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The accounting and bookkeeping profession is at an inflection point.

Across the US, practices are navigating no shortage of pressure: AI is changing how work gets done, client expectations are rising, and competition is evolving fast. But if there’s one takeaway from Xero’s latest Modern Practice Playbook, it’s this: the firms pulling ahead aren’t necessarily the bi...


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The first quarterly deadline for Making Tax Digital for Income Tax (MTD for IT) has been and gone. On 7 August, hundreds of thousands of sole traders and landlords earning over £50,000 in qualifying income sent their first digital update to HMRC.

The numbers are worth looking at. Of the roughly 864,000 taxpayers expected to have to comply from April 2026, more than ...


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Nobody starts a business to spend their Sunday nights doing payroll or reconciling bank accounts. You start a business for more freedom, to follow your passion, or to simply build something that works for your life.

That’s the reality we build for. It’s also why this one landed differently than most: Canstar’s 2026 Most Satisfied Customers Award for Small Bu...


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For years, when a small business or advisor hit a workflow problem, the answer was to find an app that solved it or live with a workaround. Building a solution was often costly, and required a developer to bring the app to life.

Today, greater accessibility and popularity of AI and LLM custom coding tools means more and more businesses are taking a different path: ...


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Managing a small business means keeping track of many moving parts. When payments, payroll or expenses sit across different systems, owners and their advisors often spend valuable time moving between tools and piecing together the full financial picture and keeping their books clean.

At


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