The forum was set up and is still run by Steve and Ross who are a firm of Chartered Accountants.
The purpose of the forum was :
1) To improve the quality and knowledge base of bookkeepers in the market place
2) To give those working alone a community where they could get advice from others as though they were working in an office together.
3) To support the Bookcert kit (that priority has been superceded over time).
At times the site gets close to a million hits a month which I personally feel influenced the ICB's choice of name for their site... But, Steve and Ross can't complain, they should have bought all variants of the name.
Then again, when you first start a site like this who knows whether its going to be one that takes off or one that fizzles out.
It does seem to have turned out quite well in that there is a definite family feel to the site. Yes, I know that we argue at times but tell me a family that doesn't.
They certainly sold me on the ethos of the site which mirrors my own views.
All in all I think that the site has been very lucky in attracting the high calibre of really helpful contributors from all professional bodies that it has which has made it the site that it is today.
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Shaun
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I mean, he doesn't tell people what they want to hear, he writes essay answers even though many readers lose interest in anything longer than a Tweet and he keeps giving people answers to questions that they hadn't even thought to ask.
I ask you, who let an accountant come and play on a bookkeepers site anyway.
If you ask me, the site would be much better off without him so it could be devoted to being the training company and professional body sales platform that everyone wants it to be.
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Shaun
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... You realise of course that all of the replies to your questions no matter how simple will now be at least three A4 sheets long referencing and quoting from multiple accounting standards with the answer you're looking for burried in a random paragraph don't you, lol.
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Shaun
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Now that sounds like VAT700 I've just been scrolling through, with no mention (that I could find) of franking machines You didn't write it did you?
Nah, that one's way to short and succinct for me.
Not once, anywhere in that one do they go off for a little anacdote or pondering.
If you saw some of system designs for my banking work you would understand where I get my prolific writing style.
A hundred page document justifying a 10 line change to the code is about par for the course... Then again, as the system processes £450 billion a day I suppose in that case the volume of justification (including all of the meetings that go with it) is to be expected.
Maybe I should look at my answers on here on a materialarity basis... So, £450 billion = 100 pages therefore thrupence aipnee gets...
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Shaun
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Exactly, if Shaun had of written it it would at least have useful information in there, as it stands they appear to have an uncanny knack of avoiding answering anything I go in there to find out about.
