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Bookkeeping and management accounts, current all year

A ledger reconciled while the year is still running, and a monthly read of where the business actually stands — not a reconstruction twelve months after the fact.

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The monthly rhythmTypical cycle

Ledgers reconciledWeekly or monthly

Management accounts issued10 days after month end

VAT figures readyWithin the quarter

Year-end pack handed overAt period end

None of these is a statutory deadline. That is exactly why they slip — and why the year-end accounts are only ever as good as the ledger sitting behind them.

Where this goes wrong

Nothing forces the books to be right until it is too late to matter

Bookkeeping fails quietly. These are the four patterns we are asked to unpick most often.

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Year end is the first proper lookBy the time the numbers appear, the decisions they should have informed have already been made

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Imported is mistaken for reconciledA bank feed that pulls transactions in is not a bank that agrees; unmatched items compound quietly

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Digital records are not optionalUnder Making Tax Digital, VAT records must be kept digitally with the links through to submission intact — not retyped

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The director’s loan account is discoveredPersonal spend running through the company account is ordinary; finding all of it at year end is expensive

Management accounts have no filing deadline. That is the problem.
Nothing on this page gets submitted anywhere, so nothing forces it to happen on time. The statutory accounts and the tax return are then built from whatever the ledger happens to contain a year later. A company must keep adequate accounting records under the Companies Act 2006, and HMRC expects records to be retained for six years from the end of the accounting period. It runs continuously — nobody sends a reminder.

What’s included

Two jobs, one ledger

Bookkeeping keeps the record straight. Management accounts turn that record into something you can make a decision on. Run together, the second costs very little more than the first.

Bank and card reconciliation

Every account agreed back to statement, not merely imported.

Sales and purchase ledgers

Who owes you, who you owe, and how old every balance has become.

VAT-ready digital records

Kept so the quarterly return is a summary, not an investigation.

Payroll journals posted

Wages, PAYE and pension landing in the periods they belong to.

Monthly management accounts

Profit and loss, balance sheet and where the cash actually is.

Margin and cost tracking

Where the money is genuinely made — by job, product, site or entity.

Director’s loan account

Tracked through the year rather than reconstructed at the end of it.

Year-end handover pack

Ledger, reconciliations and notes, ready for accounts without a rebuild.

How it works

Five steps, and a month that closes on time

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The ledger assessed honestly, as it standsNo assumptions — a clear assessment before any work begins

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Bank feeds, rules and chart of accounts set up once, properlyThe infrastructure that makes every subsequent month faster and cleaner

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Each month reconciled and closedQueries raised while they can still be answered, nothing left to compound quietly

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Management accounts issued and walked throughNot simply emailed over — the numbers explained so you can act on them

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Year end arrives with the work already doneAccounts prepared from a clean ledger, not rebuilt from receipts

Fees

You will know the number before we start

Bookkeeping and management accounts sit inside a business engagement rather than being sold alone, with fees starting from £2,000 a month. Scoped from transaction volume, how many entities and bank accounts you run, whether payroll and VAT are in scope, and the condition of the ledger when we take it on — then fixed before any work begins. All figures exclude VAT.

How our pricing works →

RegulatedACCA / CIOT

FocusUK compliance

DeliveryRemote, by design

FeesFixed, up front

BillingNever hourly

Next step

How far behind is the ledger?

Tell us what software you are on, how many accounts feed into it, and when it was last reconciled. We come back with what it takes to get current, and a fixed price before any work begins.

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