General Book-keeping & Accounting - The Book-keepers Forum (UK)

Shamus · Shamus

http://www.book-keepers.org.uk/t62264820/site-ethics/

haymac · haymac

Hi All, Just wondering how everyone deals with customers paperwork, do you collect or have them drop off, or have it posted ? The reason I ask is that I have always popped into majority of my customers to collect their paperwork, this gives me the opportunity to build up relations and gets me out of the o...

Decameron · Decameron

Hi. I am AAT qualified and work as Bookkeeper for a private company. I am not sure that the previous finance professional had applied correct VAT treatment when selling annual sponsorship on three separate events taking place in London and USA. This is what has been done:Invoices to UK established...

SCT · SCT

Deleted Thread -- Edited by SCT on Friday 6th of September 2019 07:05:45 AM -- Edited by SCT on Friday 6th of September 2019 07:07:56 AM

SCT · SCT

Hi All I am a Bookkeeper who has worked Freelance for 11 years. The last 5 years I have worked under an Accountant at my place of work so did not renew my MLR as I was covered by the companies Accountants MLR. I have now left this position and have started working for a new company on a SE basis. I will be doing B...

cometrue · cometrue

Hi, I was hoping to get some advice from you all. I graduated bachelor's degree of Business Management (First class honours) and right after started studying ACCA full time and passed 6exams out of 14, unfortunately, I suffered some health problems which meant I had to stop formal studies. Doctors...

cmcc · cmcc

Hey everyone, just wanted to get a bit of advice/help in relation to setting up as a self-employed bookkeeper. I have worked in practice and industry for a number of years and will be focussing purely on cloud-based bookkeeping. I am based in Northern Ireland and am currently finishing up my Accounti...

Cheshire · Cheshire

Do we need to know about this as practioners? I will hazard a guess that most of our clients are in the dark, despite messages from providers, where there have been messages. Certainly reading up on one lot of bumpf from one provider Im none the wiser. Do we have a duty of care to tell clients? Or are we...

Artois · Artois

HMRC have now changed the agent online pages for CIS to the same layout as SA and PAYE, its horrible to work with after being so used to the old layout for so many years, I hate change! Why? Why? Why?

abacus12345 · abacus12345

Hi guys. My questions are based upon the entries for Hire Purchase(s) If for example : Mr X acquires an asset, principal is £10,000 Interest shall be 12% PA, repaid over 12 months. What are the entries? I figure.... Debit the asset account £10,000 Credit the HP company with £11200 THEN - Create a bal...

Cheshire · Cheshire

hi Anyone know how to get read only access to online banking for balances and entries and downloading bank statements? Barclays numpties cannot seem to answer the question. Might be because its a Sunday and all their brains are still in Saturday nights beer! Or just because it's 'service' staff are...

Alinurts · Alinurts

hi, I have helped a friend move from Free Agent to Xero for free the accountant gave me conversion balances but also an "opening balance journal". I've posted both but it seems like the conversion balances are doubled up on accounts with the manual journal adjustments. Not sure what I've done wron...

thebigbojo · thebigbojo

Hey, been lurking in the forums these past few days trying to figure out my options. Basically, I've been offered some IT contract work for the next few months. I'm just coming out of uni so have no other earnings this financial year and total will be under any NI thresholds (full or proportional to the a...

Coles · Coles

Hi all Can anyone point me in the right direction for a new client checklist please? I am a virtual assistant also offering basic bookkeeping and need to have something in place for compliance. TIA

JasonB · JasonB

Can someone help offer an insight? I have a friend who has been working as a sole trader providing videography services. He has now set up a Ltd company with a partner and is a director in this new company providing the same services. He was advised by some business guru to invoice himself as a sole trader...

Bristol_al · Bristol_al

Hi everyone I was retired a year ago at the grand age of 31 as I got too sick to work. I'm looking to the future now and would like to retrain in a field where I can be self-employed and work part-time flexibly to suit my health issues. I have zero experience of or qualifications in book keeping and was hoping...

Cheshire · Cheshire

Hi Any ideas how I can setup a formula in excel to create a 'last payment date' from a start date. I have eg customer making payments to a client on a lease agreement for 24 months, so need to set up recurring payments, all have differing direct debit payment dates So far I have Col a Col b ...

lorrylau · lorrylau

A friend has asked me to look at their business, they sell band mechandise, T-shirts, posters etc. and are VAT registered. Sales in shopify include a separate shipping cost that the customer pays. They charge VAT on the goods (UK and EU sales) but not on the shipping. So £20 goods + £4 VAT plus £5 shi...

Louise84 · Louise84

Hi All, I have a client (sole trader). They have two trades.... second trade new in YE 19. The second trade made a loss due to start up costs. My question is can the loss be offset against the profitable trade in given tax year. Thanks Louise

Russky · Russky

The 3rd party is in the US is a newco & albeit 1 director is the same it is not a subsid. The US ledger was factored in the UK & now transferred to the the US. All figures $ The 110k is an introduction of cash to facilitate the shortfall in reserves to the existing lender. This was via transfer to the...

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	STICKY: Before Posting (closed) (Preview) http://www.book-keepers.org.uk/t62264820/site-ethics/	Shamus	0	3233	Sat Jun 11 15:07 2016 by Shamus
	How do you collect your customers paperwork ? (Preview) Hi All, Just wondering how everyone deals with customers paperwork, do you collect or have them drop off, or have it posted ? The reason I ask is that I have always popped into majority of my customers to collect their paperwork, this gives me the opportunity to build up relations and gets me out of the o...	haymac	11	669	Wed Sep 11 12:07 2019 by Cheshire
	VAT on conference sponsorship package - mixed place of supply (Preview) Hi. I am AAT qualified and work as Bookkeeper for a private company. I am not sure that the previous finance professional had applied correct VAT treatment when selling annual sponsorship on three separate events taking place in London and USA. This is what has been done:Invoices to UK established...	Decameron	5	362	Wed Sep 11 09:55 2019 by Cheshire
	Professional Indemnity Ins / Public Liability Ins (Preview) Deleted Thread -- Edited by SCT on Friday 6th of September 2019 07:05:45 AM -- Edited by SCT on Friday 6th of September 2019 07:07:56 AM	SCT	6	445	Sat Sep 7 20:41 2019 by Leger
	Money Laundering (Preview) Hi All I am a Bookkeeper who has worked Freelance for 11 years. The last 5 years I have worked under an Accountant at my place of work so did not renew my MLR as I was covered by the companies Accountants MLR. I have now left this position and have started working for a new company on a SE basis. I will be doing B...	SCT	7	389	Fri Sep 6 07:13 2019 by SCT
	Work experience and health limitation (Preview) Hi, I was hoping to get some advice from you all. I graduated bachelor's degree of Business Management (First class honours) and right after started studying ACCA full time and passed 6exams out of 14, unfortunately, I suffered some health problems which meant I had to stop formal studies. Doctors...	cometrue	5	706	Wed Sep 4 13:20 2019 by Cheshire
	Bookkeeping business set up (Preview) Hey everyone, just wanted to get a bit of advice/help in relation to setting up as a self-employed bookkeeper. I have worked in practice and industry for a number of years and will be focussing purely on cloud-based bookkeeping. I am based in Northern Ireland and am currently finishing up my Accounti...	cmcc	2	299	Wed Sep 4 08:42 2019 by YLB-HO
	Strong customer authentication (SCA) (Preview) Do we need to know about this as practioners? I will hazard a guess that most of our clients are in the dark, despite messages from providers, where there have been messages. Certainly reading up on one lot of bumpf from one provider Im none the wiser. Do we have a duty of care to tell clients? Or are we...	Cheshire	10	539	Wed Aug 28 07:04 2019 by johnhemming
	CIS online (Preview) HMRC have now changed the agent online pages for CIS to the same layout as SA and PAYE, its horrible to work with after being so used to the old layout for so many years, I hate change! Why? Why? Why?	Artois	2	384	Sun Aug 25 11:03 2019 by Cheshire
	HP Purchase / Interest entries... (Preview) Hi guys. My questions are based upon the entries for Hire Purchase(s) If for example : Mr X acquires an asset, principal is £10,000 Interest shall be 12% PA, repaid over 12 months. What are the entries? I figure.... Debit the asset account £10,000 Credit the HP company with £11200 THEN - Create a bal...	abacus12345	15	2187	Tue Aug 13 15:30 2019 by Leger
	Barclays online access for 3rd party (Preview) hi Anyone know how to get read only access to online banking for balances and entries and downloading bank statements? Barclays numpties cannot seem to answer the question. Might be because its a Sunday and all their brains are still in Saturday nights beer! Or just because it's 'service' staff are...	Cheshire	6	387	Tue Aug 13 12:04 2019 by Cheshire
	opening balance journal causing pain conversiob balances opening balance journals suspense account (Preview) hi, I have helped a friend move from Free Agent to Xero for free the accountant gave me conversion balances but also an "opening balance journal". I've posted both but it seems like the conversion balances are doubled up on accounts with the manual journal adjustments. Not sure what I've done wron...	Alinurts	5	360	Tue Aug 6 20:00 2019 by Alinurts
	managing own accounts for a ltd (Preview) Hey, been lurking in the forums these past few days trying to figure out my options. Basically, I've been offered some IT contract work for the next few months. I'm just coming out of uni so have no other earnings this financial year and total will be under any NI thresholds (full or proportional to the a...	thebigbojo	8	562	Tue Aug 6 15:12 2019 by Cheshire
	New Client Checklist, UK (Preview) Hi all Can anyone point me in the right direction for a new client checklist please? I am a virtual assistant also offering basic bookkeeping and need to have something in place for compliance. TIA	Coles	14	916	Fri Aug 2 13:11 2019 by Ally2019
	Director & subcontractor in same company ?! (Preview) Can someone help offer an insight? I have a friend who has been working as a sole trader providing videography services. He has now set up a Ltd company with a partner and is a director in this new company providing the same services. He was advised by some business guru to invoice himself as a sole trader...	JasonB	15	759	Thu Aug 1 17:26 2019 by Cheshire
	Considering re-training as a bookeeper - what should I know? (Preview) Hi everyone I was retired a year ago at the grand age of 31 as I got too sick to work. I'm looking to the future now and would like to retrain in a field where I can be self-employed and work part-time flexibly to suit my health issues. I have zero experience of or qualifications in book keeping and was hoping...	Bristol_al	13	622	Thu Aug 1 17:04 2019 by Cheshire
	Excel help (Preview) Hi Any ideas how I can setup a formula in excel to create a 'last payment date' from a start date. I have eg customer making payments to a client on a lease agreement for 24 months, so need to set up recurring payments, all have differing direct debit payment dates So far I have Col a Col b ...	Cheshire	6	442	Wed Jul 31 08:27 2019 by Cheshire
	Shopify: shipping costs and VAT shopify VAT Revenue (Preview) A friend has asked me to look at their business, they sell band mechandise, T-shirts, posters etc. and are VAT registered. Sales in shopify include a separate shipping cost that the customer pays. They charge VAT on the goods (UK and EU sales) but not on the shipping. So £20 goods + £4 VAT plus £5 shi...	lorrylau	8	587	Mon Jul 29 10:25 2019 by Cheshire
	Sole trader with two trades (Preview) Hi All, I have a client (sole trader). They have two trades.... second trade new in YE 19. The second trade made a loss due to start up costs. My question is can the loss be offset against the profitable trade in given tax year. Thanks Louise	Louise84	16	880	Sat Jul 27 17:40 2019 by YLB-HO
	Double entry on the sale of ID trade receivebles to a 3rd party (Preview) The 3rd party is in the US is a newco & albeit 1 director is the same it is not a subsid. The US ledger was factored in the UK & now transferred to the the US. All figures $ The 110k is an introduction of cash to facilitate the shortfall in reserves to the existing lender. This was via transfer to the...	Russky	4	480	Sat Jul 20 19:30 2019 by Cheshire
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