Business Services

Audit and Assurance

By understanding your company and how it operates and also developing a relationship with all levels of your team, we aim to sign off audited accounts within three months of the year end. The systems and procedures we have developed ensure that not only can we offer incredibly competitive compliance fees, but also that we add value to what can often be seen as simply a necessity.

Annual Accounts

Our basic objectives in accounts preparation are to identify areas where we can assist in minimising your tax liability and to ensure that the accounts are compliant with all the statutory regulations. However, we recognise that the process of preparing the accounts can give a massive insight to your business. This in turn allows us to tailor our advice and recommendations to you and your business and is a key part of us helping you reach your goals.

Management Accounts and Reports

Up to date relevant financial information is an absolute essential requirement whatever your size of business. As part of our management services function, we establish the Key Performance Indicators that really matter to your business and establish systems to produce that information in a timely manner. Having access to this information and more importantly understanding what it means to your business is crucial for effective strategic decision making.

Benchmarking Review

We benchmark your business against other businesses in the same industry to see how you are doing compared to your competitors. We then work through the detailed report with you and come up with an action plan to help you to achieve greater results. After all, if your competitors can do it – so can you.

Cashflows, Budgets and Forecasts

We work with you to look at your projected income and costs and prepare a detailed cash flow and profit and loss forecast. This allows you to know well in advance whether you need additional support from your bank and also prepares you for the fluctuations that happen naturally as part of running a business.

Bookkeeping and VAT returns

Let’s face it. If you’d wanted to be a bookkeeper, then that’s what you’d be doing. Our management services team provide bookkeeping services for a wide variety of clients, both on and off site. This frees you up to either concentrate on growing and developing your business, or to simply reclaim some valuable time.

Accounting Systems Installation and Training

Our Management Services Team is experienced in a wide variety of accounting software packages. Our flexible training approach ensures that you learn at the right pace for you. Over a period we work with your team to get them to a point where they can prepare regular management information to help you make the decisions you need.

Accounting System Review

Has your accountant ever explained that the reason their fee is higher than anticipated is that your records weren’t good enough? It’s a common situation.But have they ever undertaken a thorough review of your systems to identify areas where you can improve your systems? We provide a free basic review for every one of our clients, on an annual basis. The full review includes a detailed report, recommendations and support in actually implementing the changes.

VAT Healthcheck

Even innocent mistakes can lead to interest and penalties following an investigation into your VAT affairs. We carry out a detailed review of your VAT records to ensure that you are complying with current legislation. The review includes a detailed report and recommendations to give you peace of mind and help minimise your risk.

Payroll Bureau

Payroll is not only a complicated area, but is also one of the most important responsibilities of an employer. Our payroll bureau allows you to outsource your entire payroll function into our capable hands.

PAYE/NIC Healthcheck

Minimise your risk of interest and penalties by investing in our PAYE/NIC Healthcheck. We undertake a detailed review of your payroll records to ensure that you are complying with current legislation. The review includes a detailed report and recommendations to give you peace of mind.

Company Formation

The first part of our company formation service is to identify whether being incorporated is the right option for you. From there on we deal with the entire process for you including registering with all necessary authorities. We’ve even been known to come up with some very creative company names at times!

Company Secretarial Service

One of the downsides of running a limited company is the administrative burden. Ensuring you keep up to date with the Companies Act and don’t fall foul of the legislation can be time consuming, and quite frankly, boring. Our company secretarial service removes the headache of maintaining your company register and share register, preparing statutory forms (including your Annual Return) and filing resolutions where necessary.

Corporate Tax Planning

As well as having specialists with years of experience in business tax planning, we also have access to tools, strategies and other resources that let us show you ways that you can legitimately reduce your corporation tax bills. Like all planning, it is far more effective if done prior to your year end. But don’t worry, we contact you to remind you when it’s due.

Taxability

TaxAbility is a unique tax saving checklist that probes all areas of your business and personal tax affairs. The TaxAbility checklist consists of 70 powerful ideas that could shave many pounds – maybe even thousands of pounds – off your tax bill.

HMRC Enquiries and Investigations

H M Revenue and Customs can choose to enquire into the way your business operates on a random basis. There is no way of protecting yourself from this as the selection process is random. Currently an average investigation lasts for 10 months. By allowing our experts to deal with the enquiries on your behalf, we can vastly reduce this time – meaning fewer sleepless nights for you! In addition, we provide a fee protection insurance service – which covers you in the event of a full enquiry.

Corporate Finance

Our corporate finance function covers a wide range of services including all aspects of buying and selling businesses. Coupled with our strong links to banks, finance companies, and legal advisors we have developed a truly unique service.

Business Plans

Business Plans are often needed when applying for finance (particularly from banks). We work with you to produce an effective plan that makes sense. By utilising the connections we have with banks and lending companies we can establish exactly what it is that lenders are looking for.

But don’t forget business plans have another important role to play. It has been proven that businesses with a written plan are far more likely to achieve their goals than one without.

Business Valuations

There are many reasons why a business valuation might be needed, including:

Monitoring business performance
Business mergers
Pension and exit planning

But ultimately, wouldn’t you just like to know what your business is worth? As one of our key objectives is to help you increase the value of your business, we definitely would.

BoardView

In our experience, when businesses start holding board meetings they immediately start thinking like, acting like, and achieving like their bigger and more successful counterparts. We recognise that not every business has the infrastructure to hold these meetings. Which is why we will attend your meetings in any capacity you need. We’ll even prepare the agenda and make the coffee if you want. Our BoardView service could be just what you need to really give your results a boost.

Business Builder Review

Our Business Builder review is designed to help you start turning your business dreams into reality. The review is not a “one–size-fits-all” process – because no two businesses have the same needs and circumstances. So it is impossible to say exactly what it will cover. However, what we can say it that we are so confident that it will add massive value to your business that if at the end of the review you aren’t completely delighted we will give you an unconditional 100% money back guarantee. Why are we so confident? Because we haven’t had to give anyone their money back yet!

Business Edge

Developed in conjunction with an internationally published business author and former UK Entrepreneur of the Year, the Business Edge programme is a highly structured and super intensive 2-3 day, 102 step process that helps you to probe for, identify and create breakthrough strategies for dramatically improving your sales, profits and prospects.

Making it Happen

Making it Happen is a structured 12 month process designed to support you every step of the way as you take your business from where it is to where you want it to be. Modular in design, the Making It Happen programme has three pillars to its support:

The Big Picture
Growth Strategies
Systems Solutions

Simply too far reaching to be explained here. Contact us for details of how we can Make it Happen for your business.

And so much more… Wow. We knew we wore many hats…

Accountants
Auditors
Business Advisors
Tax Advisors
Coaches

But we never realised how much we actually do. The best bit is that these are just our core services. Once we start getting to know your business, that’s when we work out how much extra we can do for you.