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Accounts
It is our intention to prepare
your accounts as soon as possible after the books
and records are received from you. By obtaining the
records from you early in the year it enables us to
be able to calculate your tax liability as soon as
they are completed so that you get the maximum warning
of impending tax payments. We prepare accounts for
a wide range of businesses which is useful for benchmarking
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Bookkeeping
We can relieve
you and your business of a significant burden by
taking care of all your bookkeeping and accounting
needs. This ranges from making use of our inhouse
bookkeeping bureau to the preparation of your annual
accounts. We will treat every business individually
so that we can tailor our approach to your requirements.
Besides the core bookkeeping,
we can also maintain your VAT records, prepare your
payroll and take on ad hoc projects to free up valuable
time for your staff.
We believe that our high level
of IT literacy can help improve our efficiency and
help our clients to set-up their accounting systems
to be efficient and effective. We are Sage Accountants
Club Members and can supply software and hardware.
We have developed our own bookkeeping
software called CASH which is used by a large number
of our clients. We would be happy to give you a
demonstration of how easy it can make your bookkeeping
responsibilities.
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Business planning and development
Every business must plan ahead in order to ensure
success, but it is too easy to succumb to the daily
pressures of work and delay or ignore strategic planning.
The result of poor planning is often rushed and misinformed
decisions, over/under capacity, inefficiency and missed
opportunities.
Every business owner needs to invest time in developing
a long-term plan, starting with what you want to
achieve from your investment and what your reasons
for being in business are, and then developing a
plan to help achieve these objectives.
We are well placed to help you develop these plans
and have a considerable pool of experience and expertise
to draw on. The financial aspects are usually the
backbone to any business plan and you need to ensure
that this aspect has been adequately dealt with
in your plan.
Contact us today for a strategic planning review.
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Business start-up
Most people who start up in business do so because
they have a good business proposition, not because
they are experts in the financial aspects of running
a business. These factors can often be quite daunting
to the entrepreneur and this is where we can help
by evaluating your ideas and helping you develop
them into a feasible business.
We can also help you:
- decide on the most suitable structure for your
business (i.e. sole trader, partnership or limited
company)
- prepare a business plan, cashflow projections,
budgets and trading forecasts to prove the financial
viability of your ideas and demonstrate this to
the bank / potential investors
- assess your finance requirements and access
the most appropriate source of finance
- help you establish relationships with banks,
solicitors, etc via our well established network
of contacts
- carry out registration procedures with Companies
House, Inland Revenue or Customs and Excise
- set up an internal accounting system which complies
with statutory requirements
Call us for a free initial consultation to find
out how we can help your ideas become reality.
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Business valuation
One of our key objectives is to help our clients
increase the value of their business. Each year
we can carry out a valuation of your business using
software developed by AVN The Accountants.
We will produce a detailed report showing the current
value of the business and ideas on how you can maximise
its worth.
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Company secretarial
When running a hectic business you cannot afford
to use valuable time making sure you are complying
with the Companies Act. However you do need to be
aware how this legislation affects your company
and its directors. We can help by carrying out the
company secretarial duties for you. Our services
include:
- company formations
- preparation and filing of statutory returns
- preparation of all documentation (such as minutes
and resolutions)
- maintenance of statutory books (share register,
minute book, etc)
- general advice on company law
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Financial performance review
We will carry out a financial performance review
of your business. This will be in the form of a
detailed report which includes:
- graphs and charts illustrating how your business
has performed this year
- ratio analysis to highlight areas of strength
and weakness
- detailed commentary advising you which areas
of the business can be improved
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Management accounts
The most important part of our compliance services
is the preparation of periodic management accounts.
Monitoring and controlling the financial performance
of your business is of paramount importance and
regular management information is vital to the continued
success of your business. We can either carry out
this function for you or help you set-up internal
systems to generate the information.
We will also take this service one step further
by interpreting these figures for you and making
suggestions to help you improve your profits or
to help your business grow.
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Payroll
Running your own payroll can be time consuming
and complicated, particularly with the ever increasing
complexity of taxation and employment legislation.
There is an increasing burden on business to comply
with these issues and non-compliance can lead to substantial
penalties. We can prepare payrolls for businesses
with 2 to 200 staff.
Our service is comprehensive and confidential and
includes:
- computer generated payslips
- administration of PAYE, national insurance,
statutory sick pay, statutory maternity pay, etc
- completion of statutory forms (including year
end returns)
- summaries and analysis of staff costs
- administration of incentive schemes, bonuses
and ex-gratia termination payments.
Even if you only have a few employees, you will
make savings by engaging us to administer your payroll.
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Statutory accounts
If you are a limited company then you are
required to prepare accounts that must be filed with
Companies House in a statutory format. We can help
you by preparing your statutory accounts and filing
them with Companies House for you.
Depending on the turnover of your company, it may
be necessary to have the accounts audited. Not all
accountants can do this but we are Registered Auditors
with the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England
and Wales. We will be happy to discuss your auditing
requirements.
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Taxation
Tax will represent a substantial cost to any profitable
business, not only in terms of the tax itself but
also in compliance with reporting obligations, investigations
with tax authorities and penalties for non-compliance.
We can help you minimise your tax payments and
relieve you of any administrative burden of complying
with tax legislation. We will deal with all business
tax matters, including preparing income and /or
corporation tax computations and preparing and submitting
your partnership tax return or corporation tax self-assessment
return.
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All
the Things you Need to do Every Year
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We offer a full range
of compliance services........ all
the things you need to do every year.
These are our traditional accountancy
services.
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All
the Things you REALLY Need to do Every
Year!
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We also have a range of new consultancy
services designed to help small and
medium sized firms grow and become more
profitable, click
here >
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OnTrack
Review
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We will gladly carry out an OnTrack review
for you at no extra charge. The OnTrack
review process contains 6 mini-reviews
designed to make sure you and your business
are on track to achieve everything you
have set out to do. The 6 mini-reviews
are:
- a growth review
- a taxability review
- a wealthbuilder review
- an accounting systems review
- a finance options review
- an exit planning review
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Accounting
Records Quality Report
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We want to help you get the most out of
your accounting systems. So, we will prepare
a report setting out any weaknesses, the
consequences and our suggestions on how
to improve them. And, the better your
accounting systems - the lower your accountancy
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Benchmarking
Report
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One of the most powerful management tools
is benchmarking - this is where we compare
the performance of your business against
other businesses within your industry
sector.
This will tell you how you are performing,
in which areas you excel and those areas
where there is room for improvement.
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I.T.
Services
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I.T. has become an integral part of the
business world and Hunter Gee Holroyd is no exception
to this. Our business is totally computerised
and our staff are I.T. trained and literate.
The knowledge gained from developing our
systems enables our staff to advise our
clients on I.T. related matters from first
hand experience.
We are members of the Sage Accountants
Club and provide software, training
and support to Sage Instant Accounting,
Sage Line 50 and Sage Payroll.
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Company
Car Tax Planning
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Whether to have a company car or not is
the most common question that we get asked.
The next most common question is how to
finance the purchase of the car. It is
an area for confusion, particularly with
the recent changes in the basis of taxation
of company cars.
We will gladly carry out a planning
exercise each time you consider
buying a new vehicle to ensure you are
aware of the most appropriate method
of finance and the minimisation of tax
liabilities.
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Flexibility
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