I'm part qualified CIMA (from many years ago!), worked as a cost/management accountant in industry for 12 years, then 15 years self employed providing management accounts to small businesses, and 3 years as director of a small company, looking after the finances amongst other things.

When I was running my business I was a Sage Reseller, and taught my clients to keep the books up to whatever level they could cope with, then did the rest, including sophisticated monthly management accounts. I developed some interesting automated systems to produce data that Sage wasn't designed for, and teleworked from home.

Then I had a mid life crisis, went travelling, and ended up in West Wales, where I can't imagine there are many businesses that would want anything that clever.

I actually moved here to do other stuff, but life never works out as expected, so I'm thinking of looking for some accounts work. I don't particularly want to do anything sophisticated again, and only want a small amount of work, so I'm wondering how to go about it.

The Money Laundering Regulations are new, and I wasn't aware of them. Has anything else changed in the last 6 or 7 years while I've been doing other things? I've got rusty on everything.

I've got Sage Line 50 unlimited users and unlimited companies, but it's V7. I think I was quoted £1,000 to upgrade it several years ago, and gave up on Sage when they started charging rip-off prices, but I'm still using it for my accounts. Would it cause problems using an old version, or is it best to go for something like VT Transaction + that I've had a quick play with?

I've probably got loads of other questions, but would appreciate any comments or suggestions on what I've said so far.