The Practitioner: When word of mouth turns sour
Accounting Firms

The Practitioner: When word of mouth turns sour

8y The Practitioner

The Practitioner: When word of mouth turns sour

The Practitioner experiences a downside to receiving a word of mouth referral Read More...

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The Practitioner: Costs climb, but speculating to accumulate
Accounting Firms

The Practitioner: Costs climb, but speculating to accumulate

8y The Practitioner

The Practitioner: Costs climb, but speculating to ...

The Practitioner ramps up overheads in a bid to bring in more clients...but will any clients want their tax dealt with when Making Tax Digital comes i...

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The Practitioner: Buy-to-let 'experts' trying to nick my clients
Accounting Firms

The Practitioner: Buy-to-let 'experts' trying to nick my clients

8y The Practitioner

The Practitioner: Buy-to-let 'experts' trying to n...

Ambulance-chasing, or seizing an opportunity? The Practitioner is seeing lots of clients on the receiving end of marketing guff from self-styled 'buy-...

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The Practitioner: Make time to fill in your timesheet, or...
Accounting Firms

The Practitioner: Make time to fill in your timesheet, or...

8y The Practitioner

The Practitioner: Make time to fill in your timesh...

The Practitioner discusses their timesheet militancy, and reaction to someone playing it fast and loose with the details... Read More...

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The Practitioner: There has to be a better way to recruit
Recruitment

The Practitioner: There has to be a better way to recruit

8y Accountancy Age

The Practitioner: There has to be a better way to ...

The old fashioned method of placing recruitment adverts in the local rag is dead Read More...

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The Practitioner: If it’s not clients it’s staff
People Practice

The Practitioner: If it’s not clients it’s staff

8y Richard Crump , Writer

The Practitioner: If it’s not clients it’s staff

I was greeted in the office first thing on a Monday morning by a set of keys and a resignation note. No explanation was offered, no notice was given, ...

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The Practitioner: Keep Calm and play Pokémon
Technology

The Practitioner: Keep Calm and play Pokémon

8y Richard Crump , Writer

The Practitioner: Keep Calm and play Pokémon

The Practitioner’s uncensored thoughts come from within their own practice – having left a regional firm in the heart of England Read More...

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The Practitioner: You get what you PAYE for
Personal Tax

The Practitioner: You get what you PAYE for

8y The Practitioner

The Practitioner: You get what you PAYE for

I will feel slightly awkward when I write to the client who is about to receive a large invoice from the PAYE expert, offering him the fee protection ...

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The Practitioner: The Blame Game
Accounting Firms

The Practitioner: The Blame Game

8y Richard Crump , Writer

The Practitioner: The Blame Game

Last week, the Practitioner opened an email from a large, high maintenance, client and was left speechless Read More...

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The Practitioner: Voting 'Out'
Accounting Firms

The Practitioner: Voting 'Out'

8y Richard Crump , Writer

The Practitioner: Voting 'Out'

Since the vote, as I suspected would be the case, life goes on for all my clients. Read More...

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The Practitioner: Payroll is King
People In Practice

The Practitioner: Payroll is King

9y The Practitioner

The Practitioner: Payroll is King

Payroll 'issues' highlight to The Practitioner that this area really puts you at the sharp end with clients Read More...

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The Practitioner: Should we stay or should we go?
Accounting Firms

The Practitioner: Should we stay or should we go?

9y The Practitioner

The Practitioner: Should we stay or should we go?

With much change at the firm, The Practitioner is concerned that taking the eye off the ball with a major client Read More...

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The Practitioner: My firm, and HMRC, need to break bad habits
Accounting Firms

The Practitioner: My firm, and HMRC, need to break bad habits

9y The Practitioner

The Practitioner: My firm, and HMRC, need to break...

The Practitioner talks of changing their staff's mindset, while wondering if new 'super centres' will achieve the same for HMRC Read More...

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The Practitioner: HMRC less popular than mothers-in-law
People In Practice

The Practitioner: HMRC less popular than mothers-in-law

9y The Practitioner

The Practitioner: HMRC less popular than mothers-i...

HMRC creating fights where no argument exists makes The Practitioner pugnacious, ironically Read More...

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The Practitioner: Tough decision looms despite employee sympathy
Accounting Firms

The Practitioner: Tough decision looms despite employee sympathy

9y The Practitioner

The Practitioner: Tough decision looms despite emp...

The Practitioner nears crunch time with a member of staff who is struggling to spend time in the office Read More...

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The Practitioner: Dividends change forces sole trader choice
Corporate Tax

The Practitioner: Dividends change forces sole trader choice

9y The Practitioner

The Practitioner: Dividends change forces sole tra...

The small company route is becoming increasingly unattractive, as dividend tax rule changes, plus VAT, sees the sole trader option being taken Read Mo...

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The Practitioner: Mid-life crisis brings succession planning to mind
Accounting Firms

The Practitioner: Mid-life crisis brings succession planning to mind

9y The Practitioner

The Practitioner: Mid-life crisis brings successio...

Is a 'lifestyle practice' the way forward for The Practitioner, or is it a passing mid-life crisis phase? Read More...

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The Practitioner: Bank lending the silver lining to PII claim cloud
Accounting Firms

The Practitioner: Bank lending the silver lining to PII claim cloud

9y The Practitioner

The Practitioner: Bank lending the silver lining t...

A claim from a client against the Practitioner's PI insurance has been irksome, but recent dealings with banks have proved more positive Read More...

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The Practitioner: Why my firm is quitting audit
Accounting Firms

The Practitioner: Why my firm is quitting audit

9y The Practitioner

The Practitioner: Why my firm is quitting audit

The Practitioner gives a sobering assessment of why audit is no longer a viable option for their firm Read More...

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The Practitioner: Dividend tax hike hits incentive to run a business
Corporate Tax

The Practitioner: Dividend tax hike hits incentive to run a business

9y The Practitioner

The Practitioner: Dividend tax hike hits incentive...

The Practitioner is peeved: 'Massive impact' on clients as Osborne moves dividends tax goalposts closer together...and a longstanding employee quits.....

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The Practitioner: Post-holiday blues as email inbox bulges
Accounting Firms

The Practitioner: Post-holiday blues as email inbox bulges

10y The Practitioner

The Practitioner: Post-holiday blues as email inbo...

Auto enrolment, the taxman, a potential client going elsewhere, the email inbox...all fun things for The Practitioner to handle after a week on hols R...

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The Practitioner: Cat-alitic converter sends client into rage
Accounting Firms

The Practitioner: Cat-alitic converter sends client into rage

10y The Practitioner

The Practitioner: Cat-alitic converter sends clien...

Taxman's feline focus is unwelcome for the Practitioner - who is struggling to deal with scary auto-enrolment correspondence Read More...

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The Practitioner: Auto-enrolment is a right pain in the pension
Accounting Firms

The Practitioner: Auto-enrolment is a right pain in the pension

10y The Practitioner

The Practitioner: Auto-enrolment is a right pain i...

Struggling to bill clients...outsourcer woes...auto enrolment is proving resource-intensive with little to show for it, The Practitioner bemoans Read ...

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The Practitioner: Who audits the auditors' auditor?
Accounting Firms

The Practitioner: Who audits the auditors' auditor?

10y The Practitioner

The Practitioner: Who audits the auditors' auditor...

Audit monitoring visit: shoddy, not up to scratch... and that just was the monitor, claims The Practitioner Read More...

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The Practitioner: Scared of the Bogey Client
Accounting Firms

The Practitioner: Scared of the Bogey Client

10y The Practitioner

The Practitioner: Scared of the Bogey Client

Mistakes made with the same client; ditching the firm's audit status; letting a staff member go - it's been all go for The Practitioner Read More...

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The Practitioner: Saving Mr Banks means money in the bank
People In Practice

The Practitioner: Saving Mr Banks means money in the bank

10y The Practitioner

The Practitioner: Saving Mr Banks means money in t...

One of The Practitioner's favourite films provides an analogy of dealing with supposedly difficult potential clients Read More...

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The Practitioner: Will Sage and Xero cut out the middle man...me?
People In Practice

The Practitioner: Will Sage and Xero cut out the middle man...me?

10y The Practitioner

The Practitioner: Will Sage and Xero cut out the m...

Online access to clients is proving a pain to the Practitioner. Where are those good old-fashioned shoeboxes? Read More...

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