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Illustrative stories of how client deadlines get missed in real-world practices – what it costs, and how to stop it happening to yours. The practices and clients are fictional.
An illustrative scenario: a newly incorporated client, a first accounting period of more than 12 months, and a deadline nobody had diarised. What went…
3 min read Read guide →An illustrative scenario: a client's director shortens the accounting period online without telling the practice. The accounts deadline moves forward, the Corporation Tax payment…
3 min read Read guide →An illustrative scenario: a bookkeeper hands in her notice, her VAT clients are never formally reassigned, and two late returns push a client to…
3 min read Read guide →An illustrative scenario: a dormant holding company's confirmation statement goes unfiled, a director's identity is not verified in time, and the first strike-off notice…
3 min read Read guide →An illustrative scenario: a landlord with rental income over £50,000 joins Making Tax Digital for Income Tax in April 2026, and the first quarterly…
3 min read Read guide →An illustrative scenario: a practice's AML supervisor visits, samples client files, and finds customer due diligence that was done once at engagement and never…
3 min read Read guide →Accounts, Corporation Tax, confirmation statements, VAT, Self Assessment, MTD, pensions and AML – tracked automatically for every client.
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