Compliance
services during the business lifetime
Financial
performance review:
Owing to financial performance review you can:
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Decide on the most suitable sources of finance - personal capital,
bank overdraft, long-term commercial loans and mortgages, national
and regional agencies, venture capital, or equity capital
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Prepare
the necessary business plan, forecasts, prospectuses, etc.
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Present
your proposals to your chosen finance source
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Arrange
a disposal, merger/acquisition, or management buyout/in
Bookkeeping
and accounting:
- The clients
who take advantage of bookkeeping service share some or all of the
following characteristics:
- They have a
fairly large number of accounts entries.
- Their business
needs up to date accounts in order to manage it properly.
- They don't
have an internal accountant, but don't really want to do the books
themselves either!
- If you would
prefer to outsource maintenance of your receipts and payments and
your debtors, creditors and nominal ledgers at competitive rates,
this will ensure that you receive the following benefits:
- Your records
are always up to date.
- Prompt completion
of financial accounts.
- Makes the completion
of VAT returns easier.
- Compliance
with self-assessment legislation.
- Compliance
with Companies Laws requirements.
- Most importantly,
you always have an up to date picture of the financial state of your
business leading to cash flow improvements and better control of debtors.
Company
Secretarial Services:
We can assist by
providing a comprehensive administrative service designed to ensure
compliance with statutory obligations in this important area. Details
of our services are listed below:
- General advice
on company law
- Maintenance of
statutory registers.
- Preparation and
filing of all returns.
- Assistance with
board/shareholders meetings.
- Share registration
services including provision of nominee shareholder.
- Provision of
a nominee company secretary.
- Company searches.
- Change of company
name.
- Purchase of own
shares.
- Increase/re-organisation
of share capital.
- Redemption of
preference shares.
- Restoration of
dissolved companies.
- Provision of
registered office facility.
Rescue and
recovery:
Our team of trained professionals can help you identify some of the
commonest causes of company collapse: bad debts, reduced demand, excessive
borrowing, and low property values. They can help you don’t ignore
the risk of committing offences under the Insolvency Act such as fraudulent
trading, misfeasance, wrongful trading, and preferential or undervalue
transactions.
Our
Partners can help you identify the cause of your problems and recommend
solutions to improve profitability and cashflow, arrange a corporate
or individual voluntary arrangement, which will allow you an opportunity
to try to trade out of difficulty.
We
can advise and assist you if your business go into administration, receivership,
or insolvency.
Forensic
accounting and litigation support:
In cases of the following legal dispute:
-
personal injury claim
- contractual
dispute
- insurance
claim
- contested
business loss
- matrimonial
dispute
- professional
negligence claim
- tax
enquiry
- royalty
or copyright dispute
- fraud
investigation
We can work, with your lawyer or barister, to study and interpret the
facts of the case in a professional manner, so we can:
-
provide the necessary information and documentation to support your
case
- produce
valuations in support of a claim
- act
as an expert witness in court
Arbitration,
mediation and dispute resolution:
The mediation and
arbitration are real alternatives to litigation through the Courts.
We can provide
amicable solutions in commercial and partnership disputes. Our work
involves both documents-only and full hearing arbitrations, completing
each with a reasoned award. Mediation achieves similar solutions by
different means.
These services can
considerably strengthen your case and cut your litigation costs.
Annual
accounts and Audits
Preparation of Accounts
The assistance
in the preparation of your accounts delivers two major benefits to you:
- You benefit from
our breadth and depth of expertise in helping owners to run their
businesses more profitably, highlighting opportunities to increase
turnover, enhance gross profit, and reduce overheads.
- It allows us
to structure your affairs so that you pay the legal minimum of tax
both now and in the future.
We endeavour to
prepare your accounts in real time though with increased client co-operation.
We can prepare simple receipt and payment accounts from a cashbook right
through to a full profit and loss and balance sheet from your computerised
accounts, whatever your requirements are. Accounts provided include:
- Statutory Accounts
for Companies Act purposes.
- Accounts for
Income Tax Returns.
- Accounts for
lending authorities.
- End of year Accounts
for information.
Statutory
Audit
The
statutory audit gives a level of assurance which the preparation of
accounts cannot deliver. The thorough checking and cross checking of
accounts entries back through the audit trail to original documentation
lends credence to the company accounts in a number of ways:
- Providing
assurance to the owners regarding the reliability of the information
they are using.
- Ensuring
that the company's systems and controls are working properly.
- Giving
increased credibility to the accounts when raising finance.
- Giving
increased credibility to the accounts when applying for or renewing
credit terms with suppliers. Helps to protect the business from the
risk of fraud.
- Increasing
the auditors' ability to provide constructive advice in many areas
of the business.
The audit not only points out problems that the management may have
overlooked, but it also allows us to supply constructive advice and
assistance in solving those problems.
Taxation
Advice
The preparation of personal Income Tax Returns is a substantial part
of our tax practice. We provide a full Corporation Tax service including
planning, advice, completion of the necessary Tax Returns and communicating
with the Inland Revenue on behalf of our clients.
Although
we deal with all the normal taxation problems that arise in the course
of business, we have the ability to access specialist taxation advice:
-
Corporating and personal tax returns
- Corporating
and personal strategies for tax efficiency
- Wealth
planning and tax mitigation
- Share
valuations for Inland Revenue purposes
- Capital
gains tax
- Advising
on tax strategies for acquisitions and disposals
- Dealing
with Value Added Tax visits and tax investigations
- Expatriate
taxation
- Trusts
