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

JacF · JacF

Hello and Happy Friday! Except not for me at the moment as I'm struggling with getting accurate reports from CashFlows. Does anyone on here use it and perhaps have found a way to download one monthly report that gives total sales, refunds, charges and a beginning and end balance? That's what I'm tr...

keano43 · keano43

Hi I have had a brain freeze, not unusual for me :). I need to set up a Dollar bank account within sage line 50, but have forgotten how to do this. I am running 2 companies at the moment within my sage package and i have managed to set up a dollar bank account on one of them, but cant seem to remember how to do it on...

Stardoe · Stardoe

Hi everyone on this chilly morning in Essex! (At least it's not raining....yet!) Just have a quick question, one of my clients gets charged by the landlord for electricity she uses at the premises. The VAT rate the landlord uses is 20%.....surely this should only be 5% as they would only get charged 5...

FoxAccountancyServices · FoxAccountancyServices

Hey all! Can I pick your brains about digital signatures, please? Usually I send the letter of engagement by email and ask the client to print, sign and post it back to me, so that I have an original signature on file. I have a new client who went out of the country the day after hiring me, for a long holida...

Kitty37 · Kitty37

Hi - I have just prepared my clients final year accounts to 31st December 2013 and the directors wish to pay themselves a dividend which is fine as there are profits after tax. I was under the assumption that I would (i) DR dividends (capital & reserves) and (ii) CR proposed dividend (current liabi...

Vicki Newman · Vicki Newman

Hello! I have a client who has been paying CIS and paying the standard 20% to which I have been debiting the Capital account with CIS suffered. He has now changed the tax treatment to gross payments, how should this be accounted? Do I just post everything to sales as if he wasn't paying CIS at all? Thank yo...

Temeraire · Temeraire

Hi everyone Just taken on a new client - he is a struggling sole-trader (joiner) who is receiving disabled working tax credit. He has managed a few one off jobs throughout the past eight months or so but no regular work coming in. He does a lot of voluntary work for the housing association which are his l...

Helen Nicholas · Helen Nicholas

Hello Everybody, I was wondering if anybody could give me some advice on Suspense Accounts as I am finding it all very confusing! When should an entry go into an S/A and are there any easy rules of remembering. For example I have the following questions/corrections to do: an invoice for 3,000 for pu...

tonys · tonys

Hi I am book keeping for a manufacturing company and they have asked for monthly/quarterly P & L's. The accounts are on Sage so this is easy enough but in honesty, for other Companies, I have previously used a P & L template and entered the figures from Sage onto it, then done the opening a...

RachelR · RachelR

Good morning I wonder if anyone can give me some advice, my husband is thinking of being a HGV self employed driver working for agencies. He is expecting his turnover to be about £35k a year. Although under the VAT threshold his mates who do this suggests that he becomes VAT registered can you please a...

Samilou67 · Samilou67

Hi just a quicky Is it appropriate for an accountant to criticise/slag off a bookkeepers work to the client and recommend a different one? I have a new client that this happened to and although I am happy to have the work I don't think it is very good practice, am I wrong? Sam

dafina · dafina

Hi! My accountant sent me this trial balance from my previous year's accounts so I want to add them to my new Sage instant accounts program as opening balances: I have put them into sage practise mode journal entry as this: [IMG]http://i40.ti...

Nimac · Nimac

Hello We use absorption costing to determine the hourly rate we charge our engineers out to customers however i was at a course run by our local enterprise agency a while back where it was suggested we use marginal costing as it is more accurate and relevant. I am working through a few figures today but a...

jamesnito15 · jamesnito15

I have attached a copy of the reconciliation for this trust account from QuickBooks. So i have received this Audit spreadsheet from one of our clients asking us to fill this out every month. So i started working on this but i came across with a problem on line 89. Line 89 is asking if Closing balance minus...

Nicki noos · Nicki noos

Hi all I've recently taken over the bookkeeping for a ltd company and had a trial balance from the old bookkeeper so I could enter my opening balances The debtors control account had a debit balance of £35379.98. I know to make it balance I now need to enter opening balances to the customer accounts b...

Samilou67 · Samilou67

Hiya, I'm currently doing the accounts for a friend who has her own LLP which is an online shop selling party bags for kids. She has just called and asked if there is any reason why she can't open a separate business for wedding favours. She will register the business with HMRC as another partnership wi...

Bucks Bodger · Bucks Bodger

Wonder if anyone can help - I have started working for a charity and I have been asked to document their financial systems (by the Auditors). I don't have a clue where to start and wondered if anyone has any experience of something like this and could give me some pointers/point me to a sample ? Hope some...

Ridesy · Ridesy

Hi Guys/Gals Hope you don't mind me picking your brains on this one. Our eldest daughter is gainfully employed as a fulltime "Poolside Manager" at local health club/resort on south coast, but has also kept up some private swim teaching in evenings/ at weekends, as she qualified to level...

RuthA · RuthA

I prepare my own company accounts, but I'm looking to remortgage and the lender needs an independent accountant to verify the figures (can be chartered/IFA/AAT). If anyone here would be interested in quoting to do it, please contact me. It's 2 years that need to be done, my understanding is that the l...

Mark Joseph · Mark Joseph

Just wondering if someone would be kind enough to offer me some advice. Essentially I have worked for a company for around 10 months now on a self employed basis. I have done some research and it seems the reason companies prefer workers to be self employed is because it is far cheaper for them. My concer...

Topic		Started By	Replies	Views	Last Post
	Voice Commerce - CashFlows (Preview) Hello and Happy Friday! Except not for me at the moment as I'm struggling with getting accurate reports from CashFlows. Does anyone on here use it and perhaps have found a way to download one monthly report that gives total sales, refunds, charges and a beginning and end balance? That's what I'm tr...	JacF	0	817	Fri Jan 24 13:50 2014 by JacF
	Different currency bank within Sage Line 50 (Preview) Hi I have had a brain freeze, not unusual for me :). I need to set up a Dollar bank account within sage line 50, but have forgotten how to do this. I am running 2 companies at the moment within my sage package and i have managed to set up a dollar bank account on one of them, but cant seem to remember how to do it on...	keano43	4	785	Fri Jan 24 09:42 2014 by keano43
	Electricity recharged at 20% VAT (Preview) Hi everyone on this chilly morning in Essex! (At least it's not raining....yet!) Just have a quick question, one of my clients gets charged by the landlord for electricity she uses at the premises. The VAT rate the landlord uses is 20%.....surely this should only be 5% as they would only get charged 5...	Stardoe	5	6842	Thu Jan 23 18:17 2014 by FoxAccountancyServices
	Digital signatures (Preview) Hey all! Can I pick your brains about digital signatures, please? Usually I send the letter of engagement by email and ask the client to print, sign and post it back to me, so that I have an original signature on file. I have a new client who went out of the country the day after hiring me, for a long holida...	FoxAccountancyServices	11	1040	Thu Jan 23 16:09 2014 by RuthA
	Proposed Dividend in Final Accounts (Preview) Hi - I have just prepared my clients final year accounts to 31st December 2013 and the directors wish to pay themselves a dividend which is fine as there are profits after tax. I was under the assumption that I would (i) DR dividends (capital & reserves) and (ii) CR proposed dividend (current liabi...	Kitty37	1	1864	Thu Jan 23 13:35 2014 by MarkS
	Double Entry for changing CIS from Standard Tax Treatment to Gross Tax Treatment (Preview) Hello! I have a client who has been paying CIS and paying the standard 20% to which I have been debiting the Capital account with CIS suffered. He has now changed the tax treatment to gross payments, how should this be accounted? Do I just post everything to sales as if he wasn't paying CIS at all? Thank yo...	Vicki Newman	1	1104	Thu Jan 23 12:22 2014 by Vicki Newman
	New client - loss of earnings question (Preview) Hi everyone Just taken on a new client - he is a struggling sole-trader (joiner) who is receiving disabled working tax credit. He has managed a few one off jobs throughout the past eight months or so but no regular work coming in. He does a lot of voluntary work for the housing association which are his l...	Temeraire	4	819	Wed Jan 22 22:59 2014 by FoxAccountancyServices
	Correction of Errors and Suspense accounts (Preview) Hello Everybody, I was wondering if anybody could give me some advice on Suspense Accounts as I am finding it all very confusing! When should an entry go into an S/A and are there any easy rules of remembering. For example I have the following questions/corrections to do: an invoice for 3,000 for pu...	Helen Nicholas	11	3872	Wed Jan 22 18:05 2014 by abacus12345
	Monthly stock journals on Sage (Preview) Hi I am book keeping for a manufacturing company and they have asked for monthly/quarterly P & L's. The accounts are on Sage so this is easy enough but in honesty, for other Companies, I have previously used a P & L template and entered the figures from Sage onto it, then done the opening a...	tonys	2	813	Wed Jan 22 11:16 2014 by tonys
	Self Employed HGV (Preview) Good morning I wonder if anyone can give me some advice, my husband is thinking of being a HGV self employed driver working for agencies. He is expecting his turnover to be about £35k a year. Although under the VAT threshold his mates who do this suggests that he becomes VAT registered can you please a...	RachelR	9	3331	Tue Jan 21 21:48 2014 by StuartAnder
	Professionalism (Preview) Hi just a quicky Is it appropriate for an accountant to criticise/slag off a bookkeepers work to the client and recommend a different one? I have a new client that this happened to and although I am happy to have the work I don't think it is very good practice, am I wrong? Sam	Samilou67	5	961	Tue Jan 21 20:45 2014 by ClareB4
	Opening Balances into new Sage (Preview) Hi! My accountant sent me this trial balance from my previous year's accounts so I want to add them to my new Sage instant accounts program as opening balances: I have put them into sage practise mode journal entry as this: [IMG]http://i40.ti...	dafina	8	2998	Tue Jan 21 09:44 2014 by Stardoe
	Marginal costing help (Preview) Hello We use absorption costing to determine the hourly rate we charge our engineers out to customers however i was at a course run by our local enterprise agency a while back where it was suggested we use marginal costing as it is more accurate and relevant. I am working through a few figures today but a...	Nimac	1	525	Mon Jan 20 09:09 2014 by Nimac
	I need an Advice for this Trust Account (Preview) I have attached a copy of the reconciliation for this trust account from QuickBooks. So i have received this Audit spreadsheet from one of our clients asking us to fill this out every month. So i started working on this but i came across with a problem on line 89. Line 89 is asking if Closing balance minus...	jamesnito15	1	569	Sun Jan 19 13:39 2014 by StuartAnder
	Opening Customer Balances (Preview) Hi all I've recently taken over the bookkeeping for a ltd company and had a trial balance from the old bookkeeper so I could enter my opening balances The debtors control account had a debit balance of £35379.98. I know to make it balance I now need to enter opening balances to the customer accounts b...	Nicki noos	5	857	Sat Jan 18 18:59 2014 by Nicki noos
	Starting an additional business (Preview) Hiya, I'm currently doing the accounts for a friend who has her own LLP which is an online shop selling party bags for kids. She has just called and asked if there is any reason why she can't open a separate business for wedding favours. She will register the business with HMRC as another partnership wi...	Samilou67	10	1026	Sat Jan 18 16:47 2014 by Cheshire
	Documerntaion of Financial Systems (Preview) Wonder if anyone can help - I have started working for a charity and I have been asked to document their financial systems (by the Auditors). I don't have a clue where to start and wondered if anyone has any experience of something like this and could give me some pointers/point me to a sample ? Hope some...	Bucks Bodger	2	528	Sat Jan 18 16:22 2014 by Shamus
	Help with additional self-employed income for full-time PAYE employed daughter. (Preview) Hi Guys/Gals Hope you don't mind me picking your brains on this one. Our eldest daughter is gainfully employed as a fulltime "Poolside Manager" at local health club/resort on south coast, but has also kept up some private swim teaching in evenings/ at weekends, as she qualified to level...	Ridesy	1	645	Sat Jan 18 13:40 2014 by Cheshire
	Looking for an accountant (Preview) I prepare my own company accounts, but I'm looking to remortgage and the lender needs an independent accountant to verify the figures (can be chartered/IFA/AAT). If anyone here would be interested in quoting to do it, please contact me. It's 2 years that need to be done, my understanding is that the l...	RuthA	4	832	Fri Jan 17 18:49 2014 by RuthA
	Slight concern (Preview) Just wondering if someone would be kind enough to offer me some advice. Essentially I have worked for a company for around 10 months now on a self employed basis. I have done some research and it seems the reason companies prefer workers to be self employed is because it is far cheaper for them. My concer...	Mark Joseph	4	769	Fri Jan 17 16:16 2014 by Shamus
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