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Bookkeeping Services

Reduce your workload and increase business profitability

Being in business comes with the legal obligation to keep track of various business transactions. Failure to maintain accurate records could result in you being fined close to £3,000 by HMRC. To top it all, in cases where discrepancies are found in the records that lead to incorrect tax returns being filed, you may incur an additional penalty along with the fine.

If you are looking for professional, accurate accounting and bookkeeping services in Milton Keynes, CloudCo Accountancy Group are here to help. As Milton Keynes is one of Britain’s fastest growing commercial hubs outside London, we are very well positioned to help these organisations flourish. Below, we outline how our team of focused, dedicated, and result-driven accountants and bookkeepers can help with the financial side of running your company.

Running a business is already hard enough. Our accountants and bookkeepers deliver client-focused accounting and bookkeeping services aimed specifically at reducing your workload. Among many other benefits, we provide essential and easy-to-read financial reports that show you the overall profitability of your small business. Read on to find out more about our support services for business owners looking to prosper in Milton Keynes.

Professional, flexible and extensive bookkeeping services in Milton Keynes and beyond

To relieve clients of the burden of running their business and to save them valuable time, CloudCo Accountancy Group is committed to offering comprehensive bookkeeping services in Milton Keynes, especially designed for contractors, start-ups, and SMEs.

Our accountants and bookkeepers ensure comprehensive statutory compliance services off-site or on-site at your offices.

There is no set format for record keeping as such; CloudCo manages your requirements according to the size of your organisation. We take you step-by-step through the process, defining your requirements, and then set up an accounting procedure.

What does our bookkeeping service include?

To help you reap maximum benefits for your business, we keep you updated with information about essential areas such as:

1. Posting all your transactions on the bookkeeping platform

Online accounting means that you can see at the touch of a button how your business is doing in real-time. You can see how much money you have coming in across bank accounts and cards, what money is coming in, and what money is going out. This is called your cashflow. You cashflow helps you to make decisions quickly and to address areas that need attention before it’s too late. Before digitisation, which has revolutionised bookkeeping and accounting, many businesses used to just fly blind and make decisions based on “gut instinct”, or they’d only understand what was going on after the bookkeeper had visited their books that month.

Online bookkeeping and account services, therefore, can help any SME stay in the know about its overall cash flow status and know precisely where funds go and what they are used for. It can literally mean the difference between make or break.

2. Allocating each transaction to either a specific cost or revenue

Do you know what a revenue expense (tax deductible) or capital cost is? A professional bookkeeper will know immediately what to do and be 100% accurate when allocating the transaction to a specific cost or against revenue. As a cost against revenue includes costs beyond production, such as marketing and distribution, should costs associated with your website, for example, be allocated as a specific cost or a revenue expense? Our experts will correctly allocate all business expenses, which should include receipts for cash and other payments made, purchase invoices, credit card statements, bank statements, PayPal statements and cheque book stubs.

CloudCo’s accountants and bookkeepers can accurately oversee payments and keep track of credit control to ensure your business is 100% compliant. Every single one of your business transactions will be up to scrutiny: scrutiny is a key word and a very important aspect of running a business.

3. Reconciling bank transactions to ensure everything is tracked and understood

CloudCo’s bookkeeping professionals are not empowered by their expertise and knowledge alone: cloud software ensures real-time reconciliation of your bank statements and ensures that everything to do with your books matches exactly the records of your bank statements of the same period. The same attention to detail extends to reconciliation of all your business account records, including credit cards, PayPal accounts, or other business account transactions, which must be reconciled as well.

CloudCo online accounting allows you to see how your business is doing in real-time: how much money you have across bank accounts and cards, what money is coming in and what money is going out; and from this, CloudCo can build comprehensive reports; generate forecasts that can help predict with greater accuracy the future spending needs of your business; and also produce reports that account for all the revenue that leaves the business.

4. Reconciling customer and supplier ledgers

To help your business reap the maximum benefit from our services we update the information relating to essential areas of your books and accounts – key among which is reconciliation of your customer and supplier ledgers. A time-consuming task even with automation, our professionals can quickly and accurately pinpoint discrepancies and follow up where necessary. Issues such as double payments and underpayments or even missed payments will be a thing of the past.

In this and in all our efforts as your bookkeeper or accountant, CloudCo aim to increase the profitability of your business: helping business owners spot weaknesses in their operations; implementing strategies that make running your business more profitable; introducing better security and tracking data in virtually every sphere of your business finances.

Other Bookkeeping Services

CloudCo provides other bookkeeping and accounting services that empower businesses, including:

Performance ratios

You may have already heard about performance ratios on software like QuickBooks. This self-assessment of a business’s revenue performance determines how assets are turned into revenue, in addition to injecting vigour into the overall efficiency of small businesses and enabling them to convert their sales into revenue. Our bookkeeping service model prioritises performance ratios in accountancy and can provide these services for your business.

Customer activity

Another often overlooked concept in bookkeeping and accounting services is the activity of the customer base. If your small business survives on customers’ interest, our team can create specialist resources that offer advice on increasing customer activity through sales assessments and even suggestions about marketing and advertising.

Budget comparisons

Budget comparisons are useful for small businesses as a tool to help predict future financial patterns.

A budget comparison can show financial predictions and estimates to help meet the expectations of the business in either monthly or yearly comparison statements. These estimates can include everything from accounts receivable payments, budget analysis for future spending, as well as tax planning based on the amount of tax owed and any returns.

Suggestions and predictions

Every one of these services are designed to ensure that the needs of the business are met based upon sound decision-making. Bookkeeping and accounting are crucial when determining how well your company is doing financially at any given time, forecasting how the future may look, and making plans to meet financial demands or improve where there have been oversights.

Bookkeeping FAQs

Let’s take a look at some frequently asked questions about accounting and bookkeeping.

The services of an accountant or bookkeeper in Milton Keynes take some of the most difficult and arduous tasks of managing a business off the shoulders of the owner. Furthermore, a professional bookkeeper or accountant will be able to expertly handle the financial affairs of the business, relieving you of possible errors, probably helping to grow your profits, and plus you can take full advantage of their expertise.
The many years of experience that add up to gold-standard bookkeeping and accounting services of CloudCo will ensure 100% compliance and an accurate set of accounts and tax return details at the end of every financial year.

As your bookkeeping tasks run with us, our experts will continuously assess the records and look for areas where potentially you can save tax in your accounts and thus save money. Also, they will note any inadequacies in the accounts which, addressed in a timely manner, will result in tax savings as the year-end approaches. We can also oversee VAT in relation to your finances and prepare and file VAT returns.

Apart from keeping businesses 100% compliant, accounting and bookkeeping services can provide reports to suggest ways in which companies can improve their accounts to reflect positive data, which can help businesses in all sorts of ways. The entire process provided by an accountant is a service commitment to ensuring your business thrives, even in a competitive and unpredictable market.

For the self-employed, the services of a bookkeeper provide invaluable support, not least by introducing a range of services and systems that allow more focus on work and less energy spent on maintaining finances and worrying about what is owed.

Xero: We use Xero online accounting software, which connects you and your business to your registered bank, accountant, bookkeeper, and other business apps. QuickBooks: The great advantage of using accounting software such as QuickBooks is that it makes it easy to stay on top of your business finances. However, the help of an expert accountant is still advisable for most businesses. Accountants provide insight to ensure clients get the best access to reporting through the software. In addition to these software choices, CloudCo also uses: Kashflow, Free Agent and Nomisa. Any of these provide real-time bookkeeping and accounting. We’ll use whichever software you currently use or suggest a software to suit your business – it’s up to you.

Accountants and bookkeepers do not always have to completely oversee a client’s accounts, they can just as well provide limited companies or small businesses resources and accounting systems, if overseeing the company finances independently is preferred.

The power and necessity of accurate bookkeeping cannot be overlooked. The books reflect the vision of the business, establish the current standing of its finances and help to determine the way ahead. Through a range of different services, a bookkeeper can provide important insight into your business’s financial growth, help you better understand your goals and how seriously your books show you heading towards them, and also how you might invest in your business for the future.

We have a range of different prices to reflect our comprehensive, in-house firm of support services. Here is a guide that offers price points for our clients and companies. You can call or email us directly to find out more.

Contact CloudCo Accountancy Group Today

To learn more about our bookkeeping services based in Milton Keynes, those in London, or all across the UK, you can contact us by completing our website contact form; alternatively, you are welcome to call us or you can send us an email for a free bookkeeping consultation.

Our Bookkeepers Serve A Wide Area

We operate across a wide area from our head office in Milton Keynes. The majority of our bookkeeping services are online and cloud based, this means we can help you wherever you are based. Can’t see your area? Please still contact us for a free accounting consultation.