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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

The Battle for Great People – With Richard Wood, MD at Grain Uncategorized

The Battle for Great People – With Richard Wood, MD at Grain

This month at the Giant Academy we talk about how many owners, as they successfully grow their businesses, are  making a real priority of finding…

Paul Barnes

Which of These 8 Challenges is Your Creative Agency Going up Against? Uncategorized

Which of These 8 Challenges is Your Creative Agency Going up Against?

Every industry has a set of challenges that businesses must overcome in order to achieve greatness, and digital/creative agencies are absolutely no exception. We're no…

Paul Barnes

February Digital Roundable – Make sure you own what you create! Uncategorized

February Digital Roundable – Make sure you own what you create!

Thanks so much to everyone who made it along to our February Digital Roundtable event on Thursday 18 February. It was great to get the…

Paul Barnes

Support small businesses: have your say about dividend tax Saving Tax

Support small businesses: have your say about dividend tax

The Government is about to bring in changes to shareholder’s dividend income that will make it harder than ever for small business owners to make…

Paul Barnes

That business plan that’s stuck in your drawer… Increasing Company Value

That business plan that’s stuck in your drawer…

If you’re running any kind of business, chances are that you’ve made a business plan at some point – it might have been to apply…

Paul Barnes

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