Nobody gets into because they love accountancy. But if you want your new venture to succeed and grow, you can’t afford to ignore the finances.

Bookkeeping and taxes can be scary for first-time business owners, but it isn’t too tricky as long as you pay attention to the basics.

In this blog post we share some business finance fundamentals that you need to get right if you want to sell online successfully.

FreeAgent have launched their new and improved Partner Programme and CloudAccountant.co.uk have been awarded FreeAgent Platinum Partner status.
FreeAgent wanted to develop a partner programme that meets the expectations of increasingly successful partners like CloudAccountant, with a more rewarding and achievable programme.

If you are self-employed, you can claim back expenses against your income to reduce your overall business profit and the amount of tax you pay.

For example, if you earn £40,000 through self-employment and claim back £5,000 in allowable expenses, your profit will be £35,000, so you will only pay tax on this.

Many of these allowable expenses are obvious. And if you have been self-employed for a few years you will know most of them. But there are certain less obvious expenses that you might not have claimed for.

Cloud Accounting software specialists FreeAgent have now pushed out their CIS functionality to the mobile version of the product on both IOS and Android.
The ability to generate and send an invoice from a mobile device while out on site can help contractors to get paid quicker and keep all the paperwork up to date from the relative ease of FreeAgent’s intuitive mobile interface.