We are often asked this question by business owners taking on their first employee particularly if they are not going to be working many hours. Employers believe that because they aren't paying their employee very much they don't need to put them on the payroll but that is not necessarily the case. Or perhaps because they are just taking them on for a trial period of a week or month they think it is a waste of time adding them to the payroll. Neither of these reasons will be considered by HMRC as an acceptable excuse for not putting your employee on the payroll if it is found later that they should have been. …
Have you seen the Xero adverts on TV or heard them on the radio? Xero accounting software has become extremely popular and now has more than 2 million subscribers around the world. Perhaps you are already a Xero user but feel that you are not using it as well as you might? …
A New Year is about looking forward and planning what you are going to achieve in the next six months, the next year or perhaps the next five years. But a New Year is also about looking back to what you have achieved in the previous year or years. If you don't look back sometimes you can't see how far you have come. Twelve years ago, …
As a business we are not very good at sharing the feedback we get from our clients. In fact we don't share it at all unless you happen to be looking at our website because you need a bookkeeper or someone to take on your payroll. We have received some fantastic feedback from our clients this year, which we really appreciate so to finish our year off I thought I would share a couple of the testimonials we have received. …
The Christmas and New Year break is a good time to reflect on all that is good and not so good with your business. Business owners have chance to step back and take time to look at what works, what doesn't and what could be better as well as planning for the coming year. …
