Our Business Coaching service

Anna Stubbs • September 9, 2022

Our Business Coaching service

Owning your own business is hard work and can often leave you feeling unsupported. Our Business Coaching service will provide you with the accountability and support needed to achieve your goals. We will help you to overcome obstacles and challenges in your business, maximising the synergy between your expertise and ours.

Our Business Coaching service gives you the chance to:

 

  • Meet quarterly with one of our senior team members
  • Interim monthly momentum telephone call to update
  • Review your results and find areas of improvement
  • Discuss burning issues and opportunities in your business
  • Work out ways of achieving the goals set in your Business Plan
  • Increase business performance and unlock growth

 

Ideally, coaching takes place once you have completed a Business Plan. However, the programme may also be used as a vehicle to work through major changes in your business circumstances or to help you implement a strategic or succession plan.

 

By joining our Business Coaching programme, you’ll:

 

  • Increase accountability and support from your Coach
  • Improve your business’s profitability and cashflow
  • Identify and solve your burning issues
  • Improve business performance by identifying ways to overcome challenging issues
  • Access the collective wisdom of our accountants, our systems, products, and services

 

If you need to be held accountable for completing actions and achieving your goals, get in touch for more information about how our Business Coaching programme could help you.

Making Tax Digital to be extended to more sole traders and landlords

By Anna Stubbs • April 9, 2025
Hiding in the HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) announcements published on 26 March was a technical note entitled ‘Modernising the tax system through Making Tax Digital‘. This note announces that the income threshold for Making Tax Digital for Income Tax & Self Assessment (or MTD for ITSA) is to drop to £20,000 per annum for sole traders and landlords. If you fall into this category, this means moving your tax completely over to digital by April 2026. But don’t worry, let’s see what MTD for ITSA is all about.

Reducing the uncertainty: financial forecasting and planning

By Anna Stubbs • April 9, 2025
Uncertainty can be a major threat to your strategic financial planning. Being unsure of what lies around the corner makes it difficult to make those important financial decisions around operational budgets, investment and growth funding. But by using forecasting and scenario-planning, you make it easier to manage your finances and reduce some of the financial uncertainty.

What's new in Xero (Spring 2025)

By Anna Stubbs • April 9, 2025
Some great new enhancements have come to Xero in the first few months of the year, here's some important features that have been released: Enhancements to the new invoicing Keyboard shortcuts. Drag and drop attachments. Date Picker quick select. Exchange rate adjustments in the invoice. Tracking categories for invoices. Automated bill entry The ability to upload bills directly to Xero, create one or many bills by dragging and dropping multiple files. Xero creates draft bills with the key details, and the original document is attached. Other important features (region dependent) Bank feed updates (Australia adds Suncorp Bank, United States gains PNC Commercial). Simplified whole operations with improved sales orders (United States). Easier 1099 reporting and filing (United States). Streamlined tax workflow and compliance (United Kingdom). Easier reporting (United States Schedule C compliance report, New Zealand not-for-profit tier 3 & 4 PBE reports). For the full breakdown read Xero's update .