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Accounting

  • Accounting errors
  • Accounting records
  • Accounting standards
  • Accounting systems
  • Accruals basis
  • Annual accounts
  • Asset class
  • Asset disposal
  • Balance sheet
  • Chart of accounts
  • Closing books
  • Cost accounting
  • Dealing with accountants
  • Depreciaton
  • Extraordinary/exceptional items
  • Filing
  • Filleted accounts
  • Financial accounting
  • Fixed asset register
  • FRS102
  • Management accounts
  • Micro entities
  • Miscellaneous
  • Ongoing concerns
  • Prepayments
  • Reconciliation
  • Records
  • Standards
  • Statutory accounts
  • Sub accounts
  • Working trial balance

Accounts payable

  • Accounts payable
  • Bitcoin payments
  • Days payable outstanding
  • Invoice coding
  • Miscellaneous
  • Purchase ledger
  • Purchase orders

Audits

  • Audit fees
  • Audit limit
  • Changing auditors
  • Internal controls
  • Miscellaneous
  • Ongoing concerns
  • Working with auditors

Banking

  • Bank charges
  • Bank selection
  • Complaints
  • Interest accounts
  • Miscellaneous
  • Overdraft facility

Brexit

  • Brexit
  • VAT

Budgeting

  • Business plans
  • Continuous budgeting
  • Cutting budgets
  • Forecasting/planning
  • Key performance indicators
  • Miscellaneous
  • Setting annual budgets
  • Supply chain

Business valuation

  • Business sale
  • Valuation methods

Buying

  • Buying
  • Defending prices
  • Developing relations with buyers
  • Efficient buying
  • Incremental analysis
  • Miscellaneous
  • Procurement policies
  • Tax compliance

Cash

  • Burn rate
  • Excess cash
  • Non-core assets

Cash flow

  • Avoiding cash flow problems
  • Cash flow forecasting
  • Late payment cost
  • Managing cash flow
  • Miscellaneous

Company cars

  • Buying new cars
  • Car benefits
  • Company car tax
  • Fuel rates
  • Mileage claims
  • Miscellaneous
  • Tax-efficient cars
  • VAT

Company law

  • AGM
  • Annual returns
  • Balance sheet
  • Closing a company
  • Companies House
  • Director shareholder death
  • Filing deadlines
  • Miscellaneous
  • Share alotment
  • Share buy backs
  • Shareholders agreement
  • Share transactions
  • Types of company
  • Unlawful dividends

Contracts

  • Brexit
  • Damages
  • Drafting new contracts
  • Indemnities
  • Interim payments
  • Miscellaneous
  • Non-disclosure agreements
  • Renewal
  • Retention of title
  • Signing
  • Verbal contracts

Coronavirus

  • News

Cost benefit analysis

  • Cost benefit analysis

Cost control

  • Capacity planning
  • Electricity
  • Management fees
  • Marketing costs
  • Office space
  • Overheads
  • Resource management
  • Staff time reporting
  • Waste reduction

Cost cutting

  • Accommodation
  • Advertising
  • Bank accounts
  • Billing
  • Buy to let
  • Carrier bags
  • Cars
  • Credit cards
  • Cutting costs
  • Energy
  • Environment
  • Equipment
  • Exchange rates
  • Finance
  • Flexible working
  • Health and safety
  • Holidays
  • Insurance
  • Internet
  • IT equipment
  • Logistics
  • Meetings
  • Miscellaneous
  • Mobile phones
  • Office costs
  • Online purchasing/selling
  • Ordering
  • Personnel costs
  • Professional services
  • Property/building costs
  • Retail purchases
  • Sandwiches/food
  • Sickness absence
  • Social media
  • Software
  • Staff costs
  • Stock control
  • Supply contracts
  • Tax
  • Time wasting
  • Training
  • Travel and transport
  • Tyres
  • Utility bills
  • Waste management
  • Welfare facilities

Cost of finance

  • Bank finance
  • Interest calculations
  • Interest rates
  • Leasing
  • Miscellaneous

Cost of sales

  • Cutting costs
  • Miscellaneous
  • Pricing
  • Staff costs
  • Stock valuation
  • Strategic cost management

Credit control

  • Cost of debtors
  • Credit accounts
  • Credit controller
  • Credit limits
  • Database of badpayers
  • Days sales outstanding
  • Debt factoring
  • Debtors control account
  • Debt recovery
  • Discounting
  • Insolvency
  • Insurance
  • Interest rate
  • Late payment
  • Miscellaneous
  • Overseas Payments
  • Personal guarantees
  • Pre-emptive measures
  • Retention of title
  • Staff communications
  • Trade debtors
  • Warning signs

Cryptocurrencies

  • Bitcoin
  • DeFi

Debt recovery

  • Court action
  • Legal letters
  • Miscellaneous

Expenses and benefits

  • Billable and non-billable
  • Childcare vouchers
  • Company cars
  • Credit cards
  • Cycle to work
  • Directors' personal expenses
  • Dispensations
  • Employee fraud
  • Employee loans
  • Expense claims
  • Fuel
  • Gifts
  • Miscellaneous
  • P11Ds
  • Private medical insurance
  • Travel and entertainement expenses

Finance function

  • Accounts staff
  • Delegation
  • Delivering value
  • Developing the team
  • Finance assistant
  • Finance manager
  • Finance projects
  • Internal controls
  • Job description

Financial analysis

  • Assessing profitability
  • Capacity
  • Constraints analysis
  • Dividend
  • Growth modelling
  • Miscellaneous
  • Profit and loss ratios
  • Ratio analysis
  • Segmentation
  • Solvency monitoring
  • What if analysis

Financial management

  • Balanced scorecard
  • Billing controller
  • Financial planning
  • Growth
  • Historic performance
  • Leverage
  • Management reporting
  • Profits
  • Stock control
  • Supplier insolvency
  • Time management
  • Valuing stock
  • Working capital

Forecasting

  • Cash flow
  • Forecasting analysis
  • Freelance expenditure
  • Sales

Foreign transactions

  • Document standards
  • Exporting
  • Financial reporting
  • Foreign exchange risk
  • Miscellaneous
  • Overseas VAT

Fraud

  • Detection
  • Employee fraud
  • Miscellaneous
  • Prevention
  • Whistleblowing

Insurance

  • Business interruption
  • Damages claim
  • Export risk
  • Legal expenses
  • Miscellaneous
  • Overseas travel
  • Private medical insurance
  • Risk management

Investment appraisal

  • Cost modelling
  • Discounted cash flow
  • Investment appraisal
  • Miscellaneous
  • Property
  • Sensitivity analysis

Invoicing

  • Duplicate payments
  • Electronic invoicing
  • Internal controls
  • Late payment
  • Miscellaneous
  • Payment disputes
  • Staff fraud

IT

  • Capital allowances
  • Cyber security
  • IT costs - broadband
  • Miscellaneous
  • Payroll systems

Legal compliance

  • Anti-slavery
  • Bribery
  • Companies House
  • Data protection
  • Enforcement
  • HMRC inspections
  • Miscellaneous
  • Money laundering
  • New legislation
  • Senior accounting officer
  • Tax status
  • VAT inspections

Management accounts

  • Accruals
  • Acquisitions
  • Appropriate reserves
  • Balance sheet
  • British standards
  • Charts
  • Consolidated accounts
  • Dashboard
  • Dividends
  • Goodwill
  • KPIs
  • Month end
  • Monthly package
  • Profit margin
  • Real time reporting
  • Rent
  • Turnaround plans
  • Undue prudence

Mergers and acquisitions

  • CMA clearance
  • Completion accounts
  • Data rooms
  • Due diligence
  • Integration
  • Joint venture
  • Selling a business
  • Targets
  • Warranties and indemnities

Miscellaneous

  • Marketing costs
  • Miscellaneous
  • Negotiation skills

News

  • Budget
  • Coronavirus
  • Making tax digital
  • News

Overheads

  • Cost management
  • Factory costs
  • Miscellaneous

Payroll/PAYE

  • Apprentices
  • BACS
  • Bonuses
  • Deductions
  • Directors
  • Dispensations
  • Employee share plans
  • Employment allowance
  • End of year returns
  • Errors
  • Expenses
  • Flexible working
  • Forecasting/budgeting
  • Fraud
  • Gifts
  • Holiday pay
  • Minimum wage
  • Miscellaneous
  • Online filing
  • Outsourcing
  • P11D
  • Parental leave
  • PAYE inspections
  • Payments
  • Payrolling benefits
  • Payroll software
  • Pensions
  • Personal allowances
  • PSA
  • Record keeping
  • Remuneration strategy
  • Requirement for NI number
  • RTI
  • Salary payment date
  • Salary sacrifice
  • Share schemes
  • Statutory forms
  • Statutory pay
  • Tax codes
  • Termination payments

Performance appraisal

  • Performance appraisal
  • Project assessment

Performance management

  • Goal setting
  • KPIs
  • Performance targets
  • SMART objectives
  • Staff turnover

Personnel

  • Apprenticeships
  • Benchmarking
  • Bonus schemes
  • Bribery
  • Capacity planning
  • Cost of sickness absence
  • Employee appraisal
  • Employee ownership trust
  • Employee pricing
  • Employee share plans
  • Employment particulars
  • Gender pay gap reporting
  • Holiday pay
  • Homeworking
  • Minimum wage
  • Miscellaneous
  • Pay rises
  • Payroll spend
  • Performance management
  • Personal development
  • Recruitment issues
  • Redundancy costs
  • Share schemes
  • Staff costs
  • Status
  • Training
  • Tribunal claims

Presentations

  • PowerPoint

Pricing

  • Billable rates
  • Breakeven rates
  • Charge out rates
  • Exchange rate fluctuations
  • Inter-company pricing
  • Price increases
  • Royalties
  • Supplier costs
  • Target pricing
  • Teaser pricing
  • Transfer pricing

Productivity

  • Finance department

Profitability

  • Customer lifetime value
  • Fee realisation
  • KPIs
  • Measurement
  • Miscellaneous
  • Profit allocation
  • Return on capital employed
  • Staff costs
  • Staff efficiency
  • SWOT analysis

Project management

  • Budgeting

Property

  • Business rates
  • Property costs
  • Rent arrears

Purchase ledger

  • Audit
  • Purchase invoices

Raising finance

  • Alternatives to banks
  • Bank finance
  • Bridging loans
  • Budgeting
  • Business plans
  • Credit rating
  • Grants
  • Lending decision
  • Miscellaneous
  • Overdrafts
  • Preparation for lenders
  • Sale and leaseback
  • Seed enterprise investment scheme
  • SFLGS
  • Supply chain finance

Reporting

  • Budget deviations
  • Charts
  • Dashboards
  • Financial reporting
  • Fixed assets
  • Forecasting sales
  • FRS
  • FRS102
  • Human resources/personnel
  • KPIs
  • Loans
  • Management accounts
  • Management reporting
  • Miscellaneous
  • Non-financial reporting
  • P&L reporting
  • Ratio analysis
  • Reporting software
  • Report rationalisation
  • Report writing
  • Sensitivity analysis
  • To staff
  • UKGAAP
  • What if analysis

Software

  • Accounting software
  • Alternatives
  • Excel tips
  • Frequency analysis
  • Miscellaneous
  • MS Office
  • Outlook tips
  • Payroll software
  • Spreadsheets

Stock taking

  • Miscellaneous
  • Obsolete stock
  • Stock management
  • Valuing stock

Strategy

  • Decision making
  • Pivot strategy
  • Strategic plan

Tax and NI

  • Benefits
  • BPRA
  • Business tax account
  • Capital allowances
  • Capital gains tax
  • Company cars
  • Company loans
  • Corporation tax
  • Dealing with HMRC
  • Directors' tax
  • Employment allowance
  • Employment status
  • End of year returns
  • Evasion
  • Gifts
  • Inheritance tax
  • Interest
  • Losses
  • Making tax digital
  • Miscellaneous
  • NI increases
  • Official rate of interest
  • Packaging tax
  • Payments
  • Penalties
  • Personal allowance
  • Plastic tax
  • R&D relief
  • Record-keeping
  • Rollover relief
  • Scams
  • SDLT
  • Tax codes
  • Training costs

Tendering

  • News
  • Tendering procedures

Treasury

  • Recruitment
  • Treasury management

VAT

  • Cash accounting
  • Compensation payments
  • Debt recovery
  • Deposits
  • Disbursements
  • EC sales list
  • Errors
  • Flat rate scheme
  • Groups
  • Insolvency
  • Making tax digital
  • Miscellaneous
  • Non-registered trader
  • Opt to tax
  • Overseas transactions
  • Overseas VAT
  • Partial exemption
  • Payment
  • Payment discount
  • Penalties
  • Record-keeping
  • Registration
  • Request for payment
  • Reverse charge
  • Samples
  • VAT and debts
  • VAT inspections
  • VAT rates
  • VAT recovery
  • VAT returns

Work in progress

  • Miscellaneous
  • Work in progress

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In the most recent issue you'll find advice on...


Year 16 - issue 2 - 03.11.2023

FRAUD

Look out for VAT fraud

A 2023 case highlights the importance of businesses taking active steps to prevent VAT fraud in their supply chains. What can you do to avoid a problem?

FINANCIAL REPORTING

Changes ahead for lease accounting

If you prepare your accounts under FRS 102, then you may soon need to account for the company’s operating leases differently. What’s changing and what should you be doing now to prepare for it?

COST CONTROL

Effective cloud cost management

In times of prolonged economic uncertainty, cost-cutting strategies are a key focus for almost every finance leader. One area of significant and relatively untapped savings is cloud spending. Where do you start?

EMPLOYEE LOANS

Considerations when making loans to employees

With interest rates high, company loans to employees are often seen as a valuable benefit. If you extend loans to employees, how should you document these to protect the company?

CORPORATION TAX

Tax implications of company closure

One of your companies has to close down after only ever having made losses. With the difficult decision made you want to have it struck off as soon as possible but could this create a problem with HMRC?

VAT

When VAT demands seem too high

HMRC has just been examining the business’s records and on the back of this you have received a VAT assessment. The amount that’s being demanded seems unrealistically high. Is there anything you can do about it?

GIFTS

Tax relief following free use of a property

Our subscriber wants to give free use of a property, the freehold of which is owned by her company, to a registered charity. She has asked whether her company is entitled to any tax relief for this?

CAPITAL GAINS TAX

Buying back shares for an outgoing director

The main director shareholder of the company is moving on. It’s been agreed the company will buy her shares, but the trouble is it doesn’t have enough cash. Why is this a problem and how can it be resolved?

EMPLOYEE SHARE SCHEMES

What to consider when setting up an EMI scheme

You’ve been looking at the enterprise management incentive (EMI) scheme as an alternative to cash pay rises. But what are the income tax benefits for your employees and are there any tax or NI savings you can secure?

CONTRACTS

How to terminate a contract for non-payment

Your company has an ongoing contract with another business yet, despite promises to the contrary, it hasn’t paid up. The directors now want to walk away from the deal, but how should they go about terminating it?

SPREADSHEETS

The discounted cash flow model in Excel

The discounted cash flow (DCF) model is a fundamental financial tool used to determine the true value of a company or investment. What is the DCF model and how can you use Excel to calculate it?

RECRUITMENT

Increased fines for illegal workers

CORPORATION TAX

Inform HMRC of no corporation tax to pay

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