John K Mitchell's Misc Blog

Zenith ABS believe in the personal touch; strong client relationships and personally tailored solutions, as Accountants in Hendon, North West London their leading edge technical and industry knowledge enables them to proactively support and bring real value to your business wherever they can.

Their team of qualified accountants and finance consultants have in many years industry experience and have spent many years working on multimillion pound projects in various industries but also have experience of helping new start ups, growing SMEs and individuals with their accounts and tax in North West London

Zenith ABS also has detailed knowledge of legislation impacting contracting such as IR35 and S660A. They keep themselves fully up-to-date with any relevant changes to make sure that they are able offer their clients the best possible advice tailored to the clients’ individual circumstances at all times.  They also provide specialist accountancy services  in many industry sectors such as dental, medical, media, childcare, leisure and the legal profession.

Corporate Alliances are an alliance of Accountants in the Home Counties, Midlands and Central London. They offer a comprehensive selection of services and are able to help both nationawide and worldwide in addition to their local areas

With over 25 years experience they aim to offer their clients an exceptional service. The absence of billing or time recorded targets means that their clients only pay for the value they add to the clients business. Their priority is always to the clients, something other firms fail to remember. 

Corporate Alliances say that they put their client’s individual needs first and understand the value of building relationships based on mutual trust and understanding. It is in such a relationship that they claim to bring commitment, commercial awareness and success.

Brook Financial Management Limited is a small and friendly firm of Chartered Certified Accountants in Ilminster in Somerset. They offer a real ‘one-stop’ solution to a wide range of businesses and individuals both in Ilminster and the surrounding areas (including Langport, Chard, Martock and Crewkerne in Somerset).

Although only established in 2006 the team behind Brook Financial Management Ltd have years of experience behind them as Accountants and Tax Specialists. So, if you are looking for Accountants in Langport, Chard, Crewkerne or anywere near Ilminster, the team at Brook would be delighted to be of service to you.

Established in 1925, Duncan & Toplis has grown into one of the largest independent firms of chartered accountants in the UK with offices throughout the East Midlands, with their 370 staff in offices in Grantham, Boston, Lincoln, Louth, Melton Mowbray, Newark, Skegness, Sleaford, Spalding and Stamford.

Their clients are typically small to medium sized family owned businesses who benefit from expert advice in accountancy and audit; taxation and VAT; payroll and human resources; and computer services. Duncan and Toplis have particular expertise in the agricultural, healthcare, leisure, manufacturing and property sectors.

Dufton Kellner are a firm Wirral Accountants that believe that owning a business should give you freedom – the freedom to do things the way you wish, to make a positive impact in your region and on the economy in general, and the freedom to allow you to spend time doing that which is important to you.

At Dufton Kellner, they are passionate about one thing – transforming owner-managed businesses in Wirral and the surrounding areas. They offer to do three things for you. Firstly, remove as many of the hassles of running a business as possible, leaving you to focus on what’s important. Secondly, to work with you, step by step, to build the business you’ve always wanted. Finally, they will try to ensure you keep as much of what you earn as possible by minimising your tax bills using their Wirral tax planning service

Dufton Kellner are a firm Wirral Accountants that believe that owning a business should give you freedom – the freedom to do things the way you wish, to make a positive impact in your region and on the economy in general, and the freedom to allow you to spend time doing that which is important to you.

At Dufton Kellner, they are passionate about one thing – transforming owner-managed businesses in Wirral and the surrounding areas. They offer to do three things for you. Firstly, remove as many of the hassles of running a business as possible, leaving you to focus on what’s important. Secondly, to work with you, step by step, to build the business you’ve always wanted. Finally, they will try to ensure you keep as much of what you earn as possible by minimising your tax bills using their Wirral tax planning service

Total Accounting Services was established in 1972 and enjoys a 96%+ service satisfaction rate from their clients on regular customer satisfaction surveys.,

Based in Bognor Regis they offer a comprehensive range of accountancy and business services to smaller businesses and are specialists in accounting for newsagents and the Retail Newsagency Sector across the UK and are the only accountants recommended by the NFRN (National Federation of Retail Newsagents) .

As a firm of Accountants in Bognor Regis they also provide accountancy services to the wider business community in West Sussex and beyond and have a wide knowledge of the special VAT retail schemes available from the HMRC.

Another new site, this time for a firm of brickworkers and scaffolders based in Rushden.

Of particular interest to me (I watch a lot of C4 Timeteam on the TV) was the fact that as well as providing scaffolding in the East Midlands, and brickwork they have worked on refurbishing 17th and 18th century brickwork at Merton Hall, St Johns College in Cambridge. Old building facsinate me and I would love to be talented enough to be able to basically rebuild a 17th / 18th century building - mind you I was reading in my local paper the other day about a stone mason that has worked on Peterborough Cathedral for about 30 years ! Now to be able to work on something like that and know that you great grandchildren will be able to look at the work and know that you did it, that must realy be something special.

Castletree Consultants Ltd is an independent firm of Certified Management Accountants and business advisors based in Cheshire. They have many clients in the local communities in Stockport, Manchester and Cheshire and service small and medium size businesses.

Castletree Consultants is an independent firm of Certified Management Accountants and business advisors based in Cheshire. They have many clients in the local community (Stockport, Manchester and Cheshire) and service small and medium size businesses.

These Stockport Accountants have an excellent reputation for providing high quality advice and a first class professional service to all clients, whatever their size or sector. Their team are highly qualified with a wealth of financial, taxation and business experience gained over many years working with business owners of various sizes. Whether you are already running a successful business or are just about to embark on the exciting path of starting a new business we can advise and guide you to make sure you are in safe hands.

Two of their services may be particluarly interesting to businesses in Stockport. Payrolls can be prepared for businesses with betweeen 1 and 200 staff saving you the time in running your own manual or computerised payroll.

The second service is unusual in that it is outsourced accounting services when Castletree effectively act as the clients in-house finance department. It seems that this can be particularly useful for overseas companies that have a UK subsidiary as reports can be made to both the local and parent company.

McPherson & Partners was established in 1957 and over the past 50 plus years have provided invaluable help to thousands of local, national and international businesses and organisations.

They have three offices in Hastings, Bexhill and Battle and as well as being accountants in East Sussex also offer their services as auditors in Kent and provide Sage training in Hastings.

They publish a very informative quarterly newletter which is available to download free from their website, the most recent one (Spring 2009) includes articles on Business Property Relief, new rules for capital allowances on business cars and the changes in practice for self employed or employed when dealing with the HMRC.

I have just been reading Matt Cutts (the head of Google's Webspam team) blog on sponsored conversations which I found interesting.

It seems that Google are looking for blogs where people are paid to make posts to their blogs as they feel that this people are posting to influence the results on the Google search engines. Google seem to be saying that it is ok to be paid to post on blogs if you use a nofollow attribute on the link but I wonder how many people know that this is *required* by Google or that their blogs may be marked so that they "are not trusted in Google’s algorithms"


This led to to thinking - perhaps it is better that I have never been asked to post an entry on this blog that I am paid for, in fact I have never been asked to post an entry for free either. That may be part of the reason why the postings are few and far between, but I believe that if I am spending time talking about something then it's got to be worth saying and most of what I come across on the net nowadays is not really worth talking about.

If you run your own blog have a look at Matts post and see what you think.

Ashton Berry are a firm of Chartered, Certified Accountants in Norwich, Norfolk that was established in 1969 and have continued to grow and look after businesses and individuals in the Norwich area of Norfolk ever since.

With the increase in tax investigations that are taking place now that HMRC are on record as saying that it wants to make sure that everyone is paying the right amount of tax (http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/practitioners/cop9-2005.htm) it pays to have experts on hand to help you if you if you are aproached by the HMRC with notification of a tax investigation. The team at Ashton Berry are experts in tax compliance legislation and procedures and can help you at all stages of the investigation (and even before the formal investigation starts by helping you with voluntary disclosures). So, if you are looking for help with tax investigations in Norwich, Aston Berry are the people to contact.

Michael Martin Partnership was established in 1992 and continues to build on their reputation for providing excellent advice and first class service to their business and personal clients alike. They have many clients in the Whistable and surrounding areas of Kent, small and large, across many sectors including agriculture, retailers, services, professions and construction.

In addition to being Accountants in Whitstable, MMP have partners with specialist skills in many areas which allows them to provide an in-depth, first class service whatever the size or business of their clients.

As well as the standard tax, audit and accounting services MMP can help business startups in Whitstable and throughout East Kent with a team of trained experts ready to help you with advice covering the most suitable structure for the buisness, preparing a business plan, completing registration with the authorities, book-keeping, payroll and the myriad of other subjects that need looking after when starting and running your own business.

Bradbury Stell are a one partner accountancy practice employing five people, based in Hampton Hill, near Teddington in Middlesex.

They specialise in accounting for the smaller business and have over 400 clients in all areas of commerce and industry, including Window Dressers, Actors, Mortgage Brokers, Sign Manufacturers amongst others. If you are a small business in the Hampton area of Middlesex they may be worth talking to as they do not seek large clients, in fact the largest turnover we deal with is under £2m, the smallest is under £10k. The average turnover is under £250k. Being a small accountancy firm they do not believe that bigger is better and are confident in their ability to deal with the accounting problems of the smaller business.

Accountants help companies, organisations, government agencies, and even individuals plan and oversee their financial operations down to the last penny, often saving tax or improving profits for businesses along the way.

Accountants are professionals who are specially trained to work with numbers, money and finance law so they can advise and help business owners or managers and individuals to make the right financial decisions, whether it is about savings accounts, investments, spending, taxation rules (making sure that you only pay the tax you have to) or increasing profits.

Nowadays sophisticated computer systems do all the complex accountancy calculations in areas such as payroll, tax calculations and investment returns, so accountants have much more time to focus on the personal side of accountancy and can therefore provide a much fuller range of accountancy and business services, gone are the days of an accountant sitting amongst a pile of ledgers making sure that everything balances. Among the accountancy services offered by many firms of accountants in the UK are auditing, tax advice, book-keeping, cash flow projections, management information and payroll. Some may even offer investment or pension advice to individuals looking to save money for their retirement or a rainy day.

There are several types of accountants in the UK with the two main ones being chartered accountants and certified chartered accountants, these usually deal with all financial aspects of running a business or organisation on a basic level. However there are also specialist chartered accountants, who work in specific areas such as taxation, insolvency and forensic accounting (used in fraud cases amongst others), many of these will cover professional indemnity insurance to give you peace of mind in the event of a problem

Your accountant may have a title such as chartered accountant, certified accountant, personal accountant or even tax accountant. These may all seem to be different roles but many offer similar accountancy services, and if you are at all unsure all you have to do is ask if they are experienced in the jobs that you want them to do.

This section of our site is aimed at helping you find a local accountancy firm that will help you no matter whether you are an individual or a business.

Fox Evans is a firm of Chartered Accountants in Coventry and covering the whole of Warwickshire. They offer accounts, taxation and business advisory and support services to a wide range of businesses and individuals.

Fox Evans pride themselves on a prompt turnround of work, prompt response to messages, clarity of fees and their pro-active working relationships with all their clients. As they say they are “More than your average Accountant”

Casson Beckman are Chartered Accountants in Portchester, Hampshire who state that they are specialists in income tax, capital gains tax and inheritance tax.

They have both the expertise and software to help you complete your forms for Self Assessment in Portsmouth and can give you practical advice on personal tax issues and the planning that you can take to legally minimise the tax you will have to pay.

In addition to tax planning they have some very useful fact sheets on advice for starting up in business that are available to be downloaded if you give them your contact details.

BulleyDavey are a firm Accountants in Peterborough with offices in Corby, Holbeach, Huntingdon, Melton Mowbray, Oundle, Peterborough, Spalding and Wisbech. As with all accountants, BulleyDavey offer the full range of standard services such as tax advice in Peterborough and the surrounding areas.

One interesting service mentioned on their website is forensic accounting where their expert witness and forensic accounting team provide specialised services to the legal profession acting as both expert witnesses and as advisers in financial matters relating to litigation (matrimonial, loss of earnings, fraud, and partnership disputes for example).

Essty Accountants are a small accountancy firm based in Haverhill in Suffolk that specialise in providing a professional and flexible service for small businesses within the Haverhill and surrounding areas of the UK.

An interesting aspect of their service is that they recognise that any time spent with your accountant is time that could be spent making profits for your business. To overcome this, they say that they are happy to meet with you and take telephone calls most evenings and at weekends if you want them to.

Established in 1894, Vale & West is a firm of Chartered Accountants in Reading, Berkshire that say on their website that they provide a cost-effective, high value solution to meet all of your financial needs no matter whether you are an individual or a business.

They have clients in retail, financial services, property and construction, clubs, charities, pension funds and trusts amongst many others.

If you are looking for personal tax advice in Reading or business tax planning in Reading, Vale & West are there to help you.

Accountants R Us are a professional accountancy, bookkeeping and financial recruitment firm in Fulham, West London, offering a real business partner to companies and private clients.

They have a specialist business support team who can help clients with all of their business accounting needs including day to day bookkeeping, VAT returns, Payroll, management accounts, cash flow statements, year end accounts and tax and compnay returns.