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Reporting Accounts - news and updates

Reporting Accounts

Updates from the team at the Business Intelligence leader Reporting Accounts, we bring you the latest news and updates from the UK"s business community. We track the filed accounts covering more than 4.8 million UK companies and are rapidly buiding a free to use database of that data. We are a great source of free data for marketing or monitor your competitors, suppliers and customers. Join the growing number of users using our service on a regular basis to protect and develop their businesses

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2:51

John Lewis announces store closures

Reporting Accounts - news and updates ·

2021/02/21

In today's episode Adrian Lawrence talks about John Lewis and their announcement of a further store closure programme. John Lewis is a well respected high street brand in the UK, and unusually it is owned by it's members rather than shareholders. Last year it announced losses of £635m and that means it has won't pay its staff a bonus for the first time since 1953. It is planning to close up to 8 of its remaining 42 store, this will be a significant blow to its loyal customers as John Lewis is

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3:37

Move to online sales may be permanent

Reporting Accounts - news and updates ·

2021/02/20

In today's episode Adrian Lawrence talks about how companies with warehouses they expanded to cope with the surge of online sales during the UK's three lockdowns are now planning to retain them. This is a long term trend which appears to have been accelerated by the pandemic by between three and five years. If this proves to be the case then it means the traditional retail market will have a tough time when the UK returns from lockdown.It is likely that niche retailers and those with strong

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3:14

Moonpig reports busiest ever week

Reporting Accounts - news and updates ·

2021/02/19

Moonpig group plc the recently listed greetings card online retailer reported its strongest ever week over the valentines day period. The company now expects its revenues for the year to 30th April to be around double the £173m it reported in the previous year. The shares rose 2.5% to £4.45 in early trading on Thursday.The increase in demand saw the "strongest ever trading week in the Group's history" the company said in a brief statement.It shows that the pandemic has had a positive impact on the

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3:25

Barclays announces a bad debt provision of £2.1billion

Reporting Accounts - news and updates ·

2021/02/18

In today's episode Adrian Lawrence our resident financial professional talks about how Barclays bank is putting aside £2.1billion as a provision for bad debts. The UK and US economies have been badly impacted by the pandemic and the bank now expects a proportion of its lending during that time never to be repaid, as a result it is making a provision in its accounts to cover its expected losses.Provision can sometimes be overly cautious and if that is the case then some of this provision will be

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3:21

Companies house suspends compulsory strike offs

Reporting Accounts - news and updates ·

2021/02/17

In today's episode Adrian Lawrence our in-house financial expert talks about how Companies House, the UK's Government agency that deals with the filing of company accounts, has suspended its voluntary and compulsory strike off notices. This is part of the wider Government pandemic initiative to help companies during this challenging time.Often directors rely on postal reminders to keep their company records in order, and with the prolonged third lockdown in the UK, this is an increasing issue. So

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3:17

Virgin Wines IPO

Reporting Accounts - news and updates ·

2021/02/16

Today Adrian Lawrence our resident financial expert is talking about Virgin Wines, this is a company that was formerly associated with Richard Branson but was subsequently sold to a management team and private equity houses.The company is joining the London aim market on 2nd March and is likely to be valued at £100m. As with other recent IPO's the company has traded successfully during the pandemic lockdowns as its business model is digitally based.2021 has already been a postive year for new

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3:54

Pound hits highs

Reporting Accounts - news and updates ·

2021/02/16

In today's episode our financial expert Adrian Lawrence talks about the Pound's foreign exchange rate, which has been rising over recent weeks. There is growing optimism in the UK economy as the vaccination roll out program is on target with more than 15 million people now vaccinated, which means it is now more likely that the lockdown of retail, leisure and hospitality can end.The other significant factor in the exchange rate was Brexit where the uncertainty was lifted before the end of 2020 when

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3:24

Jaguar goes all electric

Reporting Accounts - news and updates ·

2021/02/15

In today's episode Adrian Lawrence our in-house financial professional talks about Land Rover Jaguar and how they are going all electric, the story in the press is that they are moving to an all electric line up, and plan to discontinue their petrol and diesel engine models at the end of their natural lifecycles. This is a brave decision but also one that makes long term sense, the sales of petrol and diesel cars has to decline as the UK has committed to move to being net carbon neutral by 2050, so

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4:06

Auditing during the Covid Pandemic

Reporting Accounts - news and updates ·

2021/02/14

In today's episode our resident financial professional talks about auditing during the Covid Pandemic, a qualified chartered accountant himself Adrian is familar with the auditing process. In normal times the auditors team would attend client a clients site for between a week and two weeks during which time they dig into the books and records of a business verifying the accuracy of the accounting records.The Covid pandemic has however presented many obstacles to overcome, premises are typically

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3:15

Techpats an increasingly attractive option

Reporting Accounts - news and updates ·

2021/02/13

In todays podcast Adrian Lawrence talks about how Digital Nomads are settling down for the longer term to become techpats, having enjoyed travelling the world working remotely from their laptop many are now deciding to select sunny low tax countries to work out from on a permanent basis.Cyprus is very attractive from this perspective as it allows residency rights provided you stay in the country for more than 90 days per year, and a very attractive corporation tax regime of 12.5%. As its an EU

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5:58

Podcasting our experience so far at Reporting Accounts

Reporting Accounts - news and updates ·

2021/02/12

In today's episode Adrian Lawrence talks about Reporting Account's experience of Podcasting. As a company we are new to recording podcasts and started for the first time in January 2021. Our experience has been very positive, and we are tracking the visitors to our site on a daily basis and noting a good number of visitors arrive after listening to one or more of our podcast episodes.Some sites that we particular like and note in this Podcast includeApple Podcasts - very well known for the itunes

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4:18

Spotify and home working

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2021/02/12

Spotify the popular Swedish streaming service has been in the news today, it is introducing flexible working so its employees have greater choice worldwide of where they choose to work and a option of workplace or home also.This follows from similar announcements by Microsoft, Twitter and Facebook, and whilst more straightforward for a digital company such as Spotify it does have implications for the wider economy. A large proportion of business costs relate to the workplace, so in future

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4:19

Brexit Exporters suffer nightmares

Reporting Accounts - news and updates ·

2021/02/11

In this episode Adrian Lawrence our resident financial professional talks about the impact that Brexit is having on exporters. The withdrawl agreement that brought brexit to a close at the end of 2020 was meant to represent a free trade agreement without tariffs and duties. Many exporters are now finding to their costs that due to the rules of origin goods brought into the UK from outside the EU and then exported to the EU are paying double, once to on import to the UK and then again on import to

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5:49

French Connection Receive two takeover approaches

Reporting Accounts - news and updates ·

2021/02/07

French Connection the UK fashion retailer LSE:FCCN has received two takeover bids, in this episode our resident financial expert Adrian Lawrence discusses this and the changing dynamics in the high street.French Connection rejected a takeover in January 2020 as being too low, that bid was around 40p but since then the high street shopping channel in the UK has been very seriously impacted by the three pandemic lockdowns. The share price has been bombed out as have other companies who operate in the

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3:05

HMRC tax filing deadline extended

Reporting Accounts - news and updates ·

2021/02/03

Today Adrian Lawrence our in-house finance expert is talking about the extension of the HMRC filing deadline for personal tax returns, normally their is a penalty of £100 if a return is not filed on time. Now provided it is filed by the end of February 2021 this will be waived. Also time to pay is available at an APR of 2.6% which is a good option for tax payers facing difficulty due to the pandemic.To learn more about Reporting Accounts please visit our website which can be found at

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3:32

Moonpig celebrates their successful IPO

Reporting Accounts - news and updates ·

2021/02/02

Moonpig the online greeting card business soared above its £1.2billion IPO value on its first day of trading, conditional trading opened around 30% higher at £4.40 compared to the IPO price of £3.50. This is a real success story and follows on from the positive trading in Dr Martens the bookmaker which also joined the market last week.In today's podcast Adrian Lawrence our in house financial expert talks about how the company is now likely to join the FTSE 250 and that it is likely to see

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4:30

Hargreaves Lansdown

Reporting Accounts - news and updates ·

2021/02/01

In today's episode Adrian our in house financial expert discusses the news from Hargreaves Lansdown today that they attractive growing numbers of younger investors. There are many factors behind this trend, interest rates are very low in the UK at the moment and during the lockdown spending has been lower than normal meaning people have more savings available for investment.The lockdown also means there is less travel and commutting which means more time available to research and investigate

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3:16

Lookers plc returns from suspension and jumps 83%

Reporting Accounts - news and updates ·

2021/01/30

In today's podcast Adrian Lawrence our in house financial expert talks about Lookers plc and how their shares were relisted on Friday and straight away jumped 83%, there unsuspension was accompanied by an RNS which updated the market on trading, which has been ahead of expectations.Lookers plc - stock code LSE:LOOK has had a rough time over the last year, a fraud was detected which led to the resignation of a number of its senior team including its CFO and chairman and there has been a change of

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2:37

Doctor Martens floats on the London Stock Exchange

Reporting Accounts - news and updates ·

2021/01/30

In today's podcast Adrian Lawrence talks about Dr Martens a british bootmaker who floated on the London Stock Market on Friday, they have something of a renaissance over recent years having being close to bankruptcy they were acquired by a private equity house, who built them back up.Their price was set at £3.70 per share at opening they quickly moved to £4.25 and closed at around £4.50 representing a 22% rise on the day, this is a great result given the unsettled time for the UK economy and bodes

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3:28

Reddit Day Traders send Gamestop shares through the roof

Reporting Accounts - news and updates ·

2021/01/28

In today's podcast our resident financial expert Adrian Lawrence talks about Reddit Day traders and how they have sent the shares of Gamestop rocking upwards. Reddit is a social media platform where members can chat and discuss a wide range of topics a sub group with Reddit known as Wallstreetbets has sprung up and is frequented by tens of thousands of amateur investors and day traders, they have been egging each other one to buy more and more share in a stock called Gamestop and the resulting

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