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Spring clean your small business accounting systems in 5 easy steps

April 11, 2015 By Karen Upcraft

With spring round the corner, this time of year often brings with it, a sense of renewed energy and intentions of improvement. There’s really no better time to devote to a spot of spring cleaning – not the ’empty out the garage’ type but the de-cluttering and re-organising of your small business bookkeeping systems. Here are my […]

Filed Under: Accounting software, Bookkeeping and accounting, Business planning, online accounting software, Record keeping, Self employment, Starting Up, Working from home Tagged With: bookkeeping, online invoicing, separate bank accounts, sole trader accounts

Will sole traders still need to complete a tax return?

March 20, 2015 By Karen Upcraft

Is the end of the tax return?

If you’ve seen the headlines this week you will have noted the numerous press articles on “death of the tax return”.  You might have started celebrating or you might been left wondering what it all means for you as a sole trader running a small business. I have to say that I was a little […]

Filed Under: Accounting software, Bookkeeping and accounting, Self assessment, Self employment Tagged With: budget 2015, death of the tax return, self assessment, sole traders tax return

30 Winchester self-employed Mums needed

January 4, 2015 By Karen Upcraft

30 Mumpreneurs needed I am looking to speak with 30 Winchester self-employed mums who find tax taxing but still want to do the right thing. Are you my next research participant? If you’re a self-employed Mum and operate your small business from home, I’d love to speak to you about how you manage the madness of […]

Filed Under: Bookkeeping and accounting Tagged With: mumpreneurs, Self employed income tax, sole trader accounts, sole trader bookkeeping, sole trader tax, sole traders, solopreneurs

3 New Year’s Resolutions for your Micro Business

December 27, 2014 By Karen Upcraft

Often the Christmas and New Year period is when many small business owners have more time on their hands to reflect on the year gone by and to start thinking about the year ahead. For those of you who are mulling over financial goals for the forthcoming year, I have come up with three key areas […]

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Record keeping for the self-employed

November 9, 2014 By Karen Upcraft

Record keeping is an essential part of running a small business. In part one of my blog I will be looking at why you need to maintain records and what records you are required to retain. Part two, next week will look at the different ways to record you income and expenditure. A legal requirement […]

Filed Under: Bookkeeping and accounting, Record keeping, Self assessment, Self employment, Starting Up, Working from home

The benefits of using online accounting software

October 17, 2014 By Karen Upcraft

Some of the more forward thinking Accountants are now jumping on the cloud bandwagon and embracing the benefits that online accounting software can bring to both client and Accountant. I, myself am a recent convert to Xero. Below I summarise some of the key benefits.   1. Cost savings No purchase of hardware or software […]

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What is a bank reconciliation and why you should be doing one?

August 24, 2014 By Karen Upcraft

  Either through a lack of time or dislike of bookkeeping chores many small business owners take cursory glances at their bank statements each week or month to confirm that the “mental tally” looks about right and fail to spend the time performing detailed bank reconciliations. This blog briefly explains why you should all be doing one. […]

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