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On this AccountingWEB podcast we'll find out how accountants have coped with the sudden change in client demand over the last several months. Accountants have contended with the rush of government guidance already this year, and now with the prospect of self assessment looming again and the second lockdown, we’re seeing a gloomy outlook in the profession.  This podcast will discover how accountant...

On this week’s No Accounting for Taste, we’re talking the Job Support scheme, support for musicians and meditation. The founder of the Accountancy Practice, John Froggett joins host Richard Hattersley and John Stokdyk in accountants’ corner this week. Frogett has reason to celebrate as his firm recently made the small firm of the year finalist list at the Accounting Excellence awards. The glitz an...

On this edition of No Accounting for Taste podcast, Alan Woods from Woods Squared reports on the expanded Job Support Scheme and what he’s doing to support clients through the local lockdown. This week, Liverpool became the first city to be put under tight local lockdown restrictions. Alan Woods is based in Merseyside, so knows too well what the tier three rules will mean for Liverpudlian business...

On this week’s episode, the AccountingWEB pod team unpicks the Chancellor’s Winter Economy Plan and discuss the effects the never-ending guidance is having on the profession. Since we last recorded a podcast Chancellor Rishi Sunak unveiled the job support scheme, further self-employed grants and an extension to the coronavirus loans. To examine the news, host Richard Hattersley is joined by Accoun...

The AccountingWEB team is joined by Dan Heelan to discuss the high profile cases of furlough fraud and the dishonest use of the Bounce Back loans. Joining host Richard Hattersley and John Stokdyk to pore over the headlines on AccountingWEB this week is business owner turned accountant Dan Heelan from Heelan Associates. The big story this week was the arrest of an accountant and a director for a su...

This week's No Accounting for Taste chews over headlines including the regulation of tax advisers, what adversely affected really means, and we also discuss the challenges of female entrepreneurs and business owners. Joining host Richard Hattersley to review the big stories of the week is PracticeWeb’s Ray Newman and beaming in from accountant’s corner is Rachel Martin, the founder of Accountant_s...

With deferred taxes, loan repayments and the tough economic outlook hitting small businesses, this week’s No Accounting for Taste podcast explores the importance of cashflow forecasting. AccountingWEB’s editor-in-chief John Stokdyk is joined this week by two cashflow enthusiasts. In her second outing on the pod is Kirsty McGregor, the founder and chairman of the corporate finance network, and maki...

On this week’s No Accounting for Taste, we discuss clients left behind by the government’s business support measures, recruiting during the crisis and returning to the office. AccountingWEB’s editorial team Richard Hattersley and John Stokdyk are joined this week by Class of 2019 alumnus and Accounting Excellence finalist Andy Sullivan from Complete HQ to chew over the latest news in the accountan...

On this week’s No Accounting for Taste, we discuss the return of Making Tax Digital, the VAT cut for the hospitality sector and whether the Summer Statement measures will make any difference. To tackle the news, host Richard Hattersley is joined this week by PracticeWeb’s Ray Newman and the managing director of Steele Financial, Ben Steele. Get links to the stories discussed in this episode and mo...

On this week’s No Accounting for Taste the editorial team is joined by practice owner Ria-Jaine Lincoln to assess an industry hit-hardest by the pandemic – the hair and beauty sector. Over the last few episodes, we’ve heard from practitioners such as Glenn Martin and Zoe Whitman how tough the last few months have been for the clients they represent. A sector which has suffered a lot during this co...

On this week’s episode of No Accounting for Taste, we explore how accountants have moved on from the Covid-19 crisis with stronger client relationships. As lockdown gradually eases across the UK, many accountants are now seeing the fruit of their Covid-19 response and are being recognised with a renewed sense of loyalty from their clients. In this episode, hosts Richard Hattersley and John Stokdyk...

On this week’s edition of No Accounting for Taste, we discuss the death of the 9 to 5, July’s mini-Budget and the revised furlough scheme. To examine the news this week, host Richard Hattersley is joined by PracticeWeb’s head of content Ray Newman, and Georgia Duffee, the director and accountant at Benedetto Accounts and Tax. Georgia took the ultimate leap of faith at just 21 and started her own a...

On this week’s podcast, we discuss the latest news including the government’s coronavirus schemes and consider how changing your thinking could help your practice thrive post-virus.

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...