I have removed the Blog post as the situation was just too complicted to explain clearly. Alan Kennedy
Small practitioners blog
Hi I am Alan Kennedy - a Chartered Accountant with over 20 years experience so we have the knowledge to help you and your clients. We provide services to clients in mainly oxfordshire but also outsource bookkeeping, accounts preparation and consultancy services to the accountancy profession. Also a partner in a business brokerage - specialising in buying and selling accountancy fees.
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Dec
03
Well it has been a good week. I started my practice in anger a couple of years back and it has been hard work but we are getting there. One of the biggest challenges has been IT. Making sure the laptop is backed up and keeping IRIS upto date was one of them. I remember one afternoon spending
Jul
02
The other day I walked into a networking room, it was lovely. I knew all the people there, there were lots of friends; a lot of laughter and most importantly mutual referrals were flowing well. It has not always been like that though.
Jun
29
If you are reading this and feel like sending me an email I have written a couple of tax calculators for both incorporation and subsequest sale of a busiess and calculation of whether it is benefical to provide a company car. You are welcome to them if you want - free of charge. Just send an em
May
20
As I travel the country and meet with accountancy practices I am often hearing the comment, lot of fee resistance, recovery rates are owe etc. I am not a great fan of recovery rates, I prefer marginal decisions eg will I make money out of this client. In the longer term the limiting factor in
Feb
16
I used to work for a firm whose mission statement was “Working for us should be fun!
Jan
31
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I never forget phoning up an accountant once in early Feb to be greeted by the comment "that's it - next year I am going increase the fee by 20% for anyone who brings there books and records in late." I sympathise!
Jan
12
A few years ago I was md of a large financial advisory firm (we had 190 advisers). One of our competitors had a problem with the pension review. The idea of the pension review (for those of you old enough to remember such things) was that where an adviser an advised a client to take out a persona
Jan
06
2
Hi all - here we go the first blog post. Let me give you a bit of background. I run a small accountancy practice here in Witney and occasionally publish stuff under the name Witney accountants for reasons I will deal with in a later blog. Well I have had a fascinating time being an accountant
