Clear Books team doodles Christmas in 30 seconds (2015)
Following on from last years Christmas drawing challenge, I asked the team to take part in the same activity where each team member was assigned a random Christmas-related word that they had only 30 seconds to draw. Like last time, most panicked and spent the first...
Clear Books fundraising – Christmas Jumper Day
Each month at Clear Books, we hold an event in aid of a different charity. As we have a relaxed dress code in the office, a ‘dress-down’ day won’t work, so we do a ‘dress-up’ day instead, where Clear Books...
Newly Certified Partners | Michael Godsmark & Nikki De-Hann (Woodville Accountancy)
What was your background before you started your practice? I worked in a couple of practices whilst training in Chorley and Preston. However, I had a change of career in between as a DJ, music producer and nightclub promoter. I...
Newly Certified Partner | Kevin Doran (Platform Accounting)
What was your background before you started your practice? As boring as it may sound, numbers have always been my thing! I joined HSBC at an early age, working first within the high street branch network before moving onto their...
How to work from home and maintain productivity
How to work from home and maintain productivity More and more, companies are relaxing the rules around being physically present in the office to get work done. The rise of cloud technology and other tools for remote working have made...
Newly Certified Partners | Roger and Adam Miles (Austin Taylor)
What was your background before you started your practice? Father and son Roger and Adam both bring variety of experience to the practice Roger has been involved in the finance and accounting sector since 1970 in a variety of roles...
How to save time in the pre-Christmas period
Many business owners will tell you that the weeks leading up to Christmas are often among the most stressful of the entire year. It seems like everything goes into overdrive as you try to get everything done for 2015 and prepped...
Newly Certified Partner | Tony Blake (Charity Accountants plus)
What was your background before you started your practice? After a career in the commercial sector I moved into the charity sector in 2004, working as Treasurer for two local charities and as Finance Director for a medium sized national...
New Clear Books feature releases – December
Each month, we release a set of new features into Clear Books Preview - an area of your account where you can start using the latest Clear Books updates before they are available on general release. All Clear Books customers can...
Helpful Clear Books Tips #4: Bookmarks and history feature
As cloud accounting software providers, we always aim to make your experience with us as simple and stress-free as possible. That’s why we have made lots of time-saving features to help you along the way. However, as these features may...
Auto enrolment payroll software for 2016
Auto enrolment payroll software We wanted to let our customers know about the work we’re doing to ensure Clear Books payroll software will comply with the upcoming changes for workplace pensions. This will mean you can auto-enrol your employees straight from our Payroll...
How to write a business plan
A business plan is a brilliant and valuable thing to have, but the idea of writing one can be daunting to small business owners. In our recent Must Read article, we took a look at what exactly a business plan...
Clear Books featured in Deloitte 2015 Technology EMEA Top 500
We’re pleased to announce that Clear Books has been named in Deloitte's 2015 Technology EMEA Top 500! Now in it’s 15th year, the Deloitte Technology Fast 500 is a leading technology awards program that recognises the fastest growing technology businesses...
Reduced Clear Books support – Friday 4th December
There will be reduced Clear Books technical support this Friday (4th December) as we will be celebrating our Christmas party. From 11.30am onwards there will be limited email support and no telephone support throughout the rest of the day. Normal...
What is a creditor and what is debtor?
Our 'commonly asked accountancy questions' blog series aims to help our audience understand tricky accounting terms or practices. This time, we're focusing on what is a creditor and what is a debtor? What is a creditor? A creditor is a...
Get ready to meet our newest Certified Partners!
Clear Books has relaunched its Certified Partner scheme, but what does this mean for you? In the coming weeks we will be announcing our newly Certified Accounting Partners. All these accountants are committed to Clear Books and to providing a...
5 common mistakes people make when starting a business
Our aim at Clear Books is to champion the small businesses of Great Britain. Since we’ve been through the process of starting and growing a small business ourselves (not to mention seeing lots of our customers do the same thing),...
Tell us about yourself and win a Fortnum & Mason champagne gift box
The user experience and design teams at Clear Books are constantly working to improve your Clear Books experience. To do this effectively we’d love to get to know you all! Please help us by filling out this survey which will...
Clear Books welcomes international colleagues to our UK office!
We’re very pleased to welcome 3 international colleagues from Clear Books España and Argentina for the next couple of weeks - Sonia, Anabel and Marcos. This is their first time in London, and they have come to our offices to...
New Clear Books feature releases – November
Last month we released Clear Books Preview - an area of your account where you can start using brand new features before they are available on general release. Near the start of each month, we’ll release a set of new...
Helpful Clear Books tips #3: multicurrency & alternate languages feature
Here at Clear Books, we’re always striving to make your experience with us as stress-free as possible. That's why we have incorporated many time-saving features that are designed to make doing your books much easier! Some of these helpful features can go...
How to avoid burnout at work
How to avoid burnout at work Job stress and burnout (a state of emotional, mental, and physical exhaustion caused by excessive and prolonged stress) are huge issues in the UK — in fact, a study of leading British companies shows...
Why aren’t there more female entrepreneurs?
In this guest article for Clear Books, business journalist Nick Huber looks at the possible reasons why there are more male than female entrepreneurs, and looks at the groups and factors that are helping this gap close. Entrepreneurial spirit is...
What is an asset and what are the different types of assets?
In the previous blog for our commonly asked accounting questions series, we looked at petty cash and how to record it within your Clear Books account. This time we're focusing on what an asset is, and the different types of asset that are...
Help us plan our next community event and win a F&M hamper!
You may remember our first Clear Books Community Event (CBCE) which we ran in February this year. Based on the feedback we received we’re looking to focus next year’s event on speaker and workshop based sessions. We’d love to hear...
5 spooky businesses in the UK
With the Clear Books offices in Hammersmith being located next door to a small church and graveyard, no one will want to be the last person left in the office this Halloween. While we’re yet to see an actual ghost...
Clear Books CFO Suzy featured in CA magazine
The latest issue of The CA magazine, the official membership magazine of ICAS, features Clear Books' Suzy Kerton. Suzy was 'Highly Recommended' at the recent One Young CA competition, recognising chartered accountants under 30 and those who can lead, motivate and...
How to be assertive in the workplace
Good communication is vital in creating a successful company, and also important for your own happiness and well being at work. In our latest Must Read article, we look at the 3 main communication styles and explain why the 'assertive'...
Back new features with our Community crowdfunding scheme
Users of our Community forum will know that we have a popular Ideas section, where you can suggest and vote for new features. We've recently launching a new initiative to back a project, where we're crowdfunding your ideas for Clear Books to bring...
Scheduled maintenance tonight (13th October)
We will be performing necessary maintenance for 2 hours this evening, between the following times: Start time: 22:00 BST Tuesday 13th October End time: 00:00 BST Wednesday 14th October This will involve downtime for some users, so Clear Books may be unavailable...