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Make a difference in 2016: 5 New Year resolutions for your business Uncategorized

Make a difference in 2016: 5 New Year resolutions for your business

Here we are in 2016. The leftover turkey has been finished, the mince pies and chocolates have all been eaten and gym memberships have been…

Paul Barnes

Why it’s so effective to contribute to a pension scheme Saving Tax

Why it’s so effective to contribute to a pension scheme

Pensions are on everyone's minds at the moment. You'll no doubt have seen 'Workie' the workplace pensions monster in a series of TV and media…

David Arden

Where have all the good accountants gone? Uncategorized

Where have all the good accountants gone?

When I set up My Accountancy Place it was for one driving reason – to give serious business owners an accountancy service that was seriously…

Paul Barnes

Why you need to fire yourself from your agency Uncategorized

Why you need to fire yourself from your agency

Yep, you read that correctly. You need to fire yourself from your agency. Put on your best ‘Sir Alan’ face, point at yourself in the…

Paul Barnes

Thank you to a wonderful client base and an amazing team Uncategorized

Thank you to a wonderful client base and an amazing team

You might have noticed a certain amount of excitement at My Accountancy Place HQ yesterday. And that’s because we were looking forward to a night…

Paul Barnes

Improve your cash flow with Direct Debit and GoCardless Cloud Accounting

Improve your cash flow with Direct Debit and GoCardless

When you’re running a creative agency, getting paid on time is going to be one of your key goals. And the easier you make it…

Paul Barnes

Autumn Statement: we’re all going digital! Uncategorized

Autumn Statement: we’re all going digital!

The more eagle-eyed among you may have spotted that George Osborne delivered his annual Autumn Statement on 25 November. The big news for many was…

Paul Barnes

Xero’s data is safe as houses Cloud Accounting

Xero’s data is safe as houses

With the recent security blow felt by customers of Talk Talk, security is on every business owner’s mind at the moment. Although worries around the…

Paul Barnes

October Digital Roundtable: Boosting the performance of your creative people Uncategorized

October Digital Roundtable: Boosting the performance of your creative people

Autumn is upon us, and that meant it was time for our October Digital Roundtable event on 20 October. We filled the My Accountancy Place…

Paul Barnes

Payment services Uncategorized

Payment services

Payment gateways: are you ready for new ways to pay? Paying for things used to be easy in the old days. You paid by cash,…

Paul Barnes

Adding value Increasing Company Value

Adding value

Forget about year-end and tax. This is how we REALLY add value. We’re fast approaching the year-end for many businesses. And, traditionally, year-end meant getting…

Paul Barnes

Cash flow and profitability Becoming Profitable

Cash flow and profitability

Is cash flow the real problem? Or is it profitability? When we’re checking in with our creative agency clients there’s a response that comes up…

Paul Barnes

Limited company expenses – what you can and can’t claim Uncategorized

Limited company expenses – what you can and can’t claim

'Don't worry, I'll chuck it on expenses!' How many times have you heard that phrase uttered at the latest breakfast catch-up/working lunch/evening 'meeting' in the…

Paul Barnes

Paul’s the daddy! Being a parent and working in the cloud Uncategorized

Paul’s the daddy! Being a parent and working in the cloud

This blog post's a bit more of a personal one than usual. And written through bloodshot eyes after three hour's sleep. But enough of that,…

Paul Barnes

Make your people happy: the facts about employee benefits Getting more from your team

Make your people happy: the facts about employee benefits

Want to provide employment benefits to your agency employees but aren't sure of the implications? If you're planning on being 'Johnny Nice Boss' and providing…

Paul Barnes

Reasons you don’t switch accountants (and why they’re bad reasons) Uncategorized

Reasons you don’t switch accountants (and why they’re bad reasons)

Guest blog post by Karen Reyburn of The Profitable Firm Last month I wrote a guest blog post for my friends at My Accountancy Place…

Paul Barnes

We live in the cloud: and it’s the business! Cloud Accounting

We live in the cloud: and it’s the business!

If you’re a regular reader of our blog, you’ll know that we’re always banging on about the latest cloud apps and how great they are…

Paul Barnes

August Digital Roundtable: international guests, creative insights and a whacking great hole! Uncategorized

August Digital Roundtable: international guests, creative insights and a whacking great hole!

We gathered the best of the North West’s creative talent together again on 18 August for another quality evening at the Digital Roundtable. And this…

Paul Barnes

The 4 KPIs digital agencies MUST know Uncategorized

The 4 KPIs digital agencies MUST know

KPIs – what the hell are they? Klingon Planetary Interceptors? King Penguins Igloo? Kill Profits Instantly? Well, in actual fact, KPI stands for Key Performance…

Paul Barnes

Why I love my accountants (which I didn’t know was possible) Uncategorized

Why I love my accountants (which I didn’t know was possible)

Guest blog post by Karen Reyburn of The Profitable Firm Having worked with accountants for well over 15 years, and now owning a business that…

Paul Barnes