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Annual accounts go to \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.gov.uk\u002Fgovernment\u002Forganisations\u002Fcompanies-house\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Companies House\u003C\u002Fa> within nine months of the accounting reference date, and the rules for a company's first set are different again, as set out in the guidance on \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.gov.uk\u002Fannual-accounts\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">annual accounts\u003C\u002Fa>. The confirmation statement is a separate annual filing about the company itself rather than its finances, explained in \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.gov.uk\u002Fguidance\u002Ffiling-your-companys-confirmation-statement\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">filing your company's confirmation statement\u003C\u002Fa>. The Corporation Tax return is due twelve months after the period end, but the tax itself is payable nine months and one day after it, so the payment falls due three months before the return.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp style=\"color:var(--muted);font-size:17px;line-height:1.6;margin-bottom:18px;\">On top of that sit the recurring filings. VAT returns are quarterly for most companies and must be filed from digital records under \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.gov.uk\u002Fgovernment\u002Fcollections\u002Fmaking-tax-digital-for-vat\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Making Tax Digital for VAT\u003C\u002Fa>. Payroll is reported to HMRC on or before each payday under Real Time Information, with the wider rules collected under \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.gov.uk\u002Fgovernment\u002Fcollections\u002Fpaye-detailed-information\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">PAYE detailed information\u003C\u002Fa>. Benefits in kind are reported after the tax year ends, and pension auto-enrolment brings a re-declaration of compliance on its own three-year cycle. Miss any of them and the penalty is automatic rather than discretionary.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp style=\"color:var(--muted);font-size:17px;line-height:1.6;margin-bottom:18px;\">The failure sequence at this size is predictable and always runs in the same order. The bank feed stops being reconciled, usually during a busy quarter. Two months later the VAT return is filed from an unreconciled ledger, so it is wrong but nobody knows. Payroll journals go unposted, so the wage cost in the management accounts is whatever left the bank rather than what was earned. By the year end the accountant is rebuilding nine months of coding, the accounts land late, and the Corporation Tax payment date has already passed. Catching it at step one costs a morning. 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Payments-on-account scheduled.","Strategic finance supportPricing analysis, hiring scenarios, cash flow forecasting, business decisions backed by analysis.","Dedicated lead accountantA named ACCA-qualified accountant who knows your business, not a service desk.","blocks.deliverables",{"id":452,"quote":453,"name":454,"role":455,"company":49,"avatar":49,"__component":456},2569,"Switched from a high-street firm that took six weeks to close the month. Accountaire delivers by the 5th, handles all our payroll, VAT, year-end, and the management reporting actually drives decisions now.","Owner · Creative agency","14 staff · Manchester","blocks.testimonial",{"id":458,"heading":459,"items":460,"__component":489},1921,"What small business accountants are asked at the first call.",[461,465,469,473,477,481,485],{"id":462,"question":463,"answer":464},12119,"How does your service compare to a high-street firm?","The honest version includes where we are the wrong answer. A business still working from paper records and a cash drawer gets little from a cloud stack, and anyone needing an audit opinion needs a registered audit firm whatever else changes. Where we differ is cadence. You get a monthly close and numbers you can still act on, instead of one conversation a year about a period that has already closed.",{"id":466,"question":467,"answer":468},12120,"Do you handle our year-end audit?","Statutory audit starts at turnover above £15m or a balance sheet total above £7.5m for accounting periods beginning on or after 6 April 2025, up from £10.2m and £5.1m, which still govern periods that began earlier. If you are over the line we prepare you and coordinate with a licensed audit firm. If audit is voluntary or not required, we handle the statutory accounts directly.",{"id":470,"question":471,"answer":472},12121,"Can you take over from our current accountant?","Yes. We handle the full transition. Records request from outgoing accountant, software setup, opening-balance reconciliation, parallel running for a month if needed. Most transitions complete in 30 days.",{"id":474,"question":475,"answer":476},12122,"What if my business is regulated (financial services, healthcare)?","Common. We work with FCA-regulated firms, dental and medical practices, legal firms (SRA-regulated) and others. Sector-specific compliance requirements are within scope.",{"id":478,"question":479,"answer":480},12123,"Do you handle group structures?","Multi-entity groups (UK + overseas subsidiaries, parent-child structures, JVs) are within scope on the Enterprise tier. Consolidation is handled in IFRS or FRS 102 as appropriate.",{"id":482,"question":483,"answer":484},12124,"What changes when we cross about ten employees?","Payroll stops being a monthly formality and starts driving cash. Pension auto-enrolment assessment runs every pay period, statutory pay claims appear, and the wage cost becomes the largest single line in the accounts. At that point monthly management accounts stop being a nice-to-have, because a two-point move in payroll as a share of revenue is worth more than most of the savings elsewhere.",{"id":486,"question":487,"answer":488},12125,"Do we still need a bookkeeper if you do the year end?","Keeping both is the most common source of error we see. When the bookkeeping and the statutory accounts sit with different firms, adjustments made at the year end are rarely posted back into the live ledger, so the following year opens from a set of balances the bookkeeper does not recognise. We run both from one ledger, which is why the year end takes days rather than months.","blocks.faq",{"id":491,"eyebrow":492,"heading":493,"body":49,"gridBody":49,"layout":49,"__component":357},14566,"Recommended services","Commonly added at this size.",{"id":495,"heading":49,"dark":79,"variant":365,"note":49,"cells":496,"__component":388},6976,[497,501,505,509,513],{"id":498,"num":499,"numUsd":49,"eyebrow":49,"headline":94,"avatar":49,"body":500,"span":372,"rowSpan":79,"accent":79,"dark":79,"href":95},27768,"REPORTING","The monthly board-ready pack.",{"id":502,"num":503,"numUsd":49,"eyebrow":49,"headline":40,"avatar":49,"body":504,"span":372,"rowSpan":79,"accent":79,"dark":131,"href":87},27769,"CORE","Full UK payroll with auto-enrolment.",{"id":506,"num":507,"numUsd":49,"eyebrow":49,"headline":98,"avatar":49,"body":508,"span":372,"rowSpan":79,"accent":79,"dark":79,"href":99},27770,"ADVISORY","Strategic finance when you outgrow part-time advisory.",{"id":510,"num":511,"numUsd":49,"eyebrow":49,"headline":102,"avatar":49,"body":512,"span":372,"rowSpan":79,"accent":79,"dark":79,"href":103},27771,"CLEAN-UP","For companies arriving with several months of unreconciled ledger.",{"id":514,"num":515,"numUsd":49,"eyebrow":49,"headline":516,"avatar":49,"body":517,"span":372,"rowSpan":79,"accent":79,"dark":131,"href":244},27772,"MARKET","UK accounting and HMRC filings","The full UK compliance calendar we run against.",{"id":519,"cta":520,"__component":525},2220,{"id":519,"eyebrow":521,"heading":522,"body":523,"primaryLabel":524,"primaryHref":323,"secondaryLabel":49,"secondaryHref":49,"dark":79},"For SME owners","Want a complete finance function?","Thirty minutes to scope your current setup. Fixed-fee proposal within 24 hours.","Book a small business finance call","blocks.cta-banner"]