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23rd July 2025
For many businesses the summer season can bring about a change in pace—whether it's a dip in demand due to holidays, delayed receipts or increased costs. These seasonal fluctuations can pose a challenge for cashflow management. At BookCheck, because we have worked for over 30 years with hundreds of businesses on their book-keeping with management information, we understand how vital it is to stay on top of finances all year round—especially during the quieter months.
Here’s how to stay in control and make summer work for your cashflow rather than against it.
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12th June 2025
Sage 200 Manufacturing End of Life: What It Means for Your Business
If your business relies on Sage 200 Manufacturing, it’s important to act now: support for this software officially ends on 31st December 2025. For companies that manufacture, assemble, or manage stock-intensive operations, this change could cause significant disruption if left unaddressed.
Here, we explain what the end of support means, when to act, and how you can transition to more agile, cloud-based solutions.
What’s Happening?
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9th May 2025
Maximising Business Efficiency with the best Xero add-ons: The BookCheck Advantage
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11th March 2025
This subject has received a massive amount of press, almost all of it referring to tax increases. Many articles have cited businesses closing or laying off staff.
So how dreadful is it?
One thing which nearly all omit to mention is the fact that the Employment Allowance will increase from £5,000 to £10,500 per year. This is deducted each year from the total employer’s NI bill.
This offsets the changes:
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19th February 2025
How to Drive Efficiencies in Your Business with Xero
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27th January 2025
By David Wood | 24th January 2025
Gloucestershire-based payroll specialist BookCheck has acquired the payroll client base of Rickard Luckin, the Essex firm of chartered accountants and tax advisors.
The acquisition, which involves the payroll of several hundred clients of the firm, will also see six members of the accountancy firm's staff transfer over to BookCheck.
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29th November 2024
What are the Pros and Cons of NetSuite and how can BookCheck help
In today's fast-paced business environment, efficient financial management is fundamentally critical for success. Book-keeping forms the backbone, ensuring accurate record-keeping and insightful financial analysis. However, as businesses grow, the complexity of book-keeping increases, often necessitating the need for specialised services. This is where BookCheck comes in.
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19th December 2023
In today's fast-paced business landscape, staying competitive demands more than just traditional bookkeeping practices.
Embracing technology is essential, and Xero has paved the way for businesses to streamline their financial operations.
Xero's functionality can be supercharged with the help of add-ons. In this article, we'll delve into the benefits of Xero add-ons and how BookCheck can empower your business to implement them seamlessly.
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20th November 2023
In today's fast-paced business landscape, staying profitable is an ongoing challenge, especially with the ever-increasing costs that businesses face. From raw materials to operational expenses, the upward trend in costs can pose a significant threat to your bottom line. However, with strategic planning and proactive measures, businesses can not only weather the storm but also thrive in the face of rising costs. In this blog post, we'll explore effective strategies for optimizing profitability in challenging economic times.
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10th March 2023
BookCheck has been providing book-keeping with management accounts for a lovely client in Bristol for three years. Our relationship is close, appreciated and satisfying.
About a year ago we considered with the client the case for a move to Xero which was actioned. The client decided for themselves the add-on for stock control and order processing. They declined our fixed price proposal to setup the add-on and fully onboard the data, also rejecting a half-way house of working alongside them. As professionals we warned them of the possible consequences.
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10th February 2023
We all know the importance of producing sound quality management accounts - measuring is the start of improving profitability. There they are - nice, neat numbers but how sure are you of the quality? Is it sound? Does the bank reconcile? Is the PAYE balance correct? What’s in the suspense account? Does it correctly incorporate opening balances from the previous year? What’s the quality of the purchase ledger balances and the sales ledger?
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15th September 2022
Many business owners simply see their accountant as a cost and someone to whom they send a bag of paperwork at the end of their financial year – some even refer to them as the “necessary evil”! Whilst this may suit some business owners, those with growth ambitions should consider their accountant as an investment. One that, like any other, needs attention in order to maximise a return.
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17th August 2022
If you want a more efficient business with lower overheads and clearer management information, the answer is Xero
BookCheck helps customers grow through clever bookkeeping and management reporting – and its expertise at moving customers to the next generation of accounting software is proving to be transformational for the businesses it works with.
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10th August 2022
BookCheck appoints new Managing Director
BookCheck the Stroud based outsourced Bookkeeping with Management Information and Payroll specialist has announced the appointment of James Wetherall ACA, as their new Managing Director. James will work alongside the founding Managing Director, Anthony Pilkington who will become Executive Chairman of the fast-growing business.
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18th July 2022
The secret weapon helping businesses run better: BookCheck expert insight
With the help of bookkeeping and accounting experts BookCheck, SoGlos reveals the simple tool that could make all the difference to your business profitability.
Getting up-to-date management accounts to help businesses make decisions isn’t reserved just for big companies – small businesses can access this valuable information with the help of bookkeepers, BookCheck.
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1st March 2022
If you want a more efficient business with lower overheads and clearer management information, the answer is Xero
BookCheck helps customers grow through clever bookkeeping and management reporting – and its expertise at moving customers to the next generation of accounting software is proving to be transformational for the businesses it works with.
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14th December 2021
The COVID pandemic has had a dramatic affect on many aspects of our daily lives. For businesses though some aspects of these changes are likely to have a lasting impact and may even become a new type of business as usual. In this blog we look at the arguments for why COVID has made the arguments in favour of outsourcing bookkeeping even stronger than pre-COVID.
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2nd August 2021
What Good MI looks like
In short, it's quality information that allows you to make informed management decisions to improve the profitability and value of your business. Good implies that it meets your individual requirements, it’s sufficiently detailed but not too much and that you fully understand it – you own it. But it needs to be prompt – another ingredient of Good. It needs to tick all these boxes to be successful.
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21st July 2021
With 26 years experience and 60 staff in the Team, Gloucestershire based Bookkeeping with Management Information and Payroll specialist BookCheck has launched a complementary service to improve cash flow and reduce bad debts.
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28th June 2021
A new service for firms switching their accounts to Xero and then developing them has been launched by Xero Bookkeeping with Management Information and Payroll specialist BookCheck.
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