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First post in a while
Apr. 5th, 2020 12:09 pmSo here we are. A lot of things have happened since I last posted. It wasn't a conscious decision to stop, I just never got round to making the next post. But as we are shut up at home, venturing out to the shops and for our daily state-mandated exercise, I am feeling that I would like to start communicating again.
We are both well, and working at home in reasonable harmony, M downstairs on the dining room table, me upstairs in my study-cum-spare room. I've worked at home for half a day a week for several years now, but it's a bit different doing it all the time. All the systems are slower (as there are roughly 800 staff in our firm trying to work remotely together, I'm guessing maybe 4 times as many as normal), we have new paperless filing and authorisation protocols, and staring at the screen continuously is really tiring. I keep forgetting to stand up, roll my shoulders, get a cup of coffee.
Unfortunately this coincided with us having to get a lot of March year end tax returns to HMRC, which, together with the fact that many of my clients were also working at home and had problems getting us information (or had more urgent things to do, such as trying to get their operations in a state to survive), led to a big bottleneck at the end of last week. We just managed to get all the returns in for the clients who had sent us information (there were I think three of mine who never got their act together at all) by working up to past 11 pm on the 31st. This was mainly due to one client whose accounts were too big to go through the HMRC gateway, but they finally sent us a smaller version in time.
Now all we have to do is get the bills out and hope that most of our clients are solvent enough to pay us.
We are both well, and working at home in reasonable harmony, M downstairs on the dining room table, me upstairs in my study-cum-spare room. I've worked at home for half a day a week for several years now, but it's a bit different doing it all the time. All the systems are slower (as there are roughly 800 staff in our firm trying to work remotely together, I'm guessing maybe 4 times as many as normal), we have new paperless filing and authorisation protocols, and staring at the screen continuously is really tiring. I keep forgetting to stand up, roll my shoulders, get a cup of coffee.
Unfortunately this coincided with us having to get a lot of March year end tax returns to HMRC, which, together with the fact that many of my clients were also working at home and had problems getting us information (or had more urgent things to do, such as trying to get their operations in a state to survive), led to a big bottleneck at the end of last week. We just managed to get all the returns in for the clients who had sent us information (there were I think three of mine who never got their act together at all) by working up to past 11 pm on the 31st. This was mainly due to one client whose accounts were too big to go through the HMRC gateway, but they finally sent us a smaller version in time.
Now all we have to do is get the bills out and hope that most of our clients are solvent enough to pay us.
