Reply to: Recommend me an Accountant - SJD

[rocketjet]

Gorilla - switched from SJD, freeagent and Jordan is well up to speed.

You won’t be disappointed!

[lukemg]

Gorilla - switched from SJD, freeagent and Jordan is well up to speed.

[rocketjet]

You get what you pay for and if you don’t mind speaking to a different accountant every time you need advice then Crunch are ok. For a little more per month you get a dedicated accountant. If you go down this route then make sure it’s a FreeAgent based one as it’ll make life easier should you wish to move in the future and retain all company data in one system.

[The Procrastinator]

As a newbie ltd company I went with Maslins as they are very reputable (with plenty of good posts on these forums), are specialists in the contractor sector and highly responsive to all my daft questions. You also get Freeagent included (although its cheap as chips anyway!).

[Willapp]

Danbro are mainly an umbrella company I thought. Do you know if the fact that Danbro Ltd, recently name changed to Tuiga Ltd going into administration will impact on your service?

To be honest this is the first I've heard about that! I'll definitely look into it but my accountant hasn't mentioned any changes or administration.

I've got a friend who uses Crunch as well and he seems happy, but unless Danbro are in trouble then I would still happily recommend them, the service has been great so far.

[Chart Accountancy]

I’m with crunch and chose them over a free agent accountant after decideding sjd were too expensive for the service they provided and I’ve been pretty happy with them so far. If you need a referral you can PM me, I think it’s £50 of amazon vouchers for you

FreeAgent offers an advantage of that you are the account owner so if you decide to change accountants, you keep your account where when using the accountants software platform, you will lose the access, unless they can offer only the software on a subscription payment.

[vwdan]

SJD totally screwed my position with HMRC, failed to give me any year end reports, sent me some totally inappropriate advice on end of year taxation and failed to apologise when I complained to my "accountant" (whichever one it was that week) and their management, although by then I'd moved on to Dynamo and didn't really give a toss. Shame, they used to be among the best.

New guys. though, sorted the mess and have been very supportive. And they use Freeagent.

My last interaction with SJD (Except for chasing them for MONTHS for my year end accounts) was like trying to get blood out of a stone. In the end, I was sending THEM HMRC technical docs which answered the question they were skirting. Very frustrating.

[VillageContractor]

Thanks for the replies.


Looking at the list I like the look of these guys.Crunch.

To be honest the something about SJD did not sit right with me, which is why I asked. Then I looked at reviews on trust pilot and it seemed be some shenanigans going on there too.

I’m with crunch and chose them over a free agent accountant after decideding sjd were too expensive for the service they provided and I’ve been pretty happy with them so far. If you need a referral you can PM me, I think it’s £50 of amazon vouchers for you

[malvolio]

Thanks for the replies.


Looking at the list I like the look of these guys: Crunch

To be honest the something about SJD did not sit right with me, which is why I asked. Then I looked at reviews on trust pilot and it seemed be some shenanigans going on there too.

SJD totally screwed my position with HMRC, failed to give me any year end reports, sent me some totally inappropriate advice on end of year taxation and failed to apologise when I complained to my "accountant" (whichever one it was that week) and their management, although by then I'd moved on to Dynamo and didn't really give a toss. Shame, they used to be among the best.

New guys. though, sorted the mess and have been very supportive. And they use Freeagent.

[roscoeh]

Thanks for the replies.

Looking at the list I like the look of these guys : Crunch.

To be honest the something about SJD did not sit right with me, which is why I asked. Then I looked at reviews on trust pilot and it seemed be some shenanigans going on there too.

[Waldorf]

Recommend me an Accountant - SJD

Danbro are mainly an umbrella company I thought. Do you know if the fact that Danbro Ltd, recently name changed to Tuiga Ltd going into administration will impact on your service?

[northernladuk]

I wish someone would create a thread helping with accountant recommendations and make it a sticky at the very top of the thread so people can't miss it....

[Waldorf]

Note that SJD, Clearsky, Parasol & Nixon Williams are all part of the same private equity backed group!

[Willapp]

You'll get several recommendations on here no doubt. I switch to Danbro last year after being dissatisfied with my local accountants for a few years, and they've been great so far. I was paying separately for a FreeAgent subscription but Danbro (like several others) include it as part of their monthly fee.

Coming up to my year-end soon, so I'll be interested to see how smoothly they handle preparation of my annual accounts, but I'm confident it will be fine.

I will happily recommend Danbro, but there are several others who use FreeAgent as well and I would definitely recommend you find one that does.

[malvolio]

Hi,

I have just gone limited to do IT contracting and am trying to find an accountant. The two obvious ones I could find were clearsky (parasol) and SJD. Both have 'mixed' reviews to say the least.

Would love some personal recommendations.


Thanks.

Neither...?

Try this list.