Category Archives: Business Tips

Pre Year-End Planning

Yearly planner

I will look at pre-year-end planning tips for you and your business. There will be some useful tips to consider between now and the end of the year. I’ll introduce you to Paul and Joanna Codd who have a “quare” successful company in Wexford. The focus will be on a company with a 31 December

What Your Company Can Do For You

Couple in Love

What your company can do for you. By that I mean, what do you pay for, from net salary, that your company could pay? A typical reaction would be. Oh, I never thought about that. But why would you? We’ll look at some obvious things and a couple of less obvious costs where your company

Take Home Pay in 2024

cash notes

What will be your take home pay in 2024? We are all budgeted out at this stage. I had enough after getting my 5th of 9 budget briefings. When deciding on a blog topic I asked myself what interests people the most. For me, it’s the amount of extra cash in my pocket. To pay

Normal Place of Work – Expenses

Arm wrestle for money

Be aware of your normal place of work when claiming expenses. Are you entitled to claim them and what are the things to watch out for? We’ll take a look at a case that came before the Tax Appeals Commission last year. Let’s find out more about The Stars The issues Case for Jerry Case

Tips to Save Corporation Tax

Save Money

Company Directors. Listen up. Tips to save Corporation Tax will be important to you in the coming months. The Corporation Tax [CT] deadline for companies with a 31 December 2022 year end is the 23rd of September. That is the last day to file your CT return and pay the balance owing for 2022. Let’s

Starting a New Business

Shop open

I had a meeting this week with Bridget Higgins who is starting a new business. Already working, this is a new gig for her, and she wants to get things right from the start. It got me thinking that we didn’t write anything about this before. Plus, it could help to point you in the

Business Owners – 5 Tips for 2023

2023

  For Business owners, we will look at 5 tips for 2023.   So much happens in such a short time it is difficult to have thinking time. Work, family, events, and now Christmas presents and the Christmas dinner. It is hectic. You will relate to this “By working faithfully eight hours a day you

Mid-Year Tax Update

Looking glass

Every Friday evening I get a news update from the Institute of Tax. At times it has very little that is relevant to our clients and other times it has lots of great information. Last Friday was one of those times where it had plenty to offer. Here’s what we’ll be covering in this Mid-Year

Benefits of Outsourcing your Bookkeeping

Accountant helping business woman

2022 is the year that we begin to restructure and gather our bearings after the chaos of the last 2 years. We know from the last 2 years that a lot of things are not foreseeable, but we all want to prepare now more than ever. Today we look at how bookkeeping can make your

Should I Stay or Should I Go? – Business Formation

business into a company

Last week we spoke about Our hero Jeff when we first started working with an accountancy coach in the UK. We learned about the business journey and Jeff’s numbers. See here  This week we will talk about a meeting I had with Judy who was looking to discuss business formation. We will look at Judy’s