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Management accounts in Bury St Edmunds

Management accounts for businesses in Bury St Edmunds: a quarterly pack with profit and loss, balance sheet and commentary for £99 a quarter, a monthly pack for £99 a month, monthly with a KPI dashboard for £149, and monthly with a review call for £199. Fixed and published, the same in Bury St Edmunds as in every part of England.

from £99/mo · fixed, per month

Next deadlines

  • VAT return and payment for the quarter that ended last month
  • PAYE and National Insurance for last month paid to HMRC (electronic)
  • VAT return and payment for the quarter that ended last month
  • PAYE and National Insurance for last month paid to HMRC (electronic)

Who this is for

Management Accounts for Bury St Edmunds

Owner-managed businesses in Bury St Edmunds with turnover from around £250,000 upwards that are making decisions during the year: companies with staff, stock or borrowing, businesses preparing to raise finance or sell, franchisees reporting to a franchisor, companies with external shareholders or a board, and any owner who has decided that once a year is not often enough to know how the business is doing.

What is included

Everything inside the fixed fee

  • Profit and loss for the period and year to date, against budget or prior year where available
  • Balance sheet with debtors, creditors, cash, stock and loan positions explained
  • Written commentary on the movements that matter and what is driving them
  • KPI dashboard with the measures agreed for your business, in the £149 package
  • A review call each period to go through the pack and the decisions it points to, in the £199 package
  • Accruals, prepayments and depreciation posted so the figures are accurate rather than cash-based

How it works

Management Accounts from Bury St Edmunds, step by step

  1. Tell us your situation

    A short message or call about what you do and what needs filing. We ask the questions that determine the right package and nothing more.

  2. Fixed fee in writing

    You receive one price for the work, confirmed by email before anything starts. It does not change if the job takes longer than we expected.

  3. Send records, review the draft

    Records come by WhatsApp or email. We prepare the draft, explain the figures in plain English and answer your questions.

  4. We file, you get the receipts

    Once you approve and the fee is settled, we submit electronically and forward the HMRC or Companies House acknowledgement the same day.

Why IGI

The IGI way of working, in Bury St Edmunds

One fixed fee for management accounts in Bury St Edmunds, agreed in writing before any work starts and never changed part-way through the job, however long it takes us.

Nothing for Bury St Edmunds is left to the last week. Each deadline relevant to management accounts is tracked from the day you join, with the next four shown on every page we send you.

We serve Bury St Edmunds remotely by design: records by WhatsApp or email, drafts back for approval, filing electronic. The saving on premises is passed to you in the fee for management accounts.

A named person handles your management accounts from Bury St Edmunds and knows the file, so you are not re-explaining your business to a different helpdesk each time.

We explain management accounts in the words Bury St Edmunds business owners use, not in accountant's shorthand, and we show our working so you can check it.

Nothing is filed for Bury St Edmunds until you have reviewed and approved it. You see the draft, you ask questions, you sign off, then we submit and send you the receipt.

Local facts

About Bury St Edmunds

Bury St Edmunds is in North West, in the IP33 postcode district, England. Income tax in England follows the UK rates: 20% basic to £50,270, 40% higher to £125,140 and 45% additional, with the personal allowance of £12,570 tapered away above £100,000. National Insurance, VAT and Corporation Tax are UK-wide, and Stamp Duty Land Tax applies to property purchases.

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Worth knowing

Rules that come up in this work

Dormant companies

Companies formed to protect a name or hold a future business are dormant but not exempt: Companies House still expects dormant accounts within nine months of the year end and a confirmation statement annually with its £50 fee, and HMRC must be told the company is dormant or it will demand Corporation Tax returns. The filings are short, but the penalties for missing them are the same as for a trading company.

The trading and property allowances

Small side incomes are covered by two £1,000 allowances, one for trading and one for property, which remove the need to register or report income below that level. Once income exceeds £1,000, the allowance can be used in place of expenses, a choice worth making deliberately: a freelancer with £900 of costs is better off with the allowance, one with £3,000 is not.

Employer National Insurance

The cost of an employee is more than the salary. Employer National Insurance at 15% above £5,000 a year, the 3% minimum pension contribution, holiday pay, equipment and management time all come on top. The Employment Allowance of £10,500 reduces the National Insurance for most employers with more than one person on the payroll.

Workplace pensions and auto-enrolment

Auto-enrolment duties begin the day you take on your first employee, not when the Pensions Regulator writes to you. Eligible staff must be enrolled, contributions paid every pay period and re-enrolment carried out every three years. Director-only companies without employment contracts are usually exempt. Fines for non-compliance are fixed and escalating.

Record keeping

HMRC requires records of all income and expenses, bank statements, invoices and receipts to be kept for at least five years after the 31 January filing deadline of the tax year they relate to, and companies must keep records for six years from the end of the accounting period. Digital copies are acceptable. Under Making Tax Digital the records must be kept in compatible software.

Allowable expenses

An expense is allowable against trading profit if it is incurred wholly and exclusively for the business. Materials, business travel other than ordinary commuting, a proportion of home running costs, software, insurance, professional fees, bank charges and protective clothing qualify. Client entertainment, ordinary clothing, fines and the private share of mixed-use costs do not.

Crypto records and reporting

HMRC treats cryptoassets as property. Swapping one token for another, spending crypto or gifting it are all disposals for Capital Gains Tax, and staking and lending rewards are income. Gains are computed under pooling rules with same-day and 30-day matching. From 2026 HMRC receives data from exchanges worldwide under the Cryptoasset Reporting Framework, so unreported activity is increasingly visible.

Questions

Management Accounts questions from Bury St Edmunds

How does quarterly differ from monthly?

Same content, less often. Quarterly at £99 a quarter suits stable businesses that want a regular check rather than close monitoring. Monthly suits businesses that are growing, borrowing, employing or facing margin pressure, where a quarter is too long to wait to see a problem.

Will lenders and investors accept your management accounts?

Yes. Banks, invoice financiers and investors routinely ask for monthly management accounts as a condition of facilities or as part of due diligence, and our packs are in the format they expect. We can also produce the specific covenant calculations a facility requires.

Can management accounts help with Corporation Tax planning?

Yes. Because the pack shows profit accruing through the year, decisions about capital expenditure, pension contributions and dividend timing can be made before the year end rather than discovered after it. We flag these opportunities in the commentary as they arise.

When does the pack arrive?

On a fixed working day agreed with you, typically the 10th to 15th of the following month for monthly packs, provided the bookkeeping is complete by the 5th. Quarterly packs follow the quarter end on the same basis. If your records arrive late the date moves and we tell you.

Which KPIs do you report?

Those that drive your business, agreed at the start: gross margin by product or service line, revenue per employee, debtor days, stock turn, cash runway, utilisation for a service firm, average order value for a retailer. We recommend a short list and refine it over the first quarter. A dashboard with twenty numbers is one nobody reads.

Can you compare against a budget?

Yes, if you have one. If you do not, we compare against the same period last year and, if you want one, help you build a simple budget as part of the first quarter. Variance against budget is the most useful single comparison in the pack once a budget exists.

Which deadlines matter most for management accounts?

The next four dates that apply to management accounts are shown at the top of this page, calculated from today. For Bury St Edmunds clients we diarise every one of them from the day you join and send reminders before each, so the work is done in good time rather than in the last week before a penalty.

How do I get started from Bury St Edmunds?

Message us on WhatsApp or email with a sentence about your business and what you need. We reply in working hours with any questions and a fixed fee for management accounts. Once you confirm, we tell you exactly which records to send and the work begins. Most Bury St Edmunds clients are set up within a day.

Let us take the deadlines off your plate in Bury St Edmunds

Tell us what you need. You get one fixed fee in writing, and nothing is filed until you approve it.

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