Monthly reconciliation, categorisation and reporting, so VAT quarters are routine, year end is a formality and you always know what the business actually made last month.
Bookkeeping is unglamorous and it is the thing that decides whether every other financial deadline is calm or frantic.
Every transaction matched to a record, so the balance in the books is the balance in the bank.
Figures you can read in five minutes, rather than a trial balance you have to interpret.
The books kept in a state where the next deadline is a review rather than a reconstruction.
WEBMOSH is not a law firm or a licensed tax adviser. Statutory accounts and tax returns are prepared and filed with licensed accountants in the relevant jurisdiction, and the figures here describe process rather than tax advice about your circumstances.
The first month is the only one that takes effort from you. After that the work happens whether or not anyone remembers it is due.
We look at what exists now — spreadsheet, shoebox or a previous bookkeeper — and tell you honestly what shape it is in.
You receive
Bank and payment feeds connected, a chart of accounts that matches how you actually think about the business.
You receive
Historic transactions reconciled back to the start of the period, so the first real month starts from a true balance.
You receive
Reconciled, categorised, reported and queried within the first working week of each month.
You receive
Books exist to answer questions. Most of the ones we inherit cannot answer any, because they were kept to satisfy a deadline rather than to run a business.
A year reconstructed in March is a year of guesses. Matching transactions while you still remember what they were is the whole trick.
Queries reach you in days, not eleven months later.
A chart of accounts that matches how you think about the business, applied consistently, so month-to-month comparisons mean something.
Comparable figures, not a new structure each quarter.
A profit and loss, a cash position and a debtors list, with a written note on anything that moved. No trial balance sent without explanation.
If the report needs decoding, it has not been finished.
The accounting file is in your company’s name and exports in a standard format any accountant or bookkeeper can take over.
Switching provider is a download, not a migration project.
Take-on is the cheapest moment to find anything out. Bring everything you are unsure about.
It is the normal starting point, and it is what the catch-up phase is for. We reconcile back to the start of the period so the first real month begins from a balance that is actually true.
We will tell you at take-on how much catch-up there is and what it costs, before you commit.
Usually yes, because they are different jobs. Bookkeeping is the monthly record; the accountant turns that record into statutory accounts and a return.
An accountant handed clean monthly books does year end quickly. Handed a year of bank statements, they do the bookkeeping too — at their rate.
Whatever you already run, if it is a mainstream package. If you have nothing yet we will recommend one based on your VAT position and where the company is registered, and the file stays in your company’s name either way.
Yes. They are kept as separate sets of books, in their own currencies, with intercompany transactions matched on both sides so neither year end has to untangle them later.
Tell us honestly what state the books are in. Spreadsheet, shoebox, or a bookkeeper who stopped replying. An assessment and a fixed monthly figure come back inside one business day.