For Royston owner-managed businesses

Accountants in Royston

Insight Professional Partners provides bookkeeping, VAT and management accounts to owner-managed businesses in Royston and along the Cambridgeshire–Hertfordshire border. A Chartered Management Accountant (ACMA CGMA) keeps your books, on a fixed monthly fee agreed before any work starts.

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Regulated byCIMA
Member in Practice
Companies HouseNo. 16943160
Insight Professional Partners Ltd
CoverProfessional
Indemnity Insured
ServingRoyston
& the Cambs–Herts border
What most Royston businesses actually need

Bookkeeping and management accounts for Royston businesses

Royston sits between the Cambridge cluster and the Hertfordshire commuter towns, and its business base reflects that: specialist manufacturing and science-adjacent suppliers, logistics along the A505, and a large number of small consultancies run by people who used to work somewhere bigger.

Consultancies in particular tend to have deceptively simple books that are quietly wrong — director's loan account drift, VAT claimed on things it shouldn't be, and income recognised when invoiced rather than when earned.

We keep the ledger accurate month to month, review the VAT position before every return, and give you management accounts that show what the business really made.

What we handle

Your books, kept properly, every month

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.

Reconciliation

Bank and card reconciliations

Every bank account, credit card and payment platform reconciled monthly, so the position you see is the position you're in — not an estimate.

Coding

Correct transaction coding

Transactions coded to the right nominal with the right VAT treatment. Consistent month to month, so your comparatives actually mean something.

VAT

VAT reviewed before filing

Every return inspected before submission — reverse charge, partial exemption, disallowed input tax. Errors caught before HMRC finds them, not after.

Reporting

Management accounts

Monthly P&L and balance sheet with plain-English commentary, so you can see how the business is really doing without decoding a spreadsheet.

Year end

Xero kept year-end ready

Clean, reconciled books handed to your accountant at year end — which means a faster, cheaper and far less painful year-end process.

Assurance

Issues flagged as they arise

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.

Runs on your existing Xero. Nothing for you to set up or learn. If you're not on Xero yet, we'll move you across as part of onboarding.
Fixed fees, agreed upfront

No hourly billing, no unexpected charges

Monthly fee
From £199 + VAT per month, confirmed once we've seen the scale of the work
One-off work
Any initial review or cleanup is priced separately and agreed before we start
Payment
Monthly by Direct Debit — no invoice chasing either way
Who does the work
A Chartered Management Accountant, not a junior and not offshore
Typical client
Owner-managed limited companies, £200k–£5m turnover
Notice
Straightforward terms, no long tie-in
Why IPP

A regulated practice, run by one person who's accountable

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.

  • Peter Edwards ACMA CGMAChartered Management Accountant, CIMA Member in Practice (regulated practising certificate)
  • 20 years senior finance experiencePharmaceutical distribution, manufacturing, professional services
  • Companies House No. 16943160Insight Professional Partners Ltd
  • Professional Indemnity InsuredFull PI cover, AML-supervised
  • Xero Partner PracticeAll engagements delivered on your existing Xero
How it works

Three steps to books you can trust

01

Initial review

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.

02

Bookkeeping Health Check

Free. We look at the state of the ledger and tell you honestly what we'd do differently — whether you engage us or not.

03

Monthly engagement

If it's a fit, we go live on a fixed monthly fee and Direct Debit mandate. Clean books from the first month.

Royston and the surrounding area

Local to Royston, and beyond

We work with businesses across Royston, Melbourn, Bassingbourn, Baldock, Letchworth and the surrounding Cambridgeshire and north Hertfordshire area — in person where it helps, and remotely on Xero where it doesn't.

Nearby: Melbourn, Bassingbourn, Baldock, Letchworth, Cambridge, Biggleswade.

Not sure your books are right?

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.

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