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Accounting
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- Balance sheet
- Chart of accounts
- Closing books
- Cost accounting
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- FRS102
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- Micro entities
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- Ongoing concerns
- Prepayments
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- Records
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Accounts payable
- Accounts payable
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- Days payable outstanding
- Invoice coding
- Miscellaneous
- Purchase ledger
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Audits
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- Audit limit
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- Internal controls
- Miscellaneous
- Ongoing concerns
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Banking
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- Interest accounts
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- Overdraft facility
Brexit
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Budgeting
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Business valuation
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Buying
- Buying
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- Incremental analysis
- Miscellaneous
- Procurement policies
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Cash
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Cash flow
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- Cash flow forecasting
- Late payment cost
- Managing cash flow
- Miscellaneous
Company cars
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- Tax-efficient cars
Company law
- AGM
- Annual returns
- Balance sheet
- Companies House
- Director shareholder death
- Miscellaneous
- Share alotment
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- Types of company
- Unlawful dividends
Contracts
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- Indemnities
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- Miscellaneous
- Non-disclosure agreements
- Renewal
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Cost benefit analysis
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Cost control
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- Electricity
- Management fees
- Marketing costs
- Office space
- Overheads
- Resource management
- 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
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- Logistics
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- Miscellaneous
- Mobile phones
- Office costs
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- 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
Credit control
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- Credit accounts
- Credit controller
- Credit limits
- Database of badpayers
- Days sales outstanding
- Debtors control account
- Debt recovery
- Discounting
- Insolvency
- Insurance
- Interest rate
- Late payment
- Miscellaneous
- Overseas Payments
- Personal guarantees
- Pre-emptive measures
- Retention of title
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- Trade debtors
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Debt recovery
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- Legal letters
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Expenses and benefits
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- Company cars
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- Cycle to work
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- Expense claims
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- P11Ds
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Finance function
- Accounts staff
- Delegation
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- Developing the team
- Finance assistant
Financial analysis
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- Capacity
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- Miscellaneous
- Profit and loss ratios
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- Segmentation
- Solvency monitoring
Financial management
- Balanced scorecard
- Billing controller
- Financial planning
- Growth
- Historic performance
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- Management reporting
- Profits
- Stock control
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Forecasting
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Foreign transactions
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- Overseas VAT
Fraud
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Insurance
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- Legal expenses
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Investment appraisal
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- Property
- Sensitivity analysis
Invoicing
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- Internal controls
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IT
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Legal compliance
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- New legislation
- Senior accounting officer
- Tax status
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Management accounts
- Accruals
- Acquisitions
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- Balance sheet
- British standards
- Charts
- Consolidated accounts
- Dividends
- Goodwill
- KPIs
- Month end
- Monthly package
- Profit margin
- Real time reporting
- Rent
- Turnaround plans
- Undue prudence
Mergers and acquisitions
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- Completion accounts
- Data rooms
- Due diligence
- Integration
- Joint venture
- Selling a business
- Targets
- Warranties and indemnities
Miscellaneous
- Marketing costs
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News
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- Making tax digital
- News
Overheads
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- Factory costs
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Payroll/PAYE
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- Directors
- Dispensations
- Employee share plans
- End of year returns
- Errors
- Expenses
- Flexible working
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- Gifts
- Holiday pay
- Minimum wage
- Miscellaneous
- Online filing
- Outsourcing
- P11D
- Parental leave
- PAYE inspections
- Payrolling benefits
- Payroll software
- Pensions
- Personal allowances
- Record keeping
- Remuneration strategy
- RTI
- Share schemes
- Statutory forms
- Statutory pay
- Tax codes
- Termination payments
Performance appraisal
- Performance appraisal
- Project assessment
Performance management
- Goal setting
- SMART objectives
- Staff turnover
Personnel
- Apprenticeships
- Benchmarking
- Bonus schemes
- Bribery
- Capacity planning
- Cost of sickness absence
- Employee appraisal
- Employee pricing
- Employee share plans
- Gender pay gap reporting
- Holiday pay
- Minimum wage
- Miscellaneous
- 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
- Royalties
- Supplier costs
- Teaser pricing
Productivity
- Finance department
Profitability
- Fee realisation
- KPIs
- Measurement
- Miscellaneous
- Profit allocation
- Return on capital employed
- Staff costs
- Staff efficiency
- SWOT analysis
Property
- Business rates
- Property costs
Purchase ledger
- Audit
- Purchase invoices
Raising finance
- Alternatives to banks
- Bank finance
- Budgeting
- Business plans
- Credit rating
- Grants
- Lending decision
- Miscellaneous
- Overdrafts
- Preparation for lenders
- 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
- Miscellaneous
- Non-financial reporting
- P&L reporting
- Ratio analysis
- Reporting software
- Report rationalisation
- Report writing
- Sensitivity analysis
- 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
Tax and NI
- Benefits
- BPRA
- Business tax account
- Capital allowances
- Company cars
- Corporation tax
- Dealing with HMRC
- Directors' tax
- End of year returns
- Evasion
- Interest
- Making tax digital
- Miscellaneous
- NI increases
- Official rate of interest
- Payments
- Penalties
- R&D relief
- Record-keeping
- Rollover relief
Tendering
- News
- Tendering procedures
Treasury
- Recruitment
- Treasury management
VAT
- Cash accounting
- Debt recovery
- Disbursements
- EC sales list
- Insolvency
- Making tax digital
- Miscellaneous
- Non-registered trader
- Opt to tax
- Overseas transactions
- Overseas VAT
- Payment discount
- Record-keeping
- Registration
- Request for payment
- VAT and debts
- VAT inspections
- VAT rates
- VAT recovery
- VAT returns
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In the most recent issue you'll find advice on...
Year 11 - issue 4 - 0411.01.2019
PAYROLL2019/20 payroll changesThe Autumn Budget 2018 announced changes to tax and NI limits. What do you need to know to prepare for the 2019/20 payroll year? |
EXPENSESShould you ditch company credit cards?You’ve calculated that the accounts team spends over 21 hours per month reconciling the company credit cards used by staff members each month. Should you consider withdrawing company credit cards? |
STAFF COSTSBonus schemes - getting the balance rightIt’s a new year and you’ve been tasked with reviewing the company’s bonus scheme to ensure it will incentivise staff and that the company can afford it. What factors do you need to consider? |
FINANCIAL REPORTINGAccounting for investment properties under FRS 102There’s some confusion, even amongst accountants in practice, regarding the correct way to account for investment properties under FRS 102. How should they be shown in your annual statutory accounts? |
PERSONNELStart early to saveA new poll suggests that many staff would prefer to work 8.00am to 4.00pm rather than the traditional 9.00am to 5.00pm. Is this something to think about implementing and if so what might the savings be? |
PROFIT EXTRACTIONTax-efficient perks of the jobThe directors are considering taking more income from the business, but what is the most tax-efficient way to do so, via the normal salary/dividend route or by paying for certain perks? |
RECRUITMENTTry before you hireRecruiting new staff is a costly and time-consuming process, especially if a new employee doesn’t perform as expected. Could you offer a trial if you are unsure, and what might this save you in the long run? |
PLASTIC BAGSMoney for nothing?The autumn Budget didn’t include a rise in the carrier bag charge but the legislation could soon be extended to small businesses. What could you save by not hanging around for new laws? |
PLANNINGLonger term profit projections using KPIsThe MD is looking at long term planning and has asked you to prepare some profit projections over a five-year period. The company usually plans one year out. How should you approach this new task? |
SHARE OPTIONSShare options and dilutionThe owners of your business have been advised to set up a share option scheme. They are concerned about having their ownership diluted and losing control over the business. Are there any ways their fears can be mitigated? |
SPREADSHEETSPresenting in ExcelIf your presentations are going to consist almost entirely of tables, data and numbers, is there really any point in copying all that data into PowerPoint? How can you spruce up your Excel spreadsheets to make them presentation-ready? |
HMRCLate filing penalty notices not valid |
VATVAT MOSS de minimis now in place |
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