Bookkeeping Services
Services:
◉ Significance of bookkeeping:
Bookkeeping is the root of all records keeping. All of your accounts and returns are based on bookkeeping, so it is absolutely crucial to have competent and skillful bookkeeping services for your business. At Businesswise, we consistently provide first-rate bookkeeping services and flexible bookkeeping solutions for all sizes of businesses. We encourage businesses to adopt a progressive approach and select state-of-the-art bookkeeping software that will prove economically efficient and more reliable.
◉ Importance of Bookkeeping:
Bookkeeping is paramount for helping you maintain accurate financial records. Albeit, many businesses fail to implement this necessary process. It is not just a legal requirement to maintain true and accurate records of the business, but this practice also benefits you in many ways, which include:
◉ How it helps in Financial Mapping and analysis:
The significance of bookkeeping increases when it comes to the budget. In a typical budget, any organization tries to map out the income and expenses for the next year. An incremental budget is formulated on the basis of historic data; hence bookkeeping helps you allocate resources in the relevant amount and category for the next year. Any budget that doesn’t represent a true picture of the expectations of a business can hamper its progress. When data is analyzed and interpreted in a more useful way, then decision-making becomes easy and more effective. Remember, a business can only move in the right direction if it is making informed decisions, and this can be possible with our top-notch bookkeeping services for all businesses irrespective of your size or industry.
◉ EC Sales List:
If you supply goods or services to other businesses in European Union countries, it is mandatory to file an EC Sales List to HMRC. We can help you compile the list from your accounts and submit it on your behalf to HMRC.
◉What role does bookkeeping play in calculating taxable amount?
Organized record-keeping is fundamental in determining the tax liability of a business and eventually will help the director of the company estimate his personal tax obligation as well. Whether you are doing VAT returns or corporation tax returns, a valid classification of income and expenses is necessary to gauge the amount of tax to be paid or, in other cases, to be received from HMRC. Any false representation of sales, purchases, or expenses can lead to the initiation of an inquiry from HMRC. At Businesswise Accountants, we ensure that you pay only the right amount of tax.
When filing for your self-assessment return, it is vital to know the exact income you will receive from your company.
◉ How it helps to fulfill reporting requirements and internal controls:
If you are in a partnership and most partners are only sleeping partners, and you want to report to them about the health of the business, then authentic bookkeeping can help you do accurate reporting. This will not only enhance the credibility of your reporting but also help you secure more investment from investors as well. Similarly, banks sometimes ask how your business is doing if you apply for a loan, and accurate bookkeeping can help you prepare the relevant presentation in a very short amount of time. At Businesswise Accountants, we help you forget all this hassle and let our experts deal with the complexities of bookkeeping to secure new funding or simply report to your investors
To run a successful business, you need to put in place the right type of internal controls, and bookkeeping will help you in that regard as well. Bookkeeping will assist you in chasing creditors and tracking any suppliers which aren’t paid on time. Internal controls are important to keep the business on track and indicate any issues or deviations from annual and long-term goals for the organization. A profit and loss statement indicates the profit a business is making, and a balance sheet determines the assets and liabilities of a business. You can extract the formulated information swiftly only if bookkeeping is done according to relevant standards.
◉ What are legal obligations:
Running a start-up or running business can involve a lot of hard work and complexities, not least of which is the maintenance of the company accounts. Not everyone is great with figures; similarly, not everyone realizes their legal obligations.
● Section 386 of the Companies Act 2006 lays down the duty of every company to keep proper accounts, stating:
● “(1) Every company must keep adequate accounting records
(3) Accounting records must, in particular, contain— (a) entries from day to day of all sums of money received and expended by the company and the matters in respect of which the receipt and expenditure takes place, and (b) a record of the assets and liabilities of the company.”
● Section 387 makes it clear that failure to comply with this regulation is a criminal offense which is punishable with imprisonment.
● “(1) If a company fails to comply with any provision of section 386 (duty to keep accounting records), an offense is committed by every officer of the company who is in default…
(3) A person guilty of an offense under this section is liable—
(a) on conviction on indictment, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years or a fine (or both);…”
The essence of this area of law is that every director of a company is responsible for the company’s accounts. Failure to comply with the law and fulfill this duty can have serious consequences for individual directors. It is therefore important to keep proper accounts, maintaining the books on a daily basis. The act also furthers this duty by requiring these accounts to be kept for a number of years.
● Section 388(4): (4) Accounting records that a company is required by section 386 to keep must be preserved by it—
(a) in the case of a private company, for three years from the date on which they are made;
(b) in the case of a public company, for six years from the date on which they are made
In a nutshell, failure to comply with this legal duty as a director can lead to serious consequences, but you don’t have to sweat a single drop and contact Businesswise Accountants as we are here to take all the responsibility and let this complex and delicate task be dealt with by our experts. We will not only perform this operation on your behalf but also advise you to select suitable software for your business.
◉ It helps you to have peace of mind:
Professional, efficient bookkeeping can make all your stakeholders happy. For example, banks will be happy that they are being provided with timely and accurate information, HMRC will be happy to receive comprehensive and relevant information. Similarly, it will help you manage your business efficiently and steer it in the right direction. As an entrepreneur, you will be independent of all bookkeeping worries and focus on the strategy of your business and leave all bookkeeping-related affairs to our experts.
◉ Why us?
We are a firm of financial accountants, and our mission is complete customer satisfaction and continuous improvement in our services to match the dynamic environment of accountancy services. We build our relationship by providing services with professional integrity and slick as whistle operations. We thrive on passion, interaction, and solution. We approach each and every client with the same zeal, and pride ourselves on the best communication and interaction measures put in place. We ensure that the combination of our skills and up-to-date knowledge helps your business achieve the best solution for accounting problems. Apart from traditional accounting solutions and services, we organize regular business development workshops to help all businesses interact with each other and share different ideas and their keys to success. We respect conventional accounting practices but aim to blend those with contemporary software solutions to present the best services. We are pragmatic, enthusiastic, visionary, progressive, and an innovative accountancy practice.
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