Wellwood Hoyle Associates - Chartered Certified Accountants, Bolton le Sands, Carnforth

<body background="_themes/rmnsque/romtextb.jpg" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#663300" link="#660000" vlink="#999900" alink="#006600"><font face="Times New Roman, Times"><p align="left" style="word-spacing: 0; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><b><font face="Arial" size="6" color="#000000">Wellwood Hoyle Associates Limited</font></b></p> <p align="left" style="word-spacing: 0; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><b><i><font face="Arial" size="3" color="#000000">Chartered Certified Accountants and Business Advisers</font></i></b> <p align="left" style="word-spacing: 0; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><b><font face="Arial" size="4" color="#000000">Philip C Hoyle FCCA</font></b> <p><font face="Arial" color="#000000"><b>We are a small Chartered Certified Accountancy practice specialising in accounting, tax and business advisory services to small businesses and new business start ups.</b></font></p> <p><font face="Arial" color="#000000"><b>Our contact details are:-</b></font></p> <p><font face="Arial" color="#000000">56a Main Road, Bolton le Sands, Carnforth, Lancashire. LA5 8DN</font></p> <p><font face="Arial" color="#000000">Telephone (01524) 824240 Fax 0871 714 3653</font></p> <p><font face="Arial" color="#000000">Email <a href="mailto:enquiries@wellwoodhoyle.co.uk">enquiries@wellwoodhoyle.co.uk</a></font></p> <p><b><font face="Arial" size="3" color="#000000">News and Views </font></b></p> <p><font face="Arial" color="#000000" size="3"><b>March 08 Countdown To The 2008 Budget</b> - The Chancellor, Alistair Darling, will deliver his first Budget speech on 12 March 2008.  There are a lot of changes likely to badly affect small businesses, so it is important that all small business owners keep themselves aware of the changes, many of which won't actually be part of the speech, but instead hidden in the small print, as usual!  In particular, there are fundamental changes for small businesses in areas as diverse as capital allowances for the purchase of equipment, capital gains tax relief on sale of business assets, how dividends are split between husbands and wives, increases in corporation tax and national insurance.  It is highly likely that most small businesses will pay more tax from the start of the new tax year, April 2008, so they need to know the implications and take advantage of any "last minute" steps they can take before the end of March.</font></p> <p><font face="Arial" color="#000000" size="3"><b>March 08 Kashflow Book-keeping Software</b> - We are delighted to announce that we have made the decision to adopt <a href="http://www.kashflow.co.uk/?code=AFF2100592" target="_blank">KashFlow</a> as our recommended book-keeping software.  <a href="http://www.kashflow.co.uk/?code=AFF2100592" target="_blank">Kashflow</a> is a web-based online system which caters for the business owner with little book-keeping experience.  A free fully functioning 60 day trial is available.  Clients should contact us prior to chosing any accounting software so that we can help them decide if it's right for them.</font></p> <p><font face="Arial" color="#000000" size="3"><b>March 08 Quickbooks Accounting Software - </b>We are no longer recommending Quickbooks to our clients due to the widely reported problems with their latest software, Quickbooks 2008, and their policy of effectively forcing customers to pay to upgrade to newer products by withdrawing support from older versions.  There is actually an interesting <a href="http://community.quickbooks.co.uk/discussion/index.php?s=672e457b9f50b65a17feb90d49255a94&showtopic=29460" target="_blank">forum</a> discussion on Quickbooks' own <a href="http://community.quickbooks.co.uk/discussion/index.php?s=672e457b9f50b65a17feb90d49255a94&showtopic=29460">website</a>.  For any clients who are currently using Quickbooks software, we strongly advise you NOT to upgrade to the 2008 version until Quickbooks have sorted out all the problems.  In the meantime, if you have an older version which is no longer supported, you can still buy the 2006 version, which is continuing to be supported, from the usual software suppliers and on Ebay, although sadly it is not available from the Quickbooks website.</font></p> <p> </p> <p style="line-height: 100%; word-spacing: 0; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 2"> </p> </font><script src="http://www.google-analytics.com/urchin.js" type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript"> _uacct = "UA-4368465-1"; urchinTracker(); </script></body>