A recent story in the Kent Messenger caught my eye. It was the tale of Tim Hale, the boss of a Maidstone based business, who returned from holiday to find his company's finance department had sent £20,000 to a scammer! It turns out, whilst he was away, his finance department received an email, supposedly from [...]
Running a loss making business is easy, anyone can do it. Running a profitable business is much harder. In order to make sure your business is profitable, you need to take care of several key areas. Ensuring each of these areas are profitable will help the business to be profitable. CUSTOMERS & JOBS Ensuring that [...]
You know how the saying goes... You can't please all of the people all of the time... Sometimes, even with all the best intentions in the world, you are going to let someone down and make a mistake. Most of the time, people are understanding; we are all human after all. Often it’s not the [...]
Do You Need A High Quality Business Video? Superreel Productions can help you! This company strive to create the highest quality business videos available in Kent and the South East. They provide professional corporate videos that do not look like corporate videos. Hence the ‘business’ video look. Why do they prefer this method? Because it’s easy to make [...]
This was my first Xerocon and day 1 was a great experience. I have been to accounting conferences before, but have never been to one hosted by a single software vendor. The reason for this is probably because, in the ten years I have been an accountant, I have never found a software provider that [...]
Nobody can be good at everything so no one should try to be. I am aware that I can’t do everything in my business so why is it that I try to? Probably because, like most accountants, I hate spending money, but this trait, of wanting to do it all myself can end up costing [...]
We recently moved house and while I was looking through the 100’s of books we had in our loft... I discovered a nursery rhyme book from my childhood and the first rhyme I read started with the line “A man of words and not of deeds is like a garden full of weeds.” That immediately [...]
Here at Accsys Accountants Ltd, we are also Xero Experts! So here, we have made a simple video to help you. How To Add Paypal To Xero is an easy and informative video to guide you along the way in this process and furthermore, help your business. Please click the video below or watch it [...]
Here’s how we did it. It all started during a recent review with a client where we highlighted, with the MD, an issue that we thought may be causing them problems. Internal problems that they weren’t aware they were having. We had noticed that response time from their finance team was increasing, their cash [...]
As we have seen recently with Volkswagen, big businesses can get themselves in all sorts of trouble. When businesses get big they can lose flexibility, lose control and sometimes lose their moral compass. Once a business is listed it becomes more accountable to its shareholders and the focus can move away from what’s best for [...]
