Outsourced Bookkeeping for Accountants in the UK
A white-label bookkeeping team that works in your software, to your checklists, under your name.
For accountancy practices overview
Most UK practices are not short of clients. They are short of people to do the bookkeeping, and Making Tax Digital for Income Tax turns once-a-year records into quarterly work for every sole trader and landlord over £30,000 from April 2027. Recruiting and training a bookkeeper takes months, and the next quarter will not wait for them.
We work as an extension of your team, white label. Your clients deal with you, not us. We work in your Xero, QuickBooks, Sage or FreeAgent subscriptions, follow your checklists and coding rules, and prepare work to the standard your reviewer expects. Your practice keeps the engagement letter, the client relationship, the sign-off and every submission to HMRC and Companies House.
We start with a pilot of a few client files, so you can review our work before handing over more. Together we agree turnaround times, how queries are raised and how work comes back, through your practice management system or a shared tracker. Your reviewer receives finished files with reconciliations attached and questions listed, not a pile of raw transactions.
Prefer to talk it through first? Call +971 54 542 4854 or email info@hof-partners.com.
What we prepare for your practice
- Monthly and quarterly books
- Bank feeds, sales and purchases posted and reconciled for each client, to your coding rules.
- MTD quarterly figures
- Self-employment and property income categorised and checked, ready for your team to submit each quarter.
- VAT return workings
- Returns prepared in the client's MTD-compatible software, with the VAT control account reconciled.
- Year-end files
- Trial balance, accruals, prepayments, fixed asset and loan schedules ready for your accounts team.
- Payroll preparation
- Pay runs, RTI figures and pension reports prepared for the clients you run payroll for.
- Client query lists
- Missing receipts and unexplained transactions collected in one list, ready to send in your name.
Your practice takes on more clients without adding to its payroll.
Questions about For accountancy practices
Only if you tell them. We work under your practice's name and never contact your clients unless you ask us to. Check your professional body's guidance on outsourcing and confidentiality, and update your engagement letters if it calls for disclosure.
Your practice does. We prepare the work and hand it back for review. VAT returns, MTD updates, payroll submissions, accounts and tax returns are submitted by your team, through your own agent access and filing software. We never submit on your behalf.
The software your clients already use, including Xero, QuickBooks Online, Sage and FreeAgent, along with receipt capture tools such as Dext. You issue each of us our own login, so you can see who did what. See Xero bookkeeping for how we keep a client file clean.
Your practice stays the data controller and we act as your processor, under a written data processing agreement. Because our team works from the UAE, the agreement also covers international transfers, for example through the UK International Data Transfer Agreement. We work inside your systems, with only the access each file needs.
Yes. From 6 April 2027, sole traders and landlords with qualifying income over £30,000 send quarterly updates, the first due by 7 August 2027. We keep those clients' records digital and prepare each quarter's figures for your team to review and submit. See Making Tax Digital bookkeeping.
With a pilot. You choose a few client files, we agree your checklists, turnaround and query process, and you review the results before deciding on more. Pricing is set out in a written proposal once the scope is agreed.
More ways we can help
All services- Making Tax DigitalDigital records kept and quarterly figures prepared, so every MTD update is ready to approve.
- BookkeepingBooks posted, reconciled and closed every month, ready for VAT, payroll and year end.
- 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 white-label bookkeeping
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