Our Services
We provide a range of consultancy and accountancy services that allow us to work closely with you to ensure that you, and your business, succeed. Get in touch, and once we have established your needs, we will give you a guaranteed fully inclusive price from the start.
Accountancy Services
We offer a number of accountancy services that can be adapted and packaged according to your needs and the size of your business. We take care of everything from payroll to tax assessments so that you can focus on your business.
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For businesses that don’t have their own internal bookkeepers or accountants, we can take care of all your bookkeeping and accounting needs.
This ranges from making use of our in-house bookkeeping bureau to the preparation of your annual accounts. Besides the core bookkeeping, we can also maintain your VAT records and provide you with management reports which will be designed to help you run your business.
We are Sage Accountants Club Members and can supply software and hardware including Xero and QuickBooks.
We treat every business individually so that we can tailor our approach to your needs.
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Limited companies are required to prepare accounts that must be filed with Companies House in a statutory format. We’ll help you by preparing your statutory accounts and filing them with Companies House so you can concentrate on your business.
Although this normally just fulfils a regulatory requirement, we add value to the process by using the accounts to complete a financial performance review.
A review of your business will tell you how you are doing, benchmarking your business performance in the form of a report which includes:
• Graphs and charts illustrating how your business has performed this year
• Ratio analysis to highlight areas of strength and weakness
• Details advising you which areas of the business can be improved -
Corporate and business tax are a substantial cost to any profitable business, not only in terms of the tax itself but also in compliance with reporting obligations, investigations with tax authorities and penalties for non-compliance. Our experienced team of tax experts will help you with all the main areas of taxation in relation to running your business.
We help you minimise your corporation tax payments to make sure you don’t pay more than your fair share, and relieve you of any administrative burden of complying with tax legislation.
We deal with all business tax matters, including preparing income and corporation tax computations and preparing and submitting your sole trader, partnership tax, corporation tax or self-assessment return.
Making Tax DigitalMaking Tax Digital (MTD) is a key part of the government’s plans to make it easier for individuals and businesses to get their tax right, and keep on top of their affairs.
MTD is making fundamental changes to the way the tax system works – transforming tax administration so that it is:
• more effective
• more efficient
• easier for taxpayers to get their tax rightFrom 1 April 2019, VAT-registered businesses are now required to use the Making Tax Digital service to keep records digitally and use software to submit their VAT Returns.
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Running your own payroll can be time consuming and complicated, particularly with the ever increasing complexity of taxation and employment legislation.
We can prepare payrolls for businesses with 2 to 200 employees.
Our service is comprehensive and confidential and includes:
• CIS administration
• Computer generated payslips
• Administration of PAYE, national insurance, statutory sick pay, statutory maternity pay
• Completion of statutory forms
• Summaries and analysis of staff costsWe can help you set up your Auto-Enrolment pension scheme and carry out the monthly administration.
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When running a hectic business you cannot afford to use valuable time making sure you are complying with the Companies Act. However you do need to be aware how this legislation affects your company and its directors. We can help by carrying out the company secretarial duties for you.
Our services include:
• Company formations
• Preparation and filing of statutory returns
• Preparation of all documentation such as minutes and resolutions
• Maintenance of statutory books
• General advice on company law
• Carry out registration with Companies House, Inland Revenue or Customs and Excise
Business Consultancy Services
We’re invested in helping companies achieve their goals and thrive. We provide a range of business consultancy services to ensure that you stay on the path to success through careful and considered financial decisions.
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Every business must plan ahead in order to ensure success, but it is too easy to succumb to the daily pressures of work and delay or ignore strategic planning.
We are well placed to help you develop a long-term plan, starting with what you want to achieve from your investment and what your reasons for being in business are. With our considerable pool of experience and expertise to draw on, we’ll help you achieve these objectives.
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Most people who start up in business do so because they have a good business proposition, not because they are experts in the financial aspects of running a business. These factors can often be quite daunting to the entrepreneur and this is where we can help by evaluating your ideas and helping you develop them into a feasible business.
We can also help you:
• decide on the most suitable structure for your business (i.e. sole trader, partnership or limited company)
• prepare a business plan, cashflow projections, budgets and trading forecasts to prove the financial viability of your ideas and demonstrate this to the bank / potential investors
• assess your finance requirements and access the most appropriate source of finance
• help you establish relationships with banks, solicitors, etc via our well established network of contacts
• carry out registration procedures with Companies House, Inland Revenue or Customs and Excise
• set up an internal accounting system which complies with statutory requirements -
There are a number of reasons to monitor the health of your business, but whether you’re preparing for expansion or sale, it’s important to understand the financial viability of your operation so you can make informed decisions.
We will carry out a financial performance review of your business. This will be in the form of a detailed report which includes:
• graphs and charts illustrating how your business has performed this year
• ratio analysis to highlight areas of strength and weakness
• detailed commentary advising you which areas of the business can be improved