General Book-keeping & Accounting - The Book-keepers Forum (UK)

Nikole · Nikole

Hello All Right I am being a bit of a dunce tonight (Also my first time dealing with this) I have just set up Sage for a client who's books were done manually before. Client is Vat Cash Accounting and several cheques issued last financial year were posted to last years accounts. Cheques have now cleared t...

rafapak · rafapak

Hi guys I was told by my teacher that it is good idea to insert my name after name of the company when I do company preferences at the beginning of sage exam. The reason for this is that my name is visible on all printed reports and people who will mark my exam will not confuse my reports with somebody else'...

rafapak · rafapak

Hi guys I have question in relation to financial year and program dates during exam. We have year 2017 now. Do they usually tell students to set program date that doesn't match with current ' real life' year ? Can I expect that financial year or program date will be related to 2016 or earlier ?

abacus12345 · abacus12345

Can I assume that texts related to FA2017 will be delayed in their publication due to the 'washing' of, or putting on pause, XYZ of the Finance Act? I will make the assumption that it will be a Tory Government, so much will not change from the initial Budget just gone..well... Ok maybe a NI change. Anyw...

rafapak · rafapak

Hi guys 1. Is it good idea not to do any backups during exam in order to save time or is it better to do backups during exam ? 2. Do you guys have any techniques that help you to transfer figures from paper version of scenario to software ? In order not to make mistakes I tend to check too often if figure I inser...

Ellie16 · Ellie16

Hi, a client approached us to do his corporation tax. He is not actually trading since September and the report is due by the end of this month. After we went through all the income and expenditure it looks like he took out more money that he could have. We are £300 ish short, which means he owes the money to...

KBP · KBP

Hi All, An Ltd company doing consultancy with 1 owner being also the sole Director of the company (hence the operating model is pretty straight fw: fee income/dividend payment). The Ltd has been setup with 1 ordinary share for 1GBP. Model articles used, all share capital should be fully paid up. 1st a...

Cheshire · Cheshire

Hi Folks Just wondered what folks use as best practice for saving ad hoc purchase invoices/receipts to your PC, that are sent to you by clients so you can easily retrieve them in case of a query? So far Ive not had that many, as I still tend to get a lot of paper ones from clients, but want to push some of the...

abacus12345 · abacus12345

Amend and adjust within the accounts or the tax return? Thanks

Ellie16 · Ellie16

Hello, I was wondering if you could help me out please. I need to shorten the financial year in Sage 50 accounts, but don't exactly know how to do it....as far as I understood Sage's online help I would need to change the start date as it always has to be 12 months. SO the year started on 01/09/2016 and as per...

Nikole · Nikole

Currently I have a large amount of Credit Card payments that I have been unable to allocate sat in the miscellaneous account as I cannot allocate to the correct nominal code due to missing statements. I have asked the client for the statements and I have been provided with some along with some rece...

Cheshire · Cheshire

Hi Just wondered if HMRC were still supposed to be writing out with renewal notices for MLR or had I missed something? Gov.uk indicates they will still send but Ive not had mine and just wondered if anyone had not received one. Or if its back to the snail mail debarcle of the coding notices/PAYE letter...

abacus12345 · abacus12345

Hi, Just thought I'd share one or two observations. I am, I was, I still don't know if I'll give CIMA a crack but - If this is your intention and you plan to take the exemptions buy CIMA certificate Economics and CIMA certificate Law study texts. Both of those books cover what AAT does not - both are al...

rafapak · rafapak

Hi Usually, to make things clearer in my messages I use enter button to move parts of text to next line or sth so that my message is easier to read for people. Why enter button doesn't have effect on my text anymore ? I made spaces while preparing message but after I save it , all the lines are together and t...

rafapak · rafapak

Hi guys 1. I would like to ask you for advice. I don't like when money is automatically paid out from my bank account. I prefer to prepair transfer manually etc and press' send' at the end. I want to buy access to sage 50 for a month. They told me that if I want to buy sage i have to pay using direct debit from my b...

Seb · Seb

Having read another thread in regards to invoices has left me with a couple of questions: Is it not best to always ask for a VAT invoice, even if you're not VAT registered, due to if/when you eventually cross the threshold you'll then be able to claim back the VAT on all the assets you still hold within th...

David Rosario · David Rosario

Hello everyone, I am the process of collating all the figures from a new client for his tax return. The new client runs a chauffeur business and I have a question about the chauffeur business and about his fuel allowance... Can someone please give me answers to the following: First is there anyone w...

rafapak · rafapak

Hi guys I have problem to figure out how they arrived at this answer to this exercise I enclosed. We have depreciation at 2%. My thinking is that it is monthly charge. They probably started to depreciate on the 1st of January 20X5 and on 30th of June 20X5 they have accumulated depreciation of 12.000 ( 200...

JKO · JKO

Hi , I havent been on for a while but have a question about loyalty cards. I used to work for a restaurant ( not in a finance role ) but left after studying to work in a finance role! Anyway theye were a bit short staffed so they called and asked if I could help out and while I was there a customer wanted to redee...

LorraineD · LorraineD

Hi I'm looking for some help please. One of our customers has started using a third party to handle their payments and will never pay the invoice amount as this is where they take their fee (but that's another story). e.g. Invoice totals £925.20, however their payment is for £914.10, which has deduc...

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	Cleared Cheques (Preview) Hello All Right I am being a bit of a dunce tonight (Also my first time dealing with this) I have just set up Sage for a client who's books were done manually before. Client is Vat Cash Accounting and several cheques issued last financial year were posted to last years accounts. Cheques have now cleared t...	Nikole	6	1331	Wed May 17 17:24 2017 by Cheshire
	name and aat number after name of the company (Preview) Hi guys I was told by my teacher that it is good idea to insert my name after name of the company when I do company preferences at the beginning of sage exam. The reason for this is that my name is visible on all printed reports and people who will mark my exam will not confuse my reports with somebody else'...	rafapak	3	974	Wed May 17 17:15 2017 by rafapak
	financial year and program date during computerised accounting exam (Preview) Hi guys I have question in relation to financial year and program dates during exam. We have year 2017 now. Do they usually tell students to set program date that doesn't match with current ' real life' year ? Can I expect that financial year or program date will be related to 2016 or earlier ?	rafapak	4	1102	Tue May 16 20:16 2017 by rafapak
	FA 2017 tax text. (Preview) Can I assume that texts related to FA2017 will be delayed in their publication due to the 'washing' of, or putting on pause, XYZ of the Finance Act? I will make the assumption that it will be a Tory Government, so much will not change from the initial Budget just gone..well... Ok maybe a NI change. Anyw...	abacus12345	0	832	Tue May 16 12:43 2017 by abacus12345
	back up- saving time during computerised accounting exam (Preview) Hi guys 1. Is it good idea not to do any backups during exam in order to save time or is it better to do backups during exam ? 2. Do you guys have any techniques that help you to transfer figures from paper version of scenario to software ? In order not to make mistakes I tend to check too often if figure I inser...	rafapak	12	2078	Mon May 15 22:34 2017 by rafapak
	Director's loan account overdrawn (Preview) Hi, a client approached us to do his corporation tax. He is not actually trading since September and the report is due by the end of this month. After we went through all the income and expenditure it looks like he took out more money that he could have. We are £300 ish short, which means he owes the money to...	Ellie16	5	1007	Mon May 15 14:57 2017 by Cheshire
	Paid/ Unpaid share capital 1GBP (Preview) Hi All, An Ltd company doing consultancy with 1 owner being also the sole Director of the company (hence the operating model is pretty straight fw: fee income/dividend payment). The Ltd has been setup with 1 ordinary share for 1GBP. Model articles used, all share capital should be fully paid up. 1st a...	KBP	4	1275	Mon May 15 12:40 2017 by Cheshire
	Purchase invoices and receipts kept electronically (Preview) Hi Folks Just wondered what folks use as best practice for saving ad hoc purchase invoices/receipts to your PC, that are sent to you by clients so you can easily retrieve them in case of a query? So far Ive not had that many, as I still tend to get a lot of paper ones from clients, but want to push some of the...	Cheshire	5	1118	Sun May 14 16:02 2017 by Leger
	Is it better form to... (Preview) Amend and adjust within the accounts or the tax return? Thanks	abacus12345	9	1046	Sat May 13 22:15 2017 by Leger
	shorten the financial year in Sage 50 accounts (Preview) Hello, I was wondering if you could help me out please. I need to shorten the financial year in Sage 50 accounts, but don't exactly know how to do it....as far as I understood Sage's online help I would need to change the start date as it always has to be 12 months. SO the year started on 01/09/2016 and as per...	Ellie16	4	2475	Fri May 12 13:18 2017 by Ellie16
	Miscellaneous Expenses (Preview) Currently I have a large amount of Credit Card payments that I have been unable to allocate sat in the miscellaneous account as I cannot allocate to the correct nominal code due to missing statements. I have asked the client for the statements and I have been provided with some along with some rece...	Nikole	10	1358	Fri May 12 08:57 2017 by pictures
	MLR renewal (Preview) Hi Just wondered if HMRC were still supposed to be writing out with renewal notices for MLR or had I missed something? Gov.uk indicates they will still send but Ive not had mine and just wondered if anyone had not received one. Or if its back to the snail mail debarcle of the coding notices/PAYE letter...	Cheshire	31	4369	Thu May 11 20:59 2017 by Douglas Stroud
	Are you thinking of CIMA after AAT (Preview) Hi, Just thought I'd share one or two observations. I am, I was, I still don't know if I'll give CIMA a crack but - If this is your intention and you plan to take the exemptions buy CIMA certificate Economics and CIMA certificate Law study texts. Both of those books cover what AAT does not - both are al...	abacus12345	8	2139	Mon May 8 13:39 2017 by Cheshire
	question to admin- why enter button does not work when we write messages ? (Preview) Hi Usually, to make things clearer in my messages I use enter button to move parts of text to next line or sth so that my message is easier to read for people. Why enter button doesn't have effect on my text anymore ? I made spaces while preparing message but after I save it , all the lines are together and t...	rafapak	12	1546	Sun May 7 19:16 2017 by rafapak
	using accounting software in the internet- direct debit (Preview) Hi guys 1. I would like to ask you for advice. I don't like when money is automatically paid out from my bank account. I prefer to prepair transfer manually etc and press' send' at the end. I want to buy access to sage 50 for a month. They told me that if I want to buy sage i have to pay using direct debit from my b...	rafapak	8	1437	Wed May 3 21:01 2017 by abacus12345
	Pre-reg VAT (Preview) Having read another thread in regards to invoices has left me with a couple of questions: Is it not best to always ask for a VAT invoice, even if you're not VAT registered, due to if/when you eventually cross the threshold you'll then be able to claim back the VAT on all the assets you still hold within th...	Seb	4	1171	Wed May 3 20:47 2017 by abacus12345
	A chauffeur client... tax return (Preview) Hello everyone, I am the process of collating all the figures from a new client for his tax return. The new client runs a chauffeur business and I have a question about the chauffeur business and about his fuel allowance... Can someone please give me answers to the following: First is there anyone w...	David Rosario	1	899	Mon May 1 18:43 2017 by Cheshire
	accumulated depreciation- straight line (Preview) Hi guys I have problem to figure out how they arrived at this answer to this exercise I enclosed. We have depreciation at 2%. My thinking is that it is monthly charge. They probably started to depreciate on the 1st of January 20X5 and on 30th of June 20X5 they have accumulated depreciation of 12.000 ( 200...	rafapak	3	965	Sat Apr 29 01:08 2017 by rafapak
	Loyalty card scheme (Preview) Hi , I havent been on for a while but have a question about loyalty cards. I used to work for a restaurant ( not in a finance role ) but left after studying to work in a finance role! Anyway theye were a bit short staffed so they called and asked if I could help out and while I was there a customer wanted to redee...	JKO	13	1701	Fri Apr 28 22:55 2017 by abacus12345
	Payment Handling Company Taking Fee from Invoice Total (Preview) Hi I'm looking for some help please. One of our customers has started using a third party to handle their payments and will never pay the invoice amount as this is where they take their fee (but that's another story). e.g. Invoice totals £925.20, however their payment is for £914.10, which has deduc...	LorraineD	11	2624	Thu Apr 27 19:52 2017 by Leger
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