Regular Bookkeeping and VAT Returns

Good internal bookkeeping is critical to give the management of the business adequate tools to properly run the operation. We can help keep your internal accounts up to date in a way which provides regular and reliable key management information.

Accurate and timely accounting information is important for the decision making process of running any business. Otherwise, you run the risk of making wrong decisions, or even missing the iceberg before you run into it. In these days of straightened financial times, this assumes a much greater importance. When a business's working capital is provided by the bank, then timely and reliable management accounts give the bank confidence. If there are temporary difficulties, the bank is therefore much more likely to support, where the business have been seen to be in control.

It also follows that the underlying accounts records can be organised to flow automatically into the year end procedures, making the annual accounts preparation much easier, quicker, and cheaper.

VAT Returns

VAT Returns need to be completed within strict deadlines, or surcharges will ensue. We help you to meet these deadlines and in many cases can incorporate the VAT Return preparation into work which usefully avoids duplication at the year end. When VAT Return preparation is undertaken as part internal accounting, then the Return quite often simply runs off the system at no extra workload.

The VAT system is complex and it is all too easy to get it wrong. Just as importantly there are a number of reliefs and exceptions, which might be usefully adopted, which would actually lower the amount paid.