Months of unposted transactions. Unreconciled bank accounts. VAT returns submitted on guesswork. Your accountant emailing about year-end and you don't even know where the receipts are. Sound familiar? We sort it out — fixed price, fixed timeline, fixed deliverable. Xero, QuickBooks, Sage, FreeAgent — all supported.
ACMA CGMA chartered · Fixed price · No long contracts · From £495
Receipts in a shoebox, bank feeds not reconciled, transactions sitting in "Ask my accountant" categories since the new year.
You submitted the last VAT return because HMRC asked for it — but you couldn't actually defend the numbers if HMRC inspected.
Your accountant wants the books for statutory accounts and you're not ready. They keep sending reminders. The deadline is in 6 weeks.
From April 2026, sole traders / landlords with £50K+ income need quarterly digital updates. Your records aren't ready for that.
Duplicate contacts, transactions split across wrong accounts, two suspense accounts with £40K balances no-one understands.
HMRC has written about a specific year, return, or transaction. You need clean records to respond — fast.
All work performed by an ACMA CGMA chartered management accountant. No outsourcing to Pakistan or the Philippines. Quote agreed before we start.
For limited companies / sole traders with up to 3 months of unposted transactions, in a generally tidy accounting platform.
For a full accounting year that needs reconciliation, restructuring, and a clean handoff to your accountant for statutory accounts.
For multi-year cleanups, HMRC enquiries, or pre-sale due-diligence preparation. Scoped on initial review (free 30-min call).
If your books live somewhere, we can clean them up there.
Bank reconciliation, VAT period clean-up, repeating invoices, contact deduplication, tracking categories.
Bank feed reconciliation, undeposited funds, chart of accounts restructure, VAT100 / MTD compliance.
Sage 50, Sage Cloud, Sage Business Cloud Accounting — chart restructuring, MTD VAT compatibility.
Sole-trader and freelancer-focused. Project codes, MTD ITSA digital records, self-assessment prep.
We'll migrate you onto a proper platform (usually Xero) as part of the cleanse — at no extra charge.
KashFlow, ClearBooks, Wave, Quickfile — we work with most UK SME accounting platforms.
We look at your books together (Zoom screen-share), agree the tier, and agree the fixed quote in writing.
Bank transfer (Wise GBP). Work begins the next working day. No deposit, no work — keeps us both honest.
5 working days for catch-up, 10 for full-year, agreed timeline for forensic. We message you only if we hit something that needs your decision.
Cleanup report, reconciled platform, handoff pack for your accountant. Balance invoiced on delivery.
Bookkeeping cleanup is the process of bringing a mess of unposted transactions, unreconciled bank accounts, and uncategorised entries into a clean, year-end-ready state. It typically involves: reconciling bank feeds, categorising transactions correctly, posting sales invoices and supplier bills, fixing duplicate or mis-categorised entries, reconciling the VAT account against submitted returns, restructuring the chart of accounts if it's a mess, and producing a handoff pack your accountant can use for statutory accounts. It is NOT statutory audit, year-end accounts preparation, or tax filing — though our cleanup makes all three much faster and cheaper.
No — most accountants welcome a properly-cleaned set of books because it dramatically reduces their year-end workload (and they can quote you less for statutory accounts). We work to your accountant's preferred chart-of-accounts structure, deliver a handoff pack, and coordinate directly with them if you authorise us. Many of our cleanups come via accountant referrals because we save them time.
Yes. Xero, QuickBooks, and Sage all support "advisor" / "accountant" access — you invite us as a user with the right permissions, we do the work, you can revoke access at any time. We don't store your login credentials — we use the platform's native access controls. We register as your bookkeeping agent with HMRC if you need MTD VAT or ITSA filing support.
That's typically the Forensic Cleanse tier. Multi-year reconstruction, several thousand transactions, director's loan account untangling, HMRC enquiry support — these are scoped at a free 30-minute discovery call and quoted as a fixed-price project. Most multi-year cleanups land at £2,495–£5,995 depending on complexity.
We can — as your authorised HMRC agent for VAT, we submit the reconciled MTD VAT return. The cleanup tier includes the VAT-period reconciliation but not the submission itself (£99 per quarter for the submission service). For sole traders, we also handle MTD ITSA quarterly updates (£495 annual service).
This is the Forensic Cleanse tier. We rebuild the underlying records (where possible — for VAT enquiries we go back to bank statements, sales invoices, supplier bills), produce defensible working papers, and prepare your response with your accountant or tax adviser. We are not solicitors — for HMRC enquiries that escalate to tax tribunal, you need a specialist tax solicitor. We coordinate.
Yes — ACMA CGMA (Associate Chartered Management Accountant, CIMA). This is a different chartered designation from ACA (ICAEW) or ACCA, but it is a full chartered qualification with continuing professional development. We are not Registered Auditors — for statutory audit you need an ICAEW-registered audit partner, which we coordinate when required.
Most UK cleanups start the same week. Free 30-minute scoping call (today or tomorrow), written quote within 24 hours, 50% deposit, work begins next working day. Catch-up delivered in 5 working days, full-year in 10. Forensic agreed at scoping.
30-minute scoping call. We'll look at your books together, agree the tier, give you a fixed price. No pitch — just clarity on what your cleanup will look like and what it'll cost.
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