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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
- 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
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Budgeting
- Business plans
- Continuous budgeting
- Cutting budgets
- Forecasting/planning
- Key performance indicators
- Miscellaneous
- Setting annual budgets
Business valuation
- Valuation methods
Buying
- Buying
- Defending prices
- Developing relations with buyers
- Efficient buying
- Incremental analysis
- Miscellaneous
- Procurement policies
- Tax compliance
Cash
- Burn rate
- Excess cash
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
Company law
- AGM
- Annual returns
- Balance sheet
- Companies House
- Director shareholder death
- Miscellaneous
- Share alotment
- Share buy backs
- Shareholders agreement
- Share transactions
- Types of company
- Unlawful dividends
Contracts
- Drafting new contracts
- Indemnities
- Interim payments
- Miscellaneous
- Non-disclosure agreements
- Renewal
- Retention of title
Cost benefit analysis
- Cost benefit analysis
Cost control
- Capacity planning
- 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
- IT equipment
- Logistics
- Meetings
- Miscellaneous
- Mobile phones
- Office costs
- Online purchasing/selling
- 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
- 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
- Job description
Financial analysis
- Assessing profitability
- Capacity
- Constraints analysis
- Dividend
- Growth modelling
- Miscellaneous
- Profit and loss ratios
- Ratio analysis
- Segmentation
- Solvency monitoring
Financial management
- Balanced scorecard
- Billing controller
- Financial planning
- Growth
- Historic performance
- Leverage
- Management reporting
- Profits
- Stock control
- Time management
- Valuing stock
- Working capital
Forecasting
- Forecasting analysis
- Freelance expenditure
- Sales
Foreign transactions
- Document standards
- Exporting
- Financial reporting
- Foreign exchange risk
- Miscellaneous
- Overseas VAT
Fraud
- Detection
- Miscellaneous
- Prevention
- Whistleblowing
Insurance
- Business interruption
- Damages claim
- Export risk
- Legal expenses
- Miscellaneous
- Overseas travel
- Private medical insurance
- Risk management
Investment appraisal
- Cost modelling
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Price increases
- Royalties
- Supplier costs
- Target pricing
- Teaser pricing
Productivity
- Finance department
Profitability
- 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
- 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
- Corporation tax
- Dealing with HMRC
- Directors' tax
- 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
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 discount
- Record-keeping
- Registration
- Request for payment
- 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 11 - issue 8 - 03.05.2019
COMPANY VEHICLESIs your van a car?In March 2019 the Upper Tribunal upheld two differing decisions over “combi” vans provided to employees for private use. Could this affect your company vans? |
PRICINGEffectively managing price increasesThe directors have decided that the company needs to increase its prices to stay profitable. What’s the best way to implement increases without upsetting and potentially losing customers? |
COMPANY LAWShould your company convert to a PLC?One of your competitors has become a PLC and your customers are impressed. But the company isn’t listed on a stock market and the only thing that seems to have changed is their stationery. Is this something you should be considering? |
FORECASTINGCost savings on loss of large customerOne of the company’s largest customers has given notice under its contract. The MD has asked you to calculate the impact and make some cost saving recommendations. How should you proceed? |
STAFF RETENTIONPlease don’t go…Research has thrown up some surprising reasons for staff leaving small businesses. What are they, what can you do to stop them going and how much will this save you in the long run? |
TAXClosing a company tax efficientlyYou and your fellow shareholders want to shut down the company as it’s no longer trading. It has cash and other assets worth around £50,000. What’s the best way to do it and what will it save? |
TRANSPORTAlternatives to carsWith the business expanding, staff are having to travel more to see clients. A new company car is out of the question, so what are the other options and how much will you save? |
PRINT COSTSCut print costs even furtherIn the past we’ve looked at the “paperless office dream”, with our tips potentially saving several thousand pounds. But could you save even more on your annual print and paper costs? |
FINANCE DEPARTMENTIs your job description up to scratch?Your HR manager has been auditing the personnel files and discovered that there isn’t a job description for your role. You’ve been asked to draft one. What should a good document covering your role look like? |
PROJECT MANAGEMENTProject changes of scopeYour company is planning a change management initiative intended to streamline its operating processes. The directors have asked you to ensure that the project stays within budget. How could this be achieved? |
SPREADSHEETSUsing macros for Text to ColumnsYou receive a spreadsheet from sales every day with new customer details. This includes two data fields in the same column. What’s the quickest way in Excel to split these out? |
PAYROLLSay goodbye to the earlier year update |
VATCheck your MTD for VAT sign-up date |
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