Friday 31 May 2013

You can sure tell this is a holiday week!

Not much going on this week. We are requesting books from clients for the last tax year so we can plan the work ahead of the deadline for personal tax returns. We also now have a list of clients who have statutory companies that have deadlines for corporation tax (submissions to HMRC) and annual accounts (submissions to Companies House). Again so we can plan ahead. Bar that quiet on the accounts and tax front (http://www.fraseraccounts.co.uk/).
On Dynamics Nav, first newsletter went out this week. Restricted audience for now.
We have had a few enquiries this week re our services (training, fixed price support, configuration / data migration) but nothing like the scale in previous weeks.The first 2 were for potential new clients. Waiting to hear if quote acceptable and we therefore get the work.
Short and sweet blog this week. Should have taken the week off!

Friday 10 May 2013

Another week goes by....

Odd week this week re work.
On the accounts side, specifically payroll services (http://www.fraseraccounts.co.uk/services/payroll/), its p14/p35 submission time. Emails with reports reconciled back to p30 submissions sent to all payroll services clients for approval pre submission. Half approved and submitted. Result!! Next half to be chased in the next few days. Interesting error on one on submission re HMRC response which will have to be resolved Monday. Only one to date though.
On the subject of RTI and the current tax year, did you know that the RTI submissions each week / month are cumulative? I didn't but after coming across a change on a monthly payroll after RTI submission, I discovered there is no process for recall and resubmission as each submission is cumulative.
Dynamics Nav wise (http://www.dynamicsnavukhelp.co.uk/), an interesting week for potential clients that started off promisingly but they have drifted out. By that I mean interest has dropped off. One was not too surprising as the potential client were going to implement QuickBooks but needed multiple companies and multiple currencies. Dynamics Nav can do this no problem but the cost base for it is very different from QuickBooks. More expensive. Anyway provided an online demo on Nav 2013 on a windows 8 pc via TeamViewer on 2 occasions (free of charge) so they could judge what they were getting for the investment. All ok bar loading of bank transactions which uses rules for their current bespoke finance system. Have to wait and see what the next stage is.
Another enquiry this week was on a specific 3rd party data feed in and out of Nav. Conference call lined up for this week but then postponed. So not sure what is going on there.
Hence the reference on both to drifting off.
Out at client sites next week so it will be a better week for chargeable time. This week awful for that.
Another client has just approved a large order for development and data migration work that will start next week and finish in June.
That's all for this week!