Accounting

Cash-Flow Forecasting · South East London

Cash-flow forecasting in Single Street

Cash-flow forecasts for Single Street companies that lenders, grant bodies and investors will accept. The funding pack at £299 produces the 12-month forecast, documented assumptions and sensitivity analysis in the format they ask for, and we walk you through the questions they will raise. For running the business day to day, the 13-week rolling forecast is the tool.

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 Single Street

Businesses in Single Street 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 Single Street, step by step

  1. Scope the job

    We find out what you need filed, when it is due and what state the records are in, and tell you which fixed-fee package applies.

  2. Agree the price

    The fee is confirmed in writing. There is no hourly billing and nothing added for questions during the work.

  3. Hand over the records

    Photographs, PDFs, software access or a spreadsheet, sent however suits you. We confirm what we have and what is missing within two working days.

  4. Approve, then we submit

    You review the draft with our explanation, sign off, and we file. Receipts, copies and the next deadlines come back to you immediately.

Why IGI

What you get in Single Street

One fixed fee for cash-flow forecasting in Single Street, agreed in writing before any work starts and never changed part-way through the job, however long it takes us.

We work to the HMRC and Companies House calendar, not an appointment diary. Clients in Single Street get reminders at 60, 30 and 7 days before each date that applies to cash-flow forecasting.

No appointments, no travel across South East London, no parking. Everything for cash-flow forecasting in Single Street happens online, with a real person on the other end during UK working hours.

A named person handles your cash-flow forecasting from Single Street and knows the file, so you are not re-explaining your business to a different helpdesk each time.

The output for Single Street clients is never just a form. It is the form, a one-page summary of what it says, and a note of the decisions it points to for cash-flow forecasting.

Nothing is filed for Single Street 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 Single Street

Single Street is in South East London, within Bromley, in the TN16 postcode district, England. For businesses in England the tax rules are those set by the UK Parliament: the 20/40/45% income tax bands, Class 4 National Insurance for the self-employed at 6% and 2%, Corporation Tax at 19% to 25%, and Stamp Duty Land Tax on property. Business rates are set locally by the council.

Nearby places we also serve for cash-flow forecasting
PlaceDistanceDirection
Luxted0.2 miNW
Darwin0.4 miN
Berry's Green0.5 miSE
Cudham0.8 miE
Aperfield1 miW
Downe1 miN
Horns Green1 miSE
Hazelwood, Bromley1 miNE

Worth knowing

Rules that come up in this work

Closing a company

Voluntary strike-off is available only to solvent companies. One that owes money it cannot pay needs a creditors' voluntary liquidation through a licensed insolvency practitioner, and directors who dissolve an insolvent company face personal consequences. For a solvent company the process takes three to four months from filing the DS01, with notice to creditors and shareholders within seven days.

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.

Allowable expenses

The expenses sole traders most often miss are home working costs, claimed by actual proportion or HMRC's flat rate, the business share of phone and internet, mileage at 45p for the first 10,000 business miles, and training that maintains existing skills. The ones most often claimed wrongly are commuting, entertaining customers and clothes that could be worn outside work.

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.

The 60-day property CGT return

Selling UK residential property that was not your main home for the whole period of ownership triggers a separate Capital Gains Tax return, due within 60 days of completion along with payment of the tax. This is in addition to the annual Self Assessment. The gain is taxed at 18% or 24% depending on your income band, after the £3,000 annual exempt amount.

Crypto records and reporting

Most crypto holders have taxable events they do not recognise, because every swap is a disposal even when no pounds change hands. The computation requires the complete transaction history from every exchange and wallet, pooled by asset with HMRC's matching rules applied. Exchange-generated tax reports are frequently wrong because they cannot see transfers between a user's own wallets.

The trading and property allowances

The first £1,000 of trading income and, separately, the first £1,000 of property income each year is tax free under the trading and property allowances. Below those figures no return is needed for that income. Above them you can deduct the £1,000 allowance instead of actual expenses if that is better, which suits side businesses and single-room lets with few costs.

Questions

Cash-Flow Forecasting questions from Single Street

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.

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 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.

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 is the £199 forecast built?

From your bookkeeping and bank data, your aged debtors and creditors, your payroll, your known commitments and the tax calendar. We analyse how quickly your customers actually pay rather than when they are due, which is where most forecasts go wrong, and we document every assumption so you can change it. You receive the model and a short briefing.

What is a 13-week rolling forecast?

A week-by-week projection of cash in and cash out for the next quarter, built from your debtor book and payment patterns, your creditors and their terms, payroll, rent, loan repayments and every tax date, giving the forecast bank balance at the end of each week. It is the standard tool for managing short-term cash and is refreshed as actuals arrive.

Is cash-flow forecasting in Single Street really the same price as elsewhere?

Yes. The fee published on this page is what a client in Single Street 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.

Do you have an office in Single Street?

No. IGI Accounting is an online-only firm. We serve Single Street 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 Single Street as anywhere else in the country, and why there is nothing to visit and nothing to print.

Get a fixed quote for Single Street today

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

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