• Posted July 16, 2020

How much money should I put aside for my Personal Tax Bill?

Estimating how much you need to save for your end of year tax bill can be tough, especially if your business has quite a few expenses. If your freelance business provides a service like tutoring or marketing, you may have limited expenses and you will take home a large part of what you turnover. However, […]


  • Posted July 9, 2020

We are Proud to be a Family Business

Like two thirds of UK businesses, Whitesides Chartered Accountants is a family business, which Joanne founded in Leeds over 30 years ago. In 2015 when a new accountant was needed, she was lucky to find that Sarah, her daughter, fitted the bill perfectly. Now, with the firm about to be passed on to the second […]


  • Posted June 29, 2020

What Value can a Chartered Accountants bring to my Small Business?

As chartered accountants and business advisors we have the knowledge and skills needed to help businesses at every stage of their growth cycle. Help Developing a Business Plan Involving your chartered accountant in developing a business plan for your company can be a smart move. We can provide useful insight into key business indicators and […]


  • Posted June 15, 2020

FREE On-line Event: Refresh Your Business

FREE Event: Refresh Your Business – Post Lockdown Covid-19 will have affected your business no matter what size or sector you are in.  Here at Whitesides we’ve got more than 30 years of experience, which we can draw on to help you ‘Refresh Your Business’. We’re arranging some FREE online events where we will help […]


  • Posted June 11, 2020

Financial Planning For Your Post Lockdown Business

With the first non-essential retail premises beginning to reopen and the initial panic has passed, it’s time for businesses to look at their situation and begin to plan for the future and what the “new normal” might look like for them. One of the main drivers of business success is financial planning and preparing for […]


  • Posted November 22, 2018

Horsforth Accountant supports Small Business Saturday

As the majority of our clients are small businesses, and as a local accountant I am always on the lookout for how I can support businesses in and around Horsforth.  In July 2017 Whitesides joined a growing number of local employers and became Fairtrade, we are the first (and only) Fairtrade accountant in Horsforth. Small Business Saturday is […]


  • Posted March 22, 2016

What the 2016 budget means for small businesses

The latest budget was billed as the budget for “the next generation”, but there was plenty of good news for small business owners too, here are a few of the headline points. Business Rates Following significant lobbying from small business groups, George Osborne announced that from next April, the rate at which small business rates […]