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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...

Proposing a raft of tax increases and spending cuts. It seems as though rookie Chancellor Jeremy Hunt is drawing a line under the radical policies of his predecessor in favour of 'steadying the ship'. Yet, as the country dives headfirst into yet another recession and continues to reel from an ever-growing cost of living crisis, will Hunt's ship steadying be able to navigate the economic icebergs t...

Looming over this week's episode of No Accounting for Taste was the news of the biggest hike in interest rates in 30 years, leaving the current figure at 3%. In light of this news, the AccountingWEB team discuss the ramifications of the BOE's decision. Also on the podcast this week, the team is joined by Jason Croke to dissect Uber's recent £615m VAT payout to HMRC and ask 'what happened to the re...

AccountingWEB's technology editor Tom Herbert spoke with Sage CTO Aaron Harris and Sage Intacct product VP Dan Miller to discuss announcements made at the company's annual Transform event and Sage's plans for the future. Prior to Intacct being bought by Sage in 2017, this conference was the cloud midmarket vendor's annual showpiece and is now used by Sage to highlight new features and innovations...

In today's podcast, the AccountingWEB team discuss the abject chaos plaguing the tory party, as well as being joined by friend of the pod Nick Levine to discuss Deloitte's recent sale of their cloud bookkeeping unit Propel. In what has been a catastrophic tenure at the helm, with Truss' goverment has being forced into multiple U-turns, the AccountingWEB gang ask the question what happens from here...

After a dramatic U-turn from the new Chancellor of the Exchequer, AccountingWEB's Richard Hattersley and John Stokdyk discuss Kwarteng's chaotic tenure at number 11. Also on this week's episode, John reveals all after jetting to Sin City to get the scoop at Netsuite's Vegas conference SuiteWorld - it seems that what happens in Vegas doesn't always stay in Vegas! Finally, we hear from AccountingWEB...

After finally getting the chance to listen in on a Budget that was only "mini" in name, Chancellor of the Exchequer Kwasi Kwarteng has revealed a raft of tax-cutting measures in a radical bid to inject some much-needed growth into a flagging British economy. Yet, with investor confidence sliding and the pound plunging to historic lows, will the Chancellor's risky gamble pay off? Now that the dust...

In the wake of the sad news of Queen Elizabeth II's passing, the AccountingWEB team revisit the Accounting Excellence Awards, and recount the story told by this year's Outstanding Contribution winner Paul Aplin. Also this week, the team looks ahead to a potentially tumultuous period for the UK government as we anxiously await news of an emergency budget expected in the coming weeks. Tom Herbert an...

Alastair Barlow and Lucy Cohen joined the AccountingWEB podcast team to discuss the key trends and innovation coming out of the Accounting Excellence Awards. As the Accounting Excellence finalists nervously await the big awards night on 8 September, on No Accounting for Taste this week we explored how the bleeding edge firms are striving for excellence in the profession and caught up with last yea...

Shetland-based sole practitioner Martin Tegonning beamed into the virtual AccountingWEB podcast booth to discuss the burning issues of the day including MTD ITSA guidance, the Bank of England's predictions of a recession and the recent Supreme Court ruling on holiday pay. Tregonning joined the AccountingWEB team this week to raise concern over the recent Supreme Court ruling that Harpur Trust's ho...

Along with local temperatures, last week’s heatwave saw concerns about global warming shoot up. Having campaigned to encourage accountants in the West of England to embed sustainability into their practices, Natalie Binstead-Wey came along to AccountingWEB’s Bristol podcast studio to explain what she’s been doing in this area. Environmental, social and governance (ESG) reporting is no longer the p...

AccountingWEB technology editor Tom Herbert hits the road for this special episode covering Xerocon 2022. It’s been three years since the last event and a lot has changed for Xero and its users. The Kiwi cloud company have enjoyed massive growth and by and large, maintained a positive perception in the accounting profession for a strong core product. But it’s also come in for some criticism for a...