What is bookkeeping? (Introduction, basics and concepts)
What is bookkeeping? At Clear Books, we aim to make accounting as simple as possible — so you can spend less time worrying about keeping track of your accounts and more time growing your business. With this in mind, we’ve...
How to beat Blue Monday
How to beat Blue Monday If you’re feeling down in the dumps today, it’s probably because today is reported to be the most depressing day of the year. The concept of Blue Monday was first publicised by Sky Travel in...
Clear Books integration with Receipt Bank
Clear Books integration with Receipt Bank If you’re wondering what Receipt Bank is, it’s a time-saving tool that can extract the key information from your invoices, bills, and receipts and store them in the cloud. Clear Books provide an integration...
Happy new year!
We hope everybody had a relaxing Christmas period with family and friends, and we want to wish all of our readers a healthy and happy 2016. One of our favourite things about the new year is the opportunity it brings to start afresh...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
4 ways to check in with your customers
The Internet has made it simultaneously much easier and much harder to check in with your customers. The logistical side of checking in is miles easier than it’s ever been — you’ve got loads of options, and you can instantly...
Clear Books takes part in Macmillan Coffee Morning 2015!
Last Friday, Clear Books took part in the world’s biggest coffee morning to raise money for Macmillan cancer research. The fundraising event was established in 1990, and has since then raised over £138 million for charity! In our West Kensington...
Clear Books plc holds its second AGM
Yesterday Clear Books hosted our second AGM at our West Kensington offices. The AGM gave us a great opportunity to review the past financial year and present our goals for the current one. It’s also a great excuse to meet and...
Global Bookkeeping Week
This week it’s Global Bookkeeping Week — the biggest virtual gathering of bookkeepers — and we thought this was a great excuse to commend the hard-working bookkeepers around the UK who help SMEs to manage their finances and grow their...
Helpful Clear Books tips #2: locking accounting periods
As cloud accounting providers, we aim to make our software as simple and intuitive as possible. But as our software handles a wide variety of key accounting areas, not all of our helpful features are immediately obvious to our customers....
How to have a successful day at work
There are tons of blogs, infographics, and free training floating around the internet on how to hack your productivity, manage your time, and generally have the most successful day you could possibly imagine. The great thing about this is that...
What is Petty Cash? Definition and Procedure
Carrying on with our accounting question blog series, this week we’re focusing on petty cash — primarily what it is, the main procedure behind it, and how you can use Clear Books to record your expenditure. What is petty cash?...
5 Benefits of Employing an Accountant
Whether you’re a sole trader, small business or larger corporation, hiring an accountant is a clever way to manage your finances. This is due to the considerable amounts of experience qualified accountants will have, and the valuable knowledge they can...
5 Accountancy Practices That Can Help Your Business Grow
As cloud accounting software providers, we aim to help our business customers save time doing their accounts, so they can focus on growing their business. However, even with intuitive accounting software, it’s still beneficial for businesses to employ an accountant...
What Is Net Income? Definition and 7 Steps to Calculate It
Following on from our accruals blog a week ago, we’re continuing with the commonly asked accounting questions blog series. This week, we’re focusing on ‘What is net income?’ and a handy step by step guide for how to calculate the net...
Helpful Clear Books Tips #1: Multiple Tabs
Here at Clear Books, we’re always trying to make doing your books that little bit easier, and many of our features are centred around this idea. These features vary in size — some are brand new tools for you to...
What are accruals and what is accrual accounting?
As accounting software providers, we’re often asked tricky accountancy questions. This has inspired us to create a new regular blog series, where we’ll answer some of the most commonly asked questions we receive, as a way to help our customers...
10 Clear Books Customers That Can Help Your Business
One of the main motivations for starting a business is finding a solution to a problem that nobody else is solving. For example, Clear Books was founded by Tim Fouracre when his mother needed a simple accounting solution for her...
