Accounting support
We will take over the books and keep them ready for the filings that follow: bookkeeping, tax and VAT returns, payroll and the year-end pack your auditor will ask for.
When you need accounting support
The books live in the bank app
Payments happened, invoices were issued, and nothing was recorded anywhere else. The first filing turns a year of transactions into a reconstruction job.
You crossed a threshold this year
Revenue grew, and new duties came with it: an audit, another registration, a different reporting standard. Thresholds are read per period, so one strong year changes the regime.
Your accountant left mid-year
Handovers lose the closing balances, the fixed asset register and the logic behind last year's adjustments. Filings then rest on numbers nobody can explain.
You are filing in several countries
Different periods, different rates, different formats. A group closes its books once and reports many times, which only works if one calendar drives all of it.
An investor asked for reporting
A buyer or an investor asks for monthly management accounts on a fixed format. Building them backwards from a tax return rarely survives questions.
What accounting support covers
Accounting support is a running service, not a one-off clean-up: the books are closed on a cycle, and every filing is taken from closed books. Where a tax position has to be chosen and defended, that work sits with corporate tax support.
What we run and what you get depend on the format — the formats are below.
What you get
- A closed period every cycle
- Filings ready for signature
- Payroll with its registers
- A year-end pack for the auditor
- Management figures at every close
What we run for you
- Bookkeeping against a chart of accounts matching how the business earns.
- Bank, receivables and payables reconciliation, every difference explained at the time.
- Tax and VAT returns, prepared from the closed period to the filing calendar.
- Payroll and severance accruals, with the registers a labour authority can ask to see.
- The year-end pack: trial balance, schedules, fixed asset register and supporting documents.
What the country decides
- The reporting standard: full IFRS, the IFRS for SMEs standard, or a national standard of its own.
- The dates: when the tax return is due, when the VAT filing is due, and how often payroll reports go out.
- When the statements have to be audited: a revenue threshold, or the legal form of the company itself.
- The registrations to obtain before the first filing, and how long documents have to be kept.
We will settle these four points for every country you report in and keep them in one calendar; the order never changes — registrations, then dates, then the first close.
The figures and dates depend on the country — we will name yours at the first review.
What stays on your side
- Signing: returns and statements are filed under your signature or under a mandate you grant explicitly.
- Source documents: contracts and invoices are issued by your team, and we will work from what they say.
- Commercial decisions: pricing, intercompany terms and dividend timing stay with you.
- Access: bank and portal credentials remain yours, rights granted per person.
- Contracts and corporate decisions, which are run by a legal retainer as a service of its own.
The format can change
The format is not chosen once and for all. A company that starts on recovery moves to a quarterly cycle once the periods are closed, and to a monthly one when staff arrive.
We will say when the change is due: the transaction count in a closed period and the number of differences that have to be explained at reconciliation show it.
Formats of work
Monthly cycle
Bookkeeping, reconciliation and a closed month every month, with every filing taken from it. It suits steady operations and staff on payroll.
Quarterly cycle
The books are closed to the VAT period, and each close produces management figures. It suits a company with a low transaction count.
Year-end and audit support
Your team keeps the books, and we will assemble the year-end pack and answer the auditor. It suits a company that has its own accountant.
Recovery of prior periods
We will reconstruct an unrecorded or abandoned period up to a closing balance you can file from. It suits a company with periods left open.
Sources: the IFRS for SMEs Accounting Standard is published by the IFRS Foundation; its 2025 edition applies to periods beginning on or after 1 January 2027. Which standard is mandatory, and the audit thresholds, filing deadlines and registrations, are set by the country of registration.
Stages of work
Below is the full cycle; which stages are yours depends on the format.
Diagnostics of the current state — 3–5 working days.
We will look at what exists: ledgers, bank data, contracts, previous filings and registrations. The output is a list of gaps and the periods that need recovery.
We will check registrations separately — for corporate tax, for VAT and for the payroll mechanisms of the country where the staff work. A missing registration surfaces later and costs more than an unposted entry.
Taking over the books — 1–2 weeks.
We will agree the chart of accounts, load opening balances, and set the calendar of filings for every country you report in.
Opening balances decide everything after them, so we will reconcile them to the last filed return and to the bank first.
Recovery of open periods.
Where periods were never closed, we will reconstruct them from bank data and documents and bring them to a closing balance you can file from.
This stage is finite and priced as a project, so its scope is agreed before the work begins.
The running cycle — monthly or quarterly.
Books closed, accounts reconciled, differences explained, management figures issued. Each filing is prepared from the closed period.
A closed period means every transaction is posted, the bank is reconciled, and every difference has an explanation you can show an inspector.
Filings and payroll prepared to the calendar.
Tax and VAT returns and payroll are ready ahead of their dates, so nothing is assembled on the deadline. Filing stays under your signature, or under a mandate you grant explicitly, and we will track that every date is met.
We will keep the statutory registers current and produce them when an authority asks. Where a date falls on a period that is not yet closed, we will tell you before it arrives.
Year-end and the auditor.
We will assemble the year-end pack and answer the auditor's questions directly. Where audited statements are mandatory, this is the stage that decides how long the audit takes.
Audit findings are carried back into the books, so the next year opens on balances that already reflect them and nothing waits for the following close.
Reporting to you — ongoing.
A set of figures at every close, a calendar of what is due next, and a note whenever a threshold is getting close — on revenue, on audit or on registration.
Our other work on tax and reporting sits in the Tax & Accounting area.
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