The start of a new year naturally brings with it new hopes and aspirations for the coming year. The cycle of change also brings with it an opportunity to reflect on the past successes of your business and how well it has performed in the last year and what improvements can be made in the [...]
The key to gaining and keeping a competitive advantage or just staying in business is knowing how and where to effectively set prices without sacrificing the quantity and quality of the products. Companies that use the ABC methods of costing find it easier to set a competitive price.
Activity Based Costing assigns resource costs based [...]
Here are a few deadlines that you need to put in your diary:
19 September 2009 PAYE period to 5 September cheque payment due (22 September for electronic payment)
1 October 2009 Corporation Tax payment date for Company’s with a 31 December 2008 year end
19 October 2009 PAYE period to 5 October cheque payment due (22 October [...]
Today I have loaded up our latest client fact sheet number 12 covering the latest provisions of the new Companies Act 2006.
There has been so much change with the new Act that I thought it best to provide a more easy to read summary and that is what this fact sheet does, it provides an [...]
The economic downturn has meant that words predictable or stable are rarely used in the same sentence as the word business any more. Likewise it is outmoded to think that companies can continue to operate without implementing or using budgeting and planning processes within their business and not miss unforeseen opportunities or fall victim to [...]
Today I have loaded up our latest client fact sheets numbers 10 and 11 covering the latest provisions of the new Companies Act 2006.
These fact sheets include, amongst other things, details on the new model articles of association in fact sheet 10 and in fact sheet 11 details on how to form a limited company [...]
Thank you to Formations Direct ‘FD’ for this:
Recently formed limited companies are receiving bogus notices that they have to pay a further fee to complete their registration. The fraudster’s style and website are extremely convincing.
The fraud came to light when FD customers rang to ask why their company formations were incomplete. Subsequent enquiries showed that [...]
We all know that Limited company accounts have to be filed within 10 months of the accounting reference date ‘ARD’ but how many know that if your financial year started on or after 6 April 2008 this deadline is now only 9 months?
Yes that right, the deadline has now been reduced from 10 to 9 [...]
From 1 February 2009 new late filing penalties have been introduced by Companies House as follows:
How late are the accounts delivered
Penalty – Private Company
Penalty – PLC
Not more than one month
£ 150
£ 750
More than one month but not more than three months
£ 375
£1,500
More than three months [...]
Today I have loaded up our latest client fact sheet number 9 covering the latest provisions of the new Companies Act 2006.
The fact sheet includes, amongst other things, details on how to lodge a complaint if someone forms a company with the same or similar name to that which your business uses, even if you [...]
