Our recent seminar, New Year, New Business - A Guide for Startups, was very successful despite the unplanned power cut across our area that morning! The presentation without electricity became a very relaxed informal discussion around the table. Candles would have been good but the emergency light and a small window gave everyone just about enough light to make notes! …
We are already one week into 2018 but what did 2017 bring us that we can celebrate and learn from? …
Back in the summer we began discussing what we might do for our team building event this year. For the past two years we have been to the Escape Rooms in Salisbury after our annual training and development day which has been really good fun. But this year we wondered what we could do that was different. …
For the last week our team have enjoyed the company of a sixth form student on work experience. Rosie is considering accountancy as a career and wanted to experience the type of work involved. Whilst we are not accountants we are responsible for keeping the accounts records before they are passed to an accountant so our work was a good insight to the foundations of accountancy. This was a completely new experience for us so our bookkeepers planned carefully the things that they thought would be useful for her to see and do. …
The Christmas and New Year break is a time to reflect on our achievements in 2016 and plan what we can do differently or better in 2017. 2016 for Sandra Silk Bookkeeping was a year of good memories of our achievements, our growth and our team. One outstanding memory for me was being invited by John Glen MP to Westminster …
