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What’s the difference between accounting and bookkeeping?

Reckon

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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Finance Directors’ Tax Toolkit

Menzies

Menzies LLP - A leading chartered accountancy firm. Menzies are often appointed by the Finance Directors of large companies and groups to work alongside their existing auditors. Transfer pricing Transfer pricing is not only a tax compliance requirement. Click each heading below to expand each section on the toolkit.

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Friday Footnotes: How Much Big 4 Spent on Lobbying Last Year; Super Bowl Bets; CFOs Feeling Good | 2.9.24

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. My buddy from undergrad works office security at one of the Big 4 accounting firms in Midtown.

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What is the Let Property Campaign (LPC)?

Menzies

Menzies LLP - A leading chartered accountancy firm. Almost 10 years ago HMRC launched a disclosure facility aimed at individuals who had received property income, in the UK or abroad, but had failed to disclose this in their tax returns. What could go wrong?

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HMRC information notices – Schedule 36 FA 2008

Menzies

Menzies LLP - A leading chartered accountancy firm. To allow HMRC to check that the correct amounts of tax have been paid by taxpayers, they have been afforded formal legal powers to request information and documents from taxpayers. These powers are contained within Schedule 36 to Finance Act 2008.

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“What do you do?” – How to avoid giving a boring reply

Mark Lee

Do you ever struggle to make a lasting impression beyond the generic label of being ‘just another accountant’? The 3 Rs) ARE ACCOUNTANTS BORING? Non-accountants may see bookkeeping, accounts, finance and tax returns as boring activities. ARE ACCOUNTANTS ALL THE SAME? WHAT DO YOU DO?

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Friday Footnotes: ‘KPMG Did Not Know What They Were Doing’; Are You Boring?; PCAOB Warns About Confirmations | 3.25.22

Going Concern

These are the 5 most ‘boring’ — and exciting — jobs in the world, according to a recent study [ CNBC ] You’ll be happy to hear accounting made #2 on the most boring list. Don’t feel bad, MY job ranked #3 most exciting and I assure you it absolutely is not, I write about accounting after all. “I PCAOB Spotlight PDF here.