Makbul Patel
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Finance business partner for Bolton at Home housing association. Three grown-up children. Beekeeper, writer and GBBO 2020 baker.
Finance business partner Bolton at Home
24th Jan 2024
How to make sense of production department budgets
January is a crucial month at work. The 2024/25 budgets have to be finalised and reported to the board in readiness for the new financial...
Management accounting
20th Dec 2023
The shape of management accounting to come
One of the things you must be sick to death of hearing about is AI, and I’m not talking about the Spielberg movie, although the film was an...
Management accounting
19th Jul 2023
Putting social value accounting into practice
Social value accounting is a reporting and analysis tool that is very broad and will mean different things to different firms. In my...
Management accounting
14th Jun 2023
Social value accounting provides valuable insights
Management accountants have to evolve. In fact, business has to evolve, to not only be more responsible internally but also to be more...
Management accounting
7th Dec 2022
Get involved: How budget negotiations work
Last time, I talked about the four main types of budgeting methods within an organisation. To recap they are: Incremental – take historical...
Practice strategy
12th May 2022
Accrual reversal blues
“Get all those old purchase orders closed,” says the finance manager close to year-end in an email that is also circulated to the finance...
General practice
24th Nov 2021
COP26: Accounting for the climate crisis
Something is happening at the beginning of December that has got me excited. AccountingWEB (AWEB to you and I) are putting on an...
Management accounting
20th Oct 2021
The 2021 Autumn Budget: Health and social funding predictions
You don’t need me to tell you how infuriating the past couple of years have been. March 2020 was perched as the gateway to a very...
HMRC & policy
5th Aug 2021
Tokyo Olympics: What price glory?
In the past few days, I have gotten into a bit of a routine. First thing in the morning I check the news on the Olympics and see how Team...
Financial reporting
15th Feb 2021
Understanding debits and credits
The first time I was exposed to debits and credits was during my time studying accountancy at university. Everyone had Frank Wood thrust in...
General practice