Bookkeeping services for Blackpool and Lancashire

Whichever line of business you are in, accurate bookkeeping is essential. Keeping up-to-date and meaningful records is vital if you are to manage your business effectively and efficiently, and using a reliable bookkeeping service is – or at least should be – the foundation upon which all your important business decisions are based.

But your bookkeeping service needs to provide answers quickly.

• What are your sales?
• What are your overheads?
• How much do you owe your creditors?
• How much are you owed by your debtors?
• How do you 'stand' at the bank?
• How do your sales and overheads compare to this time last year?

Once you have the answers to these questions, you can ask yourself, what profits can you expect to make if you continue to trade as you are doing now? And if you are projecting a loss, what can be done now to change things before it is too late?

The questions above are just some of the questions that you, along with countless other businesses, will ask on a day-to-day basis. If it's not you, it will be your banker or financial advisor.

To assist you, the bookkeeping service from Business Support is tailored to meet your needs. Some of our clients are happy to send their paperwork to us once a quarter when, as well as writing-up their books, we also prepare their VAT Returns; some prefer us to visit their premises and work on site. Still others want to do the bookkeeping themselves but need advice from a professional bookkeeping service, as well as training, in order to know which records they should keep.

Whatever your needs, we will always recommend the simplest system, although one that will still give you the information you need to run your business. The philosophy behind our bookkeeping service is to simplify, rather than complicate, the whole process.

We don't recommend that you install accounts software if spreadsheets will suffice; conversely, we won't advise you to get bogged down in manual double-entry bookkeeping when powerful “off-the-shelf” software would be more efficient.

Many businesses see maintaining your books as a necessary evil but, not unnaturally for a bookkeeping service, we stress the positives that come from accurate and up-to-date records – problems are highlighted immediately they arise, and timely decisions can then be made to solve them. Good records also mean that your accountant will spend less time preparing your accounts and this, in turn, can mean lower charges.

Apart from the peace of mind it offers, outsourcing your books to a professional bookkeeping service like ours also makes commercial sense.

How can you afford not to do it?