Accountancy

By providing a full accounting, bookkeeping and VAT compliance service, we are able to assist our clients to comply with their financial and taxation obligations in a timely and cost effective manner.

We can prepare tailor-made financial analyses to help you, as the business owner or manager, eliminate inefficiencies and realising a business’s full profit potential. We can also assist in reviewing your information reporting requirements, and advise on and assist with setting up of appropriate accounting systems at your offices, where we believe it will assist you.

But we don’t stop there. We can also provide you with regular management accounts to keep you informed on essential areas such as:

• Cashflow
• Profitability
• Performance ratios
• Customer activity
• Credit control
• Budget comparisons

Audit

The annual audit report is an opportunity to enhance your external image. A well-prepared report can have a considerable positive impact on the perceptions of investors, potential finance sources, customers, and prospects among others.

We believe that an audit represents far more than a statutory business obligation: it provides the opportunity to conduct a detailed “health-check” on your business, to pinpoint any potential areas of weakness and to suggest new opportunities for improved profitability and business efficiency. Our approach to audit is to provide users of the financial statements not only with an assurance that the accounts are not materially misstated but also to give a proactive service in recommending improvements to systems or performance factors.

Our audit techniques are designed to be cost-effective and to ensure that all legislative requirements are efficiently dealt with. We are aware that timely information is essential for decision making and therefore plan to carry out each audit as soon after the year end as practical.

Tax consultancy

We provide the following specialist consultancy services:

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

VAT & Payroll compliance

The prospect of a VAT inspection can be very worrying for businesses, if the basics have not been done correctly. HMR&C Inspectors are tasked with visiting each VAT registered business every five years or so. So, the prospect of a VAT inspection is not so much IF, but WHEN? For us, such visits are routine and we make sure the basics are right if we do your bookkeeping.

We can assist you with your VAT compliance beginning with ascertaining the optimal time for registration for VAT, registering your business and obtaining a VAT number, and preparing your VAT returns.

We provide an efficient cost effective VAT service, which includes:

• 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
• Planning to minimise future problems with Customs and Excise
• Negotiating with Customs and Excise in disputes and representing you at VAT tribunals

PAYE compliance

Operating a payroll system is often time consuming, expensive and a headache keeping up to date with the ever changing legislation.

We can take this ever increasing burden off your shoulders, allowing you and your work-force to concentrate on building a successful business.

We offer comprehensive secure online payroll preparation and reporting services, including preparing end of year Forms PIID and P35 returns.

We can also assist you in dealing with employer compliance reviews undertaken by H M Revenue & Customs and negotiating any subsequent settlements.

Business Advisory

As accountants experienced in working with growing enterprises, we understand that good quality management information is crucial to the successful running of your business, whether you are just starting out, getting ready to expand or thinking about moving on.

We understand that you need business advisory services that present information in a straightforward way to help you to identify your goals and the tools you need to achieve them.

We will use our accountancy expertise to provide independent, expert advice, to help you look at your business with fresh eyes and develop a strategy focused on maintaining your competitive edge and building for the future.

We can advise businesses on:

• preparation of cashflow forecasts for internal management use or for the purposes of discussions with their bankers
• review of existing accounting systems or implementation of new computerised accounting systems

Company secretarial

We can take away the burden and provide a comprehensive administrative service designed to ensure compliance with statutory obligations in this important area.

We will help you avoid the risk of penalties without having to devote excessive time to complete procedures and formalities.

We can assist in setting up of new companies or changing existing company names, preparation and filing of statutory returns, maintenance of statutory books, minutes, resolutions, etc. We can also provide you with a registered office address facility, if required.

IT implementation

For larger businesses we provide a completely independent IT advisory service to help you maximise the return on your investment in IT.

We work in partnership with our customers to help them utilise emerging IT technologies to drive their business forward in a cost-effective, secure and reliable manner.

Without considerable thought and research, IT can often be both daunting and unpredictable producing undesirable effects on your business. Therefore we continually work behind the scenes on your behalf with established hardware and software vendors to produce a working solution first time.

We are experienced in assisting companies with their IT strategy as the relationship between business strategy and IT strategy plays a fundamental role in almost every aspect of a successful business.