The first month is covered on the homepage. After onboarding, we either keep your figures updated at agreed intervals or work through the deadline calendar, depending on the service band you choose.
The difference is the level of contact through the year. If you're on the management-accounts band, we update your numbers at agreed intervals. By October you know your position, not last April's. On the compliance band, we work to the deadline calendar and handle questions as they come up.
We check in regularly through the year and update your position. Drawings, profit, tax exposure, whichever of those has moved since the last conversation. Nothing is rebuilt from scratch in March.
When you're thinking about a hire or a big purchase, we check the tax angle while you can still change the timing. Tax planning runs through the year, from the first quarter onwards.
If you are on the compliance band, the work follows the deadline calendar: VAT quarters where they apply, payroll cycles, year-end accounts and the CT600, the confirmation statement, payroll year-end.
Between deadlines, questions are answered as they arise. Routine questions are covered by the fee.
Either way, the compliance work is the same.
Statutory accounts and a CT600 every year. Confirmation statement annually. VAT and payroll on their own cycles where they apply. Companies House identity verification handled directly by us as an Authorised Corporate Service Provider. The filings are the same either way. The difference is how often we review the figures with you during the year.
At the end of each year, once the accounts are signed off and the CT600 is in, we review how the year went and what is coming up with directors who want that conversation. Some prefer to receive the signed accounts and move on. It is there if you want it.
We operate as an Authorised Corporate Service Provider. We handle all your Companies House filings, from identity checks and confirmation statements to changes in directors or share capital. Everything goes through us, and we keep the records.
Bookkeeping runs on cloud software, typically Xero or FreeAgent, depending on what fits the business. If you arrive on a different platform we keep you on it where it makes sense and migrate where it does not. We pick whichever one works better for your business.
Fees
That is a common pattern. We look at where things stand in the first meeting, take over the work in progress, and file the year-end accounts and CT600 as one set rather than splitting them between firms. We do both at the same time, so you do not have to wait for one to finish before the other starts.
Yes. There are three fixed fee bands so you know the cost before you commit. The work covered in each band is set out in full on the fees page. Routine questions are part of the fee.
Yes. We review which band you are on when your business outgrows it (new directors, payroll growth, a VAT registration, a property purchase, an SPV). We will tell you if you need to move up a band rather than letting things drift. And if you are paying for more than you need, we will say so.
If your question is covered by the fee, we answer it. If something falls outside what your fee covers, we will let you know before we do it.
We go through when your year-end is, what you have in place now, and what you would like to change. A written proposal and a fixed fee follow afterwards.
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