Firm News

The impact of COVID-19 threatens to be felt by the business community long after the current crisis abates and as we grow to understand how the social distancing rules will be relaxed, as business owners - our thoughts turn to how we rebuild our business and what form...

4th January 2021: National lockdown rules apply in England with a simple message to everybody - Stay at home. An outline of the local restrictions, including what that means for businesses, has been published on the government's website.   This page summarises...

The Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (CJRS) has been put into place to assist struggling businesses, allowing the employer to claim for employees that are unable to work because of the coronavirus and put on temporary leave (furlough). The employer can claim 80% of...

Working from home can be a lonely experience and as we waved our colleagues goodbye on lockdown day, armed with our laptops and VPN’s to work remotely, we were determined that along with looking after our clients, we would also need to lookout for our teammates during...

I was speaking with Nick last Friday in a bit of a wrap up on the week. I was telling him about a friend of mine who was using his 3D printer to produce protective face masks to use in local Care Homes where he lived when Nick asked how much such a printer would be....

I have been working from home for almost two weeks now - this is the new front line in accountancy. The government has told us that we must work from home wherever possible and so by far the majority of the partners and staff at Lambert Chapman LLP have moved into...

In these difficult times where income could be reduced, we all need to take personal stock to identify actions we could take to reduce our outgoings whilst we are locked down and possibly furloughed, thereby bringing less into the home than we would expect. The...