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The Value of Bean Counting (Or Now’s a Good Time to do a Budget)
Do you have a sat nav machine in your car? I love mine. Kate (the name of the voice that guides me to where I want to go) is patient, polite, and always helpful. She is completely unflappable, even when I ignore her instructions. She just gives me new ones in her calm, measured way.…
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Look At What Technology Can Do For You…
The technological age has brought many changes, and not all of them are positive. Relationships changing with the advent of mobile phones, social media and instant information. The old ways are dying out, I hear people say, we aren’t talking any more, we pay more attention to virtual friends than real ones. In other words,…
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More About Accounts – Balance Sheet
What’s a Balance Sheet? A Balance Sheet is a statement of the assets and liabilities of a business or entity at a point in time, expressed in money. Assets are things owned by the business. Liabilities are things owed by the business. Although the contents and layout may vary according to the size and nature…
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Spending Time ON Your Practice
A reader of one of my newsletters wrote to tell me of her struggle to find time to work on her accounts. It reminded me of how often we can forget that running a practice is more than just seeing the clients. There are lots of little tasks that need to be done to keep…
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Paperwork Blues?
7 Tips for Easier Accounting It’s coming up to that time of year, when the deadline for submission of accounts and tax returns for self-employed professionals looms. If you haven’t got your 2019 accounts completed and submitted yet, it might be time to start thinking about it. Tax Payment 31 October is also the time…
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Summertime and the Living is Easy…or maybe not! Coping With Seasonality
It’s been a glorious summer, sunshine all the way. But for some practitioners, any summer, and a fine one in particular, is not the good news it might be. For many reasons, the holiday season can result in a fall off of work for counsellors and therapists. Clients feel better, they go on holidays, or…
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Have You Enough Support for Your Business?
I was a bit taken aback when a colleague suggested to me during the week that what I was really looking for was support. After all, I teach this stuff, don’t I? As a therapist, I provide support for my clients, usually emotional support, and sometimes the more practical support of looking at resourcing or…
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Setting up a Private Practice
Are you thinking of starting your own practice as a counsellor or psychotherapist? This workshop will help you get off the ground. Looking at the practical issues related to setting up a private professional practice such as Clarifying the type of practice you would like to create Exploring the services you might provide, and the…