Accounts & Bookkeeping

Year-End Accounts Preparation

Every year-end job comes back with the accounts and a complete, cross-referenced working paper set, so your reviewer can form a judgement in minutes without having to rebuild the job first.

Accountancy practices

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The problem

The review burden is the real cost

Most firms that tried outsourcing and gave up did so because the file could not be reviewed, not because the accounts were wrong. With no lead schedules, cross-references or explanation of judgements, the partner ended up doing the job twice.

Year-end work concentrates into a few hard months around the 31 December and 31 March filing peaks.
Basis period reform and MTD have compressed the timetable further for unincorporated clients.
Partner time spent unpicking a poorly documented file is the most expensive time in the firm.

At a glance

Service line: Accounts & Bookkeeping
Delivered for: Accountancy practices
Typical cadence: Standard: Typical turnaround of five to seven working days from a complete records pack. Priority: Two to three working days for jobs flagged urgent, agreed in advance. Peak season: Capacity reserved ahead of the December and March filing peaks under a forward plan.
Engagement models: Available per job, on ad-hoc hours, or through a dedicated resource. Compare models.

Scope

What you get back

Scope is agreed in writing before work starts and reviewed at each service review. Anything outside it is quoted separately, never absorbed and then invoiced later.

The accounts

Statutory accounts under FRS 102, FRS 102 Section 1A or FRS 105
Limited company, LLP, partnership and sole trader accounts
Charity accounts under the Charities SORP where relevant
Dormant and micro-entity accounts
Comparative restatement and prior-year adjustments where required

The working paper file

Lead schedule for every material balance, cross-referenced to the trial balance
Full supporting schedules: fixed assets, debtors, creditors, accruals, stock, loans
Directors' loan account reconciliation with s455 exposure flagged
Disclosure checklist completed against the applicable standard
Points-forward note listing every open judgement for partner attention

Filing-ready output

iXBRL-tagged accounts prepared in your filing software
Companies House and HMRC submission packs assembled for your approval
Draft corporation tax computation prepared alongside, if instructed
Client-facing summary of results and key movements, in your house format

Software

Platforms we work in for this service

We work inside your existing systems under named user accounts. If your stack is not listed, tell us and we will confirm whether we can support it straight away or need a ramp-up period.

IRIS
CCH Accounts Production
TaxCalc
Sage Accounts Production
VT Final Accounts
Xero Workpapers
Silverfin
Capium

The boundary

What stays with your firm

This matters more than the task list. A delivery partner that blurs this line creates regulatory exposure for you, so we state it explicitly on every engagement.

Yours, always

The client engagement and engagement letter
Professional judgement and final review
Sign-off, submission authority and the fee
Client advice and the client relationship

Ours

Preparation, processing and documentation
Internal second-person review before release
Turnaround against the agreed timetable
Rework at our cost where the error is ours

Questions

Year-End Accounts: what firms ask

All FAQs

Who signs the accounts?

You do. We are a preparation resource working under your instruction and your quality control. The engagement with the client, the review, the judgement and the signature all remain entirely with your firm.

How is quality controlled before we see it?

Every file passes a second-person review before release. The preparer and the reviewer are always different people, and the reviewer signs a completion checklist that travels with the file so you can see exactly what was checked.

What if the file comes back wrong?

Rework on our error is not chargeable and does not consume your contracted hours. We also log the root cause and feed it back into the process note for that client so the same issue does not recur next year.

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See the full picture

Talk to us about year-end accounts.

Bring a real example, such as a live job, a difficult client file or a cycle you are behind on. A concrete case tells you far more about a provider than a capability slide does.

What to expect

No obligation and no minimum commitment to talk
A written proposal within five working days
A paid pilot before any long-term arrangement

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