Books in a mess?
Fixed-price catch-up from £495.

Bringing unposted transactions, unreconciled bank accounts and uncategorised entries into a clean, year-end-ready state: reconciling the bank feeds, categorising transactions, posting sales invoices and supplier bills, fixing duplicates and mis-postings, reconciling the VAT account to the returns already filed, tidying the chart of accounts if needed, and producing a handover pack your accountant can use. It is not a statutory audit, year-end accounts or a tax filing, though it makes all three quicker and cheaper.

£495 for up to three months of transactions, £995 for a full year, and from £2,495 for several years or an HMRC enquiry. All fixed in writing before the work starts, and excluding VAT. Once the books are current, monthly bookkeeping from £150 a month keeps them that way.

A properly reconciled set of books reduces their year-end work, so usually not. I work to your accountant's preferred chart of accounts, deliver a handover pack, and liaise with them directly if you authorise it.

Yes. Xero, QuickBooks, Sage and FreeAgent all have adviser or accountant access: you invite me as a user with the right permissions, I do the work, and you can remove the access at any time. I do not store your login details.

That is the multi-year tier: several years of transactions, a director's loan account to untangle, or an HMRC enquiry to answer. It is scoped from a short onboarding form and your records, and quoted as a fixed price from £2,495. No meeting needed unless you want one.

The catch-up includes reconciling each VAT period to the returns already filed. Preparing and submitting the next return is the quarterly VAT service at £99 a quarter, and for sole traders and landlords in Making Tax Digital for Income Tax the quarterly updates are £495 a year.

That is the multi-year tier. I rebuild the records from bank statements, sales invoices and supplier bills where possible, produce working papers that can be defended, and prepare the figures for your response with your accountant or tax adviser. I am not a solicitor: an enquiry that reaches a tribunal needs a specialist tax adviser or solicitor.

A chartered management accountant: ACMA CGMA, a member of CIMA since 2013. That is a different chartered body from ICAEW (ACA) or ACCA, with its own examinations and continuing professional development. I am not a registered auditor, so a statutory audit needs an audit firm; I prepare what they ask for.

Usually the same week. Send your details, get a written fixed quote within one working day, pay a 50% deposit, and the work starts the next working day. A three-month catch-up is delivered within 5 working days and a full year within 10. The multi-year tier has its timeline agreed in the quote.