We’re a team of proactive Chartered Accountants helping success driven businesses focus on what they do best.We deliver a fully managed Outsourced Accounting service with a difference, Your Financial Heartbeat ™
We’ll manage your accounts in the most efficient way with our Virtual Accounts Office. You can focus on what your business does best, supported by a team of financial professionals – they’ll be your team readily available when you need them.
Our mission is simple - to support businesses entrepreneurs achieve their growth ambitions. We’ll help you to work smarter, make better-informed business decisions and create a more profitable and successful business.
We’ve been doing it since 2002, from small ambitious early-stage startups to multi-million pound turnover corporates across a broad spectrum of industries.
We’re based in Dorset, on the beautiful south coast of England (it’s a great place to work). Our clients are spread across the UK and include international businesses with a UK presence (Europe, Canada, USA and Asia).
We’re Xero Silver Partners and we use the latest technology to maximise efficiency and provide you with clear visibility of the numbers.
We’re driven by a passion to see our clients succeed, so whether you’re an agile British start-up, a growing international SME, or an established heritage brand, we can support you every step of the way.
Concentrate on what you do best – running your business - while we take away the burden of your accounting and business administration needs. From looking after your payroll to invoicing, bookkeeping, HR support and more, plus receive the expert financial advice and support you need to accelerate your growth ambitions.
To discover more about our flexible services and how they could help your business, call us on +44 (0)1202 755600 or email hello@asfb.co.uk. We’d love to find out about your businesses and how we can partner with you.
It could be the start of something wonderful!
Served areas
- Southampton, Portsmouth, Bournemouth and Poole, South of England.
Highlights and features
- Accountancy
- Bookkeeping
- VAT returns
- Business and personal tax
Associations and certifications
- Chartered accountants
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Whether you’re an agile start-up, a growing international SME, or an established heritage brand, we can support you every step of the way. Far from simply crunching the numbers, we’re here to help you achieve your commercial ambitions – not only by ensuring your finances and all issues of compliance are in order, but by planning and implementing strategies based upon dynamic financial intelligence.
This innovative partnership approach is one that’s helping all kinds of businesses improve their bottom line and grow for tomorrow.
So, whatever level of support you are looking for – whether you’d like us to ‘do your books’, file your accounts, look after your personal tax affairs or help you comply with the ‘making tax digital’ regime – you’ll be in safe hands.
From bookkeeping to consultancy, all our services are rooted in rock-solid experience. Alongside this, we always have an eye on the future and are committed to bringing the latest industry technologies, innovations and methods of practice to our customer base.
Outsource your bookkeeping and accounting with us. We’ve invested in the latest efficient technology to transform how bookkeeping is done. It gives us time to focus on how we can help you understand the numbers so that you can manage your business with better information.
Data entry of invoices is automated and bank transaction details can be automatically imported into the accounts software.
Our intelligent analysis software can dive deep into the accounts data to provide valuable insights into your business performance presented clearly.
And naturally, we’ll provide all the routine reporting information you need and we’ll make sure VAT and everything else is dealt with on time.
All done efficiently by our professional team while you focus on your business
Our Paperless Payroll bureau service is cloud based and fully up to date with the latest COVID-19 SSP requirements. We're super efficient so that you can focus on running your business while we manage your payroll.
Choose the right service level for your needs. From a simple no-frills payroll service to a fully managed service where we will deal direct with employee queries and communications.
Payroll details are received as an eFile and employees have a secure portal to receive paperless payslips, so no need to print and distribute payslips (think of all the trees and costs that will save!) .
And we deliver P60 Year End Tax Certificates through the portal.
Whether you have one employee or a thousand employees, we can manage your pay runs, either weekly, fortnightly, monthly – or for any other period you require.
We can deal with everything including BACS payment reports for salaries, and tax and NI payments to HMRC, as well as deduction of pension contributions.
And we can look after the payment process for you using the highly efficient Faster Payments Service so that that's one less thing you'll need to do.
If you are VAT registered we will efficiently calculate your VAT and submit your quarterly VAT returns on time……. every time. You’ll be able to rest in peace knowing that you aren’t going to miss the deadline for submission. Businesses may be subject to VAT inspection by HMRC. The process is usually much easier if you have outsourced your bookkeeping and accounting to us. Our professional status and independence of your business gives confidence that your affairs have been properly managed.
The same also applies if there are matters that need to be discussed with HMRC. It is usually easier for us to deal with matters on a client’s behalf.
For complex VAT matters or challenging issues we have a VAT Consultant in our team who can provide advice to help you navigate this taxation minefield.
Tax for businesses and personal tax can be complex and depends on many factors. Our Chartered Accountants will look at your business and personal affairs to make sure you’re not paying more tax than you need to and that everything is kept up to date. The amount of tax you pay on business profits can be affected by many things and whether you are a sole trader or limited company. We’ll review how your business and personal affairs are structured to help save tax wherever possible. We’ll look at whether your business is operating tax efficiently and benefiting from all of the allowances and deductions you are entitled to.
Corporation Tax
We believe the best approach is to plan well ahead and not wait to the deadline. We’ll agree a timeframe with you, then after the accounts have been approved we’ll submit to HMRC and Companies House in good time. You’ll then have until the deadline before you have to settle the tax that is due.
Self Assessment Tax Return
If you are required to submit a Self Assessment Tax Return for the tax year ending 5th April it must be submitted to HMRC before the 31stJanuary of the following year.
If you receive income from several sources or your personal affairs are complex a Self Assessment can seem daunting. Let our Chartered Accountants look after this, saving time and making sure it’s done properly, on time.
Capital Gains Tax
Good planning can help reduce the liability for capital Gains Tax.
We’ll plan ahead with you and discuss your potential liability for Capital Gains Tax. We’ll provide you with the information you need to help you make decisions to reduce your liability.
People
Peter Wood
Head of Business Development
My key roles involve looking after contracts and the commercial aspects of the business, together with client care. I'm responsible for managing and developing our technology and ensuring we achieve vision for the future. And much of this parallels the journey that we share with many of our clients.
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