Longleys Accounts Insights

With the Autumn Budget expected later this year, here are the areas small business owners should watch closely, and some practical steps worth taking now regardless of what the Chancellor eventually announces.

As the summer holidays wind down, here is how to use the final days of August to prepare your business properly for the final and often busiest quarter of the calendar year.

Rising costs are a persistent challenge for small businesses, and absorbing them quietly is rarely sustainable. Here is a practical, structured approach to protecting your margins without simply hoping costs settle down.

Every three years, employers must complete a re-declaration of compliance for workplace pensions. Here is what the process involves, and why it catches out more businesses than you might expect.

Many Xero users only ever look at their dashboard and never explore the reporting functionality properly. Here is a guide to the reports genuinely worth getting familiar with, and what each one tells you.

With your second payment on account for 2025/26 due today, here is how to use the quieter months that follow to get ahead on your tax planning before the next Self-Assessment cycle begins in earnest.

Peak summer holiday season is here. If you handle your own bookkeeping, here is how to make sure your finances stay on track while you take a proper break, without coming back to a daunting backlog.

The second Self-Assessment payment on account for 2025/26 falls due on 31 July. Here is how payments on account actually work, how to check whether yours are correct, and what to do if your income has changed.

IR35, the off-payroll working rules, remain one of the most misunderstood areas of tax for both contractors and the businesses that engage them. Here is a clear guide to how the rules actually work.

With the calendar year now half over, here is how to run a proper half-year review of your business finances, and what to do if you have drifted off the plan you set back in January.