Do we need an accountant?

[jmo21]

There are some people who say that they can manage to produce their own accounts and statutory returns without any issues and I don't doubt that for a moment.

There will always be people who try to save a few quid by doing their own accounts, making their own bread, servicing their own car, performing their own brain-surgery, those sorts of things.

To my mind, there are potentially any number of things that might change during the year from the Companies House returns, Corporation Tax, PAYE etc. Therefore I am happy to pay for an Accountant who will tell me when any of those changes affect me, which is more valuable to me than any form filling they might do.

this sums it up for me.

my better half is always narking at me for buying lunch every day, instead of saving £4/5 a day by making sandwiches like she does.

It's pushing £800 over a working year but that still doesn't make me want to make my own sandwiches