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What’s the difference between accounting and bookkeeping?

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Much like those people who don’t understand the difference between Aussie rules, league and association football and call them all footy, a number of small business owners use the terms accounting and bookkeeping interchangeably. An easy start is to say that an accountant can be a bookkeeper but a bookkeeper isn’t an accountant.

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Why your company would benefit from an outsourced Finance Director

Menzies

Menzies LLP - A leading chartered accountancy firm. Most business owners have an accountant which they trust and rely on for advice, however sometimes that doesn’t give them the closer support they sometimes need. Growth An FD can help you to develop a financial strategy that will support your business’s growth goals.

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Demystifying Alternative Investment Funds – A Journey Through Compliance, Reporting, and Regulatory Insight

Menzies

Menzies LLP - A leading chartered accountancy firm. We help you to navigate through annual reporting requirements and explain why adherence to the Financial Reporting Standard (FRS 102) goes beyond the basics outlined by the FCA. An AIFM must make available to its investors and the FCA for each AIF it manages an annual report.

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Friday Footnotes: How to Add ChatGPT to Excel; RSM Wins Awards; Auditor Independence Pitfalls | 4.7.23

Going Concern

Footnotes is a collection of stories from around the accounting profession curated by actual humans and published every Friday at 5pm Eastern. Build ChatGPT into Excel [ Journal of Accountancy ] Note that this process currently works in Microsoft Excel 365, Microsoft Excel 365 for Mac, and Excel for the web. I can imagine it.

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Friday Footnotes: For the Last Time, Salaries Are Too Low; NOCLAR Is Back; Big 4 Beat Up Again | 3.1.24

Going Concern

Footnotes is a collection of stories from around the accounting profession curated by actual humans and published every Friday at 5pm Eastern. Comments are closed on Friday Footnotes and the Monday Morning Accounting News Brief by default. This is an accounting trick.

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Friday Footnotes: EY Can’t Hire Tech; John Doe Sues the PCAOB; Auditors Can’t Find Torpedoes and Missiles | 1.20.03

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Practice Management How firms use stay interviews to boost retention [ Journal of Accountancy ] Job interviews have long been an essential part of the hiring process. But now, some public accounting firms are turning the lens on themselves.

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Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: EY Partners Banging the Client Again; Turnstile Data Shows Staff DGAF About RTO | 1.29.24

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Accounting Ranks First In Something Good For Once More 2. EY Is Going on a Hiring Spree in the Philippines According to a Financial Times story published this morning , RTO isn’t going so hot at the King’s EY. To No One’s Surprise Except the AICPA’s, AICPA Membership Is Falling 4. 24, it said in a Monday securities filing.

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