Self-employed Brits looking to keep on top of their company’s bookkeeping should seek the services of a specialist accountant, according to Informed Choice, the award-winning firm of Chartered Financial Planners. The Surrey-based organisation said that taking advice from accountants, financial Read more…
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Sage has announced that it has upgraded its accountant-focused software, making it faster and easier to file corporate tax in iXBRL format, though the software is still not fully compliant with HMRC requirements for the new tax technology. “HMRC’s introduction Read more…
Staff at Peterborough-based accounting firm, GreenStones, are celebrating after the company was voted the second best accountancy practice in the UK at the inaugural National Accountants’ Conference in Birmingham. The runner-up award was collected by director Simon Chaplin. He said: Read more…
The number of people employed in the UK accountancy sector is continuing to grow but the level of fee income generated by the top firms is falling, new figures have revealed. Statistics published by the UK Professional Oversight Board (POB), Read more…
Britain’s high and low earners pay some of the highest tax rates of all the major economies, new research has revealed. A study of 19 countries by chartered accountants UHY Hacker Young, one of the UK’s Top 20 accounting and Read more…
New figures from HM Revenue and Customs have revealed that a third of UK businesses failed to submit their corporate tax returns in April using new iXBRL technology. iXBRL (in-line extensible Business Reporting language) is a new computer tagging language Read more…
Cloud computing is being used as an excuse to hike up prices for accounting software, it has been claimed. Quentin Pain, founder of award-winning home management and business accounting software package Accountz, said cloud vendors currently charge an alarmingly high Read more…
The Big Four accountancy firms are to be investigated by the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) over concerns that competition within the industry is being blocked. The City watchdog claims that smaller firms are finding it hard to grow business Read more…
A new study has found that less than one in ten UK accountants use social media to attract clients. Over three-quarters (78 per cent) of the 99 firms polled by YouGov for CCH said word-of-mouth was still the top method Read more…
KPMG has been recognized by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors for its commitment to sustainability. The Big Four accountancy firm picked up the Sustainability Project of the year accolade for its Canary Wharf headquarters at a special ceremony held Read more…
