In today's economic climate, the focus often shifts to lowering operating costs, reducing back-office spends and reallocating resources to frontline activities. With today's secure internet technologies we are able to manage routine accounting tasks securely from remote locations, where wage costs are much lower but expertise levels are comparable or higher.
Hartley Thomas provides you with cost effective bookkeeping and accounting professionals, fully managed by UK ACA qualified accountants. These can be provided at short notice for specific tasks or used to provide agreed work on a routine basis. Our service portfolio includes:-
- Bookkeeping and data entry
- Bookkeeping - updating chart of accounts, maintaining ledger accounts, generating journals, trial balances, general ledgers etc. Making appropriate adjustments, allocating overheads, period settlements.
- Data entry and processing services - accounts receivable, accounts payable, bank transactions, petty cash, payroll (batch and individual)
- Reporting
- KPI reporting - advice, planning, data collection and reporting
- Ad-hoc reporting and analysis: financial modeling, report creation using standard off the shelf packages e.g. excel/access
- Management accounts - preparation and presentation of operational and financial performance reporting e.g. P&L's balance sheets, cashflow, KPI's
- Year end schedules - preparation of primary and supporting detailed schedules which can be presented for auditing purposes
- Financial Control
- Banking and account reconciliation - including inter-company reconciliations in multi-entity organisations
- VAT returns - computing schedules for input and output VAT and filing
- Planning
- Budget schedules - setting, allocation, reforecast, and measurement (actual vs target)
- Specialised Services
- Range of services - including detailed financial modeling and analysis (ratios, IRR, NPV, B/E), capital investment project analysis, business case development, M&A work, research services, transfer price setting and management, accounting standards and compliance work e.g. IFRS