General Book-keeping & Accounting - The Book-keepers Forum (UK)

racheas · racheas

Hi I recently started my bookkeeping service and up until now I have had 2 clients who are both new businesses with no previous accountant. I have acquired a third client now but she has used an accountant for the past 3 years. They parted ways in March and she hasnt had any accounts prepared since then....

rachael-pink · rachael-pink

Hi Me again! I have reconciled everything I have and have no outstanding transactions. however I have £8k difference between matched balance and statement balance. I have had a lot of cash transactions would this account for the difference? Book balance is £4 and payments and receipts are about £40...

Elaine R · Elaine R

Hi everyone, Looking for a bit of advice here. I have client who has made some purchases on the internet of small tools/drill bits for his business . He has no receipt for these items but he has pointed them out to me on his bank statement. Should I go ahead and claim the expense to offset his tax liability...

Sunnyday · Sunnyday

I just lost my first client

have done a massive job for them creating their accounts from scratch from their pile of unmixed mess for whole year, no appreciation.. well it was a horrible disorganized rude client but with such fierce competition in my area it's sad.. :'-(

linda19 · linda19

Please could some help with the Journal i need to create for a payment certificate we recieve from our client? We are a construction firm and when we receive a weekly payment from the company we work for they send a payment certificate , i need to be able to seperate the figures : I have scanned an example...

Rainoo · Rainoo

On posting car parking charges, would you put it under Travelling or Misc. Motor Expenses? Sorry for perhaps obvious question, but I am new to this 'game'! Thanking yooouu!

FranMS · FranMS

Hope someone can help I've agreed to do some bookkeeping for free for a small SEO company to gain some work experience as I've just finished a bookkeeping course with the open university and will be starting AAT soon. Long story short, I met with the guy today, and he is currently in between businesses a...

rachael-pink · rachael-pink

Hi I wondered how I should process this in SAGE. I have cash sales for a car but some have been used to pay off a loan and haven't touched the bank. How do I show in the customer invoices that they have been paid off but the money has never gone into the bank and gone straight off to pay a loan? Many thanks Me aga...

tonys · tonys

Hi all I have been approached by a neighbour who has been organising a local action group to oppose the building on green belt in our area. Basically the group have raised funds to rent a room meet and print leaflets etc. Someone has donated a £100 cheque (previously just bits of cash) and they app...

reelspike · reelspike

Hi there.... The Setup We have two bank accounts for one of our companies. One current account and secondary account. The payments made between the Current A/C and the secondary A/C should be done through the cashbook via the 'inter account transfer' option on Sage 200. Unfortunatly, some of my p...

rachael-pink · rachael-pink

Hi I've taken on a limited company that aren't VAT registered. They set up on the 1st July and I have just got their first lot of invoices etc to enter onto Sage. I've just set up on my own self employed and this is the first experience I have of a Ltd non vat reg company. Most of the accounts are fine however - t...

rachael-pink · rachael-pink

I just put everything on SAGE as T9 don't I? I'm having a major attack of the collywobbles!

Adrian99 · Adrian99

1. I have done all my tax returns for my self employed courier business without deducting the private use of fuel, service, insurance and other expenses of the motorbike. I have claimed the expenses in full. This is for all the tax returns from 2009 onwards. Should I try to calculate a personal use %...

karen8310 · karen8310

Hello, We have taken out a new bank loan for £10,000. I have set up two recurring entries in 'Bank' - one in the 2300 area for the loan and one in 7900 for loan interest. But I do not know how to enter the receipt of the loan amount itself! If I enter it as a Bank Receipt, what nominal code do I use? Is it the sam...

rachael-pink · rachael-pink

Hi I just wondered how you process this in Sage? Say a car was bought for £4,000 and sold for £6,000. The scheme means they only pay VAT on the £2,000 they made - right? So do you need to do a journal for this? How do I input it into SAGE? thanks

Oasis83 · Oasis83

Hi, wonder if someone could help me? How would you calculate the interest on capital to a new partner who has joined the firm half way through the year? Would it be on the balance in their capital account at year end after goodwill, and would it just be for 6 months? And how would you calculate goodwill...

angelesydan · angelesydan

Hello, Hope someone can help me. A self employed with Plumbing business. He bought a new Van (0050 Motor Vehicles) some money was paid by cash (1230 Petty Cash) and the rest he will pay monthly (2310 Hire Purchase). My problem is he trade in his old van (which was not in the books as he had it since be...

Rastislav · Rastislav

Dear all, will you be so kind and could you recommend me some cheap "website designer"? How do you manage run your own website anyway? I did try to create my one alone (trying to start to run my small bookkeeping practice along with my studies), but so far I did find quite expensive websit...

books2013 · books2013

Hi All Apologies if this is a really daft question, but would really appreciate second opinion. If a sole trader client has an accounting date of 1.1 -31.12 and the last tax return submitted was for 2008/2009 what tax returns do I do? Is it as follows? Tax return for ye 2009- 1.1.2009-31.12.2009 Tax ret...

Shelly · Shelly

Hello, my friend has a small building company and he is buying a lot of small amounts bills from ebay, usually each one from a different person. I would like to ask how should those be posted on Sage? I appreciate any answer. Thank you. Michelle

Topic		Started By	Replies	Views	Last Post
	Newbie query new client opening balances (Preview) Hi I recently started my bookkeeping service and up until now I have had 2 clients who are both new businesses with no previous accountant. I have acquired a third client now but she has used an accountant for the past 3 years. They parted ways in March and she hasnt had any accounts prepared since then....	racheas	4	2895	Sun Aug 11 21:22 2013 by racheas
	Bank Reconciliation (Preview) Hi Me again! I have reconciled everything I have and have no outstanding transactions. however I have £8k difference between matched balance and statement balance. I have had a lot of cash transactions would this account for the difference? Book balance is £4 and payments and receipts are about £40...	rachael-pink	3	809	Sun Aug 11 20:52 2013 by Cheshire
	Missing receipts (Preview) Hi everyone, Looking for a bit of advice here. I have client who has made some purchases on the internet of small tools/drill bits for his business . He has no receipt for these items but he has pointed them out to me on his bank statement. Should I go ahead and claim the expense to offset his tax liability...	Elaine R	6	1534	Sun Aug 11 19:44 2013 by Sylvia
	just lost a client (Preview) I just lost my first client have done a massive job for them creating their accounts from scratch from their pile of unmixed mess for whole year, no appreciation.. well it was a horrible disorganized rude client but with such fierce competition in my area it's sad.. :'-(	Sunnyday	2	1012	Fri Aug 9 07:00 2013 by MarkS
	Journal for payment certificate with retention & CIS (Preview) Please could some help with the Journal i need to create for a payment certificate we recieve from our client? We are a construction firm and when we receive a weekly payment from the company we work for they send a payment certificate , i need to be able to seperate the figures : I have scanned an example...	linda19	0	694	Thu Aug 8 18:44 2013 by linda19
	Just a quickie! (Preview) On posting car parking charges, would you put it under Travelling or Misc. Motor Expenses? Sorry for perhaps obvious question, but I am new to this 'game'! Thanking yooouu!	Rainoo	2	847	Thu Aug 8 20:38 2013 by Rainoo
	Sole trader changing to a limited company (Preview) Hope someone can help I've agreed to do some bookkeeping for free for a small SEO company to gain some work experience as I've just finished a bookkeeping course with the open university and will be starting AAT soon. Long story short, I met with the guy today, and he is currently in between businesses a...	FranMS	6	1176	Wed Aug 7 05:07 2013 by FranMS
	Another bloody question! (Preview) Hi I wondered how I should process this in SAGE. I have cash sales for a car but some have been used to pay off a loan and haven't touched the bank. How do I show in the customer invoices that they have been paid off but the money has never gone into the bank and gone straight off to pay a loan? Many thanks Me aga...	rachael-pink	1	678	Tue Aug 6 06:14 2013 by Sammy76
	Local action group (Preview) Hi all I have been approached by a neighbour who has been organising a local action group to oppose the building on green belt in our area. Basically the group have raised funds to rent a room meet and print leaflets etc. Someone has donated a £100 cheque (previously just bits of cash) and they app...	tonys	1	643	Tue Aug 6 04:29 2013 by kjmcculloch83
	Correcting the Cashbook balance against Nominal code (Preview) Hi there.... The Setup We have two bank accounts for one of our companies. One current account and secondary account. The payments made between the Current A/C and the secondary A/C should be done through the cashbook via the 'inter account transfer' option on Sage 200. Unfortunatly, some of my p...	reelspike	0	673	Mon Aug 5 12:32 2013 by reelspike
	Please help I'm trying to sort out accounts in a mess! (Preview) Hi I've taken on a limited company that aren't VAT registered. They set up on the 1st July and I have just got their first lot of invoices etc to enter onto Sage. I've just set up on my own self employed and this is the first experience I have of a Ltd non vat reg company. Most of the accounts are fine however - t...	rachael-pink	6	1294	Mon Aug 5 03:30 2013 by rachael-pink
	Company that ISNT VAT registered (Preview) I just put everything on SAGE as T9 don't I? I'm having a major attack of the collywobbles!	rachael-pink	2	678	Sat Aug 3 02:57 2013 by rachael-pink
	Errors in completing previous tax returns for self employed. Please help me if you can. (Preview) 1. I have done all my tax returns for my self employed courier business without deducting the private use of fuel, service, insurance and other expenses of the motorbike. I have claimed the expenses in full. This is for all the tax returns from 2009 onwards. Should I try to calculate a personal use %...	Adrian99	4	1225	Fri Aug 2 21:40 2013 by Adrian99
	Entering a new bank loan on Sage Instant Accounts Plus (Preview) Hello, We have taken out a new bank loan for £10,000. I have set up two recurring entries in 'Bank' - one in the 2300 area for the loan and one in 7900 for loan interest. But I do not know how to enter the receipt of the loan amount itself! If I enter it as a Bank Receipt, what nominal code do I use? Is it the sam...	karen8310	2	6485	Fri Aug 2 16:48 2013 by karen8310
	Second hand car margin scheme (Preview) Hi I just wondered how you process this in Sage? Say a car was bought for £4,000 and sold for £6,000. The scheme means they only pay VAT on the £2,000 they made - right? So do you need to do a journal for this? How do I input it into SAGE? thanks	rachael-pink	4	956	Thu Aug 1 21:02 2013 by rachael-pink
	Partnership Capital Interest (Preview) Hi, wonder if someone could help me? How would you calculate the interest on capital to a new partner who has joined the firm half way through the year? Would it be on the balance in their capital account at year end after goodwill, and would it just be for 6 months? And how would you calculate goodwill...	Oasis83	3	702	Thu Aug 1 01:38 2013 by ilsm
	Discount on Assets Purchased (Preview) Hello, Hope someone can help me. A self employed with Plumbing business. He bought a new Van (0050 Motor Vehicles) some money was paid by cash (1230 Petty Cash) and the rest he will pay monthly (2310 Hire Purchase). My problem is he trade in his old van (which was not in the books as he had it since be...	angelesydan	1	825	Wed Jul 31 23:28 2013 by Shamus
	Website for small bookkeeping practice (Preview) Dear all, will you be so kind and could you recommend me some cheap "website designer"? How do you manage run your own website anyway? I did try to create my one alone (trying to start to run my small bookkeeping practice along with my studies), but so far I did find quite expensive websit...	Rastislav	9	1142	Wed Jul 31 23:13 2013 by kjmcculloch83
	Year ends and tax returns (Preview) Hi All Apologies if this is a really daft question, but would really appreciate second opinion. If a sole trader client has an accounting date of 1.1 -31.12 and the last tax return submitted was for 2008/2009 what tax returns do I do? Is it as follows? Tax return for ye 2009- 1.1.2009-31.12.2009 Tax ret...	books2013	1	914	Wed Jul 31 13:43 2013 by rachel_mclean
	Ebay receipts on Sage? (Preview) Hello, my friend has a small building company and he is buying a lot of small amounts bills from ebay, usually each one from a different person. I would like to ask how should those be posted on Sage? I appreciate any answer. Thank you. Michelle	Shelly	9	1119	Tue Jul 30 23:42 2013 by GJRobbins
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