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How Benchmarking your business can keep you ahead of the Game

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How Benchmarking your business can keep you ahead of the Game
We live in uncertain times and it is critical therefore for business owners to stay ahead of the competition. The phrase “Cash is King” has never been so pertinent. Most business leaders find it informative to compare their business’ performance to others in their sector and to see how they may be able to strengthen their cash flow. 
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Getting compliant for Making Tax Digital

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Getting compliant for Making Tax Digital
MTD-flow-chart.pdf
If you need any help with making sense of how Making Tax Digital will affect your business, get in touch with us! 
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Paying Too Much for your Mobile?

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Paying Too Much for your Mobile?
Information has been put out in the public domain by Citizen’s Advice, warning mobile users with a contracted handset that they may be suffering unnecessary charges.
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Investment Properties

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Investment Properties
FRS 102 requires investment properties to be valued at fair value with any increase or decrease in fair value shown in the profit or loss account. This policy applied also to properties rented out to other group companies. This forced small groups to incur costs of obtaining a fair value with very little benefit. 
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Director Loans - Accounting Relief

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Director Loans - Accounting Relief
Loans from directors to their company are a significant source of finance for many owner-managed small companies. Often, these loans are interest-free. 
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Making Tax Digital (Update)

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Making Tax Digital (Update)
In a recent article the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales have asked the Revenue to delay the roll out of making tax digital for VAT purposes which is due to become into play for most VAT registered businesses for their VAT return periods starting after 1 April 2019.
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Preparing company accounts under FRS 105 can damage your wealth!

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Preparing company accounts under FRS 105 can damage your wealth!
Financial reporting standard 105 (FRS 105) was devised for micro entities to enable them to simplify their accounts. Companies were able to prepare accounts under FRS 105 for year ends starting after 1 January 2016.
 
Some accountants have tried to encourage clients from adopting FRS 105 and have recommended that clients adopt FRS 102 1A. Why is this?
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IR35 Update - Are you employed or self-employed?

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IR35 Update - Are you employed or self-employed?
In April 2017 the government placed the onus on whether workers were caught by IR 35 legislation firmly in the hands of the engager rather than the worker – this applied to only public sector workers. The intention is to roll this out to the private sector as well.
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Making tax digital – Don’t be caught out on 1 April 2019

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Making tax digital – Don’t be caught out on 1 April 2019
Small businesses with annual sales of over £85,000 will be required to file their VAT returns digitally for all VAT periods starting on or after 1 April 2019.
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Can I Gift Aid?

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Can I Gift Aid?
In recent years the government have made several tax changes that have taken individuals out of the tax system
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VAT - Benefits of the Flat Rate Scheme

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VAT - Benefits of the Flat Rate Scheme
The flat rate scheme is a way of making your accounting and VAT records easier to keep, by allowing you to apply a fixed percentage to your gross sales to calculate the VAT due. The percentage that you apply depends on the sector which your business falls into.
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What's Your Plan?

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What's Your Plan?
All business should have a business plan, from the one-man band to the successful limited company. Once written, the plan should be referred to regularly and used as a tool to assess business performance. 
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Goal Reviewing Goal Setting One Page Plan Business Growth
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Company & Accounting Records

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Company & Accounting Records
You must keep records about the company itself, financial and accounting records. HM Revenue and Customs may check your records to make sure you’re paying the right amount of tax. 
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Business Clarity - Where are we Going?

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Business Clarity - Where are we Going?
Mark and Chandni have recently attended the three day AVN Masterclass course and have come back enthused to get started on the information they have learnt.
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Make the Best of Old Stock

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Make the Best of Old Stock
Old and slow moving stock can be a real problem for a business. It can tie up cash in the business and take up floor and window space that would be better employed showing off some new fresh items.
 
It makes sense therefore to look at ways of moving this stock on and turn it into cash which can then be used to buy faster selling lines.
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Overseas Earnings - Working Offshore on Yachts

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Overseas Earnings - Working Offshore on Yachts
Well the tax return season is over for another year and it always throws up some interesting cases.
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New Year, New Business Plan?

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New Year, New Business Plan?
Many business owners use the Christmas break to make brave new plans for their life and their business only to realise by the end of January that they have failed to live up to their plans.
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An Advent Message

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An Advent Message
I am reliably informed that if you are currently seventy years of age you will have spent about three of those years just waiting (in the shops, at the doctor’s, for a train, for lunch to arrive)! And those who drive may feel that they have waited far longer than that!
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National Living Wage - Are You Compliant?

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National Living Wage - Are You Compliant?
There is no doubt that the authorities are stepping up their game against businesses who are not paying their staff the National Living Wage. Recently 50 businesses in the hospitality sector, including two fish and chip shops, have been targeted by H.M. Revenue & Customs resulting in the businesses being censored and fined.
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Should I give to charity personally or through my company?

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Should I give to charity personally or through my company?
Firstly, the most important strategy is that, as business people, we all give to charity in order to make the world a better place. Governments are facing so much financial pressure that aid is probably not top of their agendas, however if we all do our bit, we can together make a difference.
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