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Shamus · Shamus

Has anyone started looking into this yet? It seems that it applies to companies as well as individuals but there is very little detail on the ground about how monthly rather than annual reporting is going to work? I'm particularly worried that monthly reporting could surely only be based on the accou...

Shamus · Shamus

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

Shamus · Shamus

Hi People, ok, currently the software that I have and use is Sage line 50 (V10 & V14), Excel and VT Transaction+ (I've actually got VT Accounts but haven't used it yet). I'm looking around at new software and I'm really tempted to join the Quickbooks Pro program for Accountants at £345 per year for a...

lots to learn · lots to learn

Evening all I have a bit of a delicate issue which I'm trying to decide how to tackle. I have a friend of a friend with a building company which has his own accountant but has passed a great deal of work my way. Charities, local businesses he's involved in and many contractors who work for him etc. Some of...

Rachel19 · Rachel19

Hi everyone, me with another question again :) I've been in touch with a firm of accountants with a view to taking on some subcontractor work from them (which is great), but they've asked for a CV and references. Is this normal in your experience? I don't mind giving them a background of my experience an...

Corry · Corry

Hi Has anyone had any dealing with Payroo over the telephone? This year they have changed from being a free online payroll software package to charging a monthly subscription and usage fee. Firstly, let me first say, I have no issue with paying for a service that I use. However, that said, every sing...

BC Boy · BC Boy

Good morning, I'm looking for some help please. I have a client with a bank loan over 7 years. The account is set up with the automatic bank feed. I wish to separate out the sum due with 12m as a current liability and the remainder as a long term liability. Given that Xero will not allow journals form a bank a...

Stardoe · Stardoe

Hi All, Haven't posted on here for a long time now, but would like everyone's (anyone's) opinions/thoughts. I am winding down to retirement now, so only have four clients, one of whom I go to their office three times a week and the other three I work from home. My question is, has anyone else got so entre...

Rachel19 · Rachel19

Hi everyone, I'm wondering if anyone can help me? I'm an ACCA qualified employed practice accountant, wanting to apply for a practising certificate so I can start out on my own. The ACCA has approved my training record (after a lot of toing and froing!) but I'm hitting a snag in that I need a "suitably qu...

Nikole · Nikole

Afternoon All One of my customers "Ltd Company" would like me to take over preparing and submitting their year end accounts. Their accounts are fairly straight forward and do not need auditing. I have my AAT level 4 qualification and would love to get my teeth stuck into accounting beyond TB, Is this s...

lots to learn · lots to learn

Hi All Just looking for some advice on Furnished Holiday Lets. It seems to be all I deal with at the moment! Client is building up a few FHLs. The first has been let during the 18-19 year and meets all conditions etc so all good there. The second is a newly converted barn which has not been let during the...

Silly Digits · Silly Digits

A client has had tools stolen from his van, many of these items have been replaced this tax year 2018-19. A lot of the tools that were stolen were claimed in previous years as 100% AIA. Sole trader/not VAT registered/income and expenditure account. An insurance claim has been put in for but not paid ou...

Leger · Leger

I'm giving a lot of thought to fees at the moment, and realise I am cheaper than I should be, but also conscious that I primarily deal with micro businesses, so need to be realistic. Out of interest, as a rough guide, what would you charge for the following, (seen elsewhere) For those that don't know, I'...

Ally2019 · Ally2019

Hi there. Thought I had posted this earlier but I did not - apologies if it posts twice. I am an ACCA member and have the relevant experience to gain my PC. I am only looking to set up as a bookkeeper for the time being but wanted peoples thoughts on getting the PC so I can avoid the Hmrc fees for the Money la...

Bluewave · Bluewave

Hi all, Ive been happily running my own bookkeeping business for 7 years (worked in practice for many years before that). I pick up my clients paperwork and process manually on to my own Sage...I have access to all of their bank accounts and manually enter the bank transactions on to Sage...Im proper o...

Artois · Artois

Just a quickie, if my client has given me permission to send a copy of his Tax Return to an Estate Agent so he can rent a property do I still need to password protect it?

Julie Hall · Julie Hall

Hi there, I have a client that has a retail business and have started to use Facebook Ireland Ltd as part of advertising etc, any ideas what tax code to use, I think it should be T24 on sage any advice appreciated. Thanks very much.

Cheshire · Cheshire

Its all downhill now to Christmas -- Edited by Cheshire on Friday 21st of June 2019 11:17:42 PM

ZoesBookkeeping · ZoesBookkeeping

Hi I am just checking the amount I seem to now have to pay to HMRC for the Anti Money Laundering renewal is now £170.00! It now shows Approval for responsible people £40 and Trading Premises £130.00. I have been registered at the same address for years. Now I seem to be needing supervised and my renewal i...

AliBee · AliBee

Does anyone use google adwords or facebook ads to advertise their business?

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	STICKY: End of Annual Tax Returns (Preview) Has anyone started looking into this yet? It seems that it applies to companies as well as individuals but there is very little detail on the ground about how monthly rather than annual reporting is going to work? I'm particularly worried that monthly reporting could surely only be based on the accou...	Shamus	25	6928	Sun Oct 8 16:41 2017 by Cheshire
	STICKY: Before Posting (closed) (Preview) http://www.book-keepers.org.uk/t62264820/site-ethics/	Shamus	0	1988	Sat Jun 11 15:10 2016 by Shamus
	STICKY: Convince me that I don't need Sage ( 1 2 ) (Preview) Hi People, ok, currently the software that I have and use is Sage line 50 (V10 & V14), Excel and VT Transaction+ (I've actually got VT Accounts but haven't used it yet). I'm looking around at new software and I'm really tempted to join the Quickbooks Pro program for Accountants at £345 per year for a...	Shamus	66	28955	Sat Jul 13 18:02 2013 by Shamus
	Self Employed working for one client only (Preview) Evening all I have a bit of a delicate issue which I'm trying to decide how to tackle. I have a friend of a friend with a building company which has his own accountant but has passed a great deal of work my way. Charities, local businesses he's involved in and many contractors who work for him etc. Some of...	lots to learn	12	726	Thu Sep 5 10:10 2019 by Leger
	Subcontracting (Preview) Hi everyone, me with another question again :) I've been in touch with a firm of accountants with a view to taking on some subcontractor work from them (which is great), but they've asked for a CV and references. Is this normal in your experience? I don't mind giving them a background of my experience an...	Rachel19	6	468	Mon Aug 19 17:27 2019 by Casu
	Payroo Payroll - anyone else experienced extremely poor customer service or is it just me! (Preview) Hi Has anyone had any dealing with Payroo over the telephone? This year they have changed from being a free online payroll software package to charging a monthly subscription and usage fee. Firstly, let me first say, I have no issue with paying for a service that I use. However, that said, every sing...	Corry	1	236	Sun Aug 18 12:34 2019 by Cheshire
	Journals in Xero (Preview) Good morning, I'm looking for some help please. I have a client with a bank loan over 7 years. The account is set up with the automatic bank feed. I wish to separate out the sum due with 12m as a current liability and the remainder as a long term liability. Given that Xero will not allow journals form a bank a...	BC Boy	14	567	Tue Aug 13 15:59 2019 by Rachel19
	Thoughts welcome! (Preview) Hi All, Haven't posted on here for a long time now, but would like everyone's (anyone's) opinions/thoughts. I am winding down to retirement now, so only have four clients, one of whom I go to their office three times a week and the other three I work from home. My question is, has anyone else got so entre...	Stardoe	4	428	Tue Aug 6 19:49 2019 by Stardoe
	Continuity of Practice help! (Preview) Hi everyone, I'm wondering if anyone can help me? I'm an ACCA qualified employed practice accountant, wanting to apply for a practising certificate so I can start out on my own. The ACCA has approved my training record (after a lot of toing and froing!) but I'm hitting a snag in that I need a "suitably qu...	Rachel19	6	512	Fri Aug 2 11:41 2019 by Rachel19
	Thoughts on Year end Accounts (Preview) Afternoon All One of my customers "Ltd Company" would like me to take over preparing and submitting their year end accounts. Their accounts are fairly straight forward and do not need auditing. I have my AAT level 4 qualification and would love to get my teeth stuck into accounting beyond TB, Is this s...	Nikole	16	645	Wed Jul 31 23:16 2019 by Cheshire
	Furnished Holiday Lets (Preview) Hi All Just looking for some advice on Furnished Holiday Lets. It seems to be all I deal with at the moment! Client is building up a few FHLs. The first has been let during the 18-19 year and meets all conditions etc so all good there. The second is a newly converted barn which has not been let during the...	lots to learn	6	531	Mon Jul 22 10:13 2019 by lots to learn
	Stolen Assets (Preview) A client has had tools stolen from his van, many of these items have been replaced this tax year 2018-19. A lot of the tools that were stolen were claimed in previous years as 100% AIA. Sole trader/not VAT registered/income and expenditure account. An insurance claim has been put in for but not paid ou...	Silly Digits	15	947	Wed Jul 17 17:26 2019 by Silly Digits
	What would you charge? (Preview) I'm giving a lot of thought to fees at the moment, and realise I am cheaper than I should be, but also conscious that I primarily deal with micro businesses, so need to be realistic. Out of interest, as a rough guide, what would you charge for the following, (seen elsewhere) For those that don't know, I'...	Leger	6	581	Mon Jul 15 07:59 2019 by Artois
	MLO fee - do I have to pay as an ACCA member? (Preview) Hi there. Thought I had posted this earlier but I did not - apologies if it posts twice. I am an ACCA member and have the relevant experience to gain my PC. I am only looking to set up as a bookkeeper for the time being but wanted peoples thoughts on getting the PC so I can avoid the Hmrc fees for the Money la...	Ally2019	17	1078	Sun Jul 7 08:28 2019 by YLB-HO
	Am I behind the times??? (Preview) Hi all, Ive been happily running my own bookkeeping business for 7 years (worked in practice for many years before that). I pick up my clients paperwork and process manually on to my own Sage...I have access to all of their bank accounts and manually enter the bank transactions on to Sage...Im proper o...	Bluewave	13	890	Mon Jul 1 20:14 2019 by Bluewave
	Password Protect? (Preview) Just a quickie, if my client has given me permission to send a copy of his Tax Return to an Estate Agent so he can rent a property do I still need to password protect it?	Artois	2	324	Mon Jul 1 16:48 2019 by Artois
	Sage Tax Code Facebook Ireland (Preview) Hi there, I have a client that has a retail business and have started to use Facebook Ireland Ltd as part of advertising etc, any ideas what tax code to use, I think it should be T24 on sage any advice appreciated. Thanks very much.	Julie Hall	6	6311	Fri Jun 28 14:30 2019 by Shamus
	Thought for today (Preview) Its all downhill now to Christmas -- Edited by Cheshire on Friday 21st of June 2019 11:17:42 PM	Cheshire	7	600	Tue Jun 25 09:40 2019 by Cheshire
	Anti Money Laundering Fee (Preview) Hi I am just checking the amount I seem to now have to pay to HMRC for the Anti Money Laundering renewal is now £170.00! It now shows Approval for responsible people £40 and Trading Premises £130.00. I have been registered at the same address for years. Now I seem to be needing supervised and my renewal i...	ZoesBookkeeping	13	1176	Tue Jun 4 22:25 2019 by Kinbuck
	Google Adwords and Facebook Advertising (Preview) Does anyone use google adwords or facebook ads to advertise their business?	AliBee	3	594	Mon May 27 10:40 2019 by Cheshire
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