On this week's podcast Jo Wood and Zoe Whitman were joined by Rachel Allen, business coach, qualified accountant and business owner.

Rachel is on a mission to help female entrepreneurs to understand and speak the language of money fluently. Her unique combination of coaching, teaching and mentoring will help you to get on top of your accounts, to address those mind monkeys that can really hold you back and prepare you to grow you business up to and way beyond the VAT threshold.

Rachel lives in sunny Norfolk with her husband and two wonderful daughters. She has run a manufacturing business for the last 16+ years and been qualified as a chartered accountant for over 20 years. She is a self confessed numbers and spreadsheet geek but she also loves running, singing and drinking gin - not necessarily in that order.

They discussed 'How Bookkeepers' can push through the VAT threshold with confidence.'

The basics and what the standard threshold is What the benefits are of registering for VAT How we manage conversations with our clients about adding VAT to our pricing Techniques can we implement in order to get through the VAT threshold, ie VAT schemes What mindset we need to have in order to prepare Using Cash accounting or Standard accounting *Rachel's advice on people holding themselves back from breaking the threshold as they are scared to do so

You can connect with Rachel: Search for Rachel Allen Coaching on Facebook Her website is : http://rachelallencoaching.co.uk/

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