🌿 Is Your Business Financially Fit This Spring?
Spring isn’t just for cleaning cupboards or clearing out garages—it’s also the perfect time to check in with your business finances. The days are getting longer, the air’s a little lighter, and you might feel the urge to reset. That applies just as much to your books...
Simple Ways to Nurture Your Business Finances
June 2, 2025
🌿 Nurture Before You Harvest: Strengthening Your Business Finances This Summer
Summer gives many of us a little breathing space — a slower pace, longer evenings, and maybe even a chance to stop and take stock. For me, it’s a time to nurture. Not to rip things up and start again — just to check in, clear a few weeds, and make sure the roots are st...
🌸 Spring Into Financial Shape: A Fresh Start for You and Your Business
There’s something about Spring that makes us want to stretch, breathe, and start again.As the world around us begins to bloom, even though it seems a little late this year, it’s the perfect time to check in — not just with yourself, but with your business too. After al...
Life Doesn’t Wait: Ian's Journey with Diabetes and the Reminder to Prioritise What Matters
November 5, 2024
Life Doesn’t Wait: Ian's Journey with Diabetes and the Reminder to Prioritise What Matters
🌍World Diabetes Day comes around each year as a reminder of something I, like many others, live with daily. My own story with diabetes began on what was supposed to be a relaxed afternoon.Earlier that day, I’d been at the local archery club, enjoying some target practic...
Invest in a good bookkeeper - we're worth it!
March 27, 2023
(with or without the luxurious hair-flick...)
ACCURATE FIGURES MATTERBeware the False Economy of 'Cheap' & Find Real ValueBlog by Ian AllenHow many times have you paid for something and it breaks after a handful of uses? Or you considered buying the cheap knock-off version of the latest Android phone because "it's t...
The Suspense Account - isn't it an Agatha Christie 'Whodunnit'?
August 16, 2021
It might sound like the title of the latest thriller
We've had The Accountant, The Shawshank Redemption, The Untouchables and even Monty Python believing it was 'fun to charter an accountant, and sail the wide accountancy' in their cinematic tribute to the profession in the Meaning of Life, but I doubt that The Suspense Accoun...
Bookkeeping 1.01 Debit & Credits, what's the difference? (and why is it the opposite way around on your bank statements?)
August 10, 2021
Dr & Cr or Debits and Credits what do they mean in the bookkeeping world?
In short, the debits are what you pay out of the business for example, wages, supplies, bills, rent, rates etc. whereas credits are what you have come into the business such as sales, services provided...
Working from home for the self employed
For those of us who own our own business as a sole trader have long been able to claim for 'office' expenditure when our office is in our home. If you read the HMRC website page - https://www.gov.uk/expenses-if..., you'd be forgiven for thinking that HMRCs explanation on how...
Rishi Sunak hits back with Bounce Back Loans (BBLS) for those struggling SMEs that had been left out in the cold by CBILS
When the coronavirus hit the UK, no one could've expected the unprecedented measures that the Treasury would put into place for the majority of people, whether an employee or business owner. However, as these began to be rolled out, it became apparent that some of these...
Do you really need a will?
May 2, 2020
Do you want your loved ones to pay the taxman as much as ÂŁ103,000 more than they need to after you die?
This is what almost happened to a client of mine recently. He tried to execute the administration of a relative’s will himself to save money. He’d calculated the inheritance tax bill for their estate as £263,000, but realised he was a bit out of his depth...
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