Business support

We can provide a comprehensive business support service to provide you with the assurance that your business is compliant with relevant legislation and H M Revenue & Customs rules, ad hoc support and advice as you require, or something in between. We will work with you to find a cost effective solution for your business needs by using our experience of supporting businesses and by understanding your business needs.

Payroll Administration

Our dedicated payroll department can provide weekly or monthly payroll services, dealing with PAYE, NIC, Statutory Sick Pay, Statutory Maternity Pay, Student Loans, CIS returns and agricultural wages board pay rates.

Real Time Reporting (“RTI”) of payroll information means that each time a payroll is processed an employer is required to file information on-line with HMRC before the employees are paid. Our payroll department will work with you to plan and manage your payroll process in order to ensure that your payroll is processed and your employees are paid in accordance with the RTI rules and timescales.

Our payroll department can process the employer and employee pension contributions under the auto enrolment pension schemes.

VAT

VAT (Value Added Tax) is one of the most complex taxes imposed on business and one that many businesses inadvertently overpay or underpay. With a constant stream of detailed changes to the regulations, businesses can find it difficult to ensure they comply.

We provide a cost effective VAT service and work with a wide variety of businesses, providing varying levels of support from general advice to routine quarterly VAT return completion. We have helped many of our clients to reduce VAT assessments and minimise their VAT liabilities, as well as providing peace of mind that your business in VAT compliant.

We can provide specialist advice on a one-off basis if you have a particular concern or problem with a specialist area of VAT.

We are able to advise you of the various VAT Schemes, including the Flat Rate Scheme and Cash Accounting Scheme, to find the most appropriate VAT scheme for your business and assess the potential tax savings available to your business from these schemes.

Bookkeeping Service

Our bookkeeping department takes the strain out of routine accounting, allowing you to concentrate on your business. By using our bookkeeping service, you can offload all the hassle of organising your financial records.

Alternatively we can fine-tune your own records, either at your own offices or ours, to enable you to produce your own management information.

We have worked with clients setting up new businesses to structure their book keeping processes so that our book keeping department can undertake the book keeping as the business starts up and then hand over to an in-house book keeper when the business has grown sufficiently to make this financially viable and of benefit to the business.

We have expertise in bookkeeping services for agricultural clients.

Company Secretarial

We have experience in company incorporation, compliance and administration, and can provide a valuable company secretarial service. We can help you to comply with your statutory obligations under the Companies Act and ensure you avoid any penalties for late filing of annual returns, accounts and other documents.

Accounting Software Advice

We have the experience to help you decide on the most appropriate accounting software to meet your business needs. We can then assist you with the transfer from your existing bookkeeping system or setting up the software for your new business.

We can help to ensure that the new accounting software is set up to produce financial information that is accurate and appropriate for running your business effectively. Using appropriate accounting software that is properly set up will save you time and assist us with the end of year accounts preparation.

We can provide training during the set up and ongoing use of accounting packages as required.

Business Start-up

Most people who start up in business do so because they have a good business proposition but may have little experience of the practicalities of getting the business set up and operating. Our Directors have gained a significant amount of experience in supporting clients set up businesses, providing initial advice and hands on support.

We believe that a business needs firm foundations in order for it to prosper and we will ensure that we provide you with the advice and support to get these foundations in place.

We will help you:

• Decide on the most suitable structure for your business (i.e. sole trader, partnership, limited liability partnership or limited company)
• Incorporate the business if you are to trade using a limited company
• Advise you on your tax, national insurance and VAT obligations
• Carry out registration procedures with Companies House and H M Revenue & Customs
• Set up accounting systems and processes
• Prepare a business plan, cash flow projections, budgets and trading forecasts if required.

We have a network of other advisors, such as solicitors and financial advisors, that we are able to recommend to you if you do not already have these advisors. We do not receive any commission or payments for introductions so we can make truly independent recommendations using our experience of advisors that we know and trust.

We would be delighted to have a free, initial meeting with you to listen to your ideas and see if we can help you.