Business & Accounting Services

Our first step is to work with you to gain a full understanding of your business. We then tailor our approach to your requirements so that we can provide exactly the service you need to ensure the continued success of your business.

• Business Start Up
• Bookkeeping & Accounting
• Strategic Planning
• VAT
• Payroll
• Company Formation and Statutory
• Corporate Tax Planning

Business Start-Up

• Do you have a strong business proposition?
• Need some help with the financial, fiscal and legal aspects of running a business?
• Looking for the support of a team of trained experts to help you to succeed?

• Evaluate your business ideas in a constructive and realistic manner;
• Decide on the most suitable structure for your business - sole trader, partnership, or limited company;
• Prepare a business plan, cashflow projections, budgets, and trading forecasts;
• Assess your finance requirements and potential sources of finance;
• Establish a good working relationship with your bank;
• Complete any registration procedures with Companies House, and HM Revenue & Customs; § Deal with company statutory issues;
• Set up a recording system for your internal use and for complying with statutory requirements.

Start your new venture on a sure footing - call us for an initial consultation today.

Bookkeeping & Accounting

• Core bookkeeping;
• Prepare your annual accounts;
• Prepare your management accounts;
• Maintain your VAT records;
• Prepare your company pension fund accounts;
• Take on short term projects to relieve your staff of any temporary overload.

We will discuss your requirements with you and provide you with tailored information and constructive advice on a regular basis.

Strategic Planning

• Making rushed decisions?
• Operating at over- or under-capacity?
• Missing opportunities?

We all know how vital strategic planning is to the long term success of a business but it's easy to get caught up in the day-to-day pressures of keeping the business going.

• Work with you to take the long view and plan ahead;
• Give you the benefit of our years of experience;
• Advise on appropriate courses of action before it is too late;
• Help you to give strategic planning the attention it needs.

VAT

• Are you aware of the ever widening scope of VAT?
• Are you keeping up with the constant stream of detailed changes to the regulations?
• Are you complying with the ever growing demands of HM Revenue & Customs?
• Could you be falling foul of the regulations?
• Could you be paying the Exchequer more than you need to?!

• Assistance with VAT registration;
• Advice on VAT planning and administration;
• Use of the most appropriate scheme;
• VAT control and reconciliation;
• Help with completing VAT returns;
• VAT inspections;
• Planning to minimize future problems with HM Revenue & Customs;
• Negotiating with HM Revenue & Customs in disputes and representing you at VAT tribunals.

Payroll

• Do you find administering your own payroll time consuming and burdensome?
• Is it diverting energy and resources from the core activities of your business?
• Could you be at risk from the growing complexity of taxation and employment legislation and the accompanying regime of penalties for non-compliance?

• Registration with HM Revenue and Customs as an employer;
• Customized payslips;
• Administration of PAYE, national insurance, statutory sick pay, statutory maternity pay, etc;
• Completion of statutory forms, including year end returns, to issue to your employees and submit to HM Revenue and Customs;
• Summaries and analyses of staff costs;
• Administration of incentive schemes, bonuses, and ex-gratia and termination payments;

Company Formation and Statutory

• Are you fully compliant with the new Companies Act?
• Are you aware of how the changes affect you and your fellow directors?
• Are you wasting valuable time and resources trying to comply?

• Company formations
• Preparation and filing of statutory returns
• Preparation of all documentation related to minutes and resolutions
• Maintenance of statutory books
• General advice on company law and the new Companies Act

Corporate Tax Planning

Corporation tax represents a substantial part of your trading costs! With increased reporting obligations, more robust investigation policies on the part of the tax authorities, and harsher penalties for non-compliance, you could be spending an undue amount of your time and resources collecting revenue for the Government.

• Determining the most tax effective structure for your business
• Taking full advantage of tax opportunities and relief's
• Achieving the optimum capital or revenue tax treatment
• Reducing tax on disposals and maximizing relief on acquisitions
• Making the most of tax opportunities specific to your industry
• Meeting the rigorous demands of compliance including corporation tax self assessment
• Acting on your behalf in discussions with the tax authorities
• Tax enquiries (and related tax enquiry insurance)
• Efficient corporate tax planning can result in potentially significant improvements in your bottom line.

• Preparing Financial Statements;
• Company Formation & Statutory;
• Tax Enquiries/Investigations;
• Management Consulting;
• Raising finance.

Personal Tax Planning

As an individual your needs will change over time. We recognise that:

• Every pound of income tax you save means more income at your disposal;
• Every well planned disposal of assets means minimal loss of capital gains proceeds;
• Every inheritance tax saving means more available for your beneficiaries.

Make sure you take full advantage of the tax saving opportunities open to you read more...

Self assessment

• Is 'self assessment' proving to be more complicated than you thought?
• Are you keeping up with the constant stream of changes to tax legislation?
• Do you find tax return forms are becoming more and more difficult to understand?
• Are you risking penalties by failing to complete your returns accurately or on time?