This is great, Nomads for the modern age, Location Independent Professionals ‘LIP’.
Another advantage the internet is giving the micro-business and certainly the life style business is the freedom to work, earn and even run a business from anywhere in the world.
One such example of this is Lea. Lea is a true LIP and with her […]
Microsoft have now entered into the accounting software market here in the UK with Office Accounting Professional 2008.
Will we use it, probably not, because it sits on your desktop and as previously mentioned yesterday, amongst other reasons, I really do like the benefit of someone else taking care of the data back up and recovery, […]
According to recent figures 88.4% of us now connect to the internet by broadband.
This is great news for small business, the internet brings with it the chance for many smaller businesses to ‘punch above their weight’ in the market place.
With Christmas around the corner it is still not to late to dust off your internet […]
The Chartered Institute of Taxation ‘CIoT’ has updated its website, which is good news as the last one was looking very old and tired.
But why is he telling me this I hear you asking, I’m in business if I want tax advice I will either call you, or if a Holden Associates client go […]
I am not going to rant about yet another shoddy Government Department.
Yesterday this northern lad was in the big smoke and I caught the news that names, addresses, dates of birth, bank details etc of parents who receive child benefits were lost.
Oh well that’s only 25 million people put at risk!
To minimise the […]
Yesterday I made a posting about online accountants and online accounting, and why you should care.
Without realising it my posting coincided with the Accountancy Age Awards, which were held in London last night. One of the categories is Best Use of Internet - Practice - Sponsored by Winweb.
Firstly, well done to Philip Woodgate and the […]
What is an online accountant, online accounting, and why should I care?
This is actually something I was asked, by another accountant!
Firstly, all I can do is answer from my perspective and that of Holden Associates, my practice.
An online accountant for Holden Associates is a firm of accountants that have a web presence but rather […]
Recent research from Vodafone UK has revealed that one-in-three businesses will take their custom elsewhere if a potential supplier fails to reply to them within just two hours, when dealing via e-mail.
I guess it started with fast food, now we have all become accustomed to everything right here, right now.
With technology such as e-mail we do […]
I meant to blog yesterday but I hadn’t reckoned on the time it would take to get a new laptop set up.
We took delivery of a nice shiny new laptop on Tuesday late afternoon for a member of the team, so I thought I would spend a few hours on Wednesday setting it up, you […]
