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…
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QE: A licence to print money?
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…
When it comes down to savings, head East
Roddy Kohn explains why investing in China is a no brainer, given the havoc being wreaked on Western economies by the pandemic. As if the future outlook couldn’t look bleaker, this weekend’s politics help foretell of worse to come. You…
People/Customers never forget how you made them feel
In her latest article on dealing with Covid-19, Tracy Ebdon-Poole explains how TaxCalc is committed to making their customers’ businesses better. “I have learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will…
Is it the end for cash?
Ian Vickers ponders the future of cash versus mobile payments in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. How many of you ICPA members and Accounting Practice readers have been using less cash – and more mobile and contactless payments –…
Gold as an investment: Think before you leap
Roddy Kohn explains why gold – contrary to popular myth – may not be the answer to all you investment ills. A day rarely goes by these days without clients asking me about gold as an investment. Frankly, I wish…
Coconut & ICPA Webinar – 23rd Sept – 12pm
‘The shift to a Digital Economy’ Join Sam O’Connor, Coconut’s CEO, and Tony Margaritelli, ICPA Chairman, for a lively lunchtime webinar about the shift to digital transformation that Covid-19 is highlighting and some may say creating around the UK. They will discuss how…
The rise and rise of remote exams
Graham Hambly looks at how the professional accountancy bodies have coped with the ‘new normal’ for exams. The realisation of just how Covid-19 would turn accountancy education upside down was slow to hit the profession. One of the first events…
Clear Books and Metro Bank launch accounting software partnership
Today, Clear Books and Metro Bank are launching a new partnership, offering easy accounting software with free bank feeds and exclusive discounts to Metro Bank small business customers. The integration provides Metro Bank’s customers with access to Clear Books’ easy…
Selling your practice post Covid-19
Lucinda Kitchin examines the state of the M&A market in the light of the current global pandemic. 2020 will be remembered as the year when the world ground to a halt in circumstances precipitated by a virus of dubious origins.…