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Improving your profitability by raising your prices Becoming Profitable

Improving your profitability by raising your prices

Pricing. It’s an absolutely critical element of your profitability when running a creative agency. If your prices are too low, you can’t cover your costs,…

Paul Barnes

The importance of valuing work in progress – and how to do it Uncategorized

The importance of valuing work in progress – and how to do it

When we first start working with a new client, there’s one key accounting lesson we educate them in as soon as possible. And that’s the…

Paul Barnes

Managing your lead pipeline: becoming a superhuman lead expert Uncategorized

Managing your lead pipeline: becoming a superhuman lead expert

We all know the importance of following up on your leads and enquiries. They’re the starting point for a potential long-term relationship with a paying…

Paul Barnes

VAT Flat Rate Scheme Saving Tax

VAT Flat Rate Scheme

The VAT Flat Rate Scheme – an easier way to handle your VAT The VAT Flat Rate Scheme was introduced back in 2002 as a…

Paul Barnes

Buy to Let Property: Get the best advice Uncategorized

Buy to Let Property: Get the best advice

Buy-to-let properties – Limited Company vs Personal Ownership We’ve all watched Kirsty and Phil on the box and thought to ourselves, ‘Wouldn’t it be great…

Paul Barnes

Digital Roundtable Uncategorized

Digital Roundtable

Become a Knight of The Digital Roundtable Are you a creative thinker? Do you work for an agency? Do you love beards and savoury snacks?…

Paul Barnes

Automating your processes – the benefits for your business Uncategorized

Automating your processes – the benefits for your business

Affordable, easy-to-use software and apps have made it easier than ever to set up your business systems and access them wherever you are - you…

Paul Barnes

Why a recurring revenue model makes sense for your digital creative agency Becoming Profitable

Why a recurring revenue model makes sense for your digital creative agency

We work with a lot of digital creative clients. And we're seeing a clear intention from many of them to create a recurring revenue stream…

Paul Barnes

Great tax news for your creative business Saving Tax

Great tax news for your creative business

When the Chancellor stands up to deliver his annual Budget, most of us are hoping for good news on the personal tax allowance, no extra…

Paul Barnes

Job Vacancy: Client Manager Uncategorized

Job Vacancy: Client Manager

Are you a Qualified Accountant? Are you a fully qualified accountant who sees accounting support in a non-traditional way? Do you want to embrace cloud…

Paul Barnes

Switching accountants can be easy Uncategorized

Switching accountants can be easy

Whatever the size of your business, you've probably used an accountant at some point.  They might have just helped you with a tax return, or…

Paul Barnes

Value-based pricing – a more productive way to get paid Becoming Profitable

Value-based pricing – a more productive way to get paid

When you’re working out your pricing, you've got a fairly fundamental choice to make. Do you record the time spent on a job and then…

Amanda Wilcox

Stop watching the clock: delivering value, not measuring time Increasing Company Value

Stop watching the clock: delivering value, not measuring time

But that’s not always how it’s worked in the professional services sector – and this applies even more to creative agencies. There are three main…

Paul Barnes

The Xero Journey for your Creative Agency: From Sales Lead to Cash in Bank Becoming Profitable

The Xero Journey for your Creative Agency: From Sales Lead to Cash in Bank

Rod Drury, Xero CEO and Founder, explained at Xerocon recently that "Accounting Software” was always a temporary category for where they are headed as a software…

Paul Barnes

10 FAQs For Startup Creative Agencies Uncategorized

10 FAQs For Startup Creative Agencies

When you’re starting up a new creative agency, it all seems like smooth sailing at first. It’s exciting. Fun. New. Challenges are just that –…

Paul Barnes

Xero’s New Payroll Feature Makes Life Easier For You And Your Employees Cloud Accounting

Xero’s New Payroll Feature Makes Life Easier For You And Your Employees

At the recent Xero conference in London, a very exciting thing happened. We say exciting, but we know that as accountants, we possibly have different…

Paul Barnes

Eat Or Be Eaten: Use Xero To Rule The Roost Cloud Accounting

Eat Or Be Eaten: Use Xero To Rule The Roost

It’s perhaps the golden rule of everything in the history of our planet. Eat or be eaten. It was true years ago, and it’s still…

Paul Barnes

Management Accounts: The beating heart of your business Cloud Accounting

Management Accounts: The beating heart of your business

Management accounts. Not a phrase that sets the pulse racing, is it? But they’re actually the beating heart of your business and the key to…

Paul Barnes

Xerocon: a technology conference, not an accountancy conference Cloud Accounting

Xerocon: a technology conference, not an accountancy conference

If you know us, you’ll know we think Xero's the bee’s knees. But even if you know Xero, you may not know how big a…

Paul Barnes

Digital Roundtable 14th April 2015 Uncategorized

Digital Roundtable 14th April 2015

Are you a senior Digital creative type? Are you a creative? Love talking digital? Like eating biscuits? Boy, have we got a treat for you.…

Paul Barnes