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- Balance sheet
- Chart of accounts
- Closing books
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- Financial accounting
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Accounts payable
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- Invoice coding
- Miscellaneous
- Purchase ledger
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Audits
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- Internal controls
- Miscellaneous
- Ongoing concerns
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Banking
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- Overdraft facility
Brexit
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Budgeting
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Business valuation
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Buying
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- Incremental analysis
- Miscellaneous
- Procurement policies
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Cash
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Cash flow
- Avoiding cash flow problems
- Cash flow forecasting
- Late payment cost
- Managing cash flow
- Miscellaneous
Company cars
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- Car benefits
- Company car tax
- Fuel rates
- Mileage claims
- Miscellaneous
- Tax-efficient cars
- VAT
Company law
- AGM
- Annual returns
- Balance sheet
- Companies House
- Director shareholder death
- Filing deadlines
- Miscellaneous
- Share alotment
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- Shareholders agreement
- Share transactions
- Types of company
- Unlawful dividends
Contracts
- Brexit
- 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
- 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
Debt recovery
- Court action
- Legal letters
- Miscellaneous
Expenses and benefits
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- Company cars
- Credit cards
- Cycle to work
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- 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
- 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
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- Discounted cash flow
- Investment appraisal
- Miscellaneous
- Property
- Sensitivity analysis
Invoicing
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- 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
- 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
- Record keeping
- Remuneration strategy
- RTI
- Salary payment date
- Share schemes
- Statutory forms
- Statutory pay
- Tax codes
- Termination payments
Performance appraisal
- Performance appraisal
- Project assessment
Performance management
- Goal setting
- 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
- Gender pay gap reporting
- Holiday pay
- 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
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
- 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
- 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
Tax and NI
- Benefits
- BPRA
- Business tax account
- Capital allowances
- Company cars
- Company loans
- Corporation tax
- Dealing with HMRC
- Directors' tax
- Employment allowance
- Employment status
- End of year returns
- Evasion
- Inheritance tax
- Interest
- Making tax digital
- Miscellaneous
- NI increases
- Official rate of interest
- Payments
- Penalties
- R&D relief
- Record-keeping
- Rollover relief
- SDLT
Tendering
- News
- Tendering procedures
Treasury
- Recruitment
- Treasury management
VAT
- Cash accounting
- Debt recovery
- Deposits
- Disbursements
- EC sales list
- Insolvency
- Making tax digital
- Miscellaneous
- Non-registered trader
- Opt to tax
- Overseas transactions
- Overseas VAT
- Payment
- Payment discount
- Record-keeping
- Registration
- Request for payment
- Reverse charge
- 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 12 - issue 10 - 03.07.2020
HOLIDAY PAYMitigating the cost of untaken holidayAs employees start to return to work, your company could be facing a backlog of annual leave requests. How can you manage it to avoid staff shortages? |
CORONAVIRUS - STATUTORY ACCOUNTSAn ongoing concern?Due to the coronavirus pandemic, auditors are increasingly referring to going concern uncertainties in their audit reports on company accounts. What could this mean for your company? |
CORPORATION TAXHow to cash in on trading lossesAccording to the Bank of England, the UK is facing the worst recession in 300 years so many companies will be making losses in 2020. If your company is one of them, how can you turn these losses into cash refunds? |
COMPANY CARSPrivate fuel - getting the details rightA 2020 case highlights the risk of not getting the details right when asking company car drivers to reimburse the cost of private fuel. How can you ensure your company won’t be a hit with an unexpected NI bill? |
CORONAVIRUS - CLEANING COSTSPolishing off those cleaning costsEnsuring that the work environment is “Covid-19” clean is likely to be top of every business’ to do list. This could involve more cleaning and more costs, so are there ways to cut back and keep staff safe? |
CORONAVIRUS - WASTEWhy waste money?All businesses create waste. However, if productivity is down or the site has fewer people working at it than usual, the amount of rubbish will be lower. How do you ensure that this is reflected in your contractor’s bills and what are the potential savings? |
CORONAVIRUS - ENERGY COSTSKeep energy costs under controlIf you are about to reopen the offices or a workplace then now is the time to do a few quick checks that could save hundreds of pounds in energy payments. What are they and what will you save? |
LEGAL FEESLowering legal feesResearch shows that SMEs experience eight legal issues a year, with half resulting in costs of £5,000. But many businesses are reluctant to use lawyers. What are the benefits of hiring one and how can you push their fees down? |
CORONAVIRUS - INSURANCEBusiness interruption insurance - are you covered?Some insurers are refusing to cover losses arising from the coronavirus pandemic so the FCA is seeking an urgent court decision to provide clarity. What steps can you take in the meantime to put the company in the strongest position possible? |
SUCCESSION PLANNINGBenefits of an employee ownership trustThe controlling shareholders are looking to retire and would like to pass on the company to their employees, but a management buyout isn’t appropriate. Could setting up an employee ownership trust (EOT) be the answer? |
SPREADSHEETSUsing Excel’s MOD function when drawing up budgetsYou’re drawing up revised budgets and forecasts and need to allocate amounts across months. Using Excel’s MOD function can help simplify the process. How does it work? |
CORONAVIRUS - FURLOUGHA new furlough scheme begins |
EMPLOYMENT TAXESTime is running out to file your P11Ds |
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