Author: Craig Hyslop

Payroll – A surprisingly difficult job

As we celebrated National Payroll Week at the start of this month, it provided a perfect opportunity to reflect on a task that many underestimate. If you’re a business leader or an accountancy professional, you might have taken this moment to think about your own payroll team’s workload. Recent statistics from the Global Recruiter revealed […]

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Posted In Payroll

Diverse income stream carnage threatens your team

We often hear from accountants whose client has income from freelancing, investments, and rental properties and demands the same price for account filing as the simplest business models. Despite the added complexity created by multiple income streams, these clients often pay the same price as any other, and expect their accounts to be filed accurately […]

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Posted In Personal Tax

Analysing the recruitment crisis in accounting

It’s a problem we’re all trying to get our heads around – how do we fix the skills shortage and recruitment crisis in the accounting profession? Firms are constantly reporting lower numbers of applicants, year on year. Our clients frequently bemoan an increasing number of job vacancies, facing challenges in attracting younger professionals and often […]

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Struggling to get P11D information? The deadline is getting closer…

We’ve noticed many accountants are currently struggling to submit P11D and P11D(b) forms due to a lack of efficiency and cooperation on the part of their clients. As the 6 July deadline looms, the pressure must be getting harder and harder to carry, not least for your wider team too. If you don’t start receiving the necessary […]

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Client-side audit problems you need to fix

When it comes to performing audits, you are in control of what you or your team does – their actions, processes and performance are your responsibility. However, one side of audits that is somewhat out of your control is what we call “the client-side conduct.” This is as it sounds – it’s the way your […]

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New tax year: A time for new tech?

With the new tax year already in progress, accountancy firms have a prime opportunity to modernise how they operate, especially in terms of managing tax information and documents. Around this time in the tax season, your clients face daunting deadlines that can be stressful, and mistakes or delays add to this stress – as well […]

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Could your firm benefit from online forms and an automated workflow?

Paper-based and traditional methods of document management are outdated, insecure and inefficient. Traditional methods mean that documents like customer orders, evaluation feedback, membership forms and satisfaction surveys get “lost in the post” – as a manager, it’s hard to keep track of information and where it’s gone. They prevent your team from completing work on […]

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You made it through personal tax return season – now what?

We think congratulations are in order. This tax year, there were over 11 million Self-Assessment tax returns filed to HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC). All that hard work, late nights, digging through paperwork and badgering customers really paid off. However, many of you had a more miserable experience than is necessary. Why? Because your personal […]

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Accountants – It’s time to centralise your audit trails!

Accountants across the world are centralising their audit trails using cloud-based technology. As you no doubt know, gone are the days when an auditor would simply keep a paper trail of their actions and findings. (In fact, this is common across all accountancy practices – paper-based processes are outdated and unreliable). From an auditor’s perspective, […]

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How To Reduce Client Response Time & Increase Profitability For Personal Income Tax Accounting

For accountants, prompt client response times are essential for success and profitability. Clients expect timely communication, and the ability to deliver quick responses on your end can significantly impact client satisfaction and contribute to business growth. Personal income tax client response time requires special attention because every accounting firm knows how the hustle and bustle […]

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