Capital allowances can reduce your tax bill significantly when you spend money on property, cars, vans, computers and literally thousands of other business assets. However, big changes are coming soon. These will affect ALL business owners and many property investors. If you own certain types of property you can obtain tax relief on all the [...]

Commonly asked questions about Money Laundering Here are four commonly asked questions in relation to anti-money laundering procedures. 1. I understand that a report has to be made if there is knowledge or suspicion of a Money Laundering offence taking place but what is knowledge or suspicion? Knowledge is: • actual knowledge • shutting your [...]

Trust, transparency, ethics and corporate social responsibility • The Enron scandal • BP’s Deepwater Horizon oil spill • MPs expenses • Wiki Leaks • The list continues to grow…….. Issues of trust, transparency, ethics and corporate social responsibility have never been so high on the organisational agenda. Yet recognising ethical issues and taking appropriate and [...]

  In the current economic climate 3 things are essential for the health of a business: • cash, • cash, • and cash It is essential that businesses tightly manage their supply chains, review commercial terms, discount structures and payment scenarios. Where applicable it is imperative to minimise work in progress and monitor and analyse [...]

CPD Year End Courses for ACCA Complete your ACCA CPD now whilst there is plenty of time // The 2012 CPD year end is in . Have you completed your CPD allocation for the year of 40 hours of CPD including 21 verifiable hours? Are you looking for last minute verifiable CPD hours to top [...]

Occupational pension schemes in the news The death of defined benefit pension schemes Occupational pension schemes are rarely far from the news. From large scale frauds, such as with Robert Maxwell and the Mirror Group Scheme, to large corporate collapses with the resulting impact on pensioners, as with Rover Group, to the current unrest over [...]

Our online courses utilise learning 2.0 What is learning 2.0? Learning 2.0 is the concept of web 2.0 (information sharing, interoperability, user-centered design collaboration) applied to learning. Collaborative learning We have fine tuned our approach to collaborative learning and enhanced the features of our online courses so that we now have more powerful learning tools [...]

Can learning about finance be fun? I believe the answer is yes! There are many ways to make financial training fun and here are some examples: Cashflow 101 Robert Kiyosaki of Rich Dad / Poor Dad fame has developed a board game called Cashflow 101 to reinforce the financial principles developed in his books. The [...]

Why is managing risk important for accountants? A key role of the finance function is risk management. Given the current economic environment managing business risk is exceedingly high on board meeting agendas. Whilst risk management is the responsibility of all board directors – the role is often led the finance director. Questions which should be [...]

Learn about Accountancy Practice Management Online • Are you an accountant in practice? • Do you have an agreed strategy for your firm? Successful accountancy practices understand what makes them different. They have a clear plan, they understand their practice model and have strong people, technology, risk management and client relationship strategies. Practice Management for [...]