Inheritance Tax Calculator

Inheritance Tax Calculator is a free online tool to estimate and calculate inheritance tax payable on an estate. For the 2008/2009 tax year it sums the assets and liabilities of an estates, factors in either the tax free allowance for a single person or a married couple and then estimates the tax payable.

Company Tax Calculator

Company Tax Calculator is a free online tool to calculate company tax and corporation tax. For the 2008/2009 tax year it makes an indicative estimate of the tax charge a company will be liable to pay based on profits chargeable to corporation tax. The calculation involves charging a percentage tax rate to the tax band that the company's profits falls in and applying marginal relief as appropriate.

Income Tax Calculator

Income Tax Calculator is a free online tool to calculate tax on salaries and net wages.

For the 2008/2009 tax year it takes either gross pay on a monthly, weekly or hourly rate and computes the PAYE tax, national insurance contributions and student loan repayments to arrive at the net take home pay.

Net wage is broken down on an annual, monthly and weekly basis.

Review UK Accountants

Accounting Accountants is a resource to review accountancy firms in the United Kingdom. The principal purpose is to assist new business and small business in selecting an accountant for tax advice, financial planning and account management.

When starting a business it is not just a business plan, loan and bank account that need to be in place; an accountant is crucial. From chartered accountants to bookkeepers to auditors, there is a range of professionals available to get the relevant job done.

Financial Terms and Definitions

The glossary concept for Compare Definitions is to source financial, marketing and e-commerce definitions from a variety of glossaries and serve up a range of answers for the definition of a selected word.

Currently there are thousands of words and corresponding defintions stored.

For example the term bond has two altrenative definitions and further similar words and there definitions are suggested such as story stock or bond, granny bonds, passive bond and split coupon bond.

The website is searchable using Google custom search which makes finding suitable financial, marketing and e-commerce defintions easy.

Strengths Weaknesses Opportunities Threats (SWOT)

A SWOT analysis (Strengths Weaknesses Opportunities Threats) is a useful tool to analyse the strategic environment of a company from both an internal and external viewpoint.

Internal analysis
Strengths
The strengths of a business relate to the internal environment, that is strengths specific to the company.

Example: A strength of our company is that, due to its small size, the time taken to implement an idea is quick with no need to obtain approval and authorisation for a project idea and no need to deliberate about project timescales and cost.

Weaknesses
The weaknesses of a business relate to the internal environment, that is the weaknesses specific to the company.

Example: A weakness of our company is that, due to its small size and lack of critical mass, it does not have the manpower to expand the business and develop numerous websites in parallel.

External analysis

Opportunities
The opportunities for a business relate to external conditions out of the company's control.

Example: An opportunity for our company is the continuing trend to increase online Internet advertising spend at the expense of more traditional newspaper and television mediums. This is out of our control and therefore an external factor, however, as our business is driven by online advertising, growth in spend is an opportunity for us to grow.

Threats
The threats to a business relate to external conditions out of the company's control.

Example: A threat to our company is the possibility of a recession and uncertain times. This is an external factor as it out of our control, however, should the economy experience two consecutive quarters of decline (the definition of a recession) then it is likely that companies would be less willing to advertise which would impact our advertising revenues.

Investor Wiki

The Investor Wiki is an investor resource designed as a medium to pool knowledge and research on stocks on the LSE and AIM. Each wiki article page for each share aims to cover the following listed company specific information:

• Company overview
• Key investor drivers
• Risks
• Current share price information
• Porters 5 Forces
• SWOT Analysis

The layout for the above information can be quickly set up using a template, but of course private investor research is not limited to the bounds of the template.

Some of the first articles to be written are:

• Desire Petroleum (DEP)
• Blinkx (BLNX)
• Oxford Biomedica (OXB)
• Petrel Resources (PET)

Accountant Directory

Find UK Accountant is a directory of accountancy firms in the UK organised by county and town.

Accountants may sign up to the service to get their contact details listed in the directory. As well as contact details, accountants may detail further information about the particular services offered such as audit, tax, bookkeeping, personal tax, tax planning and accounts preparation amongst others.

Google maps are also incorporated to highlight office locations. Popular locations are naturally driven by population density with London, Birmingham and Bristol being the cities in the directory that currently have the most accountancy firms registered.

The accountants listed in the directory are members of various accounting bodies including the Institute of Chartered Accountants England and Wales (ICAEW), Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) and Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland (ICAS).