What’s the Difference Between Accounts Receivable and Accounts Payable?
If you’re thinking about joining the accounting profession, you’re more than likely to be familiar with the terms ‘Accounts Payable’ and ‘Accounts Receivable’, but...
What are the Accounting Standards?
The accounting standards are principles that guide and standardise accounting practices. The acronym GAAP stands for ‘Generally Accepted Accounting Principles’. It’s a term used...
Diversity in Accountancy
For years the accounting profession has cast a male-shaped shadow, but gender equality is not the only issue the industry is grappling with. Accounting...
Is an Accountancy Apprenticeship Right For You?
Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy (CIPFA) has become an approved trainer of accountancy and finance apprenticeships as part of the government’s...
Accounting and Finance Job Roles Explained – Part 3
Welcome to part three of ‘Accounting and Finance Job Roles Explained’. In part one we discussed the roles of a finance director, tax accountant...
Important Tax Dates in the UK – 2018/2019
If you’re going to become an accountant, one area you’ll need to get to grips with is tax. And this of course goes without...
Investment Watch: Virtual Reality
That Google Glass - pretty interesting idea, it’s shame about the budget Joe90’s look and the hefty $1,500 price tag. Perhaps if Pokemon Go...
Banking – Part 1: The Financial System
Imagine a writer writing about writing. Confusing, right? The subject of writing is what the writer writes about. Still no clearer? Banks are part...