Bookkeeping, VAT, payroll, management accounts, budgeting and forecasting, and statutory accounts - for professional services firms and growing limited companies. AAT Licensed Practice. Tier 3 and Tier 4 services delivered to a Platinum Standard.
Professional services firms and growing limited companies typically outgrow their first accountant by the point they need monthly management accounts, accurate VAT, properly run payroll, and statutory accounts that arrive at Companies House on time - not at the deadline. None of that is tax planning. It is the day-to-day discipline of running the finance function.
S.K.E. Accountancy provides this day-to-day finance discipline at fixed monthly fees, delivered by an AAT Licensed Practice. The work covers bookkeeping, VAT, payroll (including pensions auto-enrolment), management accounts, budgets and rolling cash-flow forecasts, and the statutory accounts and Companies House filings that close out the year.
Where you also need tax services - corporation tax planning, self-assessment for directors, R&D claims, dividend optimisation - those are Tier 2 services not covered by our current licence, and we will refer you to an appropriately licensed firm.
Management accounts delivered to a published cadence each month, with variance analysis against budget and prior period. Designed to inform decisions on pricing, hiring, and investment - not just to be filed alongside the year-end.
Bookkeeping on Xero, QuickBooks, or Sage with bank reconciliation completed monthly, ledgers tied out, and the chart of accounts maintained so management reports come out of the same source as the year-end.
Short rolling cash-flow forecasts updated regularly. Funding gaps and surpluses identified before they bite, so funding and investment decisions are made with foresight.
VAT returns filed on time (standard or flat-rate), payroll run accurately each pay cycle, and pensions auto-enrolment handled including The Pensions Regulator declarations.
Year-end statutory accounts prepared from clean monthly records and filed with Companies House on time. Confirmation statements, director changes, and PSC updates handled as part of the service.
Year-end records produced as a clean pack for your tax adviser to compute corporation tax. No reconstruction, no “please send last year’s files” - the records are ready by year-end.
One AAT Licensed Practice covers the bookkeeping, VAT, payroll, and accounts preparation that a professional services and sme business needs day to day - without straying outside our licence.
Whether you are a solicitors’ firm, a consultancy, an architects’ or surveyors’ practice, a digital agency, a software / SaaS business, or a limited company at any growth stage between founder-led and a fully built-out finance team, the underlying discipline is the same - clean books, on-time VAT and payroll, monthly management visibility, and year-end accounts.
Not currently. Corporation tax is a Tier 2 service and not covered by our current AAT licence. We prepare the underlying statutory accounts and produce a clean year-end handover pack - your tax adviser uses this to prepare and file the CT600.
Not currently. Self-assessment is a Tier 2 service. We prepare your payroll records (showing salary and PAYE) and dividend records - your tax adviser uses these for the return.
Not as a regulated tax service. R&D claims sit within Tier 2 and are handled by your tax adviser. What we provide is the contemporaneous accounting evidence (timesheets coded to projects, qualifying expenditure isolated in the ledger) that supports the claim your adviser prepares.
Yes - that is Tier 3 work under our AAT licence. We prepare statutory accounts and file them with Companies House. Tax computations are prepared by your appointed tax adviser, using our year-end pack as the starting point.
Yes. We obtain professional clearance, take over the accounting software, and pick up bookkeeping, VAT, payroll, and management accounts from the next period.
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