How time flies, it was nearly 18 months ago now that I nervously walked into the exam room at Starting Off to take my final AAT exam, the culmination of 3 and a half years of hard work. Bean Counters was then a fledgling part-time business that I started alongside a full-time job not knowing whether it would work out or not.

Well that was then,

HMRC has issued new guidance for scale rates for subsistence payments and from 6 April these are fixed allowances and are available for employees’ subsistence.

All business owners like to think they can learn any of the skills required to run their companies better. But can just anyone learn to do the bookkeeping?

I am proud to announce that Adam Tate has joined Bean Counters Bookkeeping as an Apprentice Accounts Technician.

Proposals to allow HMRC to collect unpaid tax directly from bank accounts could have serious repercussions for businesses of all sizes the IAB has warned.