Most accountants won't tell you what they charge until you've sat through a meeting. Here is what the market charges, and here are our own fees, in full.
Skip to our fees →| What you need | Typical UK price | What it normally covers |
|---|---|---|
| Sole trader, annual return | £150–£350 one-off | Self assessment prepared and filed from records you provide |
| Sole trader, monthly | £40–£100 / month | Bookkeeping plus the annual return |
| Limited company, compliance | £120–£200 / month | Year-end accounts, Corporation Tax return, confirmation statement, director self assessment |
| Limited company, plus books | £250–£450 / month | The above plus bookkeeping and VAT returns |
| With management accounts | £450–£800 / month | The above plus monthly reporting |
| Part-time finance director | £1,500–£3,000 / month | Forecasting, pricing, funding and board reporting |
Those are ranges rather than prices because scope varies enormously between quotes. Two firms quoting the same figure can be offering quite different amounts of work, and the gap is almost always in what is excluded.
We publish these because you should be able to compare without booking a call.
| Package | Monthly + VAT | What you get |
|---|---|---|
| Essentials | £95 | Year-end accounts, Corporation Tax return (CT600), confirmation statement, your self assessment as a director, payroll for one director, and unlimited questions by email |
| Essentials + Books | £195 | Everything above, plus your bookkeeping kept current and your VAT returns prepared and filed |
| Managed | £395 | Everything above, plus monthly management accounts and a quarterly call to work through them |
| Finance Director | £1,250 | Everything above, plus rolling cash forecasting, costing and pricing work, lender and funding support, and board reporting |
| Service | Fee | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Catch-up accounts | £450 per year | Per overdue year, where accounts are late at Companies House |
| Closing a company | £395 | Accounts to cessation and the final Corporation Tax return. A formal liquidation is carried out by a licensed insolvency practitioner, not by us |
| Charity independent examination | £500 | Charities below the audit threshold |
| Parish council internal audit | £650 | Annual internal audit and AGAR support |
| Books health check | Free | Seventeen automated checks against your accounting file, written findings back, no obligation |
Turnover, notably, is a poor guide. A £300,000 consultancy with four invoices a month is cheaper to serve than a £150,000 retailer with two thousand card transactions.
Statutory audit, personal tax planning, research and development claims, and anything requiring a registered auditor are outside what we offer. We will tell you if you need one of those and point you somewhere sensible. We would rather say so now than discover it halfway through a year.
These are often different people, and sometimes the second one doesn't exist. Ask what qualification each holds.
The most useful question on the list. Year-end accounts, Corporation Tax and VAT filing are the usual gaps in a cheap-looking monthly fee.
Introductory pricing is common. Ask what the fee will be in year two.
Anyone may call themselves an accountant in the UK. Membership of a professional body with a practising certificate, professional indemnity cover and ICO registration is worth confirming.
Your accounting data is yours. Check the notice period and that nothing is locked to their software licence.
Seventeen automated checks against your accounting file. We send back a written list of what we found, with the accounting standard behind each one. Free, no obligation, and we will tell you if your books are fine.
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