Decision guides

Compare your finance options — honestly

Accountant or bookkeeper? Outsourced or in-house? DIY or hand it over? These guides lay out the real trade-offs side by side — including, plainly, when the option that isn't us is the right call. Written by Stuart Wilson, ACMA CGMA.

Guides for UK business owners

Bookkeeper vs Accountant

A bookkeeper records and organises your day-to-day finances: reconciling the bank, categorising transactions and keeping the ledger accurate month by month. An …

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Outsourced Bookkeeping vs In-House Bookkeeper

For most small UK businesses, outsourced bookkeeping is the better choice: it costs less, carries on when someone is on holiday or off sick, and removes the job…

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Online Accountant vs High-Street Accountant

For most UK small businesses, an online accountant is the better choice: lower fixed fees, faster responses, cloud software included, and work that does not dep…

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Hiring a Bookkeeper vs DIY Bookkeeping

DIY bookkeeping genuinely works for very small, very simple businesses: a sole trader with a handful of transactions, no VAT and no payroll can reasonably do th…

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BlackpeakCFO vs Traditional Accountant

A traditional UK accountant runs on an annual rhythm: year-end focused, reactive, with the work often done by juniors under a partner's name. BlackpeakCFO runs …

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