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ACCOUNTANCY Making it count Accounts are the blood vessels of a business – but doing your own can take precious time and effort away from your company. Why divert your attention when there’s a whole profession out there to help you? Glenn Collins, Head of Technical Advisory for the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA), gives the lowdown on working with an accountant IN ORDER to understand the drivers behind taking on an accountant, you have to go back to the starting point of setting up a business: people come up with an exciting new venture, that they want to do for the foreseeable future. For this to be successful, they need to try and make their life as easy as possible – and to do that they need to free up time themselves to look after and develop their business. Even sensible businesspeople can get bogged down in areas where they are not an expert. And that’s where they should go out and get a specific expert’s help, from other businesses – and that’s where accountants are a natural choice. Many accountants, themselves, are businesspeople running their businesses. They have a large number of businesses they advise, and they have a network to put things in place that small businesses need – and that could be, for example, employment software; security and data protection systems, as well as suitable accounting systems. An accountant will tailor advice and structure that 094 YOUr bUsiNess with James Caan

Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of Jobs and Careers with James Caan 2012

Career bites
What really counts
Weighing it all up
Around the world
Ask the experts
Growth sectors
Train your brain
Homework
Carve a career in care
Here come the girls
Mum’s the word
An apple a day
It’s for you-hoo!
A step forward
His & hers
Bank on it
Risky Business
In the money
3 Specialist medical jobs
The stuff of life
Power on
Engineering heroes
Outside the box
Keeping it clean
Your Business with James Caan
Go Go GadGets
On trend office
Take my advice
Getting Going
The bank job
Make the most of your assets
Back to business
The law and you
HR Matters
Make it work
Into the cloud
Design & shine
Reach out
Gorkana and Gurkhas
Protect and prosper
Making it count
Your business or your life?
Nice supplies
Beginning business
Ship it
Ethical business
Backing business
Standing together
Top 10 hiring tips

Jobs and Careers with James Caan 2012