PAH Accounting have added a great new feature to its website. As part of the resource section (see the tabs across the top, there is some great stuff ) there is now a tab for events. Phil Hendy, the principal of PAH Accounting often attends local networking groups, business training/ seminars as well as the…
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Class 2 National insurance is payable by sole traders and usually a small weekly/ monthly amount. From April 2011, the way in which Class 2 NIC is payable will be changing. It will now match the self assessment dates of 31 January and 31 July. Only two bills per year will therefore
It has been announced by Companies House that virtually all of their services are to be online by March 2013. Indeed their vision is to become a fully electronic registry. Much of the Companies House forms have been available to file using the WebFiling service for quite a while now. You should have been given an
Your accountant will often produce a set of accounts that include a balance sheet. But what exactly is this? It is a common misconception that the profit is the only factor you need to worry about. Actually the balance sheet is very important. It provides a summarised snapshot of the business assets and liabilities at…
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The taxman joined twitter just before xmas and I’d encourage fellow tweeters, whether taxpayers or accountants, to follow twitter.com/hmrcgovuk (and by all means follow @TheTaxBuzz too!) HMRC’s twitter policy statement says that if you follow this account, you can expect 1-2 tweets
After telling clients and contacts to go and join the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB), I have finally got around to joining this myself. The Federation started in 1974 as a lobbying group that protects the interests of small business owners as well as the self-employed. It now has over 213,000 members
So, you have decided to offer credit. What next? It is stating the obvious but it is important to know your customer to do an adequate risk assessment, ensure your invoices are correctly issued and ultimately know who to take legal action against if it all goes horribly wrong! Much of the information required can be obtained by using a…
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Here is my video presentation of a 4sight that I did at 4Networking Taunton. It highlights some of the issues that can arise in a small business and gives some tactics that companies can use to
Have you heard of the Wiltshire Business Club? Back in 2009 when PAH Accounting was first set up I needed a way to reach out to new contacts. I was already a keen networker but found it limited to breakfast meetings. Therefore I tried to join a certain evening networking group; however, I couldn’t get…
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