Clear Books Accounting Software: New Design, Record Users, Free Your Time!

Clear Books accounting software has revamped its online accounting website. The fresh design coincides with flying through 100 paying users and a new company slogan, "Free Your Time". Free Your Time "Free Your Time" is about empowering small business owners...

/ 14th October 2009

50 paid-up online accountancy software customers in the first month? You bet-cha!

(Aldershot, UK) Online accounting software company Clear Books has secured 50 paying customers in its first month, spurred on by a bet between the founder and a former colleague. Launched on the 1st of July 2009, Clear Books is a...

/ 18th September 2009

Clear Books accounting software is accredited by The Institute of Certified Bookkeepers

Clear Books online accounting software has been accredited by The Institute of Certified Bookkeepers (ICB). Validating Clear Books It was important for us to get Clear Books accredited by the ICB to give our users an independent, third party validation of...

/ 23rd June 2009

Multi-currency accounting beta

ClearBooks supports multi-currency invoicing and multi-currency bank accounts. This is an early beta feature.  Whereas the core ClearBooks accounting system is still in beta but has been extensively tested, multi-currency accounting is at an early release stage. We would invite our...

/ 1st April 2009

Accrual dates and flat rate VAT scheme

Here is a list of new features and updates released today. Accounting Accrual Dates: In Organisation Settings accrual dates can be switched on for advanced users. This reveals an additional field on invoice forms which allows invoices to be accrued...

/ 12th February 2009

What Clear Books accounting software is all about

Today I was asked in an email what Clear Books is all about. Here is my answer: What is Clear Books? Clear Books is an online accounting system for small businesses. Goals of the accounts system Clear and Simple: We...

/ 10th February 2009

PDF invoice template

New PDF Invoice Template Getting Started Note on Updates New PDF Invoice Template Our new pdf invoice template has been integrated into Clear Books. We wanted a professional invoice design that was conservative on ink usage. The invoice retains features of our previous invoice template...

/ 29th January 2009

Research and development tax credits for small businesses

4,500 small businesses are claiming research and development tax credits each year according to an HMRC guide on R&D tax credits for small businesses. Qualifying R&D expenditure helps reduce a company's corporation tax bill but with such a small number of companies...

/ 14th January 2009

Tax on business entertainment

Tax rules can be confusing when dealing with business entertaining expenses. Below are examples of the three main types of business entertainment and their tax implications. The three types are client entertaining, staff entertaining and subsistence. Example Reclaim VAT Offset...

/ 7th January 2009

Salary sacrifice pension scheme

The Smart Pension Scheme is a salary sacrifice scheme that provides an option for companies to save cash and increase the take home pay or pension contributions made to employees. In a difficult economic climate, companies are looking at ways to...

/ 6th January 2009

Clear Books 2008

A summary by month of the progress Clear Books has made in its inaugural year: 2008. June 08 - Clear Books Concept I was working at Arbuthnot Securities as a research analyst covering small cap stocks listed on AIM. I invited Brendan...

/ 31st December 2008

Accounting software and free trial for charities

* UPDATED 28th JANUARY 2016 * There are over 200,000 charities in the UK and all these charities are required to maintain accounting records, even the 84,000 that have an annual income of under £10,000. The larger charities must submit...

/ 10th December 2008

Online accounting software for businesses and accountants

Clear Books is an accounting software package for companies and accountants. It is an online accounting system that makes managing company accounts easy, efficient and stress free. Try the 30 day trial and register for free. Clear Books for Companies We...

/ 9th December 2008