To business clients

Our services are broadly categorised as follows:

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Business start-up advice

We offer flexible services to businesses starting-ups and these include:

  • Advice and assistance in preparing a business plan.
  • Advice on how the business should be structured as a sole trader, partnership, limited liability partnership or limited company.
  • Assistance in forming a limited company or limited liability partnership.
  • Assistance in registering the company with the Inland Revenue and Customs & Excise.
  • Working with you to prepare cash-flow projections and assessing the finance needs of the business.

On-going support and advice.

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Installing business systems

We are able to give our clients help and guidance in setting up their business systems. This may include help in selecting a suitable accounting software package, setting up administrative and filing systems and provide training where clients wish to undertake the bookkeeping and administration work themselves. These are all procedures, which businesses need to have in place if they are to be managed properly.

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Routine accounting, management accounts & VAT returns

The simple fact is that most businesses can not plan for the future until they know where they stand today. We are able to provide our clients with up to date management accounts and to help clients plan for the future.

To enable us to do this, we provide clients with an accounting service tailored to their needs to ensure that they are provided with relevant information on a timely basis.

We can also deal with those periodic headaches like completing the VAT returns and if you have bank borrowings, providing the bank with the management reports they require.

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Business plans

Successful businesses plan for the future. The question is – do you want to control the direction of your business or allow events to determine what happens to the business.

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Budgeting & forward planning

To assist our clients in planning for the future, we can build profit projections and cash-flow forecasts. This will help clients to identify the peaks and troughs and allow you time to plan appropriate action.

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Payroll service

We offer a prompt, reliable and cost-effective payroll service to our clients.

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Tax planning

It is vitally important that clients are made aware of any tax planning opportunities that may be available. We therefore encourage our clients to maintain a regular dialogue with us in order that keys issues can be addressed in a tax efficient manner.

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VAT Advice

Value Added Tax can be a complex and onerous regime for any business to cope with and there are unfortunately frequent changes to the regulations. As a result your business may be paying too much VAT or not complying with the laws and regulations. We are there to help you with your VAT planning to ensure you do not pay the Government more than you need to and to advise you on any contentious issues.

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Preparing year end accounts & business tax returns

We offer a professional and cost effective service for preparing accounts and tax returns. Businesses, which are limited companies, are required to send accounts to Companies House that comply with the Companies Acts. By understanding your business and the issues you consider may be commercially sensitive we endeavour to tailor your accounts to address these issues and comply with the legal requirements.

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Registered auditors

In addition to preparing the annual accounts for limited companies we are also able to act as registered auditor. A number of clients, whose financial statements are not legally required to be audited, are asking for audits as they recognise it adds credibility to their financial statements particularly in relation to their dealings with customers & suppliers. We can advise where an audit may be appropriate.

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A sounding board for new ideas

Many of our clients come to us to discuss their plans for the future. These may include ideas to develop new businesses or ways to expand their existing business. By listening and offering guidance our clients benefit from the experience and focus we can bring to the discussions. With our help clients are able to turn their original ideas into clearly defined plans.

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Raising funds

Some business projects require outside funding. The commonest source of business funding remains from the local bank with the lending secured against the business owner's home. Whilst accepting that this situation is unlikely to change overnight, our objectives are to agree a procedure under which the bank will release the bank charge. If the bank was not being cooperative or alternative sources of funding are more appropriate then we would help our client to find a suitable financing.

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Business valuations:

The need to value a business may arise for a wide variety of reasons such as an acquisition by your business, a merger or your disposal of the business. Valuations may also be required for tax or probate purposes. We have experience in drawing up valuations for what ever purpose and we are always keen to ensure that the valuation recognises the business objectives of our client.

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Acquisitions

Sometimes the best way to improve your competitive position in the market place and your profitability is through merger or acquisition.. Not only can this be a complex and time consuming process, if it is not fully researched and skillfully negotiated it could leave your business worse off.

We can support and guide you in this process by advising on negotiating strategy, raising the necessary capital and developing an integration plan and structure to optimise the tax and financial position of the combined enterprise. 

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Selling your business

This can be like getting divorced. Your advisers and the taxman do very nicely out of it and you get what's left. This may or may not be what you expected. The important thing in any business sale is that you the owner should have a clear understanding of what your bottom line profit is, once the sale is completed and the money is in the bank.

We help our clients through the whole selling process ensuring that the business is being sold in as tax efficient manner as is practical and we keep a close eye on the sale process ensuring the timetable of events is met and fees paid to your advisers (including ours) are kept to the agreed budgets.

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Succession planning

If the exit route from your business is not be outright disposal, but rather to pass your share of the business to a partner or family member, you will need to carefully plan your succession strategy if you are to move gracefully and profitably into retirement. Such an approach requires considerable forward planning to ensure that the handover is workable for both yourself and the incoming partner. 

Because we take the trouble to develop a close relationship with each of our clients and understand their personal as well as their business objectives, we can recommend solutions tailored to your particular needs.

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Supporting AIM listed companies

We already provide a full financial management support service to a number of AIM listed companies including taking over the day-to-day administration of the accounting function and prepare interim and annual accounts which comply with all of the regulatory requirements including the International Financial Reporting Standards. We would liaise we the company’s auditors on all accounting and disclosure matters.

We are also able to provide a complete company secretarial service appropriate to AIM listed companies.

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