Tuesday 30 September 2014

Charity VAT guidance

HMRC has recently re-issued its VAT guidance for charities (VAT Notice 701/1); it has been re-structured and rewritten to improve readability and accessibility and is available from the HMRC website.

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QuickBooks Online offer – extended availability

If you are considering an online accounting option, we have now been able to extend our QuickBooks Online Plus special offer into next year. You can sign up with us for a monthly cost of £15 (incl VAT) which is fixed for as long as you maintain the subscription. This offer gives you an unlimited - and not restricted - number of users and also access to unlimited telephone support from our staff who are QuickBooks Online Certified Pro Advisors.  For further information please see here or contact us.

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New good practice guide – Charting in Excel

Following on from the success of our guide on Presenting financial and other management information effectively - currently our most popular download - we have recently published a follow-up guide on some of the practicalities of presenting information.

Using Excel for Charting gives a basic introduction to charting for users of recent versions of Microsoft Excel. It is a very simple illustrative step by step guide to creating and editing charts and will enable you to present your financial (and/or activity) information visually.

It might be helpful to read the new guide in conjunction with the earlier guide – which aims to help with thinking about how to present information and includes some good practice principles and ideas. The ‘Using Excel for Charting’ guide is about the practicalities of implementing these ideas.

The guide is available for free from the relevant page on our website under the governance heading.

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Financial controls E-Learning course – now running

We recently launched our first E-Learning course which gives a basic introduction to financial controls with the aim of helping you to understand the concepts and follow best practice. The initial course was full and ends on 13 October.

We will be improving the course following any comments or feedback and re-running it later in the Autumn and registration is open now.  Further details about the course are available on our website.

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E-Bulletin

Our e-bulletin is issued on a monthly basis and sent directly to registered subscribers. It is also available from our website. Please note that information and resources contained in the e-bulletin are general in nature and not intended as specific advice or recommendations. We welcome any feedback on the content and format so that we can improve it and make sure it meets your needs. Please let us know  if you have any comments or suggestions.

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