Insight Professional Partners provides bookkeeping, VAT and management accounts to owner-managed businesses across Northampton. A Chartered Management Accountant (ACMA CGMA) is personally accountable for your numbers — not a junior, not offshore, not a rules engine. Fixed monthly fees agreed before any work starts.
Book a 30-minute initial review →Northampton is well supplied with accountancy firms, and most of them do a competent job of the year end. The gap is the eleven months in between, when the owner has no reliable read on margin, cash or where the money is actually going.
That's the part we do: books kept current on Xero, VAT reviewed before every return, and monthly management accounts written in plain English rather than accountancy.
With Brackmills and the M1 corridor, a large share of Northampton's owner-managed businesses are in distribution, warehousing, fit-out and trade work — high transaction volumes, heavy supplier and subcontractor activity, and margins that move quietly when coding drifts.
Everything below is included in the monthly fee. Every issue we raise is tied to a published accounting standard (FRS 102, FRS 105) or an HMRC rule — nothing is a black box.
Every bank account, credit card and payment platform reconciled monthly, so the position you see is the position you're in — not an estimate.
Transactions coded to the right nominal with the right VAT treatment. Consistent month to month, so your comparatives actually mean something.
Every return inspected before submission — reverse charge, partial exemption, disallowed input tax. Errors caught before HMRC finds them, not after.
Monthly P&L and balance sheet with plain-English commentary, so you can see how the business is really doing without decoding a spreadsheet.
Clean, reconciled books handed to your accountant at year end — which means a faster, cheaper and far less painful year-end process.
If something doesn't look right — margin moving, a control account drifting, a director's loan building — you hear about it that month, not next March.
Plenty of Northampton businesses don't want to change accountant — they want the bookkeeping taken off their desk and done properly. That's available on its own, at a fixed monthly fee, with your existing accountant kept in place for the year end.
The difference is who does it. Your ledger is handled by a qualified Chartered Management Accountant, so the person coding your transactions is the same person who can tell you what your gross margin is doing and why it moved.
I'm Peter Edwards. CIMA-qualified Chartered Management Accountant (ACMA CGMA) with twenty years of senior finance experience across pharmaceutical distribution, manufacturing, and professional services.
I keep my client list deliberately small so every engagement gets proper senior attention. No junior delegation. No offshored bookkeeping. No black-box software making decisions on your behalf.
Tax matters that fall outside CIMA's remit — Corporation Tax returns and personal Self Assessment — are referred out to a UK Chartered Accountancy firm we work with.
Thirty minutes on a call. Free, no obligation. We talk about your business, what's not working in the books, and what you'd want handled.
Free. We look at the state of the ledger and tell you honestly what we'd do differently — whether you engage us or not.
If it's a fit, we go live on a fixed monthly fee and Direct Debit mandate. Clean books from the first month.
We work with businesses across Northampton, Earls Barton, Towcester, Daventry, Wellingborough and the wider West Northamptonshire area — in person where it's useful, and entirely remote on Xero where it isn't.
Nearby: Wellingborough, Earls Barton, Towcester, Daventry, Kettering, Rushden.
Run our free Bookkeeping Health Check — a self-serve diagnostic that scores your books out of 100 and shows you exactly what's wrong. No login, nothing uploaded, no obligation.
Or book a 30-minute initial review and we'll talk it through.