Books that are ready before you need them
Statutory compliance, bookkeeping and audit support for owner-run businesses, closed monthly rather than in a panic each March.
Four services, in the order most clients take them
Nobody starts with advisory. They start because a deadline moved.
01Statutory compliance
GST, TDS, advance tax and annual returns, filed against a calendar you can see rather than a reminder you receive two days before. This is where most clients arrive, usually after a notice, and it is the part that has to be boring.
02Bookkeeping and the monthly close
Books closed by the tenth of the following month, reconciled to the bank rather than to themselves. It is the least interesting thing we sell and the one that makes everything after it possible.
03Audit support
Preparing the file your statutory auditor will ask for, before they ask. We do not audit clients we keep books for — that is a line, not a preference — so this is about making somebody else’s audit short.
04Advisory
Structure, drawings, and the tax consequence of a decision you have not made yet. Only useful when the three above are already true, which is why it is last on this list rather than first on the brochure.
Closed by the tenth, reconciled to the bank
Every month, without a request from you. Bank, cash, receivables and payables are agreed to statements rather than to each other, which is the difference between books that balance and books that are right. You get a two-page summary and the underlying ledger, and the questions we could not answer ourselves are listed at the top rather than buried.
Every deadline visible from January
A single filing calendar for your entity, shared rather than held here, with what is due, who is preparing it and what we need from you to start. The value is not the reminder — it is that you can see in January what June will demand, and tell us then about the thing that will make June complicated.
A file your auditor can actually use
Schedules, reconciliations and the supporting documents, assembled in the order a statutory auditor works through them. We do not audit the books we keep, so this exists to make somebody else’s job short — and a short audit is a cheap audit, which is the part clients notice.
The practice, measured
What changed after the first year
We had been closing once a year and firefighting every March. The first monthly close took a fortnight to catch up and every one since has landed on the tenth. The bank stopped asking us for things twice.
They told us plainly that a question about a partner exit needed a lawyer, not an accountant, and handed us to one. It cost them the work and it is the reason we have sent them four referrals.
Our statutory audit used to run six weeks. The first year with a prepared file it took eleven days, and the auditor said so unprompted. That saving alone covered the monthly fee.
Before you move practices
The questions that actually decide it, answered the way we would on the phone.
How hard is it to switch accountants?
Less than people fear, and the awkward part is not technical. We write to your existing practice for the handover, and in almost every case it arrives without difficulty. The real work is the first close, which takes about a fortnight because we are catching up rather than keeping up.
Will you audit us as well?
No. We do not audit books we keep, and that is a line rather than a preference — it is the whole reason an audit means anything. What we do is prepare the file your statutory auditor asks for, which usually makes their engagement shorter and cheaper.
What does monthly bookkeeping cost?
It scales with transaction volume and entity type rather than with turnover, because a business doing a hundred crore through forty invoices is less work than one doing five through four thousand. You get a fixed monthly figure after a review of the last three months, and it does not move without a conversation.
We are behind on filings. Will you take us on?
Yes, and most new clients are. We will tell you at the review what the catch-up will cost and what the likely penalty exposure is before you commit, rather than discovering it together in month three.
Do you work with our existing software?
Whatever you already run — we would rather adopt your system than migrate you in the same quarter we are catching up your books. If we think the software is genuinely the problem we will say so, after the first close rather than before it.
Book a review of the last three months
No charge, and you get our written view of where the books stand whether or not you move to us. Bring the last three months of statements and whatever your current practice has filed.
March should be a month, not an event
If your books close once a year, the first thing worth doing is finding out what that has cost. The review is free and takes about an hour of your time.