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Auto enrolment cannot be ignored; legislation clearly puts the responsibility firmly on the shoulders of employers to operate a Qualifying Scheme correctly for all their workers including some who would be otherwise self employed. Why? Most people are not saving...
Your Auto Enrolment Plan So what's your plan? Everyone needs a plan right? Here are the 11 steps to auto enrolment. Once you know your staging date you should start pulling your plan together, or consider engaging your accountant or payroll bureau to do this for you....
The chart of accounts is a list of all the accounts used in the general ledger of your company. It creates the roadmap of your financial transactions. Getting this right (first time) will really help you know your numbers.
A question that regularly comes up when considering lease finance of an asset, is how to account for the lease in your business accounts. Is it a rental cost to be charged to the P&L? Or it it an asset to be capitalised to your balance sheet? It depends on the...
If you pay commissions to or buy goods or services from a non-VAT registered supplier, you can use Xero to produce simple self-bill invoices that can be emailed to your supplier with or before payment. See also: The Ins and Outs of Self-Billing Self-Billing :: Raising...
If you are looking for investment and wish to know more about EIS, then this article may be for you. It does go into more detail than our typical articles because the conditions are so extensive. So grab a coffee and take notes - if you are considering EIS or SEIS...
Seed Enterprise Investment Scheme (SEIS) The SEIS legislation is closely modelled on that for the EIS, but it is intended to help small, new start-up companies (rather than the more established companies typical of the EIS) by offering a higher rate of relief. Its...
You have just made a capital gain from selling an asset and intend to invest in an enterprise investment scheme (EIS) to defer paying tax on it. How can you achieve the best tax saving possible? EIS relief Buying shares in enterprise investment scheme (EIS) companies...
On occasion, your perfectly behaved Xero bank rules will stop working. Not usually because of anything you have done, but often because the banks have updated their data export schemas or the supplier has changed one of the references on your payment. Here is an...
It's good practice to compare your statement balance in Xero to your online or paper statement balance (your actual bank balance) at least once a quarter - once a month if you manually import bank transactions. The two balances should match each other for the same...