We help you understand the business, plan ahead and make better decisions.
Our work starts with accurate financial information, but it does not end there. We use that information to help you improve performance, manage tax, prepare for growth and protect the value you are building.
Business Clarity
Most of the services on this page come together in Business Clarity, our ongoing advisory relationship. It combines monthly reporting with commentary, a forward-looking meeting each quarter, an annual business health review and access to advice between meetings, so that tax, performance and planning are looked at together rather than as separate annual tasks.
Understand how the business is performing
A bank balance can tell you how much cash is available today. Annual accounts can tell you what happened months ago. Neither is enough on its own to run a growing business well.
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We help you see the position more clearly through management accounts, cash flow forecasts, budgets and reporting that focuses on the measures that matter to your business.
Management accounts and commentary
Cash flow forecasting
Budgets and scenario planning
KPI reporting
Cloud accounting systems and process improvement
Plan tax before the year is over
Tax planning is most effective before profits are final, money is withdrawn or a transaction takes place. We review the wider picture during the year so that decisions about salary, dividends, pensions, VAT, investment and structure can be considered in good time.
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Corporation tax planning
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Director remuneration
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VAT advice
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Personal tax planning
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Capital gains and property tax advice
Support growth and change
Growth creates opportunity, but it also creates complexity. We help you understand the financial effect of recruiting, investing, reorganising the company, bringing in a shareholder or buying another business.
Business planning
Funding support
Corporate restructuring
Acquisition support
Shareholder and group planning
Prepare for succession or exit
A strong exit rarely begins when a buyer appears. It begins years earlier, when the business can still be made less dependent on the owner, more profitable and easier to transfer.
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We help you understand what the business may be worth, what would strengthen that value and how tax and ownership should be considered well before a sale, management buyout or family succession.
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Business valuation
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Exit readiness
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Succession planning
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Management buyout support
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Capital gains tax planning
Keep business and personal planning aligned
For an owner-manager, business and personal finances are closely linked. Decisions about profit extraction, pensions, property, investment and estate planning should not be considered in isolation.
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We coordinate the tax and business side and work with your regulated financial adviser where appropriate.
Built on strong compliance
Annual accounts, corporation tax, VAT, payroll and personal tax returns remain essential.
We complete them accurately and on time.
They provide the reliable base from which better conversations can happen.
What our clients say
We need hands-on accountants who can help us out with the many accounting and tax issues involved in our import/export activities. AK Tax & Accountancy have always helped us get our business affairs sorted out in a fast, professional and friendly manner. We highly recommend the AK Tax and Accountancy team.
DARREN FOSBURY
