An overview of what the Practice Excellence Programme is and a preview of what the MD of conference sponsor Xero will be discussing.

AccountingWEB's latest fortnightly podcast. Discussed this week is HMRC's direct recovery powers, the future of working together groups and our business planning series, complete with tips.

Aweb deputy editor Rob, community editor Rach and Anne Fairpo present the first ever Awebcast. On the agenda today: Icebreaker tax avoidance case, real time information reconciliations and an auto enrolment update, with some information about a mysterious phishing email targeting accountants from 'Julia'.

MD Howard Jackson tells AccountingWEB that he's optimistic for the future.