Resources
A selection of great tools, business guides and articles to help make your business a success
How Does A Tax Investigation Work?
If you ever have the misfortune to see an envelope stamped with the HMRC logo drift through your letter box, a slight sense of panic is understandable. Tax investigations are rare, but when they’re...
Why Partner With Bright Ideas Accountancy?
Managing a freelance career can be hard, a veritable blitzkrieg of tax assessments, tenuous expense claims and the merry-go-round of invoice chasing from one client to the next. You know that you’re...
What Is IR35? How Does It Work?
Contractors are generally a savvy bunch, applying their skills to a project for several months and enjoying the perks of being a mercenary for hire. It’s comforting to know that as soon as one job...
Thinking Of Switching Accountant?
The woes of accounting are enough to keep any self-employed professional up at night, wondering if their accountant is doing enough to help. When you leave something so important in another person’s...
How To Secure A Mortgage As A Self-Employed Professional
Building a life for yourself includes a couple of definitive milestones, making the leap to a secure and happy future that’ll leave your children and grandchildren with a legacy. As a freelancer or...
4 Things Every Contractor And Freelancer Should Outsource
Independence is a wonderful thing. Being able to stand on your own two feet as a freelancer or contractor is no mean feat, and should be praised to high heaven. Saying that, it’s a lot of pressure...
Bright Ideas Accountancy Is Up For An Award!
You’d think, with all the time we spend crunching numbers, that it’s not often we get a chance to mingle with others in our industry, never mind get recognised for the work we do. It’s, therefore, a...
Umbrella vs. Limited: The Great Debate
Self-employment gives you the freedom to control your workflow, but it also brings decisions about how to operate in the business world. If you’re a freelancer or contractor, you’re probably...
Are You Ready to Become Self-Employed?
The grass is greener, they often say, on the other side. In terms of making a living for yourself, that ‘other side’ can seem like an alien dimension – although self-employment figures are...
Making Tax Digital – What You Need To Know
As children of the digital revolution, we’re always promised things will be made simpler, more convenient, or downright illuminating compared to what we have in the present moment. It’s probably...
The Price of Ignorance: Expenses You May Be Claiming Wrong
Bright Ideas is well-versed in saving money for contractors and freelancers new to the game, yet it’s a sad truth that even veteran business owners can get expense claims muddled when HMRC comes...
Stuck In A Bookkeeping Rut? Let’s Dig You Out
It’s true that the digital age is moving faster than anyone thought possible. No matter what work you do, you’ll have encountered a need for foresight and efficiency when running your business,...
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