Missing a VAT deadline used to mean a single surcharge letter from HMRC, calculated as a rising percentage of whatever was late. Since January 2023,...
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Workplace Pension Auto-Enrolment: What UK Employers Need to Know
If you run payroll for a UK business, workplace pension auto-enrolment is not optional. Every employer with at least one member of staff has legal...
How to Complete a VAT Return in the UK: Step-by-Step Guide
If you're VAT registered, you don't just charge VAT and get on with your day. Every accounting period, you have to work out exactly how...
How to Prepare Final Accounts for a Sole Trader or Small Business
If you already understand what final accounts are but keep putting off actually preparing yours, this guide is for you. It is a practical, step-by-step...
What Does an Accounts Assistant Do?
If you have ever looked at a job board and seen "Accounts Assistant" listed next to "Bookkeeper" and "Assistant Accountant" and wondered what actually separates...
VAT Registration in the UK
A lot of small business owners only think seriously about VAT registration once they are close to the threshold and starting to panic slightly about...
PAYE and National Insurance Explained
Almost everyone who has had a job in the UK has seen PAYE and National Insurance on a payslip. Far fewer people, including some who...
Making Tax Digital for VAT
If you run a VAT-registered business in the UK, you are already living under Making Tax Digital, whether you have properly got to grips with...
Data Analyst Training Course: What You’ll Learn
Every business now runs on data, but most businesses are short of people who can actually make sense of it. Turning a spreadsheet full of...
AAT vs ACCA vs CIMA
Anyone starting to look seriously into an accounting career runs into the same wall fairly quickly: there are several major UK qualifications, they all sound...
What Are Final Accounts? A Plain-English Guide for UK Businesses
If you have ever looked at a set of year-end accounts and felt slightly lost, you are not alone. "Final accounts" is one of those...
Final Accounts vs Management Accounts: What’s the Difference?
Ask someone outside finance to explain the difference between final accounts and management accounts, and most will assume they are two names for the same...
