press releases

Cassons' Quiz Queen's TV triumph

Friday 30 April 2010
A business support manager from Burnley scooped £5,285 on a TV game show on Thursday (29th April). Joanne Halsall, who works at the Haslingden office of award-winning accountancy firm Cassons, won the cash on ITV’s popular daytime quiz Divided.

Initial comment on today's budget

Wednesday 24 March 2010
Was Alistair Darling’s Budget speech really a Budget speech or pre-electioneering politics? As always, the small print in the Budget press releases will contain the detail. But this was certainly presented as a “Budget for recovery”. A £2.5 billion fund to assist small business innovation and to fund key skills is the headline grabber, funded partly by the £2 billion “payback tax” received this year on bank bonuses.

Planning for maternity leave

Wednesday 24 March 2010
Many businesses, particularly small businesses, fear the prospect of staff taking maternity and paternity leave, but it needn’t be too problematic.

Pensions? What’s the problem?

Friday 5 February 2010
Ashley Hayman wrote an article explaining the pensions minefield for the Money Matters supplement of the November edition of Counsel magazine. The attached article is reproduced with the kind consent of Counsel magazine.

HMRC clampdown on barristers

Friday 5 February 2010
You may have seen recent press coverage regarding a possible clampdown by HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) on barristers. We understand that a specialist unit has in fact been set up by HMRC to conduct investigations into barristers’ tax affairs because it has identified barristers as having poor record keeping generally and inaccurate tax returns.

Cassons named Accountancy Firm of the Year

Thursday 3 December 2009
A Lancashire based firm of accountants is celebrating after being named Accountancy Firm of the Year at a prestigious awards ceremony. Cassons chartered accountants and business advisers scooped the top accolade at the event held by the North West Society of Chartered Accountants.

Society dinner raises £1,251.50 for Bolton Hospice

Wednesday 21 October 2009
A glamorous dinner for accountants in Bolton has been hailed a resounding success by everyone who attended. Guests at the Bolton Society of Chartered Accountants Annual Dinner – held at the Reebok Stadium on Thursday (October 15) – enjoyed an entertainment-packed evening courtesy of comedian Dave Wolfe and the Bolton Youth Clarinet Quintet.

Time to take a break - from holidays! Les Nutter writes Renato's column!

Tuesday 20 October 2009
Managing Partner Les Nutter was invited to guest write Renato’s column for Lancashire Business View in July 2009. He shares his somewhat quirky views on holidays! Reproduced with the kind permission of Lancashire Business View!

Les Nutter is named Managing Partner of the Year!

Tuesday 20 October 2009
Les Nutter, of Cassons accountants and business advisers, has been named Managing Partner of the Year by the 2020 Group

Funding your children through university

Thursday 20 August 2009
Every parent wants to give their children the best possible start in life - but the prospect of funding a child's university education can be daunting. Steven Greenwood offers some advice.