Which accountant?

**Lucifer Box** · 5 October 2006, 11:29

Try the highly unexpected search string "recommended accountants". That will give you the recommendations of this board.

Shame you went through the hassle of incorporating the company yourself though. Most decent accountants would have done it for you for free.

**ratewhore** · 5 October 2006, 11:56

You seem to be focussing on the price. Bear in mind that all these accountants offer a reasonably non-personal, contractor conveyor-belt type service...

**wonder_boy07** · 5 October 2006, 13:37

Reply to Lucifer Box - Thanks for your reply. Found one or two more that I didn't know of and yes, I should have waited before setting up the company.

Reply to ratewhore - yes, was focussing on the price and basically just trying to find the best conveyor-belt type service for the "right" price.

**malvolio** · 5 October 2006, 13:41

I get this terible feeling of deja vu...

Originally posted by malvolio

Wrong question. Work out how much is youraccountant saving you in correct filing of data and calculating correct payments so avoiding interest and penalties (probably £200-ish a year, but last time I tried it was rather more), plus however much time you would need to do it yourself accurately at double your normal rate, since you would be using up your downtime to do it (in my case something like 15 man days a year, or around £15k)

Work that out, then if he charges more than that, he's too expensive.

**expat** · 5 October 2006, 13:47

Originally posted by wonder_boy07

yes, was focussing on the price and basically just trying to find the best conveyor-belt type service for the "right" price.

Average daily rate for "developer" skill (ITJobsWatch) = £434.
Daily difference between max & min of accountant costs quoted (20-day month) = £0.75.

Does it matter that much?

**wonder_boy07** · 5 October 2006, 14:13

Reply to malvolio and expat - I totally understand what you are saying but what is holding me back is knowing which company to go with and not just sign up to the first accountant conveyor-belt type service and realise I have made the wrong decision (as in they provide a poor service and have extra hidden costs). I suppose I shouldn't have put their rates down in my first post as they are all pretty much the same but what I was trying to highlight was that maybe one did have a slightly better service for the extra few pounds.

**Pondlife** · 5 October 2006, 14:16

The ones generaly recommended on here are;

SJD
1st Accountancy Services
Nixon Williams

HTH

**wonder_boy07** · 5 October 2006, 14:29

Thanks Pondlife...

Is that order in which you mention them have any relevance to one being better than the other?

I'm only kidding. please don't answer that......

**Pondlife** · 5 October 2006, 14:31

No

Darren from 1st Acc and Simon from SJD post on here so have a look for their posts to get an impression.

Which accountant?