Resources for accountancy professionals
Webinars, guides and blogs tackling the hot topics and challenges facing accountants today.
Accountancy
Coronavirus compliance Is your practice ‘COVID-secure’?
As accountancy practices think about getting staff back in their offices again, there is one vital matter to attend to immediately – compliance with the new COVID-secure rules.The…
Accountancy
Keep your business running during a crisis
As the COVID-19 outbreak escalates, businesses are likely to face having to ask staff to work from home. How do you ensure your practice is still operating at…
Protecting employee data: Is your practice compliant?
What you’ll learn in this guide:What data protection is all aboutThe consequences of failing to complyThe challenges of protecting employee dataWhat’s changed in the new rulesEssential compliance tipsHow…
Accountancy in the next normal – thriving amid rapid change
Every business and every individual around the world has been affected by the coronavirus pandemic – some more seriously than others.The global crisis has had far-reaching consequences that…
Accountancy
Companies House and COVID-19: IRIS supports digital filing of paper-only forms
Pandemic causing delays for vital documents sent to CHSDigital PDFs through IRIS Company Secretarial offer solutionAccountants have faced many and varied problems during the coronavirus crisis – with…
Accountancy
Home working ‘amplifying’ stolen data threat for firms
The cybercrime threat to business is rising, with remote working set to become ‘the new normal’Cybercriminals are exploiting the sudden rise in home working to pose a new…
Accountancy
Cats, kids, cakes, and communicating – embracing the ‘new normal’
By Paul OnionsHow the world has suddenly changed.Who would‘ve guessed that dogs, cats, and kids bursting into the room, barking, laughing, or crying, would become just a typical…
Accountancy
Lifting lockdown: Staggered work hours and parallel teams
By David ParkerDetails of the Government’s strategy to lift the lockdown and get businesses back to work are emerging this week, with staggered work hours for staff one…
Accountancy
How has COVID-19 affected VAT and tax rules?
Amid a swirling mass of information surrounding the response to the coronavirus, numerous tweaks, delays, and changes to important tax and VAT rules have been happening.It’s sometimes hard…
Accountancy
How did accountants uncover £1.5m extra in COVID support for clients?
How to start having advisory conversations with your clients as part of the next normal.As the UK begins to ease lockdown measures, some believe it will be back…
Accountancy
Is homeworking set to be a new legal right?
Could we be on the verge of a new law giving workers the right to work from home?According to The Daily Telegraph, the idea has been gaining traction…
Firms get new bonus for saving jobs as furlough evolves into new £9bn scheme
– Businesses to get £1,000 bonuses for bringing furloughed staff back to work– Chancellor delivers news on next phase of pandemic response plans for the economyBusinesses will get…
Accountancy
Chancellor reveals major new job policies to combat COVID crisis
The Chancellor today delivered news of the next phase of the Government’s support for workers and businesses hit by the COVID-19 pandemic.In his Summer Statement to Parliament this…
HMRC’s VAT reform: must all firms sign up a year early to MTD?
How does the prospect of getting your non MTD for VAT registered clients signed up one year earlier than planned – by April 2021 – sound to you?That’s…
Payroll
As COVID hits profits, can law firms make savings in HR and payroll?
More than eight in ten top law firms are concerned that COVID will stop them achieving their financial ambitions, a major survey of the legal sector by PWC…
HR
What is voluntary redundancy?
With the economic landscape facing more uncertainty as each day passes, business owners across the UK are being tasked with some incredibly difficult decisions. As small businesses (SMEs) in…
Accountancy
MTD for Corporation Tax: HMRC seeks accountants’ views
Accountants have been given 16 weeks to have their say on plans for Corporation Tax (CT) to become digital.It’s the latest development in HMRC’s Making Tax Digital programme,…
HR
What is a notice period? Everything you need to know
Notice periods can often be heavily debated topics, especially for small business owners, as they’re prone to a significant number of variables.However, with the COVID-19 pandemic creating a…
HR
Five ways to stay connected when working remotely
As we tackle our second national lockdown, many organisations are likely planning for employees to continue working remotely for the long term.Employees tend to fall into two camps…
5 reasons why your organisation must move your financial services to the cloud
Cloud financial services offer undeniable benefits across your team. Today, as many workforces continue to operate remotely as a result of COVID-19, this level of flexibility is no longer a ‘nice to…
Accountancy
How to choose the best accountancy practice management software
Accountancy firms have many filing deadlines for their clients to keep on top of every week.Whether it’s monthly payroll submissions, quarterly Making Tax Digital for VAT returns, annual…
The future of the office
This year, the UK has undergone an unprecedented social experiment; thousands of offices closed across the country, leaving employees to set up shop in ‘home-made’ offices. Remote working is set to be…
HMRC’s tax reveal: Was mid COVID crisis the right time?
When the Government recently revealed a new roadmap for Making Tax Digital (MTD), many accountants were no doubt taken aback – by the timing, in the middle of…
Furlough extended during November lockdown
Furlough has been extended for one more month (through November) as England goes into a second lockdown.The move comes despite the Chancellor Rishi Sunak repeatedly saying in recent…
Furlough extended until March 2021
The furlough scheme is to be extended until the end of March 2021, the Chancellor announced today.It comes days after Rishi Sunak revealed furlough would continue through November.The…
Rishi Sunak reveals ‘more generous’ Job Support Scheme
Chancellor also doubles support for Self-Employed Grant as COVID lockdowns escalateThe Chancellor today revealed changes to make the new Job Support Scheme and the self-employed “more generous”.Rishi Sunak…
Do accountants still need an office in the age of COVID?
Do I still need an office?That’s the question that accountancy practice owners may be asking themselves amid the great remote working experiment, forced upon us by the pandemic.And…
Accountancy
Finance firms head great rush to adopt digital tools
A huge majority of businesses have greatly accelerated their adoption of digital tools due to the pandemic – with financial services leading the way – a global survey…
Tax busy season in a pandemic – the hardest of all?
Busy season is, by definition, always tough.But busy season during a pandemic? This could be the hardest one of all.Normally speaking, practices would’ve been taking certain steps and…
Chancellor reveals new Job Support Scheme after furlough ends
A new Job Support Scheme will begin when furlough ends and financial support for the self-employed is to be extended, the Chancellor has revealed in Parliament this afternoon.It…
Payroll
Getting international payroll right: what do you need to consider?
There’s a myriad of strategic and tactical activity needed when setting up a business or office abroad and one of the key priorities to consider is your payroll…
Data breaches: whistleblower reports to watchdog skyrocket to hit record high
Whistleblower reports on data breaches have continued to soar in the wake of GDPR, rising to record highs, a new report has found.It’s been more than two years…
Accountancy
IRIS Live: Day in the life of an accountant
Running an accounting firm can be a complex task, with multiple areas of focus internally and externally throughout the day. Every firm is different, yet their goals are often the same.
Hear from Partners and owners of accounting firms as we discuss the technology that runs their firms through each day and how the right technology partner and relationship is critical to their success
Accountancy
IRIS Live: The start-up practice
Whilst COVID-19 is the cause for many accounting firm closures, it is also helping the birth of new startup firms. Accounting professionals who have unfortunately found themselves without a job are branching out on their own, but how do you go about setting up your own firm in these unstable economic conditions?
Hear from your peers who have been through starting a new firm during uncertain economic conditions, the perils and challenges they faced and how technology enabled them to faster track their growth.
Accountancy
IRIS Live: The digital acceleration of practice management
The COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent lockdown has accelerated the adoption of digital technologies by several years as accounting firms adjust to the next normal. The majority of this digitisation has been on the front office to enable firms to continue to interact with clients etc. virtually, but what has the impact of COVID-19 restrictions and lockdown had on accounting firms’ back-offices and practice management?
Hear from your fellow peers and IRIS experts on how firms are accelerating their digital transformation of practice management, driving greater efficiencies to thrive in the next normal.
Accountancy
IRIS Live: MTD: back on the accountant’s agenda
In the wake of the cornavirus pandemic, HMRC have announced that they are unpausing their Making Tax Digital plans. But what are the new legislative mandates and implications for your clients?
Join us to hear all the latest on Making Tax Digital, automated solutions to help and where to get more help.
Accountancy
IRIS Live: Changing direction: building our your firm’s strategy in the next normal
The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the game for a number of accounting firms, forcing them to rethink or change their strategic direction in order to achieve their goals. But how do you implement this change of strategy? Does it have to be changed wholesale or can it be a combination of strategies?
Hear from your peers who have the experience of changing their strategies and subsequent goals numerous times to fit with the ever changing market landscape and provide adivce on how to change your strategy to fit your new normal goals, whether they be growth goals, work-life balance goals or earnout goals.
Accountancy
IRIS Live: Preparing for tax busy season virtually
As the tax deadline of 31st January looms every closers, firms are facing a tax busy season like no other previously. With lockdown and other COVID-19 restrictions in place, clients will no longer be able to provide their financial records in carrier bags in the final days of busy season.
Hear from the experts on how this busy season will be different than previous and what firms are doing to prepare for it.
Accountancy
IRIS Live: How to weather the storm
One in 10 UK charities are facing bankruptcy by the end of the year as they struggle to cope during the coronavirus pandemic.
Hear from the experts on how charities weather the turbulent COVID-19 pandemic storm and how technology can help.
Accountancy
IRIS Live: Digital evolution: the complete practice blue-print
Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, it was estimated that less than 2% of accounting firms were a digital firm, with another 23% being digitally aware. Now it is estimated that less than 5% of accounting firms are digital firms, but a huge 70% of firms are now digitally aware.
In this session we discuss with truely digital firms what makes a digital firm, how firms can cross the chasm of being digitally aware to a digital firm and the blue-print to achieve this.
Accountancy
IRIS Live: MTD unpaused: the latest mandates and regulations coming
In the wake of the cornavirus pandemic, HMRC have announced that they are unpausing their Making Tax Digital plans. But what is Making Tax Digital, what is the legislative mandate and implications for businesses?
Join us to hear all the latest on Making Tax Digital, automated solutions to help and where to get more help.
