Date:   Thursday 29 March 2012
Time:   Registration from 10.00am
Place:  Overdene House, 49 Church Street, Theale, Reading RG7 5BX

We are delighted to have secured once again the services of June Horne from Sage to run this workshop on our behalf. June has been with Sage for many years working in both technical support and marketing, before joining the Sage field support team in 2003. June has run her own bookkeeping and computer services business, so she knows the technicalities of accounting and the pressures of running a business!

Agenda

10.00 – 10.15  Registration and refreshments
10.15 – 10.30 Introduction and welcome by Pauline Williamson, MD of Kirkpatrick & Hopes
10.30 – 11.30 Presentation by June Horne – Sage Regional Account Manager
11.30 – 12.00 Q&A session
12.00 – 12.15 Close

The topics covered in the Workshop will include:

•  Making sure your data is healthy using Check Data and Audit Assistant
•  Backing-up your data and creating archives for easy access to historical information
•  How to create and use analysis fields and how to change the contents of those fields
•  Checking who is doing what within the program using Event Logging and restricting use of the program via Access Rights
•  Importing data into Sage Accounts

June and our own in-house team will be available at the end of the session to answer any queries.

If you would like to attend, please email mail@kandh.co.uk or phone 0118 923 5800 to reserve your place.

Although a growing number of business people are now on LinkedIn, they may not really know how to use it to grow their business. If this is you or if you just want to improve the knowledge you already have, then this practical four-hour LinkedIn Workshop could be just what you need and you should consider signing up for a workshop we are hosting in January.

This workshop is being hosted by K&H at our offices here in Theale. It is being run by Steve Mills of Steve Mills Marketing.

Date:       Wednesday 11 January 2012
Time:       9.30am to 12.30pm with coffee/registration from 9.15am
Venue:     Overdene House, 49 Church Street, Theale, Reading RG7 5BX
Price:       £147
Bookable:  Direct with Steve at this link:  here

This four-hour Workshop will include:

• Growing your database on LinkedIn through effective list building
• Using the power of LinkedIn to get on to the first page on Google in less than 24 hours
• Linking to relevant people
• Setting up your personal profile
• Setting up your company profile
• Getting to No. 1 on one specific key word
• Using groups to grow your business and to contact thousands of other businesses
• Using LinkedIn PPC advertising to drive people to your website
• Keeping in touch in order to build business relationships
• Getting recommended by lots of people

This practical Workshop will teach people what they need to know in order to win new business from LinkedIn.  And if you want to bring a laptop, you can connect to the internet and do the work as Steve speaks.

These Workshops are very popular and early booking is recommended as numbers are strictly limited.  Book and pay here

The session is designed to help existing users of the Sage accounting software range understand how to use features and functionality that they may not be aware of. It focuses on how to simplify the tasks that Sage accounts users do on a day-to-day basis.

The workshop will focus on:

• Using departments’ functionality
• Setting budgets and targets
• Report designer and Excel integration

Date:   Wednesday 29 June 2011
Time:  Registration & coffee from 10am: Workshop starting at 10.15am
Place:  Kirkpatrick & Hopes, Overdene House, 49 Church Street, Theale, Reading RG7 5BX

These free workshops are often oversubscribed, so booking is essential. To book your place, email mail@kandh.co.uk or call our reception on 0118 923 5800.

As a UK employer, you will be required to introduce a qualifying Pension Arrangement for ALL your staff and contribute to the arrangement. Financial penalties will apply if you fail to do so.

This obligation starts in October 2012 for the largest companies and will apply to all companies (regardless of size) by December 2014.

Who should attend?
If you would like to familiarise yourself with the new legislation and understand how and why your company should be planning for this extra financial and administrative burden now, then this seminar is for you.

Where and when?
At the offices of Finch Financial Services: 53B Crockhamwell Road, Woodley, Berkshire RG5 3JP on:

Wednesday 22 June 8.30 – 9.30 am

Please note that numbers are restricted and therefore early booking is advised.

RSVP directly to Cathi on cathifoale@finchgroup.net or call 0118 969 8855 to confirm your attendance at this FREE breakfast seminar on Pensions Chaos!

Aimed predominantly at users of Sage 50 Accounts, this workshop will also be relevant to Sage Instant users.

The session is designed to help existing users of the Sage accounting software range understand how to use features and functionality that they may not be aware of. It focuses on how to simplify the tasks that Sage accounts users do on a day-to-day basis.

The Workshop will focus on the following:

• Using departments functionality
• Setting budgets and targets
• Report designer and Excel Integration

Date:   Wednesday 29 June 2011
Time:   Registration & coffee from 10.00am: Workshop starting at 10.15am
Place:  Kirkpatrick & Hopes, Overdene House, 49 Church Street
Theale, Reading RG7 5BX

These Free Workshops are often over-subscribed, so booking is essential.  To book your place please email  mail@kandh.co.uk or call our reception on 0118 923 5800.

Aimed predominantly at users of Sage 50 Accounts, this workshop will also be relevant to Sage Instant users.

The session is designed to help existing users of the Sage accounting software range understand how to use features and functionality that they may not be aware of. It focuses on how to simplify the tasks that Sage accounts users do on a day-to-day basis.

Date: Thursday 31st March 2011
Time: Registration from 10.00am
Place: Kirkpatrick & Hopes
Overdene House, 49 Church Street
Theale, Reading RG7 5BX

Agenda

Making Operational Tasks easier
-  Recurring Entries
-  Memorising and recalling invoices
-  Bank reconciliation
-  e-banking
-  Customer Refunds and Supplier Payments

Credit Control
-  Account status
-  The diary module

Customer discounts and Pricing Structures
-  Pricing structures

June and our own in-house team will be available at the end of the session to answer any queries.

If you would like to attend, please contact Bernadetteb@kandh.co.uk or phone 0118 923 5800 to reserve your place.

We have been selected for demonstrating best practice in:

• Leadership
• People management
• Marketing

Our Chairman and Business Development Director, Andrew Gray, will be on hand to explain some of the innovations in these areas that we have brought into K&H over the last few years, and giving our visitors the benefit of years of hard-earned experience in how (and how not) to implement change in their small businesses. We will also be making available all of the tools and resources that we have spent years developing, such as our team happiness/360 degree feedback system.

Full details of the visit can be found here

The cost of attending the day if you book through Onsite Insights is £195 plus VAT. However, if you book directly through K&H, we are offering two places free of charge. If you would like to take up this offer, please leave a comment below or email me directly at:  bernadetteb@kandh.co.uk

Preparing your business for sale now will make it more attractive to potential buyers when the time finally comes to move on, ensuring you get the best possible price and reap the rewards of a lifetime’s work. And it will also make it far more likely that you receive an unsolicited offer ‘out of the blue’.

We are taking bookings for places at the event ‘Built to Sell: How to start to build a business you can sell’, at the Hilton Hotel, near East Midlands Airport, Castle Donington, on Tuesday 7th December.

The keynote speaker will be John Warrillow, entrepreneur and author of Built to Sell, who has successfully built and sold four companies, so he is well placed to offer plenty of practical tips and advice. Andrew Gray, Chairman of K&H, has written about John’s work on a number of occasions. See his recent blog on the ‘Business Sellability Test’.

The event runs from 11am to 4pm and costs £125 per place.

If you would be interested in joining K&H at this event, please email Bernadette Brownlie.

The Business Development Workshop is a very informal, half-day training session aimed at ambitious owners of small businesses, and their advisors, who want to know how to:

• understand and use accounts
• save tax
• work out their growth potential
• apply E-Myth principles (by watching a video of Michael Gerber)

It is divided into four sections, led by our directors.

Session 1  Interpreting the Numbers – Pauline Williamson
Most business owners do not understand the information in their accounts, according to national research by AVN. At K&H, we want to ensure that our clients make the most of their accounts, and can access this valuable information.

We will review a set of real accounts and help you to see the problems the business will face if it makes no changes.

Session 2 Taxability – Andrew Scott
One of our missions is to help our clients to pay less tax. We take you through a process of identifying your tax strengths and weaknesses and give you tips to ensure you pay the minimum tax possible.

Session 3 Simple Stuff That Works – Andrew Gray
SSTW is an interactive, multimedia software tool that helps business owners grow their sales and profits. It features video clips of real business owners explaining how they have used a range of practical ideas and learned new skills to help them grow and develop their businesses.

Session 4 Why most small businesses don’t work and what to do about it? – Andrew Gray
This session is based on the seven-point business development process developed by Michael Gerber, author of The E-Myth Revisited.

It gives you an opportunity to step back from the day-to-day running of your business and look at the big picture. We will watch a video of Gerber sharing his views about what being in business really means, we examine your role as a business owner, and provide insights into how your business can give you more life.

The cost for each person attending is £99 plus VAT. However, K&H clients can attend for free and some free places are available to others as part of our support of the National Campaign.

To book a place on the next Business Development Workshop, email us or call 0118 923 5800.

Future dates for 2010 are:

• Wednesday 24 November

All Workshops will run from 9.30am to 1.00pm and will be held at our offices in Theale.

Date: Tuesday, 23 November 2010

Time: Registration from 10.00am

Place: Kirkpatrick & Hopes
Overdene House, 49 Church Street, Theale, Reading RG7 5BX

A g e n d a

10.00 – 10.15 Registration and refreshments

10.15 – 10.30 Introduction and welcome by Pauline Williamson, MD of Kirkpatrick & Hopes

10.30 – 11.30 Presentation by June Horne – Sage Regional Account Manager

11.30 – 12.00 Q&A session

12.00 – 12.15 Close

We are delighted to have secured the services of June Horne from Sage to run this workshop on our behalf. June has been with Sage for over 10 years working in both technical support and marketing, before joining the Sage field support team in 2003. June has run her own bookkeeping and computer services business, so she knows the technicalities of accounting and the pressures of running a business!

Topics covered

• Making sure your data is healthy using Check Data and Audit Assistant

• Backing-up your data and creating archives for easy access to historical information

• How to create and use analysis fields and how to change the contents of those fields

• Checking who is doing what within the program using Event Logging and restricting use of the program via Access Rights

• Importing data into Sage Accounts

June and our own in-house team will be available at the end of the session to answer any queries you may have.

If you feel this would be beneficial and you would like to attend, please contact Bernadette or phone 0118 923 5800 to reserve your place.

On Tuesday 5 October we are co-hosting a breakfast meeting, providing an opportunity for local businesses to meet up and network at one of the UK’s elite sports training venues.

Itinerary:

08:00am Tea & Coffee with welcome & networking
08:20am Transforming Debt into Cash – Colemans Solicitors
08:40am Interpreting the Numbers – Kirkpatrick & Hopes
09:00am Breakfast buffet & networking

Colemans Solicitors LLP
Now, more than ever, businesses of all sizes are being forced to tackle their problem debtors. Our aim is to help you achieve real results with effective and targeted debt-collection procedures. We will advise you how to improve your chances of getting paid quickly and, if necessary, how to turn a County Court Judgment into cash, thereby arming you with the weapons to help you successfully combat bad debtors.

Kirkpatrick & Hopes
Most business owners do not understand the information contained in a typical set of accounts. Using a case study, we will explain how you can use the accounts to get a real insight into the state of a business’s financial health so you can assess its creditworthiness and avoid the risks of bad debts and slow payment.

Speakers: John Lennon & Kate Williams of Colemans Solicitors LLP and Pauline Williamson of Kirkpatrick & Hopes

Numbers are strictly limited, so please book ASAP by contacting Clive Hollyer by email at clive.hollyer@colemans.co.uk, by fax on 01628 622 106 or by phone on 01628 631 051.