Online Bookkeeping Services for UK Small Businesses
Books posted, reconciled and closed every month, ready for VAT, payroll and year end.
Bookkeeping overview
A UK limited company has more fixed dates than most owners expect: VAT quarters, payroll every month, accounts at Companies House within nine months of the year end and corporation tax due nine months and one day after it. Books that are only caught up once a year make every one of those dates harder than it needs to be.
We keep the books for UK small businesses, startups and growing companies, online and every month. Bank, card and payment-platform accounts are reconciled, sales and supplier invoices are posted, and VAT is coded correctly on each transaction, so the return is a check rather than a rebuild. Directors get figures they can use between year ends.
You choose the close date and we keep to it. Receipts arrive through your software or an app such as Dext, and our questions reach you in one weekly list, not a stream of emails. At year end your accountant receives a reconciled trial balance and supporting schedules, ready for the statutory accounts and the CT600.
Prefer to talk it through first? Call +971 54 542 4854 or email info@hof-partners.com.
Each month we deliver
- Bank reconciliations
- Every bank, card and payment-platform account, such as Stripe or PayPal, matched to its statement.
- Sales and purchase ledgers
- Invoices and bills posted, with aged debtor and creditor reports you can chase from.
- VAT coding
- Standard, reduced, zero-rated, exempt and reverse charge items coded as they are posted.
- Director's loan account
- Personal spending through the company tracked, so the balance is known before year end.
- Monthly close
- Accruals, prepayments and depreciation posted on a fixed timetable.
- Year-end pack
- A reconciled trial balance and supporting schedules ready for your accountant.
Books closed every month, so year end is a review, not a rebuild.
Questions about Bookkeeping
Software captures transactions; it does not decide how they should be coded, chase missing receipts or spot a duplicated bill. Bank rules speed up the posting, but someone still has to reconcile every account and check the VAT before each return.
Yes. We also watch your rolling 12-month taxable turnover against the £90,000 registration threshold, so you know before you cross it. Once you go over, you must register within 30 days of the end of that month. See VAT return preparation for what follows.
We prepare the year-end pack and can draft the accounts and corporation tax workings from the closed books. The directors approve them, and the company or its UK accountant files the accounts at Companies House within 9 months of the year end and the CT600 with HMRC.
Through your accounting software's email inbox, a receipt app such as Dext, or a shared folder. Paper receipts can be photographed and kept as digital copies, which also suits Making Tax Digital.
Limited companies must generally keep accounting records for 6 years from the end of the financial year they relate to. Your books stay in your software, under your own subscription, for as long as you keep it.
More ways we can help
All services- For accountancy practicesA white-label bookkeeping team that works in your software, to your checklists, under your name.
- Making Tax DigitalDigital records kept and quarterly figures prepared, so every MTD update is ready to approve.
- Xero bookkeepingYour Xero file kept clean every month: bank feeds reconciled, VAT coded, MTD returns ready.
- VAT returnsQuarterly VAT returns prepared, reconciled and ready to submit under Making Tax Digital.
- Management accountsA monthly pack that shows profit, cash and performance against budget, soon after each month end.
- PayrollWhite-label payroll processing: pay runs, RTI figures and pension files prepared for your review.
- LandlordsRents and costs recorded property by property, with MTD quarterly figures ready to approve.
Talk to us about your bookkeeping
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