Blogs
Communicating With Your Accountant
Communication is at the heart of what we do. You may be surprised that many accountants are not great at communicating. We frequently hear stories about the broken relationship business owners [...]
Turning On the lights – Escaping Your Business Nightmare
It’s 4am and you are having a nightmare. In it, you find yourself running down a long dark tunnel. You can’t see your hand in front of your face but you [...]
An Ideal Time for Reflection
Holiday season is over, traffic is back to normal and we are all back to reality. Holidays are a great time to reflect on your life and assess if things are [...]
Considering Moving To Xero? – This Is A Must Read
If you are considering a move to Xero, but are researching the other possibilities, then this post will help you. These days, the first decision when deciding on bookkeeping software is Cloud [...]
Brexit Or Not? – What Way Will It Go?
I have serious mixed feelings about the upcoming referendum. I have listened to all the arguments, read the booklet that No. 10 kindly sent me and perused the various websites and while [...]
Wealth Warning – The Scammers Are On The Prowl
A recent story in the Kent Messenger caught my eye. It was the tale of Tim Hale, the boss of a Maidstone based business, who returned from holiday to find his company's [...]
How To Ensure Your Business Remains Profitable
Running a loss making business is easy, anyone can do it. Running a profitable business is much harder. In order to make sure your business is profitable, you need to take care [...]
Unreasonable Customers – 5 Tips To Protect Yourself
You know how the saying goes... You can't please all of the people all of the time... Sometimes, even with all the best intentions in the world, you are going to let [...]
3 Reasons To Ditch Excel For Bookkeeping
One of things I find most annoying, is when I take on a new client and they tell me that their accountant has recommended that they use an excel sheet for their [...]
Forming A Partnership? – 5 Reasons To Think Again
The most consistently ignored bit of advice I have given, over the last fifteen years, is to people about to go into business together and that is to get a partnership/shareholder agreement [...]
Client Offers: Video Production
Do You Need A High Quality Business Video? Superreel Productions can help you! This company strive to create the highest quality business videos available in Kent and the South East. They provide [...]
The Sky’s The Limit – What Is The Limiting Factor In Your Business?
Whatever the industry your business operates in, you will probably suffer from a limiting factor of some description. Something that will limit your business' growth potential. At some stage, without careful management, [...]
New Dividends Tax Changes – You Will Be Worse Off
If you trade through a limited company and take your income as a mixture of PAYE salary and dividends, then you will probably be worse off after April 2016. This is because [...]
Xerocon 2016 Day 2
If Day 1 of Xerocon was about small business, then day 2 was definitely focused on Partners. It was clear to me that Xero recognise that Partners are the face of their [...]
Xerocon 2016 Day 1 – Full Report
This was my first Xerocon and day 1 was a great experience. I have been to accounting conferences before, but have never been to one hosted by a single software vendor. The [...]
Excited To Be Attending Xerocon London Feb 2016
Xerocon London Feb 2016 – We are excited to be attending. Each year Xero hold a conference in each of the countries they operate in and this February it's Xerocon London. This [...]
How To Create A Business That Doesn’t Actually Need You
Nobody can be good at everything so no one should try to be. I am aware that I can’t do everything in my business so why is it that I try to? [...]
How Xero Creates Happy Property Investors
If you own a reasonable number of rental properties, then you know how time consuming it can be managing them. Tracking the rent coming in each month, making sure everyone has paid [...]
The Town That Took on The Tax Man
Did you see this BBC2 documentary last night? If not check it out on the iPlayer. http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer The business people of Crickhowell, a small town in Wales, took on HMRC and the [...]
Proudly supporting the community – Music on the Green 2016
When we were approached by the Organizers of Music on The Green, Bearsted Events C.I.C, to see if we would donate some time, to help with Accounting and Bookkeeping support, we jumped at [...]
How Xero Creates Happy Online Traders
I don’t need to tell you that trading online is often a volume business with low margins. The more you sell, the more you make. Also time is against you; when orders [...]
5 Signs Of An Ineffective Business Owner.
We recently moved house and while I was looking through the 100’s of books we had in our loft... I discovered a nursery rhyme book from my childhood and the first rhyme [...]
Build a Great Relationship with your Accountant
Ignore us at your Peril I was at a seminar recently, given by a Marketing “Guru” and he was pitching his take on how to get rich, which basically involved learning how [...]
9 Essential Business Numbers to Support Your Gut Decisions
Don't Just Go With Your Gut! This post is about how the right business numbers can help you make decisions. Managing a business is tough, whether your business is growing, is stagnant [...]
How To Add Paypal To Xero [VIDEO]
Here at Accsys Accountants Ltd, we are also Xero Experts! So here, we have made a simple video to help you. How To Add Paypal To Xero is an easy and informative [...]