Bookkeeping
Records reconciled monthly rather than reconstructed every January — so the figures you make decisions on are this month's, and the year end is a handover rather than an excavation.
What the work involves
- 01
Reconciliation, every month
Bank, card and cash matched to source documents monthly. Nothing is carried forward unexplained, and nothing waits until year end to be discovered.
- 02
Both ledgers, kept straight
Sales invoices raised or logged, supplier bills captured and scheduled, and a current view of who owes you what and what you owe out.
- 03
Figures you can act on
A short monthly summary: income, costs, margin, and what moved since last month. Written to be read by you, not by an accountant.
- 04
VAT, filed under MTD
VAT returns prepared and submitted under Making Tax Digital, priced as an add-on on your transaction volume rather than folded into the retainer.
What you are left with
- Reconciled ledgers
- Monthly summary
- VAT returns (add-on)
- Year-end pack
What we cover
- Bank, card and cash reconciliation
- Receipts and invoices captured
- Purchase ledger and supplier payments
- Sales ledger and credit control
- VAT returns under Making Tax Digital
- Xero, QuickBooks and Sage
- Client portal access
- Year-end handover pack
- Management accounts
- Budgeting and cashflow forecasting
- Self-assessment returns
- Xero training for in-house teams
How much of this a monthly fee covers depends on your volume, so we quote it after a conversation rather than before one.
Where a piece of this needs a qualified accountant — statutory accounts, corporation tax, a return that has grown complicated — it is delivered by our sister practice, Opus Accountancy Limited. One conversation either way.