by admin | Feb 2, 2016 | Accounting, Amaranthine, Enterprise, Professional
In our Trilogy of Value series (HERE, HERE and HERE), we explain that we deliver value-based services which make the often painful process of book-keeping a real delight. Is this actually possible, or are we making it up? Enter Receipt Bank Receipt Bank is an award-winning software add-on that converts all your bills, invoices and receipts into data, making it easy for you to send your financial information straight to us. Features With Receipt Bank’s flexible submission methods you’ll never lose another document as it’s simple to submit them instantly. You can submit in a variety of ways, choosing whichever are best for your business: Receipt Bank App (iPhone & Android) Email Post Dropbox …and more… Benefits Using Receipt Bank’s easy submission methods means that: You save time on sending in your paperwork, giving you time back to build your business You save space as there’s no need to store your physical documents You get all your financial data quickly and we are able to offer business advice based on a near real time flow of information I love it. How can I get it? If you’d like to get started with a leading edge accounting service which includes Receipt Bank, take a look at our service offerings for Enterprises and Professionals, and book a free consultation using the big red button below. About Aiteo Consulting Aiteo Consulting provides accounting, finance and advisory services to start-ups and growth businesses in the technology sector. By focusing on lean accounting techniques, intelligent use of financial data and a lifetime of experience in financial roles supporting technology firms, we provide a premium service to enterprises and...
by admin | Feb 1, 2016 | Accounting, Advisory, Amaranthine, Enterprise, Finance, Professional
Careful readers of our blog will have noticed, among the various important updates on topics such as security, budgets, and happy Christmases, an emerging theme has begun to … errm … emerge. In an earlier post (HERE), we picked up the gauntlet thrown down by our professional counterparts at KPMG and explained why Aiteo Consulting must be the accounting firm you are looking for. It’s definitely worth a read, and not simply because the Guardian Small Business Network described it as a ‘masterclass in blog writing’. @AiteoConsulting A masterclass in blog writing, well done! — GuardianSmallBiz (@GdnSmallBiz) October 23, 2015 In a follow-up post (HERE), which we can now designate as the second of a slowly developing trilogy, we introduced to you the idea of getting value for money out of your accountant – a task many find slightly more difficult than getting blood out of a stone. Your accountant should play the role of your finance director and should be central to your business. But what does that mean in practice? And if you hire us, how would we do it? So we come to the final step, and here’s hoping that, unlike the slightly more famous Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy trilogy, we don’t actually end up with five instalments. So let’s talk about value. Value means different things to different people (diffr’n’t strokes for diffr’n’t folks and all that). And in order to deliver you a service that you value, we need first to work out together what you’re looking for and tailor our service accordingly. In order to do this effectively and efficiently, there is...
by admin | Jan 15, 2016 | Accounting, Advisory, Enterprise, Finance, Fugacious, Professional, Uncategorised
Confirmation of 2016 Member in Practice status from the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants....
by admin | Jan 12, 2016 | Accounting, Amaranthine, Enterprise, Professional
Facing challenges as a growing small business? Maybe you’re looking for some extra funding and need to write a business plan. Maybe you’re weighing up the options about the right legal structure for the future. Or maybe you’re just ready to delegate, freeing you up to develop your business. If this is you, maybe now’s the time. Click through to our free guide, courtesy of our accounting partners at...
by admin | Dec 22, 2015 | Accounting, Advisory, Enterprise, Finance, Fugacious, Professional
Whether you’re a customer, a partner, a supporter… …or one of those pesky spam bots that continually disrupts our Google Analytics… or even just someone we exchanged business cards with at Tesco… …may we wish you a very happy Christmas and a productive New Year! I heard the bells on Christmas Day Their old, familiar carols play, And wild and sweet The words repeat Of peace on earth, good-will to men! Till ringing, singing on its way, The world revolved from night to day, A voice, a chime, A chant sublime Of peace on earth, good-will to men! Then from each black, accursed mouth The cannon thundered in the South, And with the sound The carols drowned Of peace on earth, good-will to men! It was as if an earthquake rent The hearth-stones of a continent, And made forlorn The households born Of peace on earth, good-will to men! And in despair I bowed my head; “There is no peace on earth,” I said; “For hate is strong, And mocks the song Of peace on earth, good-will to men!” Then pealed the bells more loud and deep: “God is not dead, nor doth He sleep; The Wrong shall fail, The Right prevail, With peace on earth, good-will to men.” ― Henry Wadsworth...
by admin | Nov 5, 2015 | Accounting, Advisory, Amaranthine, Enterprise, Finance
In a recent post (HERE) we looked at a Guardian Small Business article on choosing your accountant, and explained why Aiteo Consulting simply must have been in the author’s mind as she wrote. Now, if there is any truth to the chorus of complaint which often follows the words ‘I tried to speak to my accountant and…’, we might have to admit that in most minds, value and accounting services go together like blood and stones. So a recent article, published in the same august organ (HERE – if you must – but do wait until the end if you can), begins to grapple with the thorny question of getting value for money from your accounting services. Now, before launching into our analysis, we would like to say this. When a major accounting firm launches a new nationwide service targeted to small business, and the Head of the aforesaid service manages to write a clear problem statement for a national daily without it in any way coming across as an advertorial, we can only applaud. If you do look carefully, you’ll see that the author is indeed Head of Small Business Accounting for … well you can read the article to find out. After all they haven’t paid us to advertise on here! Credit where it’s due though, and we believe the article represents an excellent contribution to the debate about value. So let’s take a look at some of these themes. Entrepreneurs often pitch their businesses without knowing basic financial information. To be fair, an evening in watching Dragons’ Den wouldn’t be half as much fun without the...
