Services / Accounting and Bookkeeping
Accounting & Bookkeeping
The close, the reconciliations and the ledgers, done on a schedule you set.
Bookkeeping is the part of finance nobody wants to think about until it goes wrong. When it is behind, nothing above it works. Reporting is late, the year end becomes an excavation, and decisions get made on numbers that are weeks out of date.
We take it on properly. Not data entry, but a maintained set of books that closes on time every month and stands up when somebody looks at it.
What this covers
Day to day bookkeeping
Sales and purchase entry, expense processing, and keeping the ledgers current rather than catching up in the last week of the month.
Month end close
A defined close process with a checklist, cut off rules agreed in advance, and a date the numbers land on. Not a date they usually land near.
Reconciliations
Bank, control accounts, supplier statements and intercompany balances, reconciled as a routine rather than when something looks wrong.
Payables and receivables
Supplier and customer ledgers kept clean, ageing that reflects reality, and the information you need to chase what is owed.
Fixed asset register
Maintained and agreed to the ledger, with additions, disposals and depreciation run properly instead of being rebuilt at year end.
Year end preparation
Books handed over in a state your auditor or accountant can work with, which shortens their job and reduces what they bill you for.
Who this is for
- Businesses whose bookkeeping has fallen behind and who need it brought current and then kept there
- Companies that have outgrown a part time bookkeeper but do not need a full finance hire
- Accounting firms needing reliable preparation capacity they can review and sign
Common situations we are brought in for
- Your management accounts arrive three weeks after month end, by which point nobody reads them
- Your auditor spent more time last year fixing the books than auditing them
- The person who did your bookkeeping has left and nobody knows how the file works
- You are about to raise money or sell, and the books need to withstand somebody else looking at them