The financial and accounting services that we can provide are many and varied.

Some go way beyond what is traditionally expected from your accountant.

Here is what we do in the traditional accountants role. We have resources that can be dedicated to solving individual problems for clients either on a single occasion or on an ongoing basis. If you need to, please contact us. If we can't help ourselves, we can point you in the right direction and refer you to someone who can.

It is not unusual for every business to have a bookkeeping crisis from time to time!

We can always help! We can provide someone to help looking after the books.

We are good with IT, and can help you to set-up your accounting systems to be efficient and effective.

We can review your internal accounting systems, make suggestions for improvement. We can provide access to an internet accounting system which means we can help maintain your books and records in a time efficient and cost effective manner.

Contact us for more information on the internet accounting system.

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Every practice and business must plan ahead in order to ensure success, but it is too easy to succumb to the daily pressures of work and delay or ignore strategic planning. The result of poor planning is often rushed and misinformed decisions, over/under capacity, inefficiency and missed opportunities.

Every practice needs to invest time in developing a long-term plan, starting with what the partners want to achieve from the practice and establishing the priorities and objectives. We can then help you formulate a plan to help achieve these objectives.

Contact us today for a strategic planning review.

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Most people who start up in business do so because they have a good business proposition, not because they are experts in the financial aspects of running a business. These factors can often be quite daunting to the entrepreneur and this is where we can help by evaluating your ideas and helping you develop them into a feasible business.

We can also help you:

• decide on the most suitable structure for your business (i.e. sole trader, partnership or limited company)
• prepare a business plan, cashflow projections, budgets and trading forecasts to prove the financial viability of your ideas and demonstrate this to the bank / potential investors
• assess your finance requirements and access the most appropriate source of finance
• help you establish relationships with banks, solicitors, etc via our well established network of contacts
• carry out registration procedures with Companies House, Inland Revenue or Customs and Excise
• set up an internal accounting system which complies with statutory requirements

Call us for a free initial consultation to find out how we can help your ideas become reality.

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You can hand over the responsibility for making sure you are complying with the Companies Act to us at Sandisons!

We can help by carrying out the company secretarial duties for you. We can make you aware how this legislation affects your company and its directors, allowing you more time on your core business!

Our services include:

• company formations
• preparation and filing of statutory returns
• preparation of all documentation (such as minutes and resolutions)
• maintenance of statutory books (share register, minute book, etc)
• general advice on company law

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Information Technology has become an integral part of controlling and organizing any business.

Our practice is totally computerised! Our staff are very familiar with our financial systems. What we learn from developing our systems lets us advise our clients on I.T. related matters from first hand experience.

We have designed and provided an internet based accounting system so that we are able to access our clients records directly and help them solve problems as they occur and not many months later.

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Monitoring and controlling the financial performance of your practice is of paramount importance and regular management information is vital to the continued success of the practice. Even if the full reviews are not felt to be necessary, we can assist in monitoring performance against budget or analyzing why practice cashflow is better or worse than expected.

We will also take this service one step further by interpreting these figures for you and making suggestions to help you improve your profits or to help your business grow.

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Running your own payroll can be time consuming and complicated, particularly with the ever increasing complexity of taxation and employment legislation. There is an increasing burden on business to comply with these issues and non-compliance can lead to substantial penalties.

Our confidential service includes:

• computer generated payslips
• administration of PAYE, national insurance, statutory sick pay, statutory maternity pay, etc
• completion of statutory forms (including year end returns)
• summaries and analysis of staff costs
• administration of incentive schemes, bonuses and ex-gratia termination payments.

If you need help in dealing with your payroll then please do not hesitate to contact us.

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If you are a limited company then you are required to prepare accounts that must be filed with Companies House in a statutory format. We can help you by preparing your statutory accounts and filing them with Companies House for you.

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Taxation will represent a substantial cost to any profitable business, not only in terms of the tax itself but also in compliance with reporting obligations, investigations with tax authorities and penalties for non-compliance.

We can help you minimise your tax liabilities and relieve you of any administrative burden of complying with tax legislation. We will deal with all business tax matters, including preparing income and /or corporation tax computations and preparing and submitting your partnership tax return or corporation tax self-assessment return.

We can also prepare detailed schedules of future individual tax liabilities for planning purposes and help you avoid the pitfalls that await the unwary. In so doing we will also keep you advised of the tax relief position relating to pension contributions so that you can decide how much you want to save towards your future retirement and exactly what tax relief you can expect to receive.

We run an insurance scheme to cover you against the cost of tax investigations which can now be launched on a random basis by the Inland Revenue. Although we can't save you the hassle factor in the event of an investigation, we can at least save you the pain of a subsequent large accountancy fee. Full details can be provided to you during an initial interview.

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