How Making Tax Digital (MTD) will impact your business

Are you aware of how Making Tax Digital (MTD) will impact your business? With filing restrictions coming into play 1st April 2019, many clients are still not aware of the full…

What is R&D Tax Relief?

If you are a company undertaking Research and Development activities, you may be able to benefit from R&D tax relief! R&D Relief is a Corporation Tax relief that can either…

Quotations in Xero

One of the most popular requests and something that is missing from Xero is the ability to create quotations. For small business owners who run a service type business having…

Fast Xero Login

A quick tip for anyone that is bored of typing in their username when logging into Xero. A feature request popped up on the Xero Community and whilst this is not…

Why using an external bookkeeper makes sense

Within the UK there are literally thousands of small businesses, plenty of which are owner managed or employ small numbers of staff to assist with the day to day running…

How to make money and pay less VAT

Yes it is true, depending on the type of business you are in you could make money from being registered for VAT and in turn pay less VAT over to the VAT…

Keep track of business expenses

Keeping track of business expenses can be a nightmare.  If your job or business involves you travelling you will be all too familiar with the scenario.  All those little receipts…

Numbers should be this much fun!

Xero makes everything better! Better bookkeeping When your accounts are built on Xero your bookkeeping is done faster and more accurately than ever before. Better reporting The benefit of having…

4 Advanced Xero Tips

From the content of this blog and the main site it’s fairly obvious that we are a big fan of Xero. They have a great product that has changed the…

The £3,000 employment allowance and how it works

Announced back in the 2013 Budget, the employment allowance now gives employers £3,000 off their annual National Insurance bill (Employer’s National Insurance). In a nutshell: The £3,000 allowance reduces Employer’s…