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Legal update: SRA ramps up closures of law firms mishandling client money following collapse of Axiom
Interventions into solicitors breaching account rules surge 175% to 11…
Legal update: Salaried Members Rules
As we mentioned in our recent Legal Focus publication, in…
Audit & Assurance update: New size thresholds for companies and groups
In December 2024, legislation was passed to increase the monetary…
Audit & Assurance update: Are you prepared for FRS 102 changes?
Financial Reporting Standard 102 (FRS 102), which serves as the…
Legal update: Meet the team – Bertie Jones
People are the essence of the Hazlewoods Legal team. In…
Legal update: LLP self-employed members update
Is it time to review the firm’s working capital funding?…
Legal update: Stepping from employee to owner
Making the step from employee to partner or director can…
Legal update: Should your employees be filing a tax return?
With wage increases attempting to keep pace with the cost…
Legal update: Compliance update – the Axiom Ince review and SRA Consultation have landed
Readers will be aware of the recently released findings of…
Legal update: Autumn Budget 2024
Given it was the first Labour Budget for 14 years,…
Legal Focus December 2024
The latest edition of our Legal Focus is now available.…
Audit & Assurance update: An early Christmas present – changes to company and LLP thresholds
In October 2024, Sir Kier Starmer’s Labour Government confirmed they…
Legal update: SRA closed down 43 law firms for mishandling client money last year – up 87% on previous year
13% or 44 law firms closed due to financial stress…
Legal update: 21 law firms forced to close due to lack of Professional Indemnity Insurance
102 firms formally warned SRA they were unable to find…
Audit and assurance update: Increases to company size thresholds
On 18 March 2024, the then Conservative Government announced a…
Legal update: Little slowdown in UK law firm mergers – 121 in past year
Mergers continue strong recovery from ten year-low in 2021 Increased…
Legal update: HMRC guidance on salaried members rules – where are we now?
In February 2024, HMRC updated its guidance on its interpretation…
Gloucestershire Economic Growth Board announces new members
Gloucestershire council has established an Economic Growth Board, after Government…
Legal update: Tax relief on employees’ personal expenses
If you are an employee or a director and are…
Legal update: Tax relief on partners’ personal expenses
If you are a partner in an LLP or partnership…
Legal update: Profits of US law firms in London fall below £1bn in 2022/23
Profits fall amid slowdown in M&A deals UK law firms…
Education update: Education and Skills Funding Agency (ESFA) update
Each year we summarise the key changes that are likely…
Veterinary update: VAT email scam alert
HMRC have identified a new VAT email scam and are…
Pharmacy update: Improving your gross profit margin
Over the past 12 months, several pharmacies have seen a…
Legal update: An audience with… Faye Warren
How did your career with Hazlewoods start and evolve? I…
Legal update: Changes to the Accounts Rules are on ice (for now)
Most readers will know that, following an SRA consultation in…
Audit and Assurance update: Changes for UK GAAP
Financial Reporting Standard 102 (‘FRS 102’), the ‘all in one’…
Legal update: Client account interest – a round-up of the key issues facing law firms
Client account interest has been a topic of debate for…
Legal update: Two other important year-end reminders
Change of tax basis periods This applies to sole practitioners…
Legal update: Top 10 year-end tax planning tips
As another tax year draws to a close, now is…
Veterinary update: HMRC changes view on training costs
HMRC has recently updated its guidance on what it considers…
Legal update: Law firm closures due to failure to get Indemnity Insurance falls to lowest level since 2018/19
Only 34 law firms closed compared to recent high of…
Legal update: The Law Society’s Leadership and Management Section Financial Benchmarking Survey 2024
The 2024 Law Society’s Leadership and Management Section Financial Benchmarking…
Legal Focus February 2024
Spotlight on client account interest The latest version of our…
Pharmacy update: A roadmap to selling your business
Is this the year you decide to sell your business,…
Pharmacy update: Meet the team
We are accountants for pharmacists and our specialist team has…
Legal update: Number of solicitors at ‘virtual’ law firms breaks through 2,000 level for the first time
More lawyers prioritise work-life balance as growing number of firms…
Legal update: Law Firm Breakfast and Learn 2024
On Tuesday 6 February, law firms attended our Law Firm…
Pharmacy update: 8 reasons to use a specialist pharmacy accountant
Sector expertise is about understanding not only how business, accountancy…