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    Whats your opinion on Women Only Business Sites

    Surely the question of discrimination on a site depends on exclusion. If it's a site dealing primarily with womens' interests and issues (business-wise) then provided it doesn't actually bar men from participating and contributing, it's neither sexist nor discriminatory. If it says "Go away, men...
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    Gifts for staff

    We normally have around 30 people, depending who's on-site at the time. Over the last few years it's become a tradition that whoever has a birthday brings cakes to share around. This varies from a job-lot of jammy doughnuts from the local supermarket to big chunky home-made chocolate cakes. This...
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    Sexism is Alive and Well and living in . . .

    Now there's a point worth considering, thanks. I should be more careful with my loose phrasing. On the other hand, I'm a professional engineer, not a professional copywriter and I didn't put it in a nice expensive mailshot. I have to say that the rest of the mailshot was pretty good, it's just...
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    Sexism is Alive and Well and living in . . .

    That's not exactly either helpful or polite - positively patronising, I'd say. As an engineer working in a predominantly male-oriented environment I got over being personally offended by things like this about 40 years ago. I'm just surprised that a fairly prestigious and long-established...
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    Sexism is Alive and Well and living in . . .

    I'd expect "Dear Sir/Madam". Normal business practice I'd have thought.
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    Sexism is Alive and Well and living in . . .

    I've received a letter promoting business finance from a moderately well-known company. It was addressed to: Managing Director, XXX Ltd, and it started with "Dear Sir Are you waiting for business funding?" Honestly, I didn't think this sort of thing would even have got past initial...
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    Working From Home: Can you trust yourself/others?

    I've been working from home alternate months for a few years now. My company acknowledge that I actually get through more work than when I'm in the office with all the distractions. I'm on line almost all the time, so pick up Skype & emails as necessary, have a company VoIP phone, so conf calls...
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    Stuck on CT600 'Adjustments' page

    It was like that last year as well?? I gave up last year before I got that far. I found the same issue with a few more fields on a subsequent screen. Software testing's what I do for a living, but as a user, it stopped me dead because it never occurred to me that anyone would leave such an...
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    Stuck on CT600 'Adjustments' page

    Well waddya know, so it does. Now that's definitely a bug, it shouldn't allow blank entries in any field, never mind actually needing a blank entry. Bug status just went down from 'Blocking' to 'Minor', though. Thanks very much. Pamela
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    Stuck on CT600 'Adjustments' page

    Thanks Don, it's nice to know I'm not alone, and the fact that you have the same problem suggests that it might be a known issue. Pamela
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    Stuck on CT600 'Adjustments' page

    Just to clarify what I did, and in case anyone else is having the same difficulties. After you reminded me that I'd put the stock write-down in the wrong place, I made the following corrections: a) Included the write-down value in Cost Of Sales b) Reset the 'Loss on disposals' figure to £0.00...
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    Stuck on CT600 'Adjustments' page

    Many thanks for that quick reply. Yes, that makes sense, however, I still get the error, even with £0.00 in both the CP51 and CP57 boxes. I've tried going back and re-saving each page in turn, but that doesn't make any difference. I don't really need to use their computations, it's a very simple...
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    Stuck on CT600 'Adjustments' page

    I'm a small company with simple accounts and I've successfully submitted my Annual Returns and Corporation Tax Return for about 15 years now. Last year, I tried hard to do my Corporation Tax on line, but eventually gave up and submitted on paper. This year I've got to do it on line, but I can't...
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