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Confronted with an abundance of compliance deadlines such as GDPR and MTD, it is essential for accountants in practice to have formulated a risk management strategy to comply with these legislations. With the shadow of GDPR still looming large, and not least the unknown commodity known as Brexit, Lucy Cohen and Olly Evans discuss how they went about understanding their strengths and weaknesses and how the actions they learned from this will feed into their risk management plans.

This week a packed pod tackles the ever-present threat of accountant burnout, examines the GDPR implications of HMRC’s Voice ID scheme and offers a sneak preview of the Autumn Budget. In the company of tax writer Rebecca Cave, AccountingWEB’s head of insight John Stokdyk and practice correspondent Richard Hattersley, pod host Tom Herbert runs through the stories making the headlines in accountancy this week.

Practice owner Zoe Whitman joins the AccountingWEB podcast to talk about finding her first clients, starting a practice, networking, and the latest headlines. Later in the podcast, AccountingWEB's global editor John Stokdyk beams in from his Brighton HQ to give the lowdown on Xero's $70m acquisition of HubDoc.

In the latest Accounting Excellence Talks podcast host Richard Hattersley takes us through questions from the Accounting Excellence webcast, first aired on July 18. He's joined by Receipt Bank Account Manager Mike Phillips as well as accountants Simon Kallu and Nikki Adam whose firms have numerous awards and nominations in the name of client service under their belts. You can view on demand webcast now by going to https://www.accountingexcellence.co.uk/july-session/

This week the AccountingWEB pod squad looked at the government's Making Tax Digital for VAT notice, robot taxes, holidays during peak season and meaty expense claims, along with a quick run through this week’s headlines in accountancy. For the show notes and links to all the stories mentioned in the podcast, visit the podcast page on the site: https://www.accountingweb.co.uk/tech/tech-pulse/no-accounting-for-taste-ep18-mtd-robots-and-holidays

This week's podcast covers a broad sweep of stories from across the world of accounting, including disciplinaries, spreadsheet best practice, blockchain, landlines and whether it's acceptable to wear shorts in the office. For the show notes and links to all the stories mentioned in the podcast, visit the podcast page on the site: https://www.accountingweb.co.uk/tech/tech-pulse/no-accounting-for-taste-ep17-trends-landlines-and-shorts

In the latest On Compliance podcast Tom Herbert talks to David Smith, Director of Assurance and Financial Reporting Content from Mercia Group and Briony Kempton, Product Manager, Thomson Reuters Digita, Accounts Production Advanced from Thomson Reuters about updates to FRS 105 legislation.

Following on from this months' Accounting Excellence Talks webcast, You've done cloud, now what?, Tom Herbert sat down with the panellists to discuss the unanswered questions from the interactive Q&A section. The panel also delve a little deeper into their own experiences with acclimatising clients to the cloud as well as how they've created opportunities for better client relationships and capitalised on the efficiencies cloud software offers. View the whole webcast at www.accountingexcellence.co.uk/talks/june-session

It's episode 16! And as Tom points out in this week's show, the podcast is now old enough to buy a pack of smokes, get a railcard or drive a moped. But burgeoning adolescence aside, this week's episode focuses on the notoriously tricky terrain of startups and scale-ups. Our special guest is Stuart Budd, the commercial director of FD Works, a Bristol-based accounting firm that specialises in helping entrepreneurial businesses. Enjoy the podcast, and if you’d like more information on the topics discussed jump over to AccountingWEB.co.uk for the latest: https://www.accountingweb.co.uk/business/finance-strategy/no-accounting-for-taste-ep16-viability-scale-ups-and-toys

In part two of this GDPR special editor Tom Herbert speaks to Ian Cooper, Product Manager at Thomson Reuters to get a flavour of the post-GDPR deadline accountancy space.

After last episode's Accountex field trip, No Accounting for Taste returns to the comforting warmth of AccountingWEB's Bristol HQ. And this week's episode has it all: video marketing, the future of cash, and some nerdy metric chat.

Following a busy May Accounting Excellence Talks webcast, John Stokdyk sat down with the panel to take a deeper look at the questions from the webcast around MTD

GDPR data rules are now enforceable, but how prepared are accountants and what should they do to remain compliant? Listen to the podcast and find out what accounting firms have done to prepare for the regulation, and measures they can take to ensure compliance in the future. Recorded at Accountex 2018, this podcast features employment law expert Annabel Kaye and practice owner Matt Portte. Thanks to Thomson Reuters for supporting this podcast.

The No Accounting for Taste team hit the road again, this time to broadcast live from Accountex 2018 in London’s docklands. This week the pod squad discussed the government’s IR35 consultation for the private sector, assessed IRIS’s acquisition of Taxfiler, caught up with Dominic Allon from QuickBooks to find out what the big brands get from events such as Accountex, and held a lens to the issue of equality in accountancy. Joining the pod team this week was Elaine Clark, MD director of cheap accounting and founder of women in accountancy and Bobby Chadha, senior manager at Propel by Deloitte, along with pod regulars Richard Hattersley and Tom Herbert.

What will become of George Osborne’s digital dream? A statement from HMRC confirmed last week that the tax authority has had to shuffle the pack and prioritise key Brexit projects at the expense of its digital taxation transformation programme. To discuss the details and what this could mean for accountants was a full cast of AccountingWEB editors, including global editor John Stokdyk and tax editor Rebecca Cave. With two weeks before the great and the good of accountancy descend on London’s docklands for Accountex, the team also discussed the merits (or otherwise) of trade shows. Finally, the pod looked at how to tackle the scourge of unproductive meetings, following Tesla founder Elon Musk’s pronouncement that employees should just get up and walk out if they’re not getting value from office gatherings.

Have spreadsheets had their day? Xero’s Gary Turner joins the AccountingWEB editorial team to discuss this as well as public speaking and the age-old battle: Windows vs Mac.

AccountingWEB's Practice correspondent Richard Hattersley is joined by a panel of leading tech-first accountants to discuss the inner workings of their firms. The panel: Alex Falcon, CEO and founder, Soaring Falcon Accountancy Mike Hutchinson, Founder, The Peloton Olly Evans, Director, Evans & Partners This podcast is a follow up to the Accounting Excellence Talks: Secrets of tech-firm firms session on Thursday 19th April and covers questions posted by the audience. Click here to watch the full broadcast on-demand: https://www.accountingexcellence.co.uk/april-session/

Many have predicted that Open Banking will have a profound effect on the way accountants do their jobs, but what form will this take? Our expert panellists discuss some of the fundamental questions around this shift, including how Open Banking will affect the way firms are run, client risk profiles and whether the banking space risks turning into a tech wild west.

This week accountant and business coach Carl Reader joins the podcast to chew over the FRC's crackdown on ‘seriously poor’ audit practices from the Big Four, how small practitioners are reacting to the government’s Making Tax Digital scheme and what the ubiquitous term ‘advisory services’ means for accounting practices.

This week the No Accounting for Taste team look at the latest IR35 tax case, an argument over what constitutes ‘advice’, the government’s big fintech conference and whether accountants should aspire to emulate Silicon Valley’s entrepreneurial mindset. Joining AccountingWEB editor Tom Herbert to tackle the week’s news in accounting were Richard Hattersley and Francois Badenhorst.