Blogs
Working in the dark – How Xero can help turn on the lights!
Running a business without a good grasp on the financials is like driving a car at night without the lights on. Eventually, you will crash and when you do it's [...]
Why you need a Financial Controller!
Often the first employee taken on by a business is someone to help with admin/bookkeeping. Bookkeeping is seen as a necessary evil by many business owners and delegating this burden is [...]
Dividends – when taking them can cause you a problem.
The standard advice from accountants, for many years, has been for Directors to pay themselves a salary and shareholders to take dividends. Often in small companies, the Directors and Shareholders [...]
Brexit – It’s coming – what can you do to prepare?
Whatever your thoughts on Brexit – it seems it is going to happen and whether it’s a hard Brexit or a soft one we are going to leave, and the [...]
MTD FOR VAT – Some Good News
Have you noticed that there always seem to be some change happening, something on the horizon to prepare for – auto-enrolment, GDPR and now Making Tax Digital. They say change [...]
IS IT WISE TO LET TAX MAKE YOUR DECISIONS FOR YOU?
Tax has a direct effect on behaviour; hence the introduction of sugar tax for soft drinks. Sometimes this behaviour is a little curious. Did you know there used to be [...]
10 THINGS TO CONSIDER BEFORE SELLING YOUR BUSINESS
Many business owners build their businesses up with the aim of, at some point in the future, selling. If this sounds like you, or is something you would like to think [...]
6 Common Misconceptions about Accounting & Tax
Whenever we take on a client we tend to have very similar conversations with them, mainly because many of them have never been given any kind of explanation of how things [...]
5 TIPS TO SPEED UP IN XERO
We estimate that Xero is already 50% quicker than desktop bookkeeping solutions, but you can achieve even more time saving with these top tips: Use the search facility The search facility [...]
Some Key Tax changes in April 2018 you should be aware of!
Pension Changes If you have an auto-enrolment pension scheme set up and are deducting pensions already then, the amount of pension contributions you will deduct and contribute for and behalf of [...]
Accsys Guide- What Records To Keep (& for how long)
Accsys Guide To - What Records To Keep (& for how long) Our latest mission is to help all our clients get organised for 2018. As a part of this, [...]
Business Owners are now feeling the shock of Dividends changes – Thanks George
Back in 2015 George Osbourne announced a change to dividends tax rate that effectively increased the tax burden on small business owners. The effects of this were not felt immediately so the [...]
12 ways we support your business!
Often the reason people change accountants is because of a lack of support – either perceived or real – being supported by your accountant is important. We take for granted the [...]
6 Ways to Cut Corporation Tax (& 9 non taxable benefits)
Once you have dealt with the basics there are very few ways to save Corporation Tax. Tax saving tips are often about being super organised with what you claim and making sure [...]
How We Use Xero to Support Our Local Music Festival
Proudly supporting the community – Music on the Green 2017 Once again we are proudly supporting Music on The Green, by donating our time to help with their Accounting and Bookkeeping. Whats [...]
Communication Is What You Need….
Dedication Communication is what you need… My son is currently obsessed with the Guinness book of records. Every day when I get home, he reads me a new record that he [...]
Automate Your Business and Increase Efficiency by 80%
If you are stuck doing manual repetitious data entry in your business then you are probably wasting time. Time is your most precious commodity and it’s a crime to be wasting [...]
There are no filing cabinets in my business.
Recently, on my way home from a client, stuck in traffic, trying to escape the business estate where they are located, I gazed through the office windows and I happened to [...]
Xero Reconciliation – Stripe Payments Made Effortless
If you have a large volume of stripe payments to reconcile in Xero it can be a bit of a pain. Xero uses bank feeds to automatically import payments made from [...]
New Accsys Team Members
Introducing two new members of our team. We are pleased to welcome two new team members to Accsys Accountants. James and Cassie join us to help manage our continued growth in [...]
The Only Constant is Change
The Only Constant is Change. For UK companies with year ends after 31st December 2016 there are huge changes to the way accounts being presented. This is because UK accounts [...]
Xero Gold Champion Partner Award
We are proud to have recently been awarded Xero Gold Champion Status! This means we are dedicated to maintaining our status as experts in all things Xero. With this in mind, [...]
The Autumn Statement – What’s in Store for Small Businesses?
One thing is for certain, this years Autumn Statement is going to be carefully watched by many interested parties. Arguably, even more so than most budgets because of the unique set of [...]
How To Manage Too Much Work – The Good Problem
Many business owners would love to have too much work. In fact, of all the problems you could face such as lack of cash flow, employee issues, product issues etc; having [...]
Save Time in Your E-Commerce Business with Xero
Make no mistake running a successful e-commerce business is time intensive but with a little forethought and careful set up you can minimise duplicated effort.