Every business, big or small, needs to hire an accountant to protect the financial integrity of the organisation.

There are two ways to die in the UK; with a Will, and without a Will. If you are clever, you would choose the former.

Whenever you’re looking at whether you can include costs for travel as a business expense, you need to consider why you made the journey.

Boris Johnson tells the British public: "I want you to know how sad I am to be giving up the best job in the world, but them's the breaks."

Bookkeeping is important for helping you maintain accurate financial records. Yet, many businesses fail to implement this integral process.

If you’re self-employed, a partner or a company director, then HMRC will ask you to submit an annual self-assessment tax return.

An executor is someone named in a will as responsible for sorting out the estate of the person who’s died.

The statement of cash flows, shows how your business has generated and used cash (and cash equivalents) within a specific time period.

If you’ve just moved from being a sole trader to a limited company, you may get caught out by the different rules around withdrawing cash.

When you decide to take on the probate work yourself you are facing two major challenges: a personal challenge and a legal challenge.

When you operate your business through a limited company, that company is considered to be a separate entity from you as an individual.

There’s a long list of compliance tasks to get your head around and one key task will be registering your company for business taxes.

Anyone can be an executor. The role includes completing IHT forms, arranging the payment of tax due, and applying for grant of probate.

Once you become an employer, you’ll need to set up a pay-as-you-earn (PAYE) scheme.

When first setting up your business a key consideration will be whether to register for Value-Added Tax.

On your business journey, there may come a time when there’s a valid reason to suspend or cease trading as a limited company.

As a company director, it’s important to understand the distinction between paying tax on your company profits and tax on your own income.

An LPA is a legal document that lets you (the ‘donor’) appoint one or more people (known as ‘attorneys’) to help you make decisions.

As an unincorporated business you have the option of using a ‘cash accounting basis' when preparing your accounts.

It is very important to find any 'Last Will and Testament' for a person who has died to enable the executors to follow their wishes .