Who We Work With

From a first company to an established group. Whatever stage you are at, the work is led by a chartered accountant, not passed down a chain.

Six situations

Start-Ups & First-Time Founders Freelancers, Contractors & Sole Traders Owner-Managed Businesses Groups & Multi-Entity Structures Overseas Owners & Non-UK Residents Businesses Switching Accountant

Start-Ups & First-Time Founders

Incorporation, share structure, registrations, first-year deadline calendar and a bookkeeping system that will not need rebuilding in year two.

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Where you are right now

You have a company number, or you are about to. The shares were issued in whatever split the formation site defaulted to. You are not sure whether to register for VAT, PAYE or both, and the first accounts date is somewhere in a Companies House email. Receipts are in a drawer and a spreadsheet, and you suspect the spreadsheet will not survive the first year of real trading.

What we do about it

Bilal, a chartered accountant and the firm's director, takes the first call himself. We look at the share structure before anything else, because it is cheapest to fix now. Then we deal with the registrations that apply to you, set out a calendar of every filing due in the first year, and put bookkeeping software in place with a chart of accounts that will still make sense when you have staff.

It starts with a 30-minute call. We review whatever exists, which at this stage may be a certificate of incorporation and little else, and agree a fixed fee before any work begins.

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Freelancers, Contractors & Sole Traders

Self Assessment, IR35 status, MTD for Income Tax readiness and the incorporation question answered with numbers.

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Where you are right now

Your income comes from two or three clients, on contracts you did not write. Every January you pay a bill you did not plan for, and someone at each client has a different view on your IR35 status. A friend has told you a limited company would be better, without showing you the numbers. You have heard that quarterly digital reporting is coming and are not sure whether it applies to you.

What we do about it

The first conversation is with Bilal, a chartered accountant, not a call handler. We prepare the Self Assessment from source records rather than estimates, tell you the payments on account in advance, and confirm whether MTD for Income Tax applies to you. If incorporation is on your mind, we model it on your actual income, including the cost of running a company. Contracts in doubt are reviewed for status, with a plain answer.

A 30-minute call, a look at last year's return and whatever records you keep, then a fixed fee agreed in writing before any work starts.

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Owner-Managed Businesses

The core client: accounts, tax, payroll, VAT and profit extraction under one adviser who knows the whole picture.

A maker at her workbench in a small studio, surrounded by finished bags and paper

Where you are right now

The business is established and profitable, with staff, a VAT return every quarter and a payroll that runs whether or not you are in the office. Your accountant files the accounts and the CT600 on time, but every conversation starts from scratch and nobody has looked at how you and your co-directors are paid since the company was set up. You get the numbers months after the year they describe.

What we do about it

One adviser holds the whole file: year-end accounts, CT600, VAT, payroll and your personal returns, so the profit extraction plan is built on figures we already know are right. Bilal, a chartered accountant, takes the first call and stays on the account. Management accounts arrive monthly or quarterly, and the salary, dividend and pension mix is revisited before each year end rather than explained afterwards.

Thirty minutes on the phone, then a review of the last set of accounts, the current bookkeeping and the payroll. The fixed monthly fee is agreed in advance, before any work starts.

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Groups & Multi-Entity Structures

Consolidation, intercompany, group relief, shared services and a single filing calendar across all entities.

A narrow City of London street where Victorian brick meets glass towers

Where you are right now

There are four or five companies now, perhaps a holding company on top, and each one has its own year end, its own accountant's deadline and its own view of what it owes the others. Intercompany balances do not agree. Head office costs are recharged on a basis nobody has written down. Losses sit in one company while another pays tax, and the group accounts, if they exist, are put together in a spreadsheet the night before.

What we do about it

We map the structure first: every entity, every year end, every intercompany balance. Then we align the accounting dates where it helps, reconcile the intercompany positions, document the management charges and prepare the consolidation from ledgers that agree. Group relief claims are made where losses can be surrendered. One filing calendar covers all the entities. Bilal, a chartered accountant, leads the work from the first call.

Half an hour on a call with a structure chart in front of us, then a review of each entity's last filings, and a fixed fee for the group agreed before anything is started.

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Overseas Owners & Non-UK Residents

UK company administration, registered office, withholding tax, treaty relief and residence questions handled remotely.

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Where you are right now

You own a UK company from abroad, or you are moving into or out of the UK with income on both sides of the border. Letters from Companies House go to an address nobody checks. Interest or royalties leave the UK with tax deducted that a treaty might have reduced. Your day count matters and nobody has counted it. Everything has to be done by email, in a time zone that is not London's.

What we do about it

The company gets a UK end: registered office at 128 City Road, statutory registers, confirmation statements, accounts and CT600, with identity verification for directors and PSCs handled as part of it. Withholding tax is reported on CT61 and treaty relief claimed where it is available. For individuals, we work through the Statutory Residence Test and split-year position before the return is drafted. Bilal, a chartered accountant, takes the first call at a time that suits your location.

The first step is a 30-minute video call, then a review of what has been filed in the UK so far. A fixed fee is agreed in advance and confirmed in writing before we begin.

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Businesses Switching Accountant

Something has gone wrong, or simply gone quiet. The accounts were filed late, or filed without anyone explaining them. Emails take a week to answer and the person who knew your file has left. You have a feeling that something in the last return is not right, but no way of checking. And you are worried that moving will be awkward, expensive, or both.

You speak to Bilal, a chartered accountant, on the first call. Once you have decided, we write to your existing accountant for professional clearance and collect the records, so that conversation is ours, not yours. We then review the last two years of filings: accounts, CT600s, VAT returns and personal returns. We tell you what we find, what needs correcting and what can be left alone, and we put it right while the amendment windows are open.

Start the switch What actually happens

Professional clearanceWe write to your current accountant. You do not have to have the awkward conversation.
Records handoverAccounts, tax returns, ledgers and logins are collected and checked for completeness.
Two-year reviewWe read the last two years of filings and tell you plainly what is right and what is not.
Correction and calendarAnything wrong is corrected, and every deadline goes on one calendar you can see.

Despite having very messy accounts ruined by our previous accountants, Bilal spotted inconsistencies and was patient with all the concerns we had. We filed our annual accounts and helped us with the R&D tax credits report flawlessly. Highly recommended!

Alina Iigilikova
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