# Guilford Accounting

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## Important pages

- [How I work](https://guilfordaccounting.co.uk/how-i-work/): A five-stage advisory framework: Context, Clarity, Drivers, Choices, Design. What a month with me looks like, what it costs, and who it isn't for.
- [Home – Guilford Accounting](https://guilfordaccounting.co.uk/): This has been autogenerated as a placeholder for homepage.
- [Book a Discovery Call](https://guilfordaccounting.co.uk/book-a-discovery-call/): Book a Discovery Call A 30-minute conversation to explore whether we're the right fit for each other. This isn't a…
- [The time I lost control](https://guilfordaccounting.co.uk/blog/the-time-i-lost-control/): I recently had a week’s leave…..and ended up working every day! I don’t say this to brag. In fact the…
- [What can we learn about learning through work?](https://guilfordaccounting.co.uk/blog/what-can-we-learn-about-learning-through-work/): Last week I received the latest Alumni newsletter from Deloitte, the firm in which I was a partner before establishing…
- [You can spend it, but can you buy it?](https://guilfordaccounting.co.uk/blog/you-can-spend-it-but-can-you-buy-it/): A phenomenon has occurred in recent years that has almost gone unnoticed by most of us. It was always said…
- [The taxation treatment of directors’ loan accounts](https://guilfordaccounting.co.uk/blog/taxation-treatment-directors-loan-accounts/): This paper has been prepared using HMRC's toolkit for advisers on directors' loans. A copy of the HMRC toolkit can…
- [When the Paradigm Shifts, Everyone Goes Back to Zero Inbox](https://guilfordaccounting.co.uk/blog/when-the-paradigm-shifts-everyone-goes-back-to-zero-inbox/): When the rules of business change overnight, the old playbook stops working. What Joel Barker's work on paradigm shifts means for small business owners.
- [Five essential questions to ask your accountant](https://guilfordaccounting.co.uk/blog/five-essential-questions-to-ask-your-accountant/): A chartered accountant does more than file your returns. Five questions to ask before you appoint one, so you get advice as well as compliance.
- [When did you last put up your prices?](https://guilfordaccounting.co.uk/blog/when-did-you-last-put-up-your-prices/): If you have read my free report - 7 things you really need to know about your business numbers -…
- [Do you know your business numbers?](https://guilfordaccounting.co.uk/blog/know-business-numbers/): Too busy running the business to think about the accounts? Why knowing your numbers is what keeps enough cash coming in to stay in control.
- [I am asked this question a lot.](https://guilfordaccounting.co.uk/blog/asked-question-lot/): I am surprised how often I am asked 'Should I take on/keep working for this client?' My answer is always the…
- [You Can’t Do This Alone.](https://guilfordaccounting.co.uk/blog/cant-do-this-alone/): I consider myself fortunate. I have some good friends; it wasn’t always thus and it takes time to find out…
- [The Virtues of Persistence](https://guilfordaccounting.co.uk/blog/virtues-persistence/): This week I have been reading a little known Jim Collins book called How the Mighty Fall. Unlike Built to…
- [An important lesson for entrepreneurial business owners](https://guilfordaccounting.co.uk/blog/important-lesson-entrepreneurial-business-owners/): This week the news has been dominated by the collapse of Carillion, which will have huge repercussions for not just…
- [“What’s your business worth?” I asked.](https://guilfordaccounting.co.uk/blog/whats-business-worth/): A client of mine decided recently to incorporate his business. "What's it worth", I asked "Does it matter" he replied…
- [Does your team go the extra mile?](https://guilfordaccounting.co.uk/blog/does-team-go-extra-mile/): ​In last week's Sunday Supplement I wrote about coaching your team for the behaviours you want in your business. No…
- [Is this the best investment you’ll make?](https://guilfordaccounting.co.uk/blog/best-investment-make/): This week has seemed a bit like the end of the holidays rather than the beginning. The World Cup, Wimbledon…
- [Live your life on purpose.](https://guilfordaccounting.co.uk/blog/live-life-purpose/): Last week I asked whether you know you purpose. It sounds like an easy question, but in reality it is…
- [Possibly the worst advice you could give to a start-up business](https://guilfordaccounting.co.uk/blog/worst-advice-startup-business/): This week I want to tell you about something I read whilst I was away. You see, I read a…

## Site

- [Home](https://guilfordaccounting.co.uk/)