What’s included in the Basic Bookkeeping package?
Every month we will categorise all business related income and expense transactions and issue you a monthly financial statement consisting of a Balance Sheet and a Profit and Loss report. These reports will help you understand your business past to make decisions on your business future. They are required in order to do any tax planning or to fund your business. Unlimited email and text support is also included.
What’s not included in the Basic Bookkeeping package?
Anything above and beyond basic tracking of income and expense items for the month is not included in the monthly price above. However, additional services are available as an add-on to your basic bookkeeping package. These add-on's include: accrual basis accounting, detailed financials showing class tracking or job profitability, invoicing, bill payment, payroll, VAT filing, tax planning and preparation and legal help. Monthly strategy sessions are also available for additional fees.
How do I request additional services?
Once you have selected to enroll in the Basic Bookkeeping package, you will have an opportunity to review additional services in more detail and select those that suit your business best. You may also request services via email at any time! We are here to help!
What qualifications does your team have?
Many of our team members are bookkeepers, accountants, legal professionals and Certified Quickbooks Pro-Advisors. You can rest assured that you are working with the highest quality professionals. We also belong to a large network of financial professionals so if there is a question we have not seen before, we have a lot of resources in our back pocket to find an answer for you fast.
What information do I need to share?
Ideally, our bookkeeping team will need access to your business bank and credit card accounts in order to efficiently complete your monthly financials. Many banks allow for accountant (read-only) access to bank accounts. This access helps us to keep our fees affordable and our efficiency high.
If I have a question, how long does it take to get an email response?
We pride ourselves in being very responsive to our clients important enquiries. We strive to respond within 24 hours (except over weekends and bank holidays). If we are very busy, we will respond to let you know we have received your email and will address it shortly.
What hours do the bookkeepers and other team members work?
Due to the flexible nature of bookkeeping work, many team members work various hours of the day and night. However, we use standard Monday to Friday, 8am to 5pm work hours to address emails and phone calls.
Is Quickbooks Online required for the Basic Bookkeeping package?
Yes. Our team must use Quickbooks Online in order to handle the bookkeeping. Versions - Essentials, Plus, or Advanced are all acceptable. Simple Start or Quickbooks Self Employed are not. If you have a current subscription, you are ahead of the game. No need to get another subscription. If you do not currently have a subscription, the on-boarding videos will walk you through how to get that setup. We are able to offer 20% off to our new clients for 12 months. This is the best discount you can get with Quickbooks Online. We highly recommend signing up for Essentials or Plus to start.
Do you require a contract?
Nope! No contract is required. However, there are no partial month refunds.
Is an engagement letter required?
Yes, an engagement letter is required. This terms and conditions documents will act as our official engagement letter. You may be asked to sign future engagement letters via electronic signature for any additional services as well.
What is required of me?
We do not offer refunds but you can cancel anytime. We do want to provide world class service to you but we cannot do that without the proper documents and items requested during onboarding and in the future. We also cannot read minds so there will be various questions asked throughout the month to make sure we are categorizing things appropriately. Timely responses are appreciated.
Important things to note for various add-on services:
Basic Bookkeeping does require the use of your own QBO subscription. You own the license to that and will retain access to the program upon termination of our working relationship, if that ever happens.
Monthly or One-time Strategy Sessions will be helpful for you if you are needing to brainstorm issues about your business or want to go over the financials in detail. Unlimited email and text support is included in the basic bookkeeping package. We highly suggest that our clients schedule strategy sessions monthly (or at least quarterly) to chat about the financials and discuss future plans with your business. It’s always nice to have a fresh perspective on things. One-time Strategy Sessions are currently £108 or you can sign up for recurring monthly sessions for £75/month. We appreciate at least a three month commitment for our monthly rate but it is not required.
Legal Services are available to you for an additional cost. Our legal partners do offer a complimentary consult to discuss any needs your business may have, including but not limited to, automated alerts to specific due dates and reporting requirements, secured cloud storage for all company documents, questions on entity setup, articles of incorporation, and exit strategies. We highly recommend taking advantage of this complimentary interview. Any additional legal services will require an additional engagement letter with our legal partners.
Tax Planning and Preparation Our accountancy tax partners prepare strategic tax planning reports based on the financials we prepare, past tax history and your future projections. You will never be surprised at tax time again. We highly recommend setting up a complimentary call with our accountancy tax partners to review your tax situation as soon as possible. Any tax service will also require an additional engagement letter with our tax partners.
Payroll Setup and Support is provided through our payroll partners. All payroll submission, tax and NI payments and tax report filings (including year end reports, P60’s and P11’s) are included in one low monthly fee. The fee varies depending on how many employees your company hires. Our third party payroll experts take on full responsibility for all timely and accurate tax payments and filings. Any payroll service will require an additional engagement letter with our payroll partners.
VAT Returns may be a helpful item to offload. We would be happy to assist with monthly, quarterly or annual filing of your VAT returns. You are required to submit the information necessary for us to compile totals and submit online to HMRC. We do expect the information to be sent to our team no later than 7 business days before the due date of the return to allow for adequate time to compile and file. Please note that in order to submit your VAT returns electronically your company must be signed up to Making Tax Digital - we can take you through this process.
Class Tracking is available if you are looking into more detailed financial statements. This can be helpful if you are wanting to track profitability of certain jobs, customers or large product lines. It is also a requirement for property developers and landlords. In order for class tracking reports to be helpful to you, we will need to work out a process to communicate details on each transaction so that we know how to track the various classes, properties or departments. We have several different methods to choose from and we can make a plan of action based on what works best for you.
AR and AP management are tasks that can be very time consuming and we would love to streamline those processes for you. Keeping track of customer and supplier balances, sending out invoices, processing customer and supplier payments and updating customer and vendor records are some of the items we can do for you. This requires more communication throughout the month and may require additional software subscription costs as well.
Clean-up/Catch-up Work is something that most of our new clients will need to add on. You will be required to add this service on for any months that a tax return has not been completed. For example, if you have filed your 2019/2020 self assessment tax return already, then we need to complete and/or review your books starting with April 2020 in order to prepare accurate financials for your upcoming tax return. We give a one-time discounts to our new customers for this back work. We are also happy to provide this discount on past years where you think the tax return and/or financials were inaccurate.
We reserve the right to make changes and additions to the terms and conditions at any time.
