A few weeks ago we looked at the more basic questions: why hire an accountant? Why not do it yourself? This week we’re being a bit more future-facing and asking what the benefits are in hiring an online accountant. As you’ll see, they’re many and varied. It’s personal… The first thing to say is that not […]
Back in the days when this blogger attended university, typical student jobs were fairly restricted to bar-keeping, shelf stocking, envelope stuffing and occasional unpaid shifts at the student union (where you’d get in to events for free and they might let you snaffle a beer). Scroll forward a couple of decades and things have changed considerably. […]
If we’re about nothing else here at My Accountant Friend, we’re about trying to be useful and helpful. One of the most commonly asked questions we hear is, simply: why hire an accountant? Why shouldn’t I just do it myself? We understand this very well. Many of our clients are self-employed startups, freelancers or independent […]
At any given get-together of freelancers or self-employed people, one question will inevitably rise: what is it about the freelance life that you find difficult? A recent survey by Aldermore suggests that what people expect to be stressed out by before they go freelance, and what they’re actually stressed out by once they’re on that road differs […]
The June 8th election is only weeks away, and with (most of) the manifestos now out in the open, we thought it’d be a good idea to compare and contrast what’s on offer to the UK’s freelance and self-employed community. With no intention of influencing your vote, we present here all the published points relevant to […]
Much as we love furnishing you with useful freelance life info week in, week out, occasionally we like to cut loose a little and show you just a glimpse of all the amazing fun things we do in the accountancy world. No, don’t run away! It’s true. Life as an accountant isn’t as dull as you […]
The chances are that, as a small business or a freelancer offering their services, you rely quite heavily on the internet. You’ve most probably come across the term SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) and have some idea that getting an SEO expert to tweak your site can do wonders for your appearance in Google Search. Like […]
If you’ve launched one of these new-fangled tech startup contraptions, the likelihood is that you’re already feeling the pinch pretty hard. Unless you’ve got yourself a sugar daddy, a fairy godmother or a rich maiden aunt, money is most likely to be in short supply for some time to come. We can’t all be Elon Musk […]
Every year we like to spend as much time as is humanly possible drinking all the caffeine in a given city. The city of choice is chosen largely based on us setting up shop there, so it’s as much a celebration of our own modest expansion as it is the coffee itself. However, we’ve been […]