Reply to: Accountant Recommendations

[Mordac]

>Cheers Mordac....is that another virtual fiver I owe you! :-)


Wahayyyy, more virtual dancing girls.

[Darren@UptonAccountants]

Acccountants

Cheers Mordac....is that another virtual fiver I owe you! :-)

PS...you're right, don't mention the footy, especially with Chelski coming up on Wednesday night!

[Mordac]

Can you recommend an IT Contractor Accountant to me please? I have been with Parasol Umbrella but have now set up a Ltd company and need a full accounting solution.

Regards
Claire

Hi Claire. Try Darren (www.1staccountancy.biz). He posts on here occasionally. I've just signed up (I'm also ex-Parasol, coincidentally) thanks to the recommendation of some others on this board.
Don't mention the football though, he's a Geordie

Good luck.

[Claire]

Account Recommendation

Can you recommend an IT Contractor Accountant to me please? I have been with Parasol Umbrella but have now set up a Ltd company and need a full accounting solution.

Regards
Claire

Re: Re: Accountant Recommendations

You’re quite right in hoping that people would recommend accountants that they get a good service from. But as you can see, it doesn’t go down very well. So nobody bothers.

Well you used to promote you accountant at every opportunity tit but I notice you have been quiet of late - perhaps because the fees keep going up :lol

Re: Re: Accountant Recommendations

Vetran - they are ooop north but the location is irrelevant - you do everything by post. Queries are handled by email/phone.

If you have complex accounting matters to discuss I'd suggest that you need something other than a normal "contractor accountant". having said that they've always answered my queries and I do stuff outside of standard contract work.

My monthly accounting duties are ...

Fill in an expenses sheet - excel or paper even if you prefer as you just print it anyway.
Produce agency invoices (as usual) and make copies.
Put expenses sheet/invoices/receipts/any old crap received from tax/vat man in envelope and post it.

You get back - payslips IR and VAT forms completed so all you do is write and post cheques or do transfers from business to personal accounts.

I spend maybe 20 minutes a month on it and 15 of those are walking to the postbox

Year end you just look over the prepared accounts you get sent, pretend to understand them, ask a couple of questions, then they produce final accounts and a completed payslip for Gordon to gloat over.

They will issue a divvi when you ask them to - you get back all the required rubbish needed - directors meeting minutes to sign, a divvi payslip etc. etc.

They may cut a deal but the price is low anyway so I doubt it. Download the application form - the contact details are on that.

On IR35 they just do the accounts they way you want - in/out - but reserve the right to charge extra if you declare out and then get nobbled so they have to be re-done - which seems fair enough to me.

Re: Re: Accountant Recommendations

Fiddle / Rhino - roughly where is your accountant based? I'm not happy with my present one but like him being local.

Also as you may know I'm not contracting full time at present will he do a special deal for single line accounts?

Re: Re: Accountant Recommendations

Go onto our site and download the application form for the accountant - all contact details are attached.

We earn a one-off fee of £50 for accountancy introductions - other accountants would pay us more ! The accountant doesn't spend money on marketing and relies primarily on referrals from existing clients for new introductions. Our commission costs you nothing but justifies us spending time answering questions on boring issues when we can. The planetit is correct about naming the accountant - we are proud of their service but we need the small commission and naming the accountant would be counter productive.

Fiddleabout, rhino and ************ try to give useful advice on tax and accountancy matters - we are not professionally qualified but have been contractors for a long time - hopefully our contributions have been of some use.

Re: Re: Accountant Recommendations

:lol He can’t tell you that, because he wouldn’t get paid.

You’re quite right in hoping that people would recommend accountants that they get a good service from. But as you can see, it doesn’t go down very well. So nobody bothers.

Thanks fiddleabout, but who is it that you recommend?

Ignore antagoneyes - he's a miserable sod.

I'm one half of ************ Rhino is the other half - he also sometimes uses the ************ id to post.

We are both contractors and both do use the accountant we recommend We get a small introduction fee.

You will find accountants posting and advertising on here - all of the ones that do also offer a good service so far as I'm aware - one at the same cost as ours another at higher cost which presumably indicates some extra services (I'm not sure what - you'd have to check it all out to see what the extra £30 + VAT a month buys you).

Who you use is up to you.

Slightly unwelcoming I must say!

:rollin

That's what I'm here for !!

Slightly unwelcoming I must say!

I have read the thread and somewhere amongst the arguments I see that ************ say to go to ************.

I was hoping to see people recomend (or not!) the accountants that they use.

So what were the recomendations?

I don't think we can help you as you are obviously incapable of reading English.

errr??

So what were the recomendations?