Category: Resource
The SOW Process: How to Write a Statement of Work That Holds Up
A vague brief feels harmless at the start of a job. Then the deadline slips, the invoice comes in higher than expected, or the finished work isn't quite what anyone had in mind, and suddenly everyone's trying to remember what was actually agreed. A proper Statement of Work is how you avoid that conversation altogether. An SOW isn't pap...
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Accountants for Property Developers: From Site to Sale
A development can sell for exactly the price you planned and still leave you with a tax bill you didn't see coming. That's because property development accounting doesn't follow the same rules as a normal business, or even a normal property business. Whether a site sits on your balance sheet as an asset or as stock, whether HMRC treats yo...
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Accounting for Technology Companies That Are Scaling Fast
A tech company can look healthy on every measure that matters to a normal business and still be a few months from running out of cash. Revenue's climbing, the team's growing, the product's landing well. None of that tells you how many weeks of runway you've actually got, whether your last R&D claim will survive scrutiny, or whether th...
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Can Charities Claim Back VAT?
Plenty of charities assume they're exempt from VAT, but that can be an expensive assumption. Some end up paying VAT they could have avoided, while others reclaim VAT they were never entitled to, and land an assessment when HMRC looks closely. The truth sits somewhere in between. Whether your charity can claim back VAT depends on w...
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Guide to Accounting for Architects: Solid Finance Foundations
Architecture is a creative profession run as a business, and the two don't always sit comfortably together. You trained to design buildings, not to track work in progress across a dozen live projects or work out when a stage payment becomes taxable income. Yet the financial side of a practice has quirks that a general guide to small bu...
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