At AccountingWEB’s recent MTD workshops, BlueHub’s Matt Flanagan has been urging practitioners to take a disciplined approach to moving VAT clients into the new regime.

With just weeks to go, the MTD workload now is all about prioritisation. Setting aside some of the more subtle niceties of accountancy client care, BlueHub managing director Matt Flanagan takes a nuts-and-bolts approach derived from years working as a technology project manager. If you are unaware of some of these disciplines, now is a good time to start paying attention.

As a technologist, Flanagan acknowledges that sometimes the most complex part of the technology equation is the human element. “A lot of change management is about breaking habits,” he said.