The problem isn't the bookkeeping. It's the drift.
Nobody sets out to fall six months behind. It happens one week at a time — a quiet Tuesday when the bank feed doesn't get reconciled, a busy month when the receipts go in a drawer instead of an app. And then one day you need to know whether you can afford to hire someone, and the honest answer is that you have no idea. That's the real cost of bad books: not the HMRC penalty, but the decisions you couldn't make.
Every month, without you chasing us
- Transactions coded and categorised — every line in your bank feed, correctly allocated against a chart of accounts that reflects how your business actually works.
- Bank reconciliation — reconciled to the statement, not just to the feed. If it doesn't tie, we find out why before it becomes a year-end problem.
- Supplier & customer reconciliations — aged payables and receivables you can trust, so you know who owes you what, and when.
- Receipt capture and matching — set up with Dext or Hubdoc. You photograph it once and forget about it.
- Month-end close — accruals, prepayments, journals, and a proper close, not just a bank feed that's been ticked off.
- Queries raised early — one consolidated query list each month, in plain English. Not forty emails, and not a silence followed by a surprise in January.
Closed by the 10th working day — or the month is free
And note what the guarantee does not say: it isn't conditional on you sending your records on time. Chasing your paperwork is our job. If we need something, you'll hear from us on the 2nd — not an excuse on the 25th.
We work in your system, not ours
We're certified in Xero and QuickBooks, and those are the two we'd recommend to almost anyone starting fresh. Whatever you use, you own the licence and you own the data. If you ever leave us, you take the file with you — we won't hold your accounts hostage, and any firm that would is telling you something about themselves.