You’ve made the decision to switching accountants but are filled with a number of worries about the whole process. Have a read of this article, allow us to (virtually) hold your hand and work through some of your worries. Believe me, after 20 plus years, we’ve seen it, done it and navigated hundreds of new
Author Archives: Gillian French
Xero is the UK’s leading accounting software, and here at DNA we’re big fans. We discovered it ten years ago, and quickly found it was worlds above anything we’d used before! We started recommending it to our clients, and now pretty much everyone we work with is on it (and the handful who aren’t are
Here at DNA, we don’t believe in spreading ourselves thin. We focus on what we’re good at, and on doing it really well, because our clients deserve thorough, dependable support. It’s for this reason we now only work with limited companies (they’re kind of our thing). With over 20 years experience in limited companies, we
We have been around long enough to have taken on clients who have previously been using large firms, predominantly for the prestige. Big isn’t always best Here are some of their comments about these larger firms: We felt like we were small fish in large pond Our day to day work had been delegated to
We feel extremely privileged to have our office in The Forge (official name Oyster Hill Forge) in Headley. I was even more privileged recently to talk to a local man (who used to visit the Blacksmith, Fred Hack) in the 1950s and who gave me a history of this beautiful Grade II listed building. The
Have you been thinking about changing your car recently and are wondering about buying an electric car to help the environment - sorry, reduce tax? This is a good thing. Yes, A GOOD THING. HMRC have made this a good thing by allowing companies to get full tax relief when they buy a brand new,
Making a claim for Working from Home Can I claim tax relief for my goldfish, Bubbles, who keeps me company when I’m working from home? We have been asked some odd questions over the years, especially when it comes to claiming expenses of having a home office. Making a claim to your business for working
In the last six months we’ve been in the process of rebranding DNA Accountants. Having carried out an audit of our brand and website, it became clear that the kind of firm our clients know us to be wasn’t being represented well online. Soon, we’ll be going live with a whole new website, and we’re
Although the end of January is still a few weeks away, did you realise that filing your tax return sooner rather than later has a number of advantages? The one positive aspect of the tax return deadline is that it is always the same – January 31st. This means that with a little planning and
The simplicity of starting and operating your own business is one of the key advantages of working for yourself. Even when working for someone else, you might apply to become a sole trader, which is another word for self-employed, to see if you like it. Here are 5 things you must do when you decide
