Davenport Hodgkiss

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read moreMost people who start up in business do so because they have a good business proposition, not because they are experts in the financial aspects of running a business. These factors can often be quite daunting to the entrepreneur and this is where we can help by evaluating your ideas and helping you develop them into a feasible business.

read moreWe will produce a detailed report showing the current value of the business and ideas on how you can maximise its worth.

read moreThe most important part of our compliance services is the preparation of periodic management accounts. Monitoring and controlling the financial performance of your business is of paramount importance and regular management information is vital to the continued success of your business. We can either carry out this function for you or help you set-up internal systems to generate the information. We will also take this service one step further by interpreting these figures for you and making suggestions to help you improve your profits or to help your business grow.

read moreEvery business must plan ahead in order to ensure success, but it is too easy to succumb to the daily pressures of work and delay or ignore strategic planning. The result of poor planning is often rushed and misinformed decisions, over/under capacity, inefficiency and missed opportunities. Every business owner needs to invest time in developing a long-term plan, starting with what you want to achieve from your investment and what your reasons for being in business are, and then developing a plan to help achieve these objectives.

read moreWe can relieve you and your business of a significant burden by taking care of all your bookkeeping and accounting needs. This ranges from making use of our inhouse bookkeeping bureau to the preparation of your annual accounts. We will treat every business individually so that we can tailor our approach to your requirements. Besides the core bookkeeping, we can also maintain your VAT records, prepare your payroll and take on ad hoc projects to free up valuable time for your staff. We believe that our high level of IT literacy can help improve our efficiency and help our clients to set-up their accounting systems to be efficient and effective.

read moreOur core business is providing a professional, personal, high value solution to your day-to-day accounting needs. We use our qualifications and experience not only to complete this work quickly and accurately, but we also use initiative to identify problems and opportunities. By getting to know you and your business we will become an indispensable member of your team. We always want to exceed your expectations and go that step further. These are all the things you need to do every year. In this respect we provide the traditional services of a firm of accountants and details of these can be found in compliance services.

read moreRunning your own payroll can be time consuming and complicated, particularly with the ever increasing complexity of taxation and employment legislation. There is an increasing burden on business to comply with these issues and non-compliance can lead to substantial penalties. Even if you only have a few employees, you will make savings by engaging us to administer your payroll.