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BASDA AGM - joint event with Sift Software Satisfaction Awards briefing seminar 28th April - “How can the business software industry survive the downturn"
This year’s BASDA AGM, sponsored by Sift Media, is combined with a full afternoon of topical sessions focused on ideas and initiatives to help your business survive in a downturn.
Speakers will share their insights and experience and there is ample opportunity to ask questions during the sessions as well as at the networking event following the AGM.
We know your time is precious and hope you will join us for an informative and through-provoking afternoon.
To register for the event, please email Lynne Wallis
See full agenda >>
Call for Nominations for General Council
We currently have 3 vacancies on the General Council due to members leaving their organisations - Alan Snell (KCS), Linsday Gasser (Infor) and Kathyne Jobling (Pegasus).
If you would like to stand for a place on the BASDA General Council, you should provide a 50 word précis of your personal and company background. The BASDA General Council meets 4 times a year plus the AGM. Elected members are usually Senior Managers of full members who can make decisions on their Company's behalf.
Current General Council members:
- Jairo Rojas, BASDA Director General
- Kevin Hart, BASDA Chairman (Sage)
- Kevin Misselbrook (Access)
- Peter Robertshaw (Strategic Thought Group)
- John Crooks (Agresso)
- Peter Prater (Qtac)
- David Forbes (Forbes Computer Systems)
- Richard Anning (COA Solutions)
- Eilert Hanoa (Mamut)
- Juan Anido (Microsoft)
- Howard Turvey (Proteus)
We are looking for General Council members to represent all sizes and types of organisation.
Please submit nominations to Jairo Rojas .
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BASDA Members' Green Solutions Showcase
Our new web page enables members to showcase their Green solutions and demonstrate their commitment to the BASDA Green Charter.
>>Link to BASDA Members' Green Solutions Showcase
Solutions included all have dedicated green solutions areas on their own websites.
To have your solutions showcased on the BASDA website, please email details to BASDA Marketing .
Have you signed up for the Green Charter yet?
Is your company prepared to take advantage of the momentum building around business software being a unique contributor in helping the UK and EC reach their targets for carbon emission reduction?
If not, your organisation will lose business opportunities next year and beyond as momentum builds around the green agenda and EC legislation solidifies.
Your customers and potential customers will need to demonstrate their green credentials to their own client base and, therefore, will be investing in software that can help them achieve their green objectives now and in the future.
The BASDA Green Charter is becoming increasingly accepted as the European indicator of green commitment from software suppliers - all BASDA members can take the opportunity to get on board.
BASDA Green Charter >>
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BASDA raises voice of the business software industry at external events
BASDA has been invited to speak at the EC High Level event on ICT for Energy Efficiency on 19th March 2009 in Brussels. The BASDA Green Charter is recognised at EC level as one of the initiatives within Europe beginning to bring together public, private and voluntary sector organisations in various partnership arrangements, which aim at maximising the effectiveness of ICTs in contributing to the 2020 targets. Viviane Reding, the EC commissioner for information society and media, has recommended that other industries should follow the BASDA example.
Peter Robertshaw, joint Chair of the BASDA Green SIG, will be chairing a session on "Gathering Information and Creating Awareness".
See further event information >>
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"Investing in the UK": Following an invitation from AFDEL (BASDA's equivalent in France) to provide a member speaker, Coda's David Turner is to present at their event in Paris on 24th March 2009 in association with UK government department for Trade & Investment (UKTI).
AFDEL website >>
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Green IT: the Impact on Business in a Future Low-Carbon Economy
Following his presentation to the Shared Services & Outsourcing Summit 2009 in London in February, Jairo Rojas of BASDA speaks with SSON's Jamie Liddell about the ways in which green issues and the drive to sustainability will affect business practices in a changing world.
Listen to Podcast >>
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Financial SIG Update
PAS 76 Is Dead !
After 4 years of discussions, consultation and debate, PAS 76 has finally been buried by HMRC (in a small ceremony and an unmarked grave !). PAS 76 was the ill-fated VAT Accounting standard that HMRC tried to enforce upon the software industry. After superficial consultation the Publicly Available Specification (PAS) was published by the BSI in 2006. It was a poorly constructed document, inherently flawed, and failed to get support from BASDA or the industry. The initial iteration of the document not only advised on “Best Practice” but also dictated to the software vendors how this would be executed within the software. BASDA brought HMRC back to the consultation table in order to work towards an improved standard and to ensure that HMRC could justify the value that the standard would bring to business. Although work continued, and significant progress was made, in the end HMRC were unable to provide a compelling value proposition for UK businesses. They were also challenged by the lack of an acceptable and economic method of encrypting customers data, intended for submission to HMRC. We are sure that there will be many Product Managers who will now be heaving a huge sigh of relief at not having to accommodate more regulatory changes within their product roadmaps.
Change to VAT Place of Supply Rules on Intra-EU Services
BASDA has been working on your behalf to ensure that the views of our industry are represented within a consultation that HMRC are hosting on these significant proposals. The changes will mean that if a customer provides or receives services within the EU, that the taxable status of these services will be determined by the country in which they were delivered. Effectively a reverse charge tax will need to be accounted for and there will be changes to EC Sales Lists, tax documents, and some complex rules in determining the tax point dates. Our thanks go the working party of BASDA members that assembled in London to bring their collective knowledge to bear on this issue. The results of the work and the submission to HMRC can be seen on the BASDA forum from this link >>
Treasury Proposes Major Changes to Accounts and CT Filing for Small Businesses
HM Treasury have produced a discussion document looks at the burden of filing both statutory accounts and accounts adjusted for Corporation Tax, and the ways in which there might be “simplification” of these filing requirements. The document tables some radical ideas to reduce the burden on the smaller businesses. These include incorporating the tax calculation requirements into a single new accounts filing standard, or the suggestion of applying CT calculations on cash flow rather than full accruals accounting.
The proposals would not only have an impact on CT software vendors, but also a potential impact on the production of statutory accounts. The suggestion that CT becomes based on cash flow would also change the demands on commercial accounting. Further details on this topic can be found on the BASDA Forum link >>
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HMRC - VAT 100 Filing for Free
HMRC has published the specification of functionality that they propose to include as part of their free web filing service. Should a sufficient and sustainable number of commercial vendors step forward to enter this market (and provide such functionality for free), then HMRC will consider withdrawing their own offerings.
Please find, on the URL below, a discussion document from HMRC's Steering Group on which our BASDA Chairman, Kevin Hart, sits.
BASDA Forum link >>
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New Members Update
PostDox Limited provide solutions that manage electronic invoice transfer between companies of all sizes making the process far simpler to manage, less prone to errors, cheaper and greener.
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Arithmo Accounting Solutions Ltd provide an online accounting software system and bookkeeping solution for small businesses, accountants, individuals and home-based users.
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BASDA in the News
Links to Recent BASDA press coverage:
Sustainable strategies – Peter Robertshaw on why developing a green strategy is vital to your business (Accountancy Age) >>
The Great debate – Accountants and the Environment
Contributions from Jairo Rojas and BASDA members on AccountingWEB >>
UK software industry secures green boost - French software body AFDEL throws weight behind BASDA's green charter >>
Big employers gear up for online P45 and P46 switch in April. Comment on HRzone from Andrew Dove, Chair of HR & Payroll SIG >>
Watch for fraud with new plain paper P45s. Comment from Andrew Dove, Chair of HR & Payroll SIG >>
Digital Britain: New Carter plan for high speed internet overhal - comment from BASDA Chairman, Kevin Hart >>
Link to News on BASDA website >>
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