A trouble shared
As a small business (and a firm of chartered accountants), we can recognize many of the problems encountered by other small businesses. We act as a support service to clients. The capacity and extent depends on each client's needs. Our involvement can be as simple as payroll accounting, or overseeing the bookkeeping.

Start-up

• A business can operate as a sole trader, a partnership, (even a limited partnership), or as a company. How do you decide which to use? We can help.
• We can also help guide you through the formalities, whichever format is chosen. We can form the company, if necessary.
• Should you be registered for VAT? We can help.
• You may need a business plan, or a cash flow forecast. We can help.
• How best to draw profits from the business? We can help.
• Our services are designed to assist and advise appropriate to each client's circumstances, from initial inception through to reaping rewards from the planning, hard work, and good fortune.

Management accounts

Helps you manage
We can prepare regular management accounts with comparison to budget.  Analysis of the financial information can be as detailed as required.  We would not presume to tell you how to run your business.  Our aim is to provide the support and expertise to help you run the business better.

Forecasts

We can assist with profit and loss and cash flow forecasts.

Tax Credits

• Do you qualify?
• Are you entitled?

You may be surprised.

VAT and completion of VAT returns

VAT is simple in concept but complex in practice. Is that gingerbread man zero-rated because it's food, or is it standard-rated confectionary?

There can be serious consequences if you get it wrong (not just about the gingerbread man). There are penalties (and worse) for late registration.

• Landlords option to tax
• Transfers of a going concern (TOGC)
• Retail schemes
• Partial exemption
• What to claim
• When to charge

We advise on VAT and help to complete VAT returns.

We advise on VAT

Life, the universe, and everything

Well, perhaps not everything, but we can advise generally on many aspects of business life, including employment matters, Payroll accounting, PAYE & NI, employee benefits, taxation and preparation of tax returns, VAT and completion of VAT returns, business status (should I be a Ltd company?), and many other matters on which we are consulted from time to time.

Contact us.

Dennis Mott & Co. Chartered accountants serving Cambridgeshire, Bedfordshire, Northamptonshire and beyond