Elaine Clark
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About Elaine Clark and CheapAccounting.co.uk
About Elaine Clark
Elaine Clark is Managing Director of the Award Winning national accountancy firm, CheapAccounting.co.uk.
She was named Woman in Finance by the Network of Aspiring Women in 2011. She has made several appearances on BBC Radio 4’s Money Box with Paul Lewis and is frequently asked by newspapers, magazines and websites to provide expert comment about tax, finance and other issues relevant to small and medium-sized businesses in the UK.
Accountancy Services
By delivering accountancy services via innovative online systems at a cost effective price, affordable by most small businesses, CheapAccounting.co.uk supports the growth of entrepreneurship.
Along with easy to understand, informative social media content CheapAccounting.co.uk takes a new and refreshing approach to the essential accounting required for start up and small businesses.
http://www.cheapaccounting.co.uk/
Franchise
Launched in 2007, award winning CheapAccounting.co.uk is one of the fastest growing on line accountancy firms in the UK.
Awarded the title of Progressive Practice by CCH and Accounting Web, CheapAccounting.co.uk's MD, Elaine Clark, also gained the accolade of Woman In Finance and at the start of 2012 CheapAccounting.co.uk made its first appearance in Accountancy Age Financial Power List.
In 2009, capitalising on the rapid growth of the brand, the CheapAccounting Accountancy Franchise was launched - an Accountancy Franchise network made up entirely of Qualified Accountants.
Franchise numbers have grown rapidly in response to the demand for low cost, quality, professional accountancy services. We urgently need more accountancy franchisees to continue our rapid expansion and meet the ever increasing demand for our services.
Clients love what CheapAccounting.co.uk is doing; changing the face of accountancy!
CheapAccounting.co.uk - where quality, affordable and professional services come as standard.
Chartered Accountant CheapAccounting.co.uk
My answers
typo correction
Great article Mark - hopefully the little typo wasn't intentional tee hee love it :-) Phew - thank goodness it got corrected very quickly :-)
I agree M
I totally agree M - in fact I think it should go much further and cover advice on but not limited to ..
what accounting system would best suit the business
how to organise the accounting system to save you time
is the business claiming all of its costs
what VAT scheme would be appropriate
what's the best system for the business to meet its RTI obligations
what’s the best business structure – limited or unlimited
I fear they’ve missed a trick in this area.
I stand corrected
I now understand that Paul Scholes is not the accountant at Clear Books.
I am very sorry if I have caused offence in my error.
now in the good old days ....
When I started our on line accountancy practice in 2007 there wasn’t much on line software around to choose from. Clear Books started the following year, Kash Flow the same year or there abouts and as for Sage well ...
So I did write my own but then I had gone back to college a couple of years before to do a Masters in Internet Computing – so I could code in php and html using an sql database. Personally I would have never attempted to write it is excel – it just never seemed the right tool for the job for me (of course this is just my view and I am more than sure others will tell me that excel is perfectly suitable). :-)
This summer we took the decision to align our entry level bookkeeping solution with Clear Books (we have our own solution – Clear Books Entry) because we are a firm of accountants and they are a software house and I want to stick to what we are good at.
So I’m afraid that my baby (the on line software I wrote in 2007 which admittedly is now a bit clunky) is being put out to pasture and clients transferred to our new Clear Books Entry solution.
My advice would be to find a Cloud solution that suits for your clients needs but one that also allows you to add things on such as final accounts, tax software etc.
You will never find one solution that everyone likes .. life just isn’t that simple! Oh and of course they may not be as much as you think. Clear Books Lite is just £5 a month and using it as a sales tool to attract clients should more than cover the costs.
Clear Books
My two-penneth worth ...Check out Clear Books Lite - it's a great entry level for clients who do not need bells and whistles etc. If they need ledgers then just upgrade to the full version. Tim Fouracre (MD) is an ICAEW - so he does know a bit of accounting stuff himself plus he is very approachable and his team are happy to help newbie’s to the cloud. Paul Scholes should be able to back this up as he is their accountant I believe.
“HMRC does not authorise the use of their logo"
Should it be used on this article then? LOL
good marketing lessons here
Looking behind the article and posts, there are some damn good marketing lessons here
@bookmarklee would be envious of this case study on the power of social media
Sage Blog
Just to add .. in response to the healthy twitter debate yesterday Sage published a blog ....
http://www.sage.co.uk/blog/index.php/2013/06/our-latest-accountants-puls...
They say ....
"The story isn’t about age"
which seems to rather contradict ....
The pace of change within the profession has accelerated and created an environment where ‘Generation Y’ accountants are best placed to respond to the changing role and demands, according to the latest Pulse research from Sage.
I expect we will all draw our own conclusions .....
"Youth is wasted on the young." - George Bernard Shaw
Putting people into boxes and attaching labels is IMO not conducive to obtaining best performance from a gifted talent pool.
A good article with very relevant & key messages ruined by mentioning age.
I guess the naivety of youth!
Generation Cool: Self-obsessed Millennials having so much fun
Generation Y a different take ....
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-22915026
"We will not be a great generation," says Gray. "We are too self-absorbed, spending most of our time on frivolous things, like posting photos of ourselves. We are cool kids, we are the cool generation."