H Nicholsons is a small personal firm of UK bookkeepers and accountants helping small business across the UK with bookkeeping and year end accounts.

We will ease your workload and let you get on with running your business, or having that little extra personal time.

In this day and age the business world is a complex animal and everyone needs reliable and professional help with their finances.

H Nicholsons has been providing UK businesses with an exceptional level of service since 1993. Our director, Harry, has many years experience in industry and practice prior to establishing H Nicholsons, and takes pride in keeping up with technology.

We take our clients interests to heart, providing proactive value added solutions to ever-changing needs. We believe accountants should be working in harmony with clients, helping business growth and simplifying complex matters.

 

Please note - H Nicholsons is a fictitious accountancy practice used by The Accountants Circle as a sample member, for demonstration purposes.

We specialise in small to medium sized businesses (SMEs).

We're experienced using a variety of software including:

• Quickbooks
• MYOB
• Sage 50
• e-conomic

 

Please note - H Nicholsons is a fictitious accountancy practice used by The Accountants Circle as a sample member, for demonstration purposes.

Double-Entry Basics - Debits & Credits

We've needed to go through the basic principles of double-entry bookkeeping with our developers recently. We thought this may also be helpful to others, especially when words like Debit and Credit sound scary!

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Raising false invoices a way to "create money"?

I couldn't help but add a quick blog entry after being absolutely surprised... or should that be shocked and disturbed, by a weekly small business ideas newsletter just received titled "How to Create Money..."

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New Year Resolutions Or Not?

Did you make New Year Resolutions?  Have you given them any thought since?

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I don't.

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Changing Client Culture

Culture is an interesting thing.  Culture can be difficult to change, but sometimes the culture of a business is best changed for the benefit of the business and those involved.

Business culture can cover a broad range of areas but we're going to focus on habits and values.  Working on these can greatly affect and improvea client's financial management.

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More Profitable with Efficient Templates

This is something I'm still often surprised at. As an accountant advising a client, wouldn't you often recommend introducing or improving processes, minimising costs, introducing quality control and all those other simple yet wonderful bits of advice that can be rattled off for most businesses?

So why is it so many of us don't consider this advice ourselves?

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What hourly rate?

Surprisingly, I hear many bookkeepers aren't sure what rate they should be charging, and many still under charge. What do you need to consider to get this right?

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Advertising Your Service

In a few forums now I've seen bookkeepers and accountants ask about where to advertise their services... if the local newspaper is any good, or a flyer drop to businesses.

One thing I've not seen asked much is how to advertise their services!

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What's an Accountancy Service?

I often question whether clients are getting the most value from their accountants. Do they really know the value that accountants can provide to a business? I’ve seen many situations where clients are using their accountants simply to process their financial transactions and meet their statutory obligations.

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Setting Up or Moving Office - Opportunities

I know setting up or moving office can be tiring and there are the usual benefits of more space, meeting rooms, better location, professional image and so on.

But are there additional opportunities you might not be thinking about?

It would be great to benefit as much as possible and as quickly as possible from the move, so I've been thinking a little about what you could do.

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Blogging for Accountants

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