50% of women may be put off childcare for fear of losing their career. Tax credits, childcare vouchers, maternity & paternity leave can all help.
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Are degrees a false economy?
It is what every student aspires to. They go through school with the single goal of gaining entry to college and then when at college their ambitions revolve around a University place. The academic path is a noble, somewhat traditional and prestigious path – but what will it amount to? When students graduate they often enter a stark reality. They do not step foot into the promised land of jobs, realised dreams and natural vocations. Having slogged through three years of heavy theory, critical practical and…something that resembles a mental military camp they leave with an uncanny ability to question
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Filing Your Self-Assessment in Time for the Deadline
Filing a tax return in time for January 31st can be stressful. Our walk-through takes you through each section step by step.
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Write your Bucket List Because Life is Too Short
What is on your bucket list? Sometimes we are so consumed by work and the daily cycle of life that we forget we only have a finite amount of time on this Earth. When you look back over a year of toil what is it that you see? There will be moments of joy like birthdays, celebrations, holidays and successes. Perhaps some moments of sadness, heartache and failure. But, the majority of the time, and I can almost guarantee it, will be full of work, washing up, cleaning, picking up the kids, dropping the kids off, stressing about 101 things,
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Business Apps that make our lives easier
Here are ten business apps we couldn't function without. What is your favourite app? Do we take them for granted?
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Smashing the accountant stereotype to pieces
Surely the accountant stereotype can finally be confined to the archives with them hitting social media in droves and proving they have personality!
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Self Assessment Questions and Answers
As we begin the approach to Christmas many self employed people will start thinking about self-assessment. Here is a question and answer piece on just that!
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50 Top Business and Accounting Tips
We are celebrating our ten year anniversary here at ABC Accounting Services. That means we have ten years worth of accounting and business experience to share with the world. Not just that, it also means that we have seen thousands of businesses both fail and succeed in their sectors. The culmination of this knowledge is a list of 50 top tips for keeping your business afloat based around what we have seen businesses benefit from and what we know is sound accounting advice. They wont all be Earth shattering insights, because a lot of business involves common sense, but there
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Gainsborough Woman Celebrates 10 Years in Business
Belinda Darley started her accountancy firm in a portacabin in 2004 and now celebrates its 10 year anniversary with a growing team behind her. She has taken the number of clients on the firm’s books from 50 to over 1500 and has recently had the ABC Accounting Service’s offices refurbished to accommodate growing demand. Belinda grew up in Gainsborough and the majority of businesses that her firm supports are from the area. ABC Accounting Services was started because Belinda thought clients deserved a more tailored and cost-effective accounting service than the one large chains and franchises provided. The premises and
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Accountancy Topics Making The News
There has been a lot happening in accountancy this week with Tesco dropping a big ball, Direct Recovery of Debts becoming a serious bombshell and Minimum Wage increases just around the corner.
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