Cloudfunder: Elaine’s Admin and Bookkeeping Services
1. What does your business do? I am a bookkeeper based in the West Midlands. 2. Why did you invest in Clear Books? Because I wanted to be able to say that I owned a share of Clear Books. 3....
Small Business Infographic: Starting up your business
The Clear Books community is home to thousands of UK business owners, creating and running their own businesses across a wide variety of industries. We wanted to find out the challenges and benefits of starting your own business, and to...
Ellen McLoughlin’s week at Clear Books
My name is Ellen McLoughlin, and I’ve spent this week doing work experience with Clear Books. I’m 17 years old and currently halfway through my A-levels, and I wanted to have some work experience to know what working in a...
Listen to Marketing Mastermind Club interview with Tim Fouracre
Earlier this year, Clear Books founder Tim Fouracre took part in a telephone interview with Richard Lomax of the Marketing Mastermind Club. The interview was for the website’s monthly ‘Success Story’ feature, which focuses on the story behind successful entrepreneurs....
Clear Books and CashFlows launch new integrated service
Clear Books has teamed up with CashFlows, a regulated financial services company, to launch today the first fully integrated cloud based accountancy and online business banking service for small and medium sized businesses. We have together developed a new seamless...
The Share Incentive Plan
The Share Incentive Plan (SIP) is a government backed tax efficient share scheme which has been around since the beginning of the century, and in a somewhat different form since the 1970's. It has been widely used by larger quoted...
Good luck to Clear Books COO Lizzie in her Olympic distance triathlon!
On 3rd August, Clear Books COO Lizzie Fouracre will be taking on the amazing challenge of an Olympic distance triathlon! Lizzie has been working hard over the last few months not only to prepare for the triathlon, but also to...
Calling all accountants and bookkeepers in Bristol!
Some of you will have heard of our quarterly Tick & Bash events which have so far been mostly held in London. Tick & Bash is a free event, designed for anyone in the accounting or bookkeeping community, providing them...
Scheduled Maintenance – 25th July 2014
Clear Books will be unavailable for up to 60 minutes between the hours of 23:00 BST on 25th July 2014 and 00:00 BST on 26th July 2014 while scheduled maintenance is carried out. We hope that the time slot chosen...
Clear Books makes donation to World Wildlife Fund
After a month of unpredictable and exciting football, the World Cup has finished. Here at Clear Books, the team took part in a sweepstake competition with prizes for the winner, runner up, 3rd place and worst performing team. Since I...
Clear Books featured in cloud technology article
Clear Books has been featured in an article in CA, the official member magazine of professional chartered accountant body ICAS . The article looks at the changing ways in which small businesses use technology and increasingly adopt cloud accounting applications,...
Hugo Conder’s work experience
My name is Hugo Conder and I have been at Clear Books this week as part of my work experience. I am 15 years old and am halfway through my GCSE’s. My work experience at Clear Books has been a...
Infographic: Why don’t small businesses use an accountant?
Earlier this year, we carried out a survey among our small business customers, asking their views on working with an accountant and what characteristics and skills they value. We used the results to create an infographic which proved to be...
Meet fellow small businesses at our free networking event
After the success of our recent Clear Books Community event, we are hosting another free networking event giving our customers and their guests the chance to meet and mingle with a mixture of small businesses. The next Clear Books Community...
Clear Books cloud accounting provider to Santander iBusinessHub
Clear Books has been selected as an integral partner to iBusinessHub, a new service available exclusively to Santander small business banking customers. iBusinessHub is a range of bundled cloud applications, including applications that help with financial and customer management, credit...
Clear Books sponsor Christian Malford Scarecrow Trail
Earlier this year, Clear Books sponsored the 2014 Christian Malford Scarecrow Trail, as part of our ongoing commitment to providing charitable support to causes in the UK. The annual event raises money for Acorns pre-school and Friends of School -...
Clear Books Pro take a trip to visit Cloud Bookkeeping
Clear Books team members Gavin and John made the short trip to Harrow last week to visit the offices of Cloud Bookkeeping, an exciting bookkeeping franchise. The company was launched by Mandy Bagot, a chartered ceritifed accountant, and aims to...
Clear Books hold first Community networking event
Our first Community networking event was held on Friday 13th, but luckily for us it was a great success! The lunchtime event featured a product demonstration from Vanish, a member of the Clear Books support team, which covered various features...
Thanks for coming to Tick and Bash!
Members of the Clear Books community met in Hammersmith last Thursday for the latest in our series of Tick and Bash events. Tick and Bash is our quarterly social event that gives sole practitioners and startup accountants a chance to...
How the cloud can treat ‘World Cup Fever’
The 2014 World Cup begins this Thursday with an opening ceremony in Sao Paulo, Brazil. While some will be counting down the days until it finishes, for many it will be the highlight of the summer and they will be...
Scheduled Clear Books Maintenance – 9th June 2014
Clear Books will be unavailable for up to 120 minutes between the hours of 22:30 BST on 9th June 2014 and 06:00 BST on 10th June 2014 while scheduled maintenance is carried out. We hope that the time slot chosen...
Chance your luck – join the Clear Books community event on Friday 13th June
The first ever Clear Books Community networking event is right around the corner, and will give small businesses the chance to liaise with each other in a friendly and professional atmosphere. The event will be held at our training centre...
The new Clear Books Community forum is out now!
After months of development, redesigns and user experience improvements, we’ve relaunched our old Clear Books Network as the Clear Books Community. We designed the Clear Books Community as an outlet for our customer base to be able to share their...
Read Tim Fouracre’s views on building a successful business
Clear Books CEO and founder Tim Fouracre is featured in the June edition of ICAEW’s ‘Economia’ magazine. The feature, by Xenia Taliotis, focuses on a group of entrepreneurs who have used their accounting training and background to build a successful...
Weekly events with Clear Books Pro… will you be attending?
For the month of June, Clear Books Pro is hosting free Open Days for accountants and bookkeepers every Thursday. These half day events are designed to give you a full understanding of our Partner plan and to learn how you...
Clear Books founder featured in Elite business magazine
Our CEO and founder Tim Fouracre has been featured within Elite Business magazine on the subject of financial forecasting specifically highlighting the danger of cashflow pitfalls. Within the five minute money masterclass article, focusing upon financial forecasting, four business leaders...
Are you coming to Tick & Bash?
We’re fast approaching the date of our latest Tick and Bash event, and we’d love to see plenty of accountants and bookkeepers there! Tick and Bash is a quarterly social event hosted by Clear Books which allows accountants and bookkeepers...
Accountants – you can now bulk process your clients’ payroll!
We’re always looking at ways we can improve the user experience with Clear Books applications, and wanted to let you know of a fantastic new feature for accountants when processing your clients' payroll. After feedback from our accounting partners, we’ve...
Thanks for visiting us at Accountex
After a very busy few weeks with lots of hard work and planning, we are delighted to say that our first year at Accountex - the UK’s largest accounting exhibition - was a huge success! Our British garden party stand...
Clear Books Pro is gearing up for Accountex!
Accountex - Europe's largest annual accounting exhibition - hits ExCel in London on Thursday 15th May with over 3000 people expected to attend over the two day duration. Here at Clear Books Pro we have been eagerly preparing for this...