We look after 340 founder-run businesses from Manchester. Pick a plan, sign the engagement letter, and we handle the switch from your old accountant. Questions are included, because charging for them is how people stop asking.
Freelancers, contractors and side businesses under £90k turnover.
One or two director companies with staff or contractors on payroll.
Funded and revenue-scaling businesses from £1m turnover.
All plans include your accounting software licence, unlimited questions and a named accountant. Prices exclude VAT. Nothing is charged until the engagement letter is signed.
Compare the plans
If two plans would both work, we put you on the cheaper one and say why. Anything outside a plan is quoted before it starts.
| What you get | Sole trader | Limited | Scaling |
|---|---|---|---|
| Year end accounts | Sole trader accounts | Full statutory accounts | Full statutory accounts |
| Tax returns filed | 1 self assessment | CT600 plus 2 returns | CT600 plus 4 returns |
| VAT returns | Add £25 per month | Included, quarterly | Included, monthly or quarterly |
| Payroll | Not included | Up to 5 people | Up to 25 people |
| Management accounts | Not included | On request, £180 | Monthly, included |
| Response time | 1 working day | 1 working day | Same working day |
Switching
Most people put off changing accountants because they dread the conversation. You do not have to have it. We write to your current firm and request the handover ourselves.
Choose Sole trader, Limited or Scaling. No sales call first unless you want one.
2 minIt arrives by email. Read it, sign it on your phone. It says what we do, what it costs and how either side ends it.
3 minInvite us to Xero or QuickBooks and authorise us at HMRC. We send the exact clicks, in order.
4 minProfessional clearance and the handover request go out the same day. You do not need to have that conversation.
1 minDeadline tracker
The dates that catch people out, counting down. Your own dates sit in your client portal, and we chase you before any of them get close.
Companies with a December year end
Due 1 October 2026
Anyone still filing on paper
Due 31 October 2026
Quarterly VAT registered businesses
Due 7 November 2026
Directors, sole traders, landlords
Due 31 January 2027
Client stories
Clients agree to the numbers before we publish them. Names stay out unless they ask to be named.
They had been treating gross Stripe deposits as revenue since launch. We rebuilt the ledger, matched payouts to settlements and filed the corrections before HMRC asked.
Salaries had been run by hand on the 28th, sometimes the 30th. We set a fixed run date, automated auto-enrolment and gave the founder a Slack channel instead of an inbox.
We sat with two developers for an afternoon, wrote the technical narrative from what they actually built, and filed the additional information form the same week.
The old arrangement had not been reviewed since incorporation. We modelled three mixes, showed the take-home for each and filed on the one they picked.
Questions founders ask
No. Pick a plan, sign the engagement letter and we start. If you would rather talk it through, book twenty minutes and we will tell you honestly if a cheaper plan fits.
We move you up at the start of the next month and tell you why. We also move people down. Three clients dropped from Scaling to Limited last year because they no longer needed the monthly pack.
Sole trader and Limited are rolling monthly, cancel any time. Scaling has three months notice because we hold the forecasting work. Your records are yours and we hand them over in full.
A named accountant, listed on your engagement letter, with a second reviewer on anything filed. You will not be routed through a general helpdesk.
Yes, and most clients do. We request professional clearance and the handover file from your current accountant. You do not need to give them a reason.
Signed engagement letter to first filing in under a fortnight, in most cases.