December 2018
Just how difficult is it to use Xero?
The short answer: Not very. Xero is in fact incredibly intuitive and uses machine learning to make your bookkeeping tasks a great deal quicker and easier. However, as with anything new, there are going to [...]
November 2018
Making Tax Digital is coming soon. Here’s why that’s actually a good thing!
I know what you’re thinking. It's coming too fast. The systems won’t cope. HMRC will get it all wrong. And you know what? You might be right. But these issues aside, Making Tax Digital could [...]
October 2018
Why you need Spotlight Reporting
We use Spotlight Reporting to complete your ideal system for bookkeeping and accounting. Where Xero and Receipt Bank make bookkeeping easy, Spotlight makes understanding your numbers easy. It transforms your figures into colourful graphs and [...]
Why you should use Receipt Bank
Over the last nine years, we’ve tested many different new cloud products, all promising great things. Some of them reach their potential, others fade away. In the last 18 months, we’ve started to see these [...]
September 2018
Why Xero makes life simpler
Our Xero history We first signed up with Xero in January 2009 and have been using it for our own business accounts since 2010. Our early commitment was prompted by a desire to make bookkeeping [...]
Introducing Your Ideal System
Here at Stubbs Parkin, we’re always looking for ways to make our clients lives easier. That’s why we’ve created Your Ideal System - a combination of leading cloud-enabled software to create the most user-friendly, flexible, [...]





