Invoicing clients

Invoicing clients

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I'm presently doing some casual compliance work as a tax agent and am gradually accruing a reasonable number of clients. Most of the cases have been rather straightforward sole trader SA returns etc with a relatively small fee attached.

Having never worked as a self employed individual before, I'm unsure as to what time period to allow for clients to settle their respective bills upon completion of such work? (I've arbitrarily settled upon 14 days from the invoice date, but have encountered quite some difficult securing payment in this time).

Any guidance would be much appreciated.

Thank you.

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By User deleted
04th Aug 2012 18:03

Sounds like ...

... "Carry on Accounting"

I'll be Sid James if you'll be Barbara Windsor ;o)

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0J9FdN8oqA

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By User deleted
04th Aug 2012 20:41

Woolly backs ...

is a Liverpool term, which is a derogatory expression for people from lancashire and cheshire, originating from the textile trade when the wool mills were at their peak. In the opinion of Scousers, woolly backs would have enjoyed finding the Aberdonian sheep I mentioned above.

Of course only true scousers would be proud to be known as a type of lamb stew!

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By ShirleyM
04th Aug 2012 20:59

:)

Thank you, OGA.

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By AddsUP2Me
05th Aug 2012 08:43

If you aren't going to duff him up, why would he need to be brave?
Surely he would just say what he thought and that would be the end of it?

Sonia's chest awaits your reply...
(Her chest is legendary, by that I mean that there is lots of room for comment.)

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By Lancsboy2
05th Aug 2012 09:09

simple

AddsUP2Me wrote:

If you aren't going to duff him up, why would he need to be brave?
Surely he would just say what he thought and that would be the end of it?

Sonia's chest awaits your reply...
(Her chest is legendary, by that I mean that there is lots of room for comment.)

 

because he wouldn't say it in the first place if we were face to face - it requires a level of courage ... people mind their manners generally when speaking to someone they hardly know face to face. not so on a forum ... 

if you don't believe me, why don't you spend a day making sarcastic comments to everyone you meet ... no matter who they are ... just say EXACTLY what you think, in whatever way you want, forgetting manners and social norms / etiquette ... and see how your day goes.

then try the following day doing the opposite ... and compare results.  i think you'll find day #2 produces a better day.  

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By User deleted
05th Aug 2012 13:11

PS - Sounds to me ...

Lancsboy2]</p> <p>[quote=AddsUP2Me wrote:

 ... just say EXACTLY what you think, in whatever way you want, forgetting manners and social norms / etiquette ... and see how your day goes. 

... like the received definition of a northerner, and they know all about chips too! It might be useful to add "satire" to your vocabulary too, but then if you never use it why should you need to understand what it means?

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By Lancsboy2
06th Aug 2012 14:13

i'll let you...

Old Greying Accountant]</p> <p>[quote=Lancsboy2 wrote:

AddsUP2Me wrote:

 ... just say EXACTLY what you think, in whatever way you want, forgetting manners and social norms / etiquette ... and see how your day goes. 

... like the received definition of a northerner, and they know all about chips too! It might be useful to add "satire" to your vocabulary too, but then if you never use it why should you need to understand what it means?

 

have the last word! LOL

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By AddsUP2Me
06th Aug 2012 14:44

Ahem, I didn't write that.

Lancsboy2]</p> <p>[quote=Old Greying Accountant wrote:

Lancsboy2 wrote:

AddsUP2Me wrote:

 ... just say EXACTLY what you think, in whatever way you want, forgetting manners and social norms / etiquette ... and see how your day goes. 

... like the received definition of a northerner, and they know all about chips too! It might be useful to add "satire" to your vocabulary too, but then if you never use it why should you need to understand what it means?

 

have the last word! LOL

 

Lancsboy, You wrote "just say EXACTLY what you think in whatever way you want, forgetting manners and social norms / etiquette... and see how your day goes." you have just attributed your comment to me. Please don't quote your words and pretend I wrote them.  I would not ever suggest anyone did that. Thank you.

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By Lancsboy2
06th Aug 2012 17:04

I didn't mean to!

AddsUP2Me]</p> <p>[quote=Lancsboy2 wrote:

Old Greying Accountant wrote:

Lancsboy2 wrote:

AddsUP2Me wrote:

 ... just say EXACTLY what you think, in whatever way you want, forgetting manners and social norms / etiquette ... and see how your day goes. 

... like the received definition of a northerner, and they know all about chips too! It might be useful to add "satire" to your vocabulary too, but then if you never use it why should you need to understand what it means?

 

have the last word! LOL

 

Lancsboy, You wrote "just say EXACTLY what you think in whatever way you want, forgetting manners and social norms / etiquette... and see how your day goes." you have just attributed your comment to me. Please don't quote your words and pretend I wrote them.  I would not ever suggest anyone did that. Thank you.

sorry mate - i didn't mean to - i think it was a quote within a quote within a quote etc etc that nobbled my post.  

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By AddsUP2Me
06th Aug 2012 18:58

Just seen the quotey box thing that comes up in reply...

Quote:

sorry mate - i didn't mean to - i think it was a quote within a quote within a quote etc etc that nobbled my post.  

 

Oh yes, I see what you mean. It is like disappearing concentric circles when you click quote and then delete unwanted bits - can see how that happened. :D

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By AddsUP2Me
05th Aug 2012 09:25

Any answers - yes please.

Forums are not conversations in pubs though are they?
A forum, especially one entitled "Any Answers" works by someone starting the subject off, and then absolutely anyone being welcome to post their thoughts or further questions. It isn't a private conversation. If you want to write something to someone and not get a reply from others, or if you feel that someone replying is "butting in" then you can use the private message facility to avoid that can't you?

Anyone can post, anyone can reply. That is how it works.

You are never going to post in public forums and receive only the replies you think you should have, or control who responds with what. So OGA thought you would know about client monies, so what? What is the big deal really?

I frequently talk to people I do not know offline and join conversations, especially in queues at the supermarket. I say exactly what I think all the time everyday and it doesn't necessitate either abandoning manners or being insincere. I have yet to be asked if I am "brave enough" to think what I think.

Who sets social norms? What is a norm to one person is not a norm to another.

I wouldn't get upset by someone joining a conversation in a pub, or message forum, or anywhere. If I am out and about and someone is interested in joining chit chats they are  welcome.

I am not a member of any professional association and only just found out what a client account is. I am in life to learn and have fun. To do this I generally hop along hoping to straighten out any misunderstandings, remember to turn the other cheek as quick as possible, and generally give and recieve with good humour.

If someone is naffed off, I seek to lighten the mood, and sooth them, not to say 'Come on then if you think you are brave enough' or other things that can make a momentary blip into an angry impasse.

Suggesting someone do something they haven't done, and wouldn't do because it is ridiculous, and then trying to prove a point by it being a ridiculous thing to do, without them ever having considered it, is a failed forum tactic that I have seen wheeled out many a time.

I may as well suggest you walk round pubs having conversations and telling people to only reply if they are feeling brave enough - but it would be a stupid scenario so I wouldn't.

Mine's a pina colada!

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By Lancsboy2
05th Aug 2012 09:40

each to their own

AddsUP2Me wrote:

Forums are not conversations in pubs though are they?
A forum, especially one entitled "Any Answers" works by someone starting the subject off, and then absolutely anyone being welcome to post their thoughts or further questions. It isn't a private conversation. If you want to write something to someone and not get a reply from others, or if you feel that someone replying is "butting in" then you can use the private message facility to avoid that can't you?

Anyone can post, anyone can reply. That is how it works.

You are never going to post in public forums and receive only the replies you think you should have, or control who responds with what. So OGA thought you would know about client monies, so what? What is the big deal really?

I frequently talk to people I do not know offline and join conversations, especially in queues at the supermarket. I say exactly what I think all the time everyday and it doesn't necessitate either abandoning manners or being insincere. I have yet to be asked if I am "brave enough" to think what I think.

Who sets social norms? What is a norm to one person is not a norm to another.

I wouldn't get upset by someone joining a conversation in a pub, or message forum, or anywhere. If I am out and about and someone is interested in joining chit chats they are  welcome.

I am not a member of any professional association and only just found out what a client account is. I am in life to learn and have fun. To do this I generally hop along hoping to straighten out any misunderstandings, remember to turn the other cheek as quick as possible, and generally give and recieve with good humour.

If someone is naffed off, I seek to lighten the mood, and sooth them, not to say 'Come on then if you think you are brave enough' or other things that can make a momentary blip into an angry impasse.

Suggesting someone do something they haven't done, and wouldn't do because it is ridiculous, and then trying to prove a point by it being a ridiculous thing to do, without them ever having considered it, is a failed forum tactic that I have seen wheeled out many a time.

I may as well suggest you walk round pubs having conversations and telling people to only reply if they are feeling brave enough - but it would be a stupid scenario so I wouldn't.

Mine's a pina colada!

fair enough mate ... each to their own.  i can't say i'm that fussed either way ... cheers. 

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By AddsUP2Me
05th Aug 2012 10:01

I hereby hug you.

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By AddsUP2Me
05th Aug 2012 10:53

Kumbaya

I would like to express the joy of the coming together of human calculators through the medium of this random but uplifting photograph - I am the one turning the bottom cheek, Sonia is laughing in the middle and it is either Lancsboy or OldgreyingAccountant that has found himself wrestling the invisible man.

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By User deleted
05th Aug 2012 15:36

Unfortunately ...

... can't see the pictures :o(

Bored now, I think the deceased equine has been well and truly flaggelated, but would question the ability of the identification of sarcasm by the totallity (or even the majority!). 

I have some footage here of Lancsboy in a previous contest

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SuP1eycaA6c

But I'll leave you with my favourite quote from Shakespeare

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=alfutKH2388#t=82s

 

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By AddsUP2Me
05th Aug 2012 13:10

Can you not click on the blue word Hooray?

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By User deleted
05th Aug 2012 13:19

Thanks ...

AddsUP2Me wrote:

Can you not click on the blue word Hooray?

The one thing I didn't try, I'm up for that!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=_4JO7Pzr3K8#t=85s

 Although I thought it was the invisible woman underneath, and I've never heard it called wrestling before!!

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By AddsUP2Me
05th Aug 2012 13:30

LOL You are right of course!

Now that we have flogged the horse, doubled the meanings and dinner is cooking lets have something that is even more off-topic because this means nothing at all.

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHjdQ2db_PM&feature=related

Can you find anything weirder?

It is like that bizarre badger, badger, badger, snaaaake video that went meme-viral some years ago. It makes no sense and yet I could not stop staring. Your turn!

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By hannahaston
05th Aug 2012 22:20

Get a room
Adds up and OGA, I'm fed up of receiving these links now. Swap numbers or email addresses for crying out loud. Thanks and Goodnight y'all :)

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By User deleted
05th Aug 2012 23:00

My advice, same as if you don't like a television program ...

hannahaston wrote:
Adds up and OGA, I'm fed up of receiving these links now. Swap numbers or email addresses for crying out loud. Thanks and Goodnight y'all :)

... try using the off switch! Its down there, under the comment box.

 

                                                 

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By jane
05th Aug 2012 22:45

The posts about upsidedown numbers on calculators made me laugh out loud - I particularly used to like this one:

 

1351927 X 4

I vaguely remember a little ditty that went with it (something about people going on strike for a payrise) and the answer to the calculation being the answer that they got to their request for more money...............

 

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By AddsUP2Me
06th Aug 2012 02:11

Thank you Jane

jane wrote:

The posts about upsidedown numbers on calculators made me laugh out loud - I particularly used to like this one:

1351927 X 4

I vaguely remember a little ditty that went with it (something about people going on strike for a payrise) and the answer to the calculation being the answer that they got to their request for more money...............

 

LOL

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By User deleted
06th Aug 2012 16:17

You are so funny ...

... that is such a good joke.

That IS sarcasm :o)

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By Lancsboy2
06th Aug 2012 17:06

Or is it? LOL

Old Greying Accountant wrote:

... that is such a good joke.

That IS sarcasm :o)

or is it ... hmmm ... sarcasm / satire / irony / mockery / cynicism / ridicule / parody ... who knows? LOL

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By User deleted
06th Aug 2012 17:12

The one thing it ain't ..

... is true!

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By hannahaston
06th Aug 2012 20:41

Most useful thing you've said so far.....
Thanks OGA......

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