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Welcome to the AM Blog! This is our little corner of the internet where we blog about business advice, accounting tips and designing for business. Kick your feet up and stay a while!
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How to Get Paid Faster: Our Guide to Awesome Invoicing
When it comes to managing a business, invoicing is a vital part to get right. Having a smooth and streamlined invoicing process will ensure a great customer experience and improve your cashflow, so integrating it into your workflow is a must. Although it may seem like a tedious task, an invoice isn’t just a…
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The Benefits of using Receipt Bank
In today’s digital age, things are moving quicker than ever before. Modern bookkeeping shouldn’t be stacks of physical documents and backed up paper receipts. It’s actually a lot simpler than you’d think. Good bookkeeping starts with a mobile phone. With the right apps and software, you can streamline your accounts and spend more time doing…
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The AM Formula for Success
At Ashton McGill, we always strive to put the customer first. We’ve helped businesses with accounting and finance for over a year now, and since then, it’s grown arms and legs. We’re now lucky enough to work with a growing number of clients and a variety of different businesses. So, to better meet the needs of…
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Goal Setting for 2019
Reflecting back to look forward Over Christmas, we’ve taken the time to reflect on the past few months. This time last year, we were in a little office at The Circle! Fast forward twelve months, and we’re now nicely settled into our workspace at The Flour Mill. In the last year, we’ve had three…
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Online Banks vs Traditional Banks
When it comes to banking, should you go digital or stay analogue? Today, our phones function as our TVs, our entertainment centres and our calendars, offering us multiple technologies all on one device. Unlock your phone and you’re also looking at today’s bank. With more and more banks offering their customers digital banking solutions…
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Xerocon 2018: What does it mean for your business?
Last week we went to Xerocon London 2018, a world class online accounting conference. It was a jam-packed two days of world-famous speakers, Xero-integrated apps and partners, and some cocktails thrown in for good measure! In this post, we’ve summed up the main takeaways from Xerocon and everything you need to know about the future of…
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Ideate: A Review of our Very First World Café
Last week, we hosted our very first World Café breakfast club concept, Ideate. It was a morning of coffee, creative chit-chat and delicious food from the team at KitschnBake. Since moving into our new office, we wanted to create a flexible and welcoming space for clients and visitors. Somewhere where we can host events, workshops…
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The Future of Business Forecasting
Do you see business forecasting as fundamental to your overall business strategy, or do you think it’s a waste of time? Is it something you just don’t have the time for? Or maybe you don’t know where to start? We want to create an informative and collaborative conversation around forecasting. And this post aims…
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The Art of Storytelling for Business
For thousands of years, humans have used the art of storytelling to communicate and forge meaningful connections. Ancient man drew on cave walls, the Ancient Greeks passed down myths about the origins of the world, and today, we’re telling stories in radically new ways through the digital landscape. Nowadays, we still use the art…
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Making Tax Digital: What You Need to Know
As of April 2019, the way you do tax is changing. HMRC are rolling out a new initiative to make the UK tax system more efficient. Here we’ve outlined the basics of what Making Tax Digital is, and we’ll walk you through the steps to ensure your business is ready for the April deadline. …
