Bookkeepers and Accountants fill different roles for clients – we work with any accountant that our clients prefer and have a lovely firm we recommend in Dunstable called Spicer and Co.

We can send the year end off to the accountants happily at the year end, to work their magic with depreciation and corporation tax computations.

They can refer clients to us, so that when clients need to whatsapp notes about sales invoices which need to go out that day, we can help them with this bookkeeping task.

Adding sales invoices to the books, sending out weekly statements to chase up payments from customers, these are bookkeeping tasks which are part of the hand-holding that bookkeepers provide and accountants don’t have time for.

We recently got a client whose accountant had been asking them to get a bookkeeper for months, as they have quite a high number of transactions which need to be coded to specific projects and this type of work is simply too expensive/time consuming for an accountancy team to handle.

We process their supplier and sales invoices every week and send a weekly list of creditors so they know how much to pay. This helps them manage the cashflow and it means that when the accountant are ready to file returns for them, everything is on the system correctly.

It may seem strange to need both a bookkeeper and an accountant, but the two roles are quite separate.

We are here to assist day to day or week to week. We enable you to get more hours working with your customers or training your staff rather than trawling through emails or chasing around for invoices. Having a good bookkeeping business helping you will feel like you have a back office team, without the stress of hiring a member of staff or providing office space as we work remotely.