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On this week's podcast, the AccountingWEB editorial team discusses ICAEW's letter to HMRC urging the tax authority to consider "fresh thinking" over the much-maligned MTD ITSA, and they round up the latest updates and announcements from the accounting tech vendors. Due to a delay from HMRC earlier this year in introducing MTD ITSA, many believed that the widely criticised policy would remain absen...

Richard Hattersley and John Stokdyk discuss the growing emphasis accountancy firms are putting on recruitment, employee engagement and training and development. After looking at client service and process, the AccountingWEB team explores the Accounting Excellence pillar that ensures the practice runs smoothly - people.  In many ways, this is the most important pillar, because if your people are no...

The number of e-commerce businesses launching in the UK continues to rise dramatically, meaning that demand for e-commerce accounting services is also at an all-time high. However, many accounting firms are struggling to tackle the unique challenges posed by the sector, citing messy data, knotty compliance issues such as VAT and Brexit, and a plethora of ever-changing platforms to keep up with. Jo...

On this week's episode, the AccountingWEB team discusses the growing burden of anti-money laundering regulations, GoSimpleTax's acquisition of Coconut and are later joined by Will Farnell to discuss the philosophy of the human-led firm. With regulators ratcheting up fines and accountants struggling to keep up, tightening AML regulations continue to cause headaches for practitioners. And, with the...

This special episode of the podcast explores the latest trends in accounting software, and how for many firms thoughts have now turned to how to streamline practice processes, chase late clients more efficiently or boost firm revenues. For full details visit the show page here: https://www.accountingweb.co.uk/content/no-accounting-for-tech-ep14-whats-on-accounting-firms-software-shopping-lists

Just before the Easterweekend, it was reported that HMRC have decided to restrict the Agent Dedicated Line from April 17.The controversial move by HMRC highlights yet another example by the tax authority to transition towards its 'digital by default' vision of nudging agents towards online services. Yet, what does this mean for tax agents still relying on more traditional means of communication, a...

Richard Hattersley and John Stokdyk are back once again with a brand new episode of Secrets of Accounting Excellence. This week's episode shines the spotlight on process and efficiency, an area filled with opportunity for the ambitious firm. Whether it's implementing tools to boost efficiency, or striving for continuous improvement amongst their team, accountants can transform the operations by en...

On this week’s podcast FreeAgent CEO Roan Lavery tells AccountingWEB tech editor Tom Herbert about his part in the company’s growth from a side project into a major player in the cloud accounting industry and where he believes the vendor’s future direction lies.

News of an unnamed OnlyFans creator who claimed cosmetic dental work and breast implants as a business expense created a media storm last week. One newspaper raged, ‘close 'loophole' that lets OnlyFans stars get tax breaks’. But there is more to this story than the headlines led you to believe. Today on the show we speak to Rachel Harris, the accountant of this unnamed OnlyFans creator, and find o...

Join AccountingWEB's Richard Hattersley on a deep dive into the world of Accounting Excellence in the first episode of our brand new podcast series. This week, Richard is joined by editor at large John Stokdyk, as well as previous Accounting Excellence award winners Madison Dennis from Pink Pig Financials and Writer's Tax Jonathan Ford, to discuss one of the key pillars of accounting excellence -...

Mayday CEO David Tuck joins the podcast to discuss being an accountant at a tech startup, how his new firm is setting out to ‘mend month end’ for larger companies using SME accounting software, and what the accounting profession can do to make itself more attractive to potential new recruits.

As the dust settles on yet another Spring budget, Richard and Tom, alongside guests Beth Steer, Chris Campbell and Nimesh Shah digest the day's big announcements and discuss how the Chancellor's budget may affect clients in the future.

The No Accounting for Tech podcast was recorded live from QuickBooks Connect London 2023. Situated at the former fish market in Old Billingsgate and overlooking the River Thames, QuickBooks’ first UK conference in four years saw the provider announce a raft of new products and enhancements. In her first QuickBooks Connect as UK general manager, Jolawn Victor discussed her first year in the role an...

On this week's No Accounting for Taste, the Aweb gang are joined by Director & Co-Founder of Juno Sports Tax Sophia Thomas, as she breaks down the various intricacies facing the sports accounting profession. Recently being added to the prestigious Football Black List, a celebration of black excellence across all aspects of the beautiful game, Thomas has become a knowledgeable and well-respected pr...

Accounting tech stalwart Sabby Gill joins the AccountingWEB podcast this week to outline his views on the government’s delay to MTD ITSA, the tricky line growing SaaS companies have to tread when it comes to pricing their services, and where he hopes to take the company over the coming years.

This week on No Accounting for Taste, Richard is joined by Aweb's Editor at Large John Stokdyk and Accounting Excellence alumni/judge Bhimal Hira to discuss the opening of this year's awards entries, as well as some exciting new changes to one of the accounting calendar's biggest events. Also on the podcast, the panel discuss the recent news that the number of pubs and restaurants calling last ord...

Cloud accounting royalty joined the podcast this week in the form of Xero’s first UK managing director Gary Turner. In 2021, Turner took the decision to step back from Xero after nearly 13 years at the helm. During his time with the Kiwi cloud company, Turner took them from three employees and a turnover of £56,000 to an annual income of £150m from around 850,000 customers. Since his decision to l...

SuiteConnect London 2023 was the cloud vendor’s first in-person UK conference since 2019, and the NetSuite team announced a series of product developments to bolster its efforts to win the hearts and minds of UK mid-market businesses, including planning and budgeting tools, a billing engine and enhanced analytics capabilities. With the launch of Netledger in 1998, Goldberg is credited by many as b...

This week on No Accounting for Taste, the AWEB gang is joined by Louise Herrington, founder of Performance Accountancy, to discuss what has, once again, been a full on self-assessment season. Touching upon all of the SA pain-points, from late filing clients to HMRC delays, the panel ask themselves how this year's busy season has gone and whether the exceptional circumstances we're currently living...

Since its release in November, ChatGPT has made headlines across the tech world, with millions of users instructing it to perform a dizzying array of different tasks – telling jokes, writing code, and, most pertinently for us, exploring its applications for accountancy. Jess Slack is a chartered accountant, part-time finance director and Excel trainer, and has been trialling the ChatGPT tool for a...

As we wave goodbye to 'Blue Monday' and the first half of busy season, Richard and Tom sit down with Boddice Accounting's Vicki Boddice to discuss how the week's biggest accounting stories. Touching upon the recent news that insolvencies were up 32% compared to the year before, the panel discuss how businesses are struggling through the economic storm facing the UK and what accountants can do to s...

AccountingWEB tech editor Tom Herbert speaks to Darren Fell, CEO of Crunch and pioneer of a concept he calls ‘accounting as a platform’ which combines the company’s own accounting software with a digital network of micro-practice accountants.

On our first episode of 2023, Richard and Tom are joined by first-time guest Mitch Hahn, CEO of Nordens Accounting, as they look to make sense of what is already looking to be an interesting year for the profession. With the christmas decorations packed firmly back up in the attic, accountants are back from their break with the knowledge that 5.7m taxpayers are still to carry out their self-assess...

As the madness of 2022 draws to a close, Richard Hattersley and Tom Herbert sat down with tax experts Rebecca Cave and Paul Aplin OBE to take stock of what has been a year of drama and upheaval in the accounting world. Touching on everything from chaotic government u-turns to the recent MTD ITSA delay, our panel left no stone unturned in reviewing what has been a tumultuous year. Also, it wouldn't...

On this episode of No Accounting for Taste the AWEB team were centre stage on the second day of the AccountingWEB Live Expo. Joining them were AWEB Live stalwarts Glenn Martin and Makbul Patel to discuss some of the major themes that had cropped up over the past two days.  Touching on everything fromm the spectre of MTD rumours hanging over the event, to the increasing frustrations around the late...