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Blog10th Oct 2019

NHS Pensions – Increased Flexibility Required?

The maximum allowable pension contribution, or ‘Annual Allowance’ that an individual can make to any pension is £40,000 per tax year. If contributions exceed this limit, HMRC will seek to charge tax at the individuals highest tax rate on the…

Blog10th May 2019

EIS & SEIS – The benefits still stack up!

The Seed Enterprise Investment Scheme (“SEIS”) and Enterprise Investment Scheme (“EIS”) offer attractive investment opportunities for individual investors which in turn allow young entrepreneurial UK companies to raise funding to facilitate growth and expansion plans. Through SEIS and EIS investment…

By Lynn Wilson

Blog31st Jan 2019

Act now – whilst there’s no leaves on the trees…

We’ve all done it, sat in conferences, listening to inspiring keynotes, making notes about things you know will change how you work, how happy and motivated your workforce will be, how much money you’ll make etc etc. Back at the…

Blog10th Jan 2019

How can cloud accounting impact your dental practice?

Over the past few years, the shift towards practices now maintaining their financials on a cloud-based accounting platform has been evident, with many accountants demonstrating the significant benefits to be achieved by the efficiencies of practices automating their basic bookkeeping…

Blog30th Oct 2018

The impact of Philip Hammond’s Budget

Philip Hammond’s budget presents a mixed bag for business….

Blog20th Jul 2018

IFRS 15 – Value behind compliance

IFRS 15 ”Revenue from Contracts with Customers” has an effective date for periods beginning on or after 1 January 2018. Six months into the implementation period you should be confident of your approach, have your accounting policies up to date…

Blog25th Jun 2018

Employer Compliance Reviews – HMRC’s current focus areas

HMRC Employer Compliance reviews are something most businesses are faced with at some point. These enquiries can cover a vast area of business procedures, however, tend to have a heavy focus around payroll, employee expenses and benefits, staff entertaining and…

Blog3rd Apr 2018

Supplier Relationship Management – why should anyone care?

It always struck me that we became obsessive about customer relationship management, “CRM”, (and the “fancy” systems that supposedly delivered it to us on a plate!) but never really focused enough energy and intellect on supplier relationship management, “SRM”.

Blog8th Mar 2018

Realising your Investment –  The benefits of selling your practice earlier in your career

Practice principals, there are many non-financial rewards to owning your own practice, such as your autonomy in decision making and being your own boss. However, have you considered if you receive enough satisfaction and financial reward to compensate for all…

Blog1st Mar 2018

Brexit – keep liquid & carry on taking the “Pils”!

We know very little of the detail around Brexit. Yet. But that shouldn’t mean we sit around waiting to find out.

Blog22nd Feb 2018

End User Computing (the weed that never dies)

I recall in an early role in Financial Services, finding myself being exasperated by the constant re-emergence of a particular technology (and supplier!). The phenomenon of end user computing has repeated itself several times since in much of my cost…

Blog24th Jan 2018

Is 0.1% of YOUR Spend Expensive?

For many businesses, it is tough to reduce costs. A high proportion are “fixed” and in many an even higher proportion are committed or would cost money to avoid/reduce.