On blogger's block...

This is my first blog post of the new year and my first for some time. I have been suffering from a bad case of 'blogger's block' but new year, new motivation. So I'm going to TRY and blog about something useful (or at least interesting to me) every now and then over the next 12 months.

This is the time of year when things are generally a bit manic for accountants. The self assessment deadline is 31st January and inevitably a good chunk of this work gets wedged into December and January and it all gets a bit intense. But not this year. We are busy but its certainly not manic and for the first year in many we are not having to work weekends or late nights at this time of year. We even have some additional capacity and are taking on new clients for self assessment and other work.

So what's changed? Well we did make a concerted effort to encourage our clients to hand in their personal tax records a little bit earlier this year. We also have an experienced member of our team who has been focussing solely on self assessment work since last April. So better communication and better resourcing...and it seems to have worked!

So it has been very nice having a long Christmas break for a change and also having a bit more time to deal with other client work and even think about business development...and a bit of blogging.

I'd like to wish all our clients, suppliers and other contacts a happy new year and best wishes for a successful 2013.

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