We try our best 
This topic may be helpful for your payroll journals:
http://community.quickfile.co.uk/t/how-do-i-enter-payroll-paye-journals-and-entries/53/4?u=qfsupport
As your accountant already does these for you, they should (hopefully) be pretty much straight forward for you
I’ll ask my colleague @Glenn to see if he can advise on the VAT query. As I said, unfortunately it’s not my hot topic