Welcome to Accountants 4 Freelancers

As a freelance worker you will have a number of choices to make to ensure that you trade in an efficient and compliant manner.

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To deliver the best quality advice using the best people/process and technology.

Your time and your value

When taking the decision to work on your own the most important thing to consider is your time and the value of that time.

If you consider that for example you may be able to secure work equal to £2,000 per week you should consider any lost time as a loss, and any time wasted on things like administration and accounting will eat into your ‘billable time’.

Things to consider

Using some form of priority action list, perhaps prepared at the end of the day, outlining the tasks which must be accomplished the following day;

Tackling priority tasks first, and not falling into the common trap of doing the most enjoyable tasks first;

Persevering at the task until it is finished - constantly stopping and starting a task is a classic symptom of time-wasting. Avoid paper-pushing by handling and dealing with each piece of paper and its related action only once;

Overcoming the natural tendency to believe that "I can do it better than anybody else and, therefore, I must do it". If you have staff, train them and then delegate responsibility and authority to them, delegating as far down your organisation as practicable;

Using the telephone/email as much as possible, both involve far less time than face to face meetings which will save you money.