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		<title>We&#8217;re just not cricketers!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last Friday Duncan, Alex and Gemma from Riley joined with Matt, Craig and Mark from Nash &#38; Co, Solicitors, to make up the Rash team for the Plymouth Professionals Cricket Tournament run by Begbies Traynor and Edward Symons.
The plucky but slightly makeshift team took on teams of cricketers from LloydsTSB, Clydesdale Bank, Bond Pearce, Begbies/Edward Symons and the eventual winners, Wolferstans to play at Plymstock Cricket Club.
Neither Alex nor Gemma had ever played cricket before but threw themselves into batting, bowling and wicket keeping (Alex) with gusto. Gemma won two prizes &#8211; ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.rileycom.co.uk/cms/?p=444</link>
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		<title>Distance no object</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve just finished a webinar with a guy in Australia. An hour of screen demo and chat through my desktop. Nothing new there you might think but there was an interesting generational moment this morning at breakfast.
We were all discussing what we were doing today and (for once) the kids were quite animated as it&#8217;s the first day of the summer holidays &#8211; there was surfing for one and a friends for the day for the other. My turn came and I mentioned that I had to be in the ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.rileycom.co.uk/cms/?p=440</link>
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		<title>The Blue Mile</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A team from Riley competed in the Blue Mile, Race for the Environment from the Mayflower Steps on Plymouth&#8217;s Barbican on Saturday 3 July. The weather was fantastic for the first running of the Blue Mile, designed to raise awareness of our water environment and to encourage mass participation in events based on and around the water.
There were three competitive events on the first day of the weekend, a mile open-water swim, single/double kayak and stand-up paddleboard. The swim was the most competitive event with nearly 150 swimmers in three ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.rileycom.co.uk/cms/?p=425</link>
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		<title>&#8220;We&#8217;re all in this together&#8221; &#8211; Riley Budget summary 2010 &#8211; Part 2!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The first thing that struck me about yesterday&#8217;s budget speech was the ties. The shimmery bluey-green of Osbourne&#8217;s effort and the blue and yellow of Cameron and Clegg. Wow, what a change from the normal dull red efforts that we have seen for the past 13 years. Perhaps the fashionista broom really does sweep clean. But how would the coalition policy broom do?
Well, what the Chancellor had to do was to persuade all of us that the epic reconstruction job that he has started on the UK economy was worthwhile ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.rileycom.co.uk/cms/?p=420</link>
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		<title>Get offa my cloud</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The buzz in accounting software at the moment is about the &#8220;cloud&#8221;. Actually, it&#8217;s not just in accounting software, it&#8217;s about all software.
There are many terms being bandied about but the most common seems to be &#8220;cloud-based&#8221; and &#8220;software as a service&#8221; or SaaS as it&#8217;s known. What it means is that instead of software being resident on your PC or network server, you use software which is stored elsewhere through your internet connection. This has been made possible because of the increase in speed and reliability of internet connections ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.rileycom.co.uk/cms/?p=417</link>
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		<title>Capital Gains Tax &#8211; time for a new &#8220;kink test&#8221;?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Our last blog entry about the possible changes in tax rates and targets for the &#8220;Emergency&#8221; budget on 22 June caused more calls to the office than any other we have written.  Was the cause of those calls the possible rise in VAT to say 20%? Perhaps the dropped promise on IHT? The confusion on NIC changes? No, the possible increase in Capital Gains Tax (CGT) has been the over-riding issue.  And rightly so if the commentators are to be believed.
The rumours are that the new government is planning to ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.rileycom.co.uk/cms/?p=406</link>
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		<title>New Government, new tax rumours&#8230;&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Since the politicking has ceased (momentarily) and we now know the shape of our new Government, we also know a bit more about how the coalition views the tax regime and therefore the possible changes to tax policy that may be included in the emergency Budget within 50 days. 
These might include:

A substantial increase in the rate of capital gains tax on non-business assets to marginal rates of tax which could therefore be 40% or 50% rather than 18%. Apparently, there will be &#8220;generous exceptions for entrepreneurial activities&#8221;.
A large increase in ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.rileycom.co.uk/cms/?p=396</link>
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		<title>Micro or Macro &#8211; it&#8217;s all the same to the rumour mill.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This article in the Independent this morning made me think;
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/world-markets-tumble-as-contagion-fears-take-hold-1962463.html.
I always find it amazing how rumours spread through our local business community &#8211; only this morning I was breathlessly told by two people that one of our clients had &#8220;gone bust&#8221;. In fact I had met with them very recently to conclude some interesting planning work and knew that they were in rude financial health. I called anyway to see if they knew that the rumours were rife &#8211; they did, and in fact could identify the source with some ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.rileycom.co.uk/cms/?p=387</link>
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		<title>A day in the life of&#8230;.Val</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This article first appeared in Chamberlink&#8230;..
6am
I get up, breakfast and help my husband get the children ready for school. This morning involves a complicated hair do for my 8 year old daughter (not so much complicated, actually I am just rubbish at doing hair!) and my 5 year old son is ‘not happy with Mummy’ for some reason or other – nothing new there.
8am
As myself (@valdoyle) and Riley (@rileycom) are Twitterers and generally into social media as a whole, I have a quick look on Tweetdeck to see if we ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.rileycom.co.uk/cms/?p=376</link>
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		<title>So it&#8217;s goodbye from me&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After 39 years in accountancy of which 27 years have been spent at Riley, today is my last day: I&#8217;m off to do exactly what I want to do. As long as my wife will allow it, of course.
I started acounting shortly after my eighteenth birthday and have worked for just 4 firms: Neville Russell (now Mazars) and Price Waterhouse (now PwC), both in London; Nevill Hovey in Plymouth (that didn&#8217;t last long!) and Riley. At the outset I had little idea of what the job would entail and I&#8217;m ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.rileycom.co.uk/cms/?p=368</link>
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