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Host Richard Hattersley is joined by Sage’s director of product management and former accountant in practice Chris Downing, Sam Mitcham from SJCM Accountancy and Emily Smith from Finlayson & Co to find out how accountants are preparing their clients for the uncertain future.

On this week’s edition of No Accounting for Taste, we consider the ramifications of the intense coronavirus workload and question just how long can accountants keep going at this pace? When the country went into lockdown in March, accountants stepped up and worked around the clock, but as today’s guest says, it’s looking like a longer hail than first expected. As exhaustion starts to settle in, ac...

On this week’s episode of No Accounting for Taste, we look at HMRC’s furlough scheme and examine what effect the extra work has had on the personal wellbeing of accountants. Since HMRC’s furlough portal opened last week, accountants have found the process mostly seamless, and the money is starting to arrive in their clients’ bank accounts. However, there are still many kinks which have caused a gr...

On this week’s episode of No Accounting for Taste we investigate the impact the coronavirus has had on UK small and medium-sized businesses and find out what they really want from their accountant. As the last few weeks have demonstrated, accountants have been in great demand to help support small businesses. Just take a look on AccountingWEB’s Any Answers forum and you’ll read stories of business...

In this episode of No Accounting for Taste, AccountingWEB’s resident Agony Uncle joins the pod to discuss the mental anguish practitioners have endured since the coronavirus outbreak. In the last week, businesses and the self-employed have received a much-needed lifeline from the government. News of these schemes has caused accountants to work around the clock to help rescue their clients' busines...

On this week’s No Accounting for Taste, the AccountingWEB editorial team explores the effects of the coronavirus on the accountancy profession and businesses. Since the Budget, the catastrophic effect of the coronavirus has forced firms to shut their doors and roll out remote working, put businesses on their knees, and prompted the government to postpone IR35 for 12 months. To discuss the week whe...

In this special Budget edition of No Accounting for Taste, the AccountingWEB editorial team analyses the highs and lows from a Budget dominated by the coronavirus pandemic. Host Richard Hattersley is joined by seasoned Budget watcher John Stokdyk, who beams in from his Brighton HQ, and a sleep-deprived Ray Newman from PracticeWeb, who was up until 2am in the morning examining the finer Budget deta...

On this special Accounting Excellence podcast, we’re joined by Alastair Barlow, the co-founder of triple award winner practice flinder. Last year, flinder swept the board at the Accounting Excellence Awards, picking up the new firm of the year, fast-track firm of the year and innovative firm of the year. In this podcast, host Richard Hattersley and PracticeWeb’s Zoe Sweet discover the secret behin...

On this week’s No Accounting for Taste, AccountingWEB’s editorial team is joined by the co-founder of flinder Alastair Barlow to discuss the role of a CFO, M&S, the coronavirus and the Budget.

Who would have thought we’d be talking about a new Chancellor on this week’s No Accounting for Taste podcast? As well as Rishi Sunak's first week in Number 11, we'll discuss the latest off-payroll reforms, disciplinary news and the art of rebranding your firm. It’s all about name changes on this week’s podcast. Up first we have accountant Tessa Hebditch from Balanced Finance who has recently rebra...

The AccountingWEB editorial team has Budget fever on this week’s edition of No Accounting for Taste.

It’s fair to say there is only one story that is dominating accountancy offices up and down the country. It is, of course, self assessment season. It is little over a week before the 31 January deadline day and whilst AccountingWEB readers seem as if they are coping gallantly under the pressure, there have been a few hiccups along the way. AccountingWEB’s head of insight John Stokdyk reviews a som...

The first No Accounting for Taste podcast of 2020 attempts to find the positive from tax return season, along with the usual news from the world of accountancy. Here on the No Accounting for Taste podcast, we don’t want to dwell on the negativity of tax return season. Oh no! Surely you, dear listener, don’t need us to remind you of the stress that January brings a number of you. Instead, we’re goi...

Recorded on the day of the Conservative Party’s landslide general election victory, the AccountingWEB team spend the final No Accounting for Taste of 2019 discussing what the result will mean for accountants and their clients. While political commentators are still talking about the scale of victory, here at AccountingWEB we want to know what the Conservative Party’s handsome majority means for th...

As we move into tax season, the second part of this podcast series on client collaboration examines how accountants can work more efficiently with their clients in the run-up to the 31 January deadline.

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it’s an accountant. Grab your cape because on this week’s show we debate how, or if, accountants can truly save the world. Joining host Richard Hattersley to debate how the profession can bring about change are tax titan Rebecca Cave, the site's very own head of insight John Stokdyk, and AccountingWEB's editor Tom Herbert. For full details on this week's podcast vi...

This week's No Accounting for Taste comes from Xerocon, where the big news included the rollout of Xero's corporation tax and accounts production tool in March 2020 and a raft of product announcements tooled around cashflow and data management. Joining AccountingWEB editor Tom Herbert to review the news are director of Avery Martin Glenn Martin and the site's very own head of insight John Stokdyk....

This week’s No Accounting for Taste sees the team examine the fallout from the latest IR35 upper tribunal decision, ponder the ethics of the profession and talk Bruce Dickinson from Iron Maiden. Host Richard Hattersley and editor Tom Herbert welcome two guests to the AccountingWEB podbooth. Up first is Tessa Hebditch. Tessa has carved a niche under the moniker of ‘the Ethical Accountant’. We’re al...

Recorded live from the HQ of triple Accounting Excellence award winners flinder, this week’s No Accounting for Taste podcast discusses the importance of having a growth mindset when growing a firm and the usual news from the world of accounting. To celebrate the 50th edition of No Accounting for Taste, the AccountingWEB podteam – Richard Hattersley and Tom Herbert – left the comforts of their Bris...

In the first of a two-part podcast series on client collaboration, AccountingWEB and Thomson Reuters examine the accountant-client relationship, including how it’s changed in recent years and the part that technology has played in this process.

On this week’s No Accounting for Taste, we find out how new firms are navigating the pressures and responsibilities of running their own practice, as AccountingWEB launches the Class of 2019. Ten years have passed since AccountingWEB last surveyed the new firm landscape. Back then The Class of 2009 came out of the ashes of the financial crisis. Accountancy firms had scaled back their recruitment a...

The tumultuous times we're experiencing present a particular dilemma for accountants: if they see that a client's business may be affected by Brexit do they advise them accordingly and risk alienating and potentially losing them, or keep their head down and avoid potential confrontation? Tackling this noodle-scratcher with AccountingWEB editor Tom Herbert this week are Nigel Harris, partner at sou...

On this edition of No Accounting for Taste, a full-powered editorial team review the latest Making Tax Digital hijinks following the first submission and we also summon some the confidence to talk networking.

We’re good neighbours here on the No Accounting for Taste podcast. So when we heard PKF Francis Clark opened a new Bristol office, we did the neighbourly thing and invited its managing partner Mike Lea into the pod booth to talk all things accountancy. Lea joined host Richard Hattersley and pod regulars Francois Badenhorst and Tom Herbert to discuss the last seven days in accountancy, including Ma...

In the third and final episode of our ‘forward-looking finance leader’ podcast series, we take a close look at cybersecurity and the finance function’s role in keeping the business safe. What can finance leaders do to insulate themselves, their team and the business at large from the threat of cybercriminals? We assembled three excellent guests on this podcast to find out: - David Hawes, the finan...