Cash-Flow Forecasting · North London
Cash-flow forecasting in High Barnet
If your High Barnet business is growing, seasonal, stock-heavy or carrying debt, cash is the constraint, not profit. Our forecasts put every VAT quarter, PAYE payment, loan instalment and Corporation Tax date on the calendar alongside what customers will actually pay and when, for businesses across North London, with scenarios for the things that might go wrong.
from £199 · fixed, per forecast
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
Cash-Flow Forecasting for High Barnet
Businesses in High Barnet where cash timing matters: companies growing faster than their working capital, seasonal businesses, those holding stock or work in progress, businesses with loans or finance to service, companies applying for lending or grants, start-ups measuring runway, and any owner who has had an unexpected conversation with the bank and does not want another.
What is included
Everything inside the fixed fee
- A 13-week rolling forecast built week by week from your receipts, payments, payroll, VAT and tax dates
- A 12-month forecast with best, base and worst case scenarios and the assumptions documented
- Debtor and creditor timing modelled from your actual payment patterns rather than invoice dates
- Tax, VAT, PAYE and loan repayments placed on their real dates so nothing is a surprise
- Monthly refresh retainer: actuals replace forecast each month and the horizon rolls forward
- Funding-application pack: forecast, assumptions, sensitivities and the narrative lenders and grant bodies expect
How it works
Cash-Flow Forecasting from High Barnet, step by step
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.
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.
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.
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 High Barnet
No hourly rate and no surprise invoice. High Barnet clients know the fee for cash-flow forecasting before they send a single document, and it stays fixed.
We work to the HMRC and Companies House calendar, not an appointment diary. Clients in High Barnet get reminders at 60, 30 and 7 days before each date that applies to cash-flow forecasting.
We serve High Barnet 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 cash-flow forecasting.
A named person handles your cash-flow forecasting from High Barnet and knows the file, so you are not re-explaining your business to a different helpdesk each time.
Plain English, with the numbers. Every draft for High Barnet comes with a short explanation of what the figures mean and what, if anything, you should do about them.
You stay in control of cash-flow forecasting: drafts go to High Barnet clients first, with the figures explained, and nothing leaves us until you say so.
Local facts
About High Barnet
High Barnet is in North London, within Barnet, in the EN5 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.
| Place | Distance | Direction |
|---|---|---|
| Barnet | 0.0 mi | N |
| Dollis Valley | 0.7 mi | S |
| Monken Hadley | 0.7 mi | NE |
| Ducks Island | 0.9 mi | SW |
| Underhill, Barnet | 1 mi | SW |
| New Barnet | 1 mi | E |
| Kitts End | 1 mi | N |
| Totteridge, Barnet | 1 mi | S |
Worth knowing
Rules that come up in this work
Salary versus dividends
Directors of their own companies usually take a salary at or just above the National Insurance thresholds, which keeps the year qualifying for State Pension and is deductible for Corporation Tax, with further income as dividends. Dividends above the £500 allowance are taxed at 10.75%, 35.75% and 39.35% by band and can only be paid from distributable profits after tax, with a minute and voucher each time.
Director's loan accounts
A director's loan account records money moving between a director and the company that is not salary or dividend. If the director owes the company money nine months and one day after the year end, the company pays section 455 tax at 35.75% of the balance, refundable only when the loan is repaid. Loans over £10,000 are also a benefit in kind unless interest is charged at HMRC's official rate.
The VAT registration threshold
Watching the rolling twelve-month turnover figure is one of the quiet jobs of monthly bookkeeping, because the £90,000 VAT threshold arrives silently. Crossing it brings quarterly returns, Making Tax Digital software and a decision about schemes. Crossing it late brings a bill for VAT you could not recover from customers and a penalty for failing to notify.
Corporation Tax rates and marginal relief
Companies pay Corporation Tax at 19% on profits up to £50,000 and 25% on profits over £250,000. Between those figures marginal relief applies, producing an effective rate that rises gradually and a marginal rate of 26.5% on each pound in the band. The thresholds are divided by the number of associated companies, so a director with two companies has thresholds of £25,000 and £125,000 for each.
Confirmation statements and identity verification
Every company must file a confirmation statement at least once a year, within fourteen days of its review date, with a £50 Companies House fee. Since November 2025 directors and people with significant control must also verify their identity with Companies House, and the confirmation statement is where existing officers confirm they have done so during the transition year.
CIS deductions
CIS turns construction subcontractors into advance taxpayers: a fifth of every labour payment goes to HMRC before they see it. Registering keeps the rate at 20% rather than 30%; gross payment status, for established businesses with a clean record, removes deductions altogether. The annual return is where the overpayment comes back, and filing it early brings the refund sooner.
Switching accountants
You can switch accountant at any point in the year. The new firm requests clearance and your records from the old one, which cannot withhold your own documents though it may hold its own working papers until its fees are settled. Agent authorisations with HMRC and Companies House are transferred, and the next deadline is picked up without a gap.
Questions
Cash-Flow Forecasting questions from High Barnet
What happens after the forecast is delivered?
You receive the model, a briefing call to walk through it, and a written note of the assumptions and the pinch points we see. You can run it yourself from there, or take the £99 monthly refresh so we keep it live. Many clients start with a one-off forecast and move to the retainer once they see its value.
How quickly can you produce a forecast?
A 13-week forecast within five working days of receiving your data; a 12-month forecast with scenarios within ten. Funding packs depend on the lender's format but typically two weeks. If you have a deadline for an application, tell us when you book and we plan backwards from it.
Can a forecast show me whether I can afford a hire or a purchase?
Yes, that is one of its main uses. We add the hire or purchase as a scenario and show the cash effect month by month, including the point at which it pays for itself if it does. Decisions that look fine on a profit basis often fail on cash timing, and the forecast shows where.
How do seasonal businesses use forecasting?
To see the trough. Seasonal businesses typically make their profit in a few months and spend the rest of the year surviving on it, with VAT and tax payments falling in the quiet period. The 12-month forecast shows how deep the trough goes and whether a facility is needed to bridge it, well before the bank does.
Why do forecasts usually go wrong?
Three reasons: they assume customers pay on the due date, they forget tax dates, and they are never updated. We model actual payment behaviour from your history, place VAT, PAYE, Corporation Tax and Self Assessment payments on their real dates, and offer the refresh retainer so the forecast stays current.
Do I need bookkeeping with you to have a forecast?
No, but the data must exist. We build forecasts from any reasonably kept accounting file plus bank data. If the bookkeeping is behind, we say so first, because a forecast built on stale records is worthless. Clients in our bookkeeping service have the data ready by default.
Do you have an office in High Barnet?
No. IGI Accounting is an online-only firm. We serve High Barnet and every other UK postcode remotely, with records sent by WhatsApp or email and everything filed electronically. The absence of local premises is why the fee for cash-flow forecasting is the same in High Barnet as anywhere else in the country, and why there is nothing to visit and nothing to print.
Is cash-flow forecasting in High Barnet really the same price as elsewhere?
Yes. The fee published on this page is what a client in High Barnet pays and what a client in any other part of England pays. It is confirmed in writing before work starts and the invoice matches the quote. Where a higher package applies because your situation is more complex, we say so at the quote stage, never afterwards.
Ready to fix your fee in High Barnet?
Tell us what you need. You get one fixed fee in writing, and nothing is filed until you approve it.