Interested in becoming MIP

joannesteele1

Hi All

Hope someone can help, I am looking at becoming a MIP I recently bacame MAAT and was wondering what steps to take next ?

I also currently do 1 self assesment for a friend with no charge as wanted the experience and also set a ltd co up for another friend where I raise there invoices, submit vat returns and process there purchase invoices again all FOC to gain some experience.
If I were to become a MIP and gain a client portfolio would it be worth investing in sage, I currently only use excel for everything or is this suffice ?

Thanks in advance for any advice

ExcelAnt

Hiya,

This has been debated in many other threads see this one

http://forums.aat.org.uk/showthread.php?35706-Tell-me-why-I-need-accounting-software-rather-than-HMRC-online-tools

Sage can be quite cumbersome when you want to make amendments and the audit trail is quite poor, tracing trasactions can take a while.

I'm a fan of clever excel sheets until you get into large volumes of transactions

In Addition, wish you all the best starting out!! Exciting times im sure.