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Cash-Flow Forecasting · South West London

Cash-flow forecasting in St. Mark's

If your St. Mark's 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 South West 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 St. Mark's

Businesses in St. Mark's 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 St. Mark's, 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

What you get in St. Mark's

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

Nothing for St. Mark's is left to the last week. Each deadline relevant to cash-flow forecasting is tracked from the day you join, with the next four shown on every page we send you.

Online only, UK based. There is no office in St. Mark's to pay for, which is why the fee is the same here as anywhere in England; the work is done by people in the UK who answer the same day.

Continuity matters in cash-flow forecasting: the person who prepared last year's work for your St. Mark's business prepares this year's, and remembers what was agreed.

The output for St. Mark's 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.

Approval before filing is a rule, not a courtesy. For cash-flow forecasting in St. Mark's, every submission to HMRC or Companies House follows your written go-ahead.

Local facts

About St. Mark's

St. Mark's is in South West London, within Kingston upon Thames, in the KT6 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.

Nearby places we also serve for cash-flow forecasting
PlaceDistanceDirection
Surbiton0.2 miSW
Seething Wells0.4 miSW
Berrylands0.7 miE
Kingston upon Thames1.0 miN
Surbiton Hill1.0 miE
Southborough1 miS
Ditton, Long1 miSW
Long Ditton1 miSW

Worth knowing

Rules that come up in this work

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.

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.

Employer National Insurance

Employers pay National Insurance at 15% on each employee's earnings above the £5,000 secondary threshold, following the April 2025 changes. The Employment Allowance offsets up to £10,500 of this for eligible employers, which for a small team often removes the liability entirely, but companies where the director is the only employee do not qualify.

Workplace pensions and auto-enrolment

Workplace pension compliance is part of payroll, not separate from it. Each pay period the payroll assesses who is eligible, calculates employer and employee contributions on qualifying earnings between the lower and upper thresholds, and sends the contribution file to the scheme. The minimum total is 8%, and many employers choose to contribute more as a recruitment advantage.

Dormant companies

A dormant company is one with no significant accounting transactions in the year, where the only permitted entries are the payment for shares on incorporation, Companies House fees and penalties. It still files a confirmation statement and simplified dormant accounts every year. A bank charge or an accountant's fee paid from the company ends dormancy and requires full accounts.

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.

Crypto records and reporting

Crypto tax splits into capital gains on disposals and income on rewards, with different rates and different reporting. The £3,000 annual exempt amount and the 18% and 24% rates apply to gains; staking, mining and airdrop income is taxed at marginal income tax rates. HMRC's nudge letters to holders have increased sharply, and a voluntary disclosure before one arrives is treated far more leniently.

Questions

Cash-Flow Forecasting questions from St. Mark's

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.

What does the 12-month forecast add?

The £349 forecast extends the horizon to a year, monthly, with three scenarios: base case, a downside with slower sales or payment, and an upside, so you can see the cash effect of the things that might happen. It includes a profit and loss and balance sheet forecast alongside the cash, and is the basis for the funding pack.

What is the monthly refresh retainer?

For £99 a month we replace each month's forecast with the actual figures, roll the horizon forward, update the assumptions for what has changed and send you the refreshed forecast with a short note on the movements. A forecast that is not refreshed is out of date within weeks; the retainer keeps it live.

Do you have an office in St. Mark's?

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

Is cash-flow forecasting in St. Mark's really the same price as elsewhere?

Yes. The fee published on this page is what a client in St. Mark's 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 St. Mark's?

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

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