Accounts production
Year-end accounts, corporation tax, self assessment and management accounts, prepared in your software to your working-papers standard and reviewed by our own UK practice before they reach you.
What you can hand over
- Statutory year-end accounts under FRS 102 Section 1A and FRS 105, from bookkeeping or client records
- Corporation tax computations and CT600s, ready for your review and filing
- Self assessment returns for sole traders, landlords, directors and partnerships
- Monthly or quarterly management accounts with commentary
- Bookkeeping clean-ups and catch-ups before accounts work starts
- iXBRL tagging, working papers, lead schedules and a review notes sheet on every job
How the work runs
A job comes in
You send it through the portal with the papers and a deadline. Your preparer confirms the scope, the estimated hours and the due date.
It is prepared your way
Your working-papers template, your file naming and your software. If you do not have a standard, we bring ours and you can keep it.
Queries arrive in one list
One list of client queries per job, each with the date the answer is needed by. You choose whether you send it to the client or we do.
Our UK practice reviews it
Accounts and tax work passes UK review before it is delivered. The preparer and the reviewer are always different people.
You review, approve and file
Accounts, tax computation and notes sheet arrive in your system. Anything you mark up is corrected the same day.
What it costs
Accounts seat
One accounts preparer for year-end accounts, corporation tax, self assessment and management accounts, reviewed by our own UK practice.
Prices exclude VAT. Billing is rolling monthly, and every seat after the first is 10% off. The other seats are on the pricing page.
Questions
What standard are accounts prepared to?
FRS 102 Section 1A and FRS 105, with full working papers and lead schedules. We follow your review checklist if you have one.
Who is responsible for the filing?
You are. It is your client and your signature. We prepare the work and our UK practice reviews it, then you review, approve and file. We can submit through your software on your instruction.
Can you handle messy records?
Yes. Catch-up and clean-up bookkeeping is part of the work. Tell us which files you are dreading and we will start there.
What software do you work in?
Yours. Xero, QuickBooks, Sage, FreeAgent and Dext, plus the accounts production and tax packages that sit alongside them: IRIS, TaxCalc, CCH, BTCSoftware and Capium. We work inside your licences and your file structure. If you run a workflow tool such as Karbon or Senta, the job is picked up and updated there.
How long does a set of accounts take?
A straightforward limited company from clean bookkeeping is usually back within five working days. Work that needs a clean-up first depends on the state of the records, and you get that estimate before the work starts. If a deadline is at risk, you hear about it while there is still time to move it.
What happens in January?
Your seat's hours are the same in January as in any other month, because you are buying a share of a person's time every month. If you need more, an extra seat can be added with five working days' notice.
Who talks to my client?
You do, unless you ask otherwise. Queries come back to you as one list per job, and you decide whether to forward them or send them yourself. Some firms ask us to email the client directly from the firm's own domain, and we can do that.
Where is the work done, and what about data protection?
By our own employees in our Pretoria office, and reviewed in the UK before anything comes back to you. It is the same named person every month. Data stays in your systems: we work inside your software under named logins that you control and can switch off.
What if the quality is not right?
You mark it up and it comes back corrected the same day. The fee is for the seat, so corrections are not charged on top. If it keeps happening, we put a different person on your work.
Do I have to commit to a volume?
No. A seat is a share of a person's time, billed monthly, with one month's notice to change or end it. There is no minimum number of jobs.
Guides on outsourced accounts production
Outsourced accounts production for UK practices
What it covers, how a job runs, who reviews, what it costs and how to start.
Read the guideGuideWhat outsourced accounts production costs in 2026
Per job, per hour, per person and per seat, with the published rates.
Read the guideGuideHow to choose a provider
The questions to ask, what a good answer looks like, and a scoring sheet.
Read the guideGuideThe working papers standard that makes review fast
Lead schedules, cross-references, a query log, and a review that takes 25 minutes.
Read the guideGuideHanding over year-end accounts without losing quality
The handover pack, the first twenty sets and what to count.
Read the guideGuideWhite-label accounts production
The silent route and the open route: working papers, sign-off, engagement letters and logins.
Read the guideTell us what is on your desk and we will work out what you need
Half an hour on the phone with your job list in front of you.