Category: Insights

Don’t believe everything you read in the newspapers – especially in the financial pages, warns Roddy Kohn Most accountants, I suspect, use the phrase ‘cash is king’ to their clients on an almost daily basis. Are they mad? In business,…

Tracy Ebdon-Poole explains the strategy and processes that drive TaxCalc’s product development and underpin its corporate ethos. We’ve all learned the necessity of compliance. Face masks, elbow handshakes, two-metre distancing, remote working, showing up for your jab – it may…

It’s been a tough, long and at times a seemingly never-ending year since last March, hasn’t it? We learnt the value of remote working and we marked out two meters all over the office. We bought the hand gel and…

Boost for SMEs as free and independent service for unresolved bank complaints goes live. Small businesses across the UK are now able to use a new, free and independent service to help them resolve disputes with their banks, in a…

Simon Palmer looks back at the extraordinary implementation of the CJRS and what we can learn from it. The Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (CJRS) has been a lifeline for millions of employers and employees across the UK, protecting 8.9 million…

IR35 reform in the private sector is just around the corner. In this article Seb Maley outlines the current state of play and looks to the future. Two years after being announced by former Chancellor Philip Hammond, and with one…

Henry Catchpole explains how you can help clients manage share options. Introducing a share option scheme for a new start-up or existing business can bring a range of benefits for both company and employee. Advising clients on what’s available –…

Graham Hambly picks out some highlights from the latest FRC ‘state of play’ report UK accountancy firms need to prioritise increased diversity in their top ranks, particularly at partner level, according to new data released by the Financial Reporting Council…

Accounting Practice has some top tips on how you can be – and stay – better connected. Poor broadband speed means millions of UK households are struggling with connectivity, according to new research. Increased internet usage during the pandemic as…

What is quantitative easing? Accounting Practice examines a increasingly popular phenomenon that continues to divide the experts. Quantitative easing (QE) is the creation of new money to facilitate an increase in spending and investment in the economy. More specifically, a…