are a VAT registered business and you or your staff reclaim mileage for business travel in your own vehicle did you know that you can claim VAT on the fuel element of that mileage? Every quarter HMRC update the advisory fuel rates – see here for the current rates.  The mileage you claim […]

This week I thought I would tell you about my experience of good customer service – not once, but twice in one week. A couple of weeks ago unfortunately I had reason to make 3 complaints about services in just two days.  Its not something I would normally do but on these occasions I felt I […]

Its that time of year again when bookkeepers, payroll administrators and accountants are preparing P11ds for businesses who reimburse employee expenses or provide their employees with benefits.  P11ds for the period 6th April 2015 to 5th April 2016 have to be submitted to HMRC by 6th July with any payment due being made by 22nd […]

Pension auto enrolment remains a hot topic with more than one million businesses still to reach their staging date by the end of March 2018.  A large proportion of these businesses will reach their Staging Date in the first quarter of 2017 which could prove to be a bottleneck with the pension providers if you leave it […]

What would you do if your computer was hit by Ransomware?   This is becoming an increasing threat to everyone in business or personally.  Even if you know to be aware of dodgy emails it can still get in to your computer.  I am sure everyone receives emails with invoices, or statements, or payment information […]

What would you do if your computer was hit by Ransomware?   This is becoming an increasing threat to everyone in business or personally.  Even if you know to be aware of dodgy emails it can still get in to your computer.  I am sure everyone receives emails with invoices, or statements, or payment information […]

Sometimes you need to do something different with your day to open your mind to opportunities. Last week three of our team visited Accountex 2016 – the national accountancy exhibition and conference – at the ExCel centre in London.  It was a chance to get some ideas and inspiration for developing our business and to […]