Tips & Advice

Our Chief Accountant Emily gives her five top tips to help you make the most of this tax year.

In our ongoing quest to demystify accounting, we’ve released a new tool to calculate whether your business could save money on the VAT Flat Rate Scheme.

Emily talks you through your options if you’re not going to make the Self Assessment deadline

We think that if you devote just an hour a week to your bookkeping, you’ll see great benefits for your business. Here’s our plan to make it easy.

Santa Claus is about to head out on his annual present-giving spree – but is he making sure he’s on top of his tax?

Does HMRC consider you to be trading and expect you to pay tax on the profits of your sales?

Rumour has it that Superman has left the Daily Planet to go solo — what tips does Emily have for the new freelancer?

As the days get lighter and warmer (we hope!) and the new tax year begins, it’s time to shake out the duster and polish and give your accounts a spring clean.

So here are a few useful tips on how you can get your accounts looking fresher and tidier than ever for the year ahead.

1) Get your records up to

We had an interesting question on the FreeAgent community forum recently: where should the cost of a guard dog be posted in a business’s accounts?

It caused quite a stir among our team of support acc

Today’s Valentine’s Day, when people pay closer attention to the relationships they have with their loved ones.

But this Valentine’s Day, why not think about how to improve some of the other relationships you have as well, including those with the people your business brings you into contact with?

Here’s