Top Tip – Look on the Business Link and Learn Direct Web Sites they provide all sorts of courses for either free or very reasonably priced on all sorts of things such as accounting where you can do it online or in a class. These if you take them before you start out especially accounting look very good to your bank manager and show that you are serious. Also from experience the vast majority of people who get themselves in a mess do so because they haven’t accounted properly.

Our accountant nearly cries at the end of the tax year as so many of his client’s just turn up with carrier bags of receipts and expect him to sort them out. This is a false economy as accountants are paid by the hour and the more complicated you make it the more it is costing you.