Office Assistants

When you are completing your VAT return and claiming back VAT you have paid on purchases, it should be a simple job that is easily completed. But it is also easy to get things wrong without even knowing.

Essex bookkeepers Office Assistants have been looking at why the human touch is still proving crucial when it comes to good customer service. Here's what they have to say.

In a small business, hiring your first member of staff is an important step which some first time entrepreneurs approach with trepidation. Here Office Assistants discuss the considerations to be made when hiring executive staff.

A new buzzword in the business world is the 'gig economy', but do you know for sure what it means?

Pretty well any time you buy new business equipment, you need to produce a new risk assessment. Work stations, which comprise equipment such as desks, chairs, monitors and other display screens, are no exception.

One year after the introduction of shared parental leave for parents of babies born on or after 1 April 2014, surveys on take-up were undertaken. Here Essex bookkeepers discuss the reports, and how the press may have got the wrong end of the stick.

It is difficult to predict the effect of a UK EU withdrawal on small businesses, but various people have suggested a number of scenarios which Essex bookkeepers Office Assistants have been looking at.

On 1 April 2016 the national living wage (NLW) of £7.20 per hour became the minimum amount that employers could pay workers aged 25 or over. Essex bookkeepers have shared their most commonly asked questions about the new regime.

It is a legal requirement for any company that employees staff to hold employer's liability insurance, and no doubt there will be numerous other policies held by a business owner. But do they cover every area for which you need protection?

According to the government's web page about taking on your first employees, there are seven things you need to take action on immediately. Office Assistants discuss these, and other important considerations.