by Alastair Wood | Oct 15, 2015 | Business Advice
Workplace pensions have been widely advertised in the press but there is still misunderstanding of who it applies to especially for small businesses. Almost any company, except director only ones, must go through the whole process although it should not be too...
by Alastair Wood | Oct 1, 2015 | Business Advice
Every employer in the UK with a PAYE scheme should have been issued with a letter from the Pensions Regulator similar to the following one notifying them of the need to provide an auto enrolment pension for their employees. There are a small number of exceptions to...
by Alastair Wood | Jul 8, 2015 | Business Advice
In the first conservative party budget since 1996, George Osborne stresses the conservative mantra of getting more people back to work, off benefits, and paying less taxes and the following were some of the main points: The Office for Budgetary has forecast growth of...
by Alastair Wood | Feb 3, 2015 | Business Advice
While the arrival of cloud accounting products means that many of the existing products have migrated from PC, there has always been a demand for an accounting product for Mac users. As far as I know EasyBooks is the only dedicated accounting product for Mac users...
by Alastair Wood | Nov 4, 2014 | Business Advice
An important case on holiday pay was decided by the Employment Appeal Tribunal this morning (4 November 2014). The EAT has held that employees’ holiday pay should include a sum of money to reflect normal non-guaranteed overtime and travel time as part of their annual...
by Alastair Wood | Aug 28, 2014 | Business Advice
Perhaps one of the biggest benefits I see in Quickbooks is updating bank and entering details in Quickbooks having downloaded bank transactions, saving input time, and that it also guesses what entries are for. The process is as follows: From the Left hand navigation...
