After almost 11 years in our current home at Tondu Enterprise Park, we are on the move! Don’t worry, we are not going far… just down the road (within half a mile) to Apollo Business Village – so we will still be close by when you need us. We will be available at our new […]

Congratulations to our amazing Clients Dockside Bar and Grill, have won Best Bar and Restaurant in Bridgend County 2022 in the Prestige Awards! Husband and wife team Michael and Julia Jones, opened their beautiful venue in late 2018. After just a year in the new business, finding their feet and building up a well deserved […]

It’s a Happy New Year from us at CC Associates! As we enter the new tax year 22/23, we thought we’d highlight some key updates National Insurance increases Employees Class 1 rises to 13.25% Employers NI rises to 15.05% Self Employed Class 2 NI rises to £3.15/ week Self Employed Class 4 rises to 10.25% […]

Tim and I returned to the office today to start getting everything ready for us to reopen tomorrow. We were chatting away, and Tim suddenly realised we missed a celebration! Lockdown has made lots of people forget what day of the week it is, I’m sure, but we actually just realised we missed our own […]

I am now busy preparing to reopen CC Associates on 1st July, 2020… We never thought when we closed at the start of April it would be this long… It has made me reflect on everything that has gone on between now and then – and wow, so much has changed. I know lots of […]

For all our trusted clients:We are not ALLOWED to do this for you, as much as we would love to. We are extremely frustrated by the stance that HMRC are taking, on 4th May they announced that the Self-employed cannot ask their Accountant to make the claim on their behalf. To make the claim, you […]

Due to the current situation with #CoronaVirus, as employees, we are now furloughed. This means that at the present time, our staff will be unable to carry out work, which is in line with the HMRC regulations. However, please rest assured that the Directors of the company will be carrying out our statutory duties as normal. […]

https://register.gotowebinar.com/rt/870782828713010689?source=Mar-HMRC-DCS-Agents-2 THIS WEDNESDAY – APRIL 1. Register for your allowed time here: This webinar provides an overview of the support available to help employers and their staff in addressing Coronavirus (COVID-19) – including the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme, refunding eligible Statutory Sick Pay costs, furloughed employees and more. This webinar is offered several times. Select […]

Guidance for employers on the coronavirus (COVID-19) Job Retention Scheme. https://www.gov.uk/guidance/claim-for-wage-costs-through-the-coronavirus-job-retention-scheme The Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme is a temporary scheme open to all UK employers for at least three months starting from 1 March 2020. We expect the scheme to be up and running by the end of April. It is designed to support employers […]

Businesses will be given an additional 3 months to file accounts with Companies House to help companies avoid penalties as they deal with the impact of COVID-19. https://www.gov.uk/government/news/companies-to-receive-3-month-extension-period-to-file-accounts-during-covid-19 From today (25 March 2020), businesses will be able to apply for a 3-month extension for filing their accounts. This joint initiative between the government and Companies […]

HMRC has a set up a phone helpline to support businesses and self-employed people concerned about not being able to pay their tax due to coronavirus (COVID-19). If you run a business or are self-employed and are concerned about paying your tax due to coronavirus, you can call HMRC’s helpline for help and advice: 0800 0159 559. […]

There’s no denying that the UK’s departure from the European Union continues to create uncertainty, at least in the short term. However, this does reinforce the need to build and protect your own financial future and the importance of investing for the long term. And making maximum use of all available tax allowances and reliefs […]

In case coronavirus (COVID-19) spreads more widely in our area, here at Paymaster HQ we are keeping track of, and following, the latest advice for your staff members… we hope this helps. Firstly, as events change, make sure to keep a close eye on updates from the Welsh Government here: https://gov.wales/coronavirus-covid-19 Sick pay… Your usual […]

In case coronavirus spreads more widely in the Bridgend and wider South Wales areas, here at CC Associates HQ we are keeping track of, and following, the latest advice. We thought it may help some of you if we shared some simple steps, so you can help protect the health and safety of your staff […]

“As for you, be strong and do not give up,for your work will be rewarded” 2 Chronicles 15:17 We did it! We are pleased to report that Team CC Associates have all survived the craziness of January! We want to thank each and every one of our clients for trusting us with their work, and […]

Have you spotted the latest Tweets and FB posts from HMRC? ‘Submit online by the 31st January’, they say! ‘Why not do your Self Assessment online today?’, they say! And if you can manage to trawl through the rest of the endless bumf, it makes the whole process sound as simple as doing your weekly […]

Christmas is almost here again and our emails are ding a linging and our phones are ringing with clients asking us about tax allowances for their works Christmas party. HMRC also gets into the festive mood and (if you work within the rules) you can have a tax-free works Christmas party. The rules apply to a works Christmas […]

Nothing helps a local business like being recommended and given a great review and this short guide will show you how you can do this for us on Google and Facebook. To write a review on Google you will need to go to our page on Google Maps here. Click on our name then scroll […]

We are the fur babies of Romania known as the garbage dogs and we’ve kidnapped Nicola Thomas of CC Associates and unless you pay the ransom she won’t be back to do your accounts. SO PAY UP NOW! Seriously though, she’s come all this way to visit us and we’ve kidnapped her heart. Nicola is […]

Christmas Community Spirit – and why small businesses need it all year round At this time of year, we all see the online reminders to try and buy things from local businesses, how much it supports them etc, and I am sure most of us pay attention to this and do our best to think […]

Recently we have been dealing with a significant number of our clients who are Landlords, and have been struggling with the Rent Smart Wales requirements to register deadline. The issues they are encountering seem to be broadly categorised as follows: Registration on the website: setting up user names, passwords etc What to do about the training […]

Another year has come and gone for Tim Evans, FMAAT, ICPA so we had a little celebration in the office today. We hope you will join us in wishing him a very happy birthday and an amazing year ahead.

Once you have decided that you need to use a bookkeeper you need to decide how much you are willing to pay for their services, so how much a professional bookkeeper should cost? A lot depends on you, your business and the time you can allocate personally to doing the books. You Are you organised, […]

Have you decided that instead of drowning in paperwork, you need to spend your time running your business and letting someone else take care of the back office side of things? Have you realised how time consuming, and sometimes quite difficult, keeping on top of the financial paperwork of your business is? The next thing […]

Bookkeepers should be accurate, efficient and knowledgeable. A bookkeeper’s role will be different depending on the size and type of your business. Put simply – a good bookkeeper will accurately maintain the financial records for your business in an efficient manner in a way that you may not have the knowledge or the time to do properly […]

As recently as 10-15 years ago, as a small business you would most likely picture your Bookkeeper as someone writing in great big hardback A3 ledgers, in various colour pens, whilst furiously tapping away on their calculator, excitedly shouting “I balanced it” at various points through the day. Today’s computer environment has changed all that, […]