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AAT | Practice owner community events 📍
The AAT Practice owner community is meeting next on Tuesday, August 18, 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM Register here. The AAT practice owner community is a monthly online series, enabling you to meet up with likeminded AAT members, to support each other, and achieve practice success together 🤝 It’s a welcoming space for you to connect…
AAT | Community guidelines 📝
Welcome to the community forums. These forums are designed to be a supportive, inclusive, and professional space where students, members, training providers, and employers can connect, share knowledge, and learn from one another. By participating, you agree to follow these guidelines: 1. Be respectful Treat all members…
AAT | Continuity of practice cover 🔒
Hi all, We want to make you all aware that we have a directory that is available on our website for which is a great resource if you are looking for Continuity of Practice. It has a bank of AAT licensed bookkeepers and accountants, and you could use that to reach out and see if someone local is available to cover you. All…
AAT | Introduce yourself 💬
👋 Welcome to the AAT Community – let’s get to know each other! New here? Start by saying hello! This is the perfect place to introduce yourself to fellow AAT students and members. Tell us a bit about you – here are a few ideas to get you started: 💼 What stage are you at in your AAT journey? (Just starting, studying,…

Newest discussions

Anyone else doing the Level 2 Bookkeeping
Just putting feelers out for anyone who might be doing the Level 2 Bookkeeping, I am new to it so looking to connect with likeminded people, get advice etc.
Has AI made entry-level accounting roles harder or easier to break into?
In a LinkedIn poll last week, our community voted 60% vs 40% in favour of AI making entry level accounting rolls more difficult. What's your experience using AI in entry level accounting roles?
S455 and dividend allocation
Hi Everyone, This is my first post! I have had a client posing many questions today, which I am unsure of and my husband asked me if AAT had a forum! I will definitely be using this platform in future! My problem is that this husband and wife team have run up a director's loan of £9500. I am supposed to file their annual…
Accounts Certification Threshold
Hi, just wanting to make sure I am remembering this correctly. I'm a full MAAT licenced accountant but I mostly handle small businesses (i.e. maybe £300k turnover maximum!). A customer has taken on a new contract which has significantly increased his turnover and I expect him to hit the million pound limit before his…
balance sheet
My funding partner is asking for an up-to- date balance sheet, but I have not been given opening balances yet from accountants, will it be ok to give him the figures without these incorporated.
Welcome practice owners
Welcome @stephmaggs @Elizabeta @BrittanyDraper It was a pleasure meeting you all at today's community meeting, and I'd like to extend a warm welcome to the Practice Owner Community forum. We're really pleased to have you here. This thread is a great place to pick up on the conversations we started yesterday, and we…
How are you handling CIS Domestic Reverse Charge coding? Still manual?
For anyone doing bookkeeping for construction clients: how are you handling CIS DRC VAT coding day to day? Manually flagging each transaction, or has your practice automated it? I've been building a tool (Numbr AI) for UK VAT complexity specifically: CIS DRC, Flat Rate Scheme, Box 1-9. Want to check this against how…
MTD Panic
Hi, Looking for advice really. Just realised one of my clients should be in MTD and needs a submission 5th August. My BTC tax software doesn't incorporate this. Ideally I'd just like to collate the property income and receipts on a spreadsheet and upload to HMRC but realise this may not be possible How are you guys doing…
Welcome new bookkeepers
Welcome @BlerinaKlaiqi, @Cassie_Evans, @JacquiW 👋 It was great to meet you all at yesterday’s community meeting, and I wanted to give you a warm welcome to the bookkeeping community forum. We’re delighted to have you here. Feel free to use this thread - or any others across the forum - to continue the conversations we…
Flat Rate Scheme coding for mixed-rate clients: what's your process?
Following on from the CIS DRC thread. Different but related question: how are you handling Flat Rate Scheme clients who buy a mix of standard rate and reduced/zero rate goods? This is one of the trickier bits we had to get right building Numbr AI's VAT coding logic. The edge cases (partial exemption, capital goods over…