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Limited companies

Accounts and tax for limited companies.

Everything a company has to file, when it is due, and who is doing it. Year-end accounts, corporation tax, the confirmation statement, director payroll and dividend paperwork, on one fixed monthly fee.

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What we do for a company

Six things every company has to do

Year-end accountsCompanies House and HMRC

Statutory accounts prepared from books we have kept current all year, so the year end is a review rather than an excavation. We aim to file within four months of your year end, well inside the deadline, and you see a draft before anything goes anywhere.

Corporation taxComputation, return, payment date

The computation is built alongside the accounts, with capital allowances and reliefs claimed where they apply. You get the payment figure and the date in writing, months in advance.

Confirmation statementOnce a year

We track your review date, check the officers, shareholders and registered address, and file it. The Companies House fee is passed on at cost.

Director payroll and dividendsSalary, payslips, vouchers, minutes

A director’s salary run each month with the real-time submission made, plus dividend vouchers and board minutes when you draw profit. We tell you before you take money out whether the profit is there to cover it.

Management accountsQuarterly, or monthly on Growing business

Three pages: profit and loss, balance sheet, cash. One page of notes in ordinary sentences about what changed and what to watch. Lenders like them, and so do directors who want to sleep.

R&D and capital allowancesIn general terms

If you spend on equipment, vehicles or genuine development work, there may be relief available. We look at it every year end, tell you what we think applies to you, and claim it where it does. We do not promise a figure before we have seen the spend.

A year with us

What happens, month by month.

An example for a company with a 31 March year end. Yours will be shifted to your own dates, and you can build the exact version on the estimator page.

April
Year end passed. We pull the bank statements, close the ledger and ask you the questions.
May
Draft accounts with you. Salary and dividends for the new year set.
June
Accounts and corporation tax computation signed off.
July
Filed at Companies House and HMRC, months before either deadline. Tax figure and payment date confirmed in writing.
August
First quarter review. Management accounts sent.
September
Confirmation statement checked and filed, if your review date falls here.
October
Half-year look at profit and what can sensibly be drawn.
November
Second quarter review. Reminder that the corporation tax payment is due on 1 January.
December
Corporation tax paid. Payroll and pension figures for the year checked before the break.
January
Directors’ self assessment returns filed before the 31st.
February
Pre-year-end planning: pension contributions, equipment purchases, final dividend, all while there is still time to act.
March
Year end. Payroll year end prepared. The cycle starts again with nothing left to chase.
What we need from you

About ten minutes a month.

  • Read-only access to the business bank feed. We set it up with you on the first call.
  • Receipts and invoices, photographed into the app as you go. A shoebox in April also works; it just costs you a fortnight.
  • Answers to the handful of questions we send each month, usually about a payment we could not place.
  • A yes or a no when we ask about a dividend, a purchase or a pension contribution.

How the monthly bookkeeping runs

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Limited company package
Fixed monthly
Up to two directors, no staff yetAccounts, CT, confirmation statement, director payroll, one self assessment
£165
With a team, stock or monthly numbersGrowing business: adds monthly bookkeeping, management accounts, payroll for ten
£325
Second director’s self assessmentAdd-on, per year
£150
Fee band

From £165 a month, agreed before we start.

The fee covers the whole year: the filings, the payroll, the check-ins and every phone call in between. If the company changes shape (staff, a second entity, VAT registration) we quote the new fee in writing before the work begins.

Not sure a company is right for you yet? The estimator compares it with staying a sole trader on your own numbers.

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Bring the last set of accounts, or just the questions.

We read them before the call, so the twenty minutes is spent on what to do next rather than what happened last year.