Jon Cooper

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Filing with HMRC and Companies House is changing: here’s what you must do

If you’re a finance professional in the UK, you’ve no doubt heard that big changes are on the way when it comes to filing with Companies House and HMRC. But how will these changes affect your work, and how much do you need to prepare? To find out more, I…

Jon Cooper | 16th January 2026 | 4 min read

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Bracing for impact – how finance professionals must prepare for FRS 102’s lease amendments

It’s slipped under most people’s radars, but we underestimate January’s changes to FRS 102 at our peril. The changes are significant, and getting lease accounting wrong can have serious repercussions. This includes possible audit failures, misstatements, poor financial decisions, covenant breaches, reputational risk and business-halting inefficiencies. So, how much progress…

Jon Cooper | 6th January 2026 | 7 min read

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AI and other fantastic upgrades – a year of IRIS Elements

IRIS has one goal, which is to make life easier for you – and in the last year, our product teams have delivered. The secret? A wealth of extra functionality, including AI anomaly detection. Consider, for example, our cloud accounting solution IRIS Elements. This platform now does even more of…

Jon Cooper | 10th December 2025 | 4 min read

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Onwards and (hopefully) upwards: why succession planning is crucial for accountants

In your push towards greater success, it’s empty chairs – of all things – that cause the worst nightmares. I’m talking, specifically, about the chairs where someone critical sat. The type of person you relied on day in, day out. The face that became part of every “good morning” until…

Jon Cooper | 18th November 2025 | 7 min read

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Server shock – what happens when you don’t have a proper plan for your data

In this article, Jon Cooper describes the chaos that can be unleashed if you don't have a plan to connect and back up client information. He also explains what you can do to help prevent such nightmare scenarios. It’s never a good sign when everything goes quiet. But the whirring…

Jon Cooper | 5th November 2025 | 7 min read