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Welcome to the Friend and Grant blog area.

Here you will find all the latest news, views and helpful guides in relation to accountancy, taxation and running a business.

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23rd Apr 2019
8 Items to Check on Your Website Friend & Grant Accountants

8 Items to Check on Your Website

Our website is our shop window; our sales pitch, information hub, it shows our credentials and tells people how they can get in touch. If it’s not working properly it has a big impact on the practice. Here are a few of the important factors for SEO on securing top search rankings

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23rd Apr 2019
How to stay productive when Travelling Using a Cloud Accounting App Friend & Grant Accounting

How to Stay Productive When Travelling

Business travel can be a real nuisance and unless you’re driving it should be really productive time. Here are our tips on How to Stay Productive when Travelling

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5th Apr 2019
Use Fewer Words for Clearer Communication Friend & Grant Accountants

Use Fewer Words for Clearer Communication

We waste so much time writing & reading long expansive sentences when a bullet point would be just as effective! Here is Winston Churchill’s memo to the War Cabinet about brevity.

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26th Mar 2019
Building and Construction Business Program Build Your Marketing Machine in 7 Steps - chaos for the construction industry. VAT domestic reverse charge Friend & Grant Accountants

Build Your Marketing Machine in 7 Steps

Every business needs a marketing machine to help drive the growth. But you need to build the marketing action plan to help you. Here is our 7 step Guide to Building Your Marketing Machine

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14th Mar 2019
Somebody Anybody Everybody Nobody Friend & Grant Accountants

Somebody Anybody Everybody Nobody

When employees know what they have to do, why, how and when, everything runs smoothly in your business. But if the most common statement uttered in your office is ‘That’s Not My Job’ or ‘It’s Not My Problem’ then the business descends into chaos.

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5th Mar 2019
Startups VAT Registration Get it Right! Friend & Grant Accountants

Startups VAT Registration Get it Right!

For all startups knowing when to register for VAT is fundamental. Get it right and you could save £’000s in tax, get it wrong and there could be penalties and additional costs. The rules are fairly straightforward but unfortunately many businesses still fail to register on time.

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26th Feb 2019
5 Easy Tax Wins, Tax Planning tips For Company Directors Looking To Grow Their Businesses and Save Tax! Friend & Grant Accountants

5 Easy Tax Wins, Tax Planning tips For Company Directors Looking To Grow Their Businesses and Save Tax!

As a company director are you looking to build a strong working relationship with a trusted advisor who will help you save tax and grow your business. If you are then why not speak to us about 5 easy tax wins which we can implement with you.

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20th Feb 2019
Why Expert HR Support is Crucial Friend & Grant Accountants

Why Expert HR Support is Crucial

I have a saying; “business would be easy without clients or employees”. Many business owners and managers can easily relate to that statement, when they review exactly what they had to do last week and how much time was spent on staff issues rather than time spent focused on the business.

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14th Feb 2019
Making Tax Digital - 5 Things To Do To Be Compliant Friend & Grant Accountants

Making Tax Digital – Two months to go!

In a little under two months, the majority of VAT registered businesses with turnover exceeding the £85,000 threshold will be required to file VAT returns digitally.

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