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With the Conservative Party leadership election hotting up, practice owner Carrie Stokes joins the podcast team to discuss whether the UK’s business community value candidates’ tax cut pledges or if stability and clarity win the day. With leadership election fever in the air, there’s been lots of talk about cuts to NI, fuel duty, VAT, corporate tax and many others, fuelled by calls to be bold by b...

The co-founder of Future Cloud has reached new clients and even made strides towards solving the recruitment crisis through social media. Known for her ‘just post it’ style, Francesca records open and truthful videos about the highs and lows of running an accountancy practice. As a relatively new firm, the videos have helped Future Cloud to differentiate itself, gain clients and establish its bran...

Given the blizzard of other priorities faced by the profession in recent years, workflow hasn’t always been the most burning topic for accountants in practice. However, a host of factors are combining to push it up practice agendas, including (you guessed it) the UK government’s Making Tax Digital drive requiring multiple client checkpoints each year. Other, more subtle, factors include the creepi...

As an LGBT+ accountant, the managing director of Steele Financial has suffered discrimination throughout his career. So he created a firm where no one was judged for who they are. As his firm has grown so has his confidence. But while the profession has made great strides, change across wider society is still slow and gradual. Ben talks about ways firms can be more inclusive and how focusing on yo...

With mental health awareness month drawing to a close, the No Accounting for Taste team chat with wellbeing champion Shona Barker on the importance for firms to take mental health seriously. With her background in offering superb mentorship and support to junior staff during her tenure in the industry, Barker offers listeners some keen insights into creating a welcoming and supportive environment...

With recent hacks on high-profile accounting firms making headlines and the current geopolitical instability fuelling a rise in cybercrime, it’s perhaps inevitable that robust cybersecurity protection is creeping up firms’ agendas. Any disruption to practice operations is hugely damaging to business – both reputationally and financially - so it’s vital for firms to take steps to protect themselves...

In this weeks episode, host Richard Hattersley is joined by fellow AccountingWEB editors Tom Herbert and John Stokdyk as they talk workflow success with efficiency guru, Sidgrove's David Sellick. Talking us through his tactics, Sellick gives our panel the lowdown on how to increase efficiency and offers some helpful thoughts on eliminating workflow woes. Our panel also discusses AccountingWEB's to...

Accountants have not had to deal with inflation for a generation and most people did not increase pricing on lockdowns, but many now find themselves having to roll out increases.  In light of the recent record rise inflation, Martin, of Avery Martin Accountants, explains to the panel why his firm, as well as many others, are having to make hard decisions on the topic of increasing pricing. Our pan...

Former Fluidly founder Caroline Plumb joined technology editor Tom Herbert in the first of a new series of monthly podcasts from AccountingWEB - No Accounting for Tech. In a wide-ranging interview Plumb, who recently joined ambitious mid-tier contender Jeffreys Henry as group CEO, discussed how technology is changing firms’ annual cash cycle perspective, the competitive threat tech poses to the ac...

Della Hudson joins the No Accounting for Taste team this week to discuss the ICAEW’s plans to tighten up CPD requirements and all the latest news from the world of accountancy. The accountancy coach and founder of Minerva Accountants delves into the new proposal from the ICAEW which would overhaul the current output based CPD model in response to the “increasingly complex world which our members o...

The founder of Soaring Falcon Accountancy has spent this spring searching for tools to manage the constant stream of emails and client communications. As spring shopping season heats up, Falcon Huerta tells host Richard Hattersley and AccountingWEB’s tech editor Tom Herbert how her search is going. She then reveals what other software has caught her attention this spring. The pod team also rounds...

In this week's epidsode, our panelists look to separate the wheat from the chaff in the Chancellor's Spring Statement. In the aftermath of this year's Spring Statement, host Richard Hattersley and tech editor Tom Herbert chat with resident tax expert Rebecca Cave on the policies looking to be implemented by the Chancellor this week. With a host of new policies for our panelists to get their teeth...

The theme of this year’s International Women’s Day is ‘breaking the bias’. On the podcast this week we’ll explore what this means for the accountancy profession. Mazuma Accountants’ Lucy Cohen takes over the No Accounting for Taste podcast this week to discuss with a panel of influential women working within the profession how they’ve experienced unconscious and conscious bias day-to-day. Joining...

Richard Murphy joins the AccountingWEB team this week to discuss the future of KPMG and scrutinise the current state of audit. As KPMG faces a £1bn lawsuit and constant audit scrutiny, Murphy steps into the virtual pod booth to question just how long the Big Four firm can remain viable. And with the government set to outline their plans to overhaul audit imminently, he also asks what can be done t...

It’s been a huge week here at AccountingWEB towers, with the unveiling of Software Awards winners.  The AccountingWEB editors give their expert insights into who picked up awards in bookkeeping, ERP, payroll, tax preparation and more and also delve into some of the trends in the market.  But first, the team rounds up the big headlines hitting the site this week, including a billion pound lawsuit a...

Following the news that only nine people are taking part in the Making Tax Digital for Income Tax pilot, this week on the No Accounting for Taste we take a deep dive look at the project and explore why the numbers have plummeted. Gary Jacobs, the CEO of Eazitax, joins the AccountingWEB editorial team in the virtual studio this week to give his thoughts on the MTD ITSA pilot. Gary has been involved...

Two crypto-curious accountants join the podcast this week to explain how they’ve taken on more clients in this field and reveal what software has helped them. Host Richard Hattersley is joined in the virtual pod booth by AccountingWEB’s John Stokdyk and a returning Tom Herbert to discuss the big headlines hitting the site over the past seven days.  The team looks back at a week where HMRC waived l...

On this special year in review episode of the podcast, the AccountingWEB team is joined by Lucy Cohen to look back at the big stories hitting the profession in 2021. What a year it has been. The year started off with a series of compliance hurdles including the worst tax season ever, a tough lockdown, new Brexit VAT and custom rules, the VAT reverse charge and the IR35 reform was rolled out into t...

As tax return season cranks up a gear, on No Accounting for Taste this week we’re asking: can accountants really relax and enjoy the festive period? When the rest of the working world is winding down for the festive period, for many accountants the tax return season has only just begun. The pressure of the season hit sole practitioner Sam Mitcham when a Christmas song came on the radio and she cri...

This week on the show, the AccountingWEB team reflects on the highlights and news coming out of last week's inaugural AccountingWEB Live Expo. The editorial team returns to the virtual podcast studio after spending a couple of days last week attending the first ever AccountingWEB Live Expo in Coventry.  Joining hosts Richard Hattersley and John Stokdyk to relive all the highlights, all the swag an...

‘Socks up’ Simon Chaplin joins No Accounting for Taste this week to examine the practice bottlenecks keeping practitioners awake during the winter months. As the author of Banish the Bottleneck, Simon Chaplin knows all too well the challenges that trip up accountancy firms. Now that the starting gun has been fired on self assessment season, we’re hearing early word that some practitioners are stru...

Matt Portt, the founder of Portt & Co, joins the AccountignWEB team to explain what his accountancy firm is doing to tackle the climate emergency. As world leaders gather in Glasgow this week for Cop26, the accounting profession is asking what role it has to play in the climate crisis. Bigger accountancy firms have typically owned this space, while previously some smaller firms have been left wond...

‘The QuickBooks chap’ Aaron Patrick joins No Accounting for Taste to discuss the latest news and a sneak peak at MTD ITSA software. As the head of accounting at the online cloud accountancy firm Boffix, Patrick enjoys getting his hands on the latest accounting tech. Now wonder then that he was figuratively in the front row at the latest QuickBooks Connect event to learn more about their MTD ITSA o...

Compliance isn’t going anywhere, but as Kirsty McGregor points out on the podcast this week, it will do in 10 - 20 years. So, is now the time for practices to embrace advisory services? Advisory vs compliance - it’s the story as old as time. The AccountingWEB team reignites the debate on No Accounting for Taste this week and welcomes McGregor to the virtual pod booth to discuss why firms should ta...

It’s episode 100 of the podcast. To celebrate, host Richard Hattersley has invited a couple of familiar voices back to the show to reminisce over some of the big news stories covered on No Accounting for Taste. Days after the then Chancellor Philip Hammond his Budget in late November 2017, AccountingWEB launched its podcast, No Accounting for Taste. The editorial team crowded around the microphone...