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5 Ways To Become A Better Bookkeeper In 2017

5 Ways To Become A Better Bookkeeper In 2017

Some principles of your business will never change: the monitoring of incomings and outgoings; tax submissions; collating your transactional evidence through the year. However, the means of doing so are being digitised and simplified, evolving with the pace of our...

New Year, New Business? Deciding To Go Freelance

New Year, New Business? Deciding To Go Freelance

Rolling back into the doldrums of January, you may be feeling uninspired by your current work. A frustrating schedule, lack of recognition, being lost in a massive corporate hierarchy… there are many reasons why ennui is afflicting you. Is it time you did something...

Save Yourself From Self-Assessment Misery This January

Save Yourself From Self-Assessment Misery This January

While many of us were happily munching and singing, port in hand, over the festive period, a significant amount of people were focused on something else. Tax returns – the scourge of the self-employed – hit home this year, as the BBC reports that thousands of...

Essential New Year’s Resolutions For The Self-Employed

Essential New Year’s Resolutions For The Self-Employed

If you ask us, the closing curtain of each year causes more stress than succour for the businesspeople of the world. There’s a raft of final payments, client assignments, bills and personal responsibilities to sort out before we can perch our feet up and say, “Well,...

Must-Have Software For Contractors And Freelancers

Must-Have Software For Contractors And Freelancers

The modern age has made beautiful gains in our pursuit of independence. Now, it’s possible for an independent professional to make a living from the comfort of their home. A lot of that is down to software, the virtual superpowers that make for heroic freelance work....

Bad Bookkeeping: A Nightmare That Never Ends

Bad Bookkeeping: A Nightmare That Never Ends

Halloween is almost here. Whatever your darkest fears may be, we bet that losing control of your finances is one of them. Bookkeeping can make the best of us howl furiously at the moon, but it’s essential to exorcise those demons if you want to stay on top of your...

Why Your Contracting Bookkeeping Needs To Be in The Cloud

Why Your Contracting Bookkeeping Needs To Be in The Cloud

Any business worth its salt has data storage high on its agenda. As more and more of our working resources become digitised, there’s the escalated threat of losing everything in a matter of moments. Whether due to accident, corruption or malicious activities, relying...

Automating Your Bookkeeping Processes With FreeAgent

Contracting and freelancing gives you the power to set your own work hours and rates, to leverage your skills to their full potential. However, keeping track of your finances can be a headache for a one-man or woman band. Unless your accounts are in order, your...

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