Cash-Flow Forecasting · West London
Cash-flow forecasting in West Acton
Cash-flow forecasting for businesses in West Acton: a 13-week rolling forecast is £199, a 12-month forecast with scenarios is £349, a monthly refresh retainer is £99 a month, and a funding-application forecast pack is £299. Fixed fees, published, and the same in West Acton as in every part of England.
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 West Acton
Businesses in West Acton 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 West Acton, 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 West Acton
One fixed fee for cash-flow forecasting in West Acton, agreed in writing before any work starts and never changed part-way through the job, however long it takes us.
Nothing for West Acton 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.
We serve West Acton 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 West Acton and knows the file, so you are not re-explaining your business to a different helpdesk each time.
The output for West Acton 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 West Acton, every submission to HMRC or Companies House follows your written go-ahead.
Local facts
About West Acton
West Acton is in West London, within Ealing, in the W3 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Hanger Hill | 0.1 mi | NW |
| North Ealing | 0.4 mi | W |
| Acton Central | 0.5 mi | SE |
| Park Royal | 0.6 mi | N |
| Ealing Common | 0.7 mi | SW |
| Acton, Ealing | 0.8 mi | SE |
| Ealing Broadway | 0.9 mi | W |
| North Acton | 1.0 mi | E |
Worth knowing
Rules that come up in this work
Record keeping
Record keeping is a legal obligation with a penalty of up to £3,000 for failure, but its real value is in making every other filing cheaper and more defensible. Keep invoices, receipts, bank statements, mileage logs and any HMRC correspondence, digitally if you like, for five years after the relevant filing deadline for individuals and six years for companies and VAT.
Payments on account
A common surprise in Self Assessment is the January payment that is far larger than expected. That is the balancing payment for the year just ended plus the first payment on account for the year ahead, which HMRC sets at half of the bill just calculated. We put the figure in your hands months ahead and tell you how to adjust it legitimately when circumstances change.
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.
Late filing penalties
Lateness is expensive in a way that compounds. For individuals, £100 immediately, then daily penalties, then percentage-based ones at six and twelve months, with interest running on unpaid tax throughout. For companies, Companies House penalties scale with delay and double on repeat, and HMRC adds its own for a late CT600. Filing on time is the cheapest tax planning there is.
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.
Making Tax Digital for Income Tax
The biggest change to Self Assessment in a generation is Making Tax Digital for Income Tax, now live for higher-earning sole traders and landlords and arriving for the rest in stages. Quarterly updates are due by 7 August, 7 November, 7 February and 7 May, built from digital records. The practical consequence is that spreadsheet-and-shoebox bookkeeping is ending for anyone above the threshold.
The 60-day property CGT return
The 60-day Capital Gains Tax return on residential property is the deadline landlords most often miss, because it falls outside the Self Assessment cycle and runs from completion, not exchange. Private residence relief for periods you lived in the property, plus the final nine months, reduces the gain. Penalties for a late return mirror Self Assessment, starting at £100.
Questions
Cash-Flow Forecasting questions from West Acton
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 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.
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 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.
Which deadlines matter most for cash-flow forecasting?
The next four dates that apply to cash-flow forecasting are shown at the top of this page, calculated from today. For West Acton 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 West Acton?
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 cash-flow forecasting. Once you confirm, we tell you exactly which records to send and the work begins. Most West Acton clients are set up within a day.
One message from West Acton, one fixed price
Tell us what you need. You get one fixed fee in writing, and nothing is filed until you approve it.