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7 Accounting Terms Every Business Owner Should Know Uncategorized

7 Accounting Terms Every Business Owner Should Know

Accounting is all about understanding the language of numbers - which can sometimes make things a little difficult when you don't speak said language. But…

Joe Stevenson

Becoming lean: Eradicating Resource Waste in Your Creative Agency Uncategorized

Becoming lean: Eradicating Resource Waste in Your Creative Agency

Is your creative agency running a lean business model? Or are you wasting valuable resources and ultimately making yourself unprofitable? Lean business models have been…

My Accountancy Place

Get more from Xero with these six must have add ons Cloud Accounting

Get more from Xero with these six must have add ons

Whether your creative agency is new to Xero, or you’ve been using it for some time, the power of the integrated add-ons can advance your…

My Accountancy Place

The Digital Roundtable: Leading the Way with the Work/Fun Balancing Act Uncategorized

The Digital Roundtable: Leading the Way with the Work/Fun Balancing Act

Behind every successful business is a team of amazing people - and behind that team is a company culture which has nurtured and supported them…

Paul Barnes

Revenue vs Profitability: What’s the Difference & How Can it Help? Becoming Profitable

Revenue vs Profitability: What’s the Difference & How Can it Help?

Despite what you might think, not everybody who owns a business has ever studied accounting or administration - they instead turn to the experts, delegating…

Paul Barnes

Get Back Your Creative Time with the Power of Technology Uncategorized

Get Back Your Creative Time with the Power of Technology

Can you hear that faint 'tick tock' in the background as you pore over emails and invoices? That's your creative time creeping away as you become…

Paul Barnes

You’ve Got Creativity Sorted, But Are You Profitable? Becoming Profitable

You’ve Got Creativity Sorted, But Are You Profitable?

It goes without saying that being creative is who you are, and you love it. You get a big buzz from working with great people, delivering…

Paul Barnes

The Big List of Benefits: Your Guide to Offering Employee Benefits Getting more from your team

The Big List of Benefits: Your Guide to Offering Employee Benefits

  When it comes to offering employees extra benefits, most employers are keen to get on board in order to keep their workforce happy. But…

Joe Stevenson

Limited Company Expenses: To Claim or Not to Claim? Uncategorized

Limited Company Expenses: To Claim or Not to Claim?

  Whereas it's a good idea to make the most of the expenses you're entitled to as a business owner, it's important to keep an…

Joe Stevenson

Why ‘Winging It’ is Not a Good Business Strategy Uncategorized

Why ‘Winging It’ is Not a Good Business Strategy

More than a few great business ideas have been born into the world at 2am after a couple of glasses of vino, with a brief business plan sketched…

Paul Barnes

Auto-Enrolment & You [INFOGRAPHIC] Uncategorized

Auto-Enrolment & You [INFOGRAPHIC]

  Auto-enrolment is being rolled out across the country, introducing businesses and their employees to a new a pensions approach. Although the process can be…

Joe Stevenson

The Art of Accounts – How to Make Accounting Creative and Fun Uncategorized

The Art of Accounts – How to Make Accounting Creative and Fun

It's a persistent stereotype that accountants find accounting 'fun' - persistent and oh so true. But before you make a face at that not-quite-revelation, consider…

Paul Barnes

April Digital Roundtable: the power of partnership Uncategorized

April Digital Roundtable: the power of partnership

We’re always extremely excitable when the next Digital Roundtable event rolls around. For the team at MAP, it's our chance to catch up with the finest creative…

Paul Barnes

CrunchBoards: How to crunch your creative numbers Uncategorized

CrunchBoards: How to crunch your creative numbers

In a world where big numbers and big data are becoming more and more important, it’s vital that your creative business has the right cloud…

Paul Barnes

Working with AHOY: Giving Real Comfort to Our Creative Business Clients Uncategorized

Working with AHOY: Giving Real Comfort to Our Creative Business Clients

Our mission at My Accountancy Place is to help our ambitious clients understand their business and to help them embed profitability into their growth plans.…

Paul Barnes

Every Second Counts: Are You Managing Your Time Properly? Increasing Company Value

Every Second Counts: Are You Managing Your Time Properly?

Starting up your own business is an immensely exciting prospect – finally, you have control over your own career and how you spend your days!…

Paul Barnes

Business Vision with Adrian Lomas Uncategorized

Business Vision with Adrian Lomas

What happens when you have a clear and compelling business vision?   We asked Adrian Lomas exactly that earlier this year at our February Giant Academy.…

Paul Barnes

Playing to Your Business’ Strengths Uncategorized

Playing to Your Business’ Strengths

How great companies use their strengths to understand and target their own special position in the marketplace; with David Newman, CEO of Carole Nash Founded…

Paul Barnes

Business Agility with Gary Buxton MBE Uncategorized

Business Agility with Gary Buxton MBE

How do businesses quickly and creatively re-use their assets to respond to changes in their marketplace? Our interviewee for April 2015 was Gary Buxton MBE…

Paul Barnes

Get the Money and Keep your Cool with Doug Quinn ACMA Uncategorized

Get the Money and Keep your Cool with Doug Quinn ACMA

This month at the Giant Academy we looked at the fraught process of raising money and dealing with your finances –  and how not to…

Paul Barnes