Life is tough on the front line of accountancy. For more than five years, our intrepid correspondent has been bringing us news and views from a typical West Country practice.
I recently complained about the standard of spelling and grammar by my team members. I'm now wondering if I was entirely fair to them.
It seems even clients are up to it, but this latest email has me wondering if it's less a case of poor education and more likely a software issue.
Accounts filing deadline is approaching and my assistant comes to me to say,
"I emailed Mr X a month ago for the outstanding information but he has never replied. Shall I email him again?"
"Do we have his mobile phone number on file?", I asked - knowing full well that we do.
A client wrote to me today, a beautifully hand-written letter - albeit in block capitals - asking me if I had any "thorts" on his tax liability.
He clearly doesn't have a pedant like me proof-reading his mail before it goes in the post.
You know it's going to be one of those days when you get a call like this.
One of my sub-contractor clients is on the phone - must be raining on site:
It snowed down here on Sunday. Maybe the weather was a warning of things to come on the work front. For some weeks now the inflow of tax return work has been slowing down and we have more or less run out this week.
Letters of engagement. They rank right up there with P11Ds and company Annual Returns - one of those necessary bits of admin that no-one wants to be responsible for.
... when you can leave it until tomorrow? Or rather the last day before the deadline!
There are days when I wonder why I bothered with all those exams - and today was another one of them.
So the Chancellor thinks it will encourage small businesses if they can issue tax-free employee shares in exchange for employment rights.
Did he ask anyone before deciding to do this?
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