What Is An Employer Reference Number?
An Employer Reference Number (ERN) is a unique set of letters and number used to identify your business. Also called your employer PAYE reference on tax forms, you’ll be given an Employer Reference...
View ArticleDo You Need A Business Bank Account?
Sole traders aren’t legally required to own a business bank account, but there are several advantages to having separate business and personal finances. In this blog, we look at why you might want to...
View ArticleSmall business guide to redundancy pay
What is redundancy? Redundancy is when you, as an employer, reduce your workforce because jobs are no longer needed. As businesses restructure and evolve, it’s an unfortunate fact that sometimes roles...
View ArticleSmall Business Guide To Company Car Tax
If you provide your employees with a company car (or fuel) that they can use for personal transport*, then they’ll have to pay company car tax. This is because you’re providing the car in addition to...
View ArticleQualities That Make a Good Leader
There’s plenty of advice available on how to be a good leader, though which will apply to you, your team and your business will There are three things you need to know in order to be a good leader:...
View ArticleIntroducing the New & Improved Customer and Supplier Areas
After reviewing the most popular posts over on KashFlow Canvass, we’ve opened up our toolkit and made a few changes to the Customer and Supplier areas in KashFlow! In this blog, we’ll give you a quick...
View ArticleHow to Transition Your Physical Business Online
If you currently own a brick-and-mortar business and fail to have an online presence, you are missing out on a huge avenue of finding new potential customers. At this point, most people spend time...
View Article5 Ways Your Business Can Find Customers on Social Media
The Battle for Attention: Here’s What Your Business is Up Against Startups with a strong social media presence understand that it takes more than a funny cat meme or inspirational Facebook post to get...
View ArticleStaying on top of your bookkeeping ahead of Making Tax Digital
With the new Making Tax Digital system coming into effect early next year, businesses over (or approaching) the VAT threshold will need to make sure they have a bookkeeping system in place that is both...
View ArticleBusiness Payments Through the Years
With the UK moving ever closer to a cashless and contactless society, we thought it would be fun to look back at all the ways businesses have received payments. Making and taking payments runs deep...
View ArticleUnderstanding the VAT Annual Accounting Scheme
With Making Tax Digital and its online-only, quarterly reporting around the corner, we take another look at the VAT Annual Accounting Scheme to see how it will change with this new tax initiative. The...
View ArticleKashFlow Guide to Direct Debits
We’ve partnered with GoCardless to help our customers get paid on time by adopting Direct Debits. But is this the right payment collection method for your business? This blog looks at the advantages of...
View ArticleDebit card payments overtake cash in the UK
Is your business equipped to take card payments? Investing in point-of-sale card readers and making sure you’re ready to take contactless payments may seem like a luxury in the early days of your...
View ArticleWhat is Real Time Tax?
As a major component of Making Tax Digital, Real Time Tax is a term that UK small businesses will need to know if they’re over (or approaching) the VAT threshold. The post What is Real Time Tax?...
View ArticleWhat is Expense Management?
We’ve partnered with Cashplus to help KashFlow customers manage their expenses using a prepaid card solution. We’ve already given expense management a brief introduction, but we wanted to delve deeper...
View ArticleIs online bookkeeping secure?
What do we mean by ‘online’ bookkeeping? Online bookkeeping utilises ‘the cloud’. In layman’s terms the cloud is simply a way that data and software is stored online. By using online bookkeeping...
View ArticleExpense management tips for SMEs – challenges and solutions
In this week’s blog, Cashplus explore the common expense management issues faced by small businesses – and how Making Tax Digital is set to change ways of working across the board. In a survey...
View ArticleIntroducing KashFlow’s New Mileage Module
Sole traders and partnerships who use HMRC’s “simplified expense” method must log all the trips they make for work and claim back the mileage from their business. The amount they can claim back is...
View ArticleWhat is the cash flow gap?
If left unchecked, a cash flow gap can create serious problems for a small business. There are, however, ways for business to plug this cash gap and ensure their business maintains a smooth financial...
View ArticleSmall businesses facing Auto Enrolment audits and fines
Now that Automatic Enrolment into Workplace Pension schemes has finished its rollout and applies to businesses of every size, The Pensions Regulator are carrying out audits to ensure that business are...
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