Our Services
We offer more than an accounting service. The common element shared by our range of services, as listed below, is their relevance to a particular client’s requirements. Our philosophy is based on satisfying your overall business and financial needs..
Accountancy
We can prepare accounts for sole traders, partnerships, limited companies and charities. We also carry out independent examinations of charity accounts.
With the aim to adding value to your business entities, the preparation of the annual accounts gives us the opportunity to:
- Review financial and management systems:
- Identify problem areas: strength, weakness, opportunities and threats
- Recommend improvements to your business, as well as help you implement agreed solutions.
- Compile with statutory requirement
- Independent examination of charity accounts
Bookkeeping services
We offer a secure, reliable, accurate and timely bookkeeping service. We use popular financial packages such as Sage to produce the highest standard of work; removing the stress of meeting accounting deadlines, and letting you get on with business. You can about outsourcing your accounting functions, like
- Keeping proper records
- VAT returns
- Bank reconciliation
- Payroll administration
- Advice and training
Management accounts
- Business plans and cash flows
- Business start-up planning and advice
- Monthly and quarterly accounts with narratives
- One
- Two
Taxation
- Self assessment tax returns
- Capital gains tax
- CIS refund
- Corporate tax
- Inheritance tax
- HM Revenue and Customs enquiries and investigations
- PAYE and National Insurance compliance
- Personal tax
- Gift Aid
- Tax planning
VAT
- We can act as your VAT agent and providing a UK address as a point of contact for H M Revenue & Customs.
- We will advise you when VAT returns are due for submission.
- Calculation your quarterly VAT returns preparation and submit on your behalf.
- Attending VAT visits
- Dealing with H M Revenue & Customs on your behalf.
Payroll
Dean Howard & Co offers a comprehensive package for small and medium sized companies.
Payroll functions such as
- Producing monthly and weekly payslips
- PAYE
- P45 management
- Processing new starters and leavers
- Calculating Pensions and benefits
- Liaison with your Tax office
- Attending PAYE visits
- Telephone or e-mail enquiry service for your staff
- End of year returns (P35,P60)
By outsourcing your payroll function to us, you will free up your precious time and staffing resources. Other benefits include:
- Removing the need for staff training
- Ensuring that you are up to date with the legislation
- Handling employee enquiries
Company Secretarial Services
- Company formation
New business can find the information on formation process overwhelming. We are here to make sense of it all and helping you to be up and running with your company in the shortest time possible.
- Company limited by shares
- Company limited by guarantee
- Community Interest Company (CIC)
- Registration of charities
- Preparation and filing of statutory returns
- Preparation of all documentation related to Minutes and Resolutions
- Company search
- Maintenance of statutory books
- General advice on company law
Probate Services
Since 2014, some accountants have been able to offer probate services previously only carried out by solicitors. Dean Howard & Co Probate Limited are authorised and regulated by Chartered Institute of Legal Executives (CILEx) Regulation as a CILEx-ACCA Probate Entity (3002072) to carry out non contentious probate services in England and Wales
Wills and Estate Planning
Getting a professional to draft your Will is would ensure that your assets are distributed in accordance with your wishes and not under the rules of intestacy which would otherwise apply. If you die without a Will, then the government will decide who will inherit your estate in accordance with the Laws of Intestacy and may differ from your wishes.
Want to discover what we could do for you? Get a free consultation today!
“Dean Howard & Co has offered our company a first class service, in both qualitative and quantitative terms. The staff are helpful, courteous and responsive to the needs of our service. the principal partner, Mr Dean engaged in an academic research recently. exploring the difficulties facing access to business finance for small and medium enterprises and his input were tremendously beneficial, insightful, portraying his depth of knowledge of the academic orientations in the sector. We continually recommend his services to others who require an independent, professional service.”
“The service was excellent and reliable. We are very happy and will recommend the services of Dean Howard & Co without reservation.”
“I have been with Dean Howard & Co Accountants nearly 2 years. I find Dean Howard & Co Accountants very helpful, easy to talk and discuss any matters concerning business accounts, finance and personal matters. For me one of the main issues is : things to be done on time, which Dean Howard & Co Accountants always have been, even earlier than expected in most cases. They also helped me to start a new business and answer all the questions I had. I sincerely recommend Dean Howard & Co Accountants for any size businesses.”
“When selecting an accountant to work with, it was important to me to find someone who was a pro-active professional with relaxed, caring, customer focused approach. Dean Howard & Co Accountants appeared to fulfill this criteria better than anyone else I considered, and two years on, I know I made the right decision – their support and advice has been invaluable in helping me to establish my business. The efficiency and consistency of the service they provide allows me to forget about what they do, and concentrate on meeting the needs of my clients and growing the business.”
“Always helpful & knowledgeable. Great advice in respect of assisting to maximise our returns in a tax effective way.”
“Dean Howard & Co have been our accountants for some time now and we stay with them because they are approachable; no task ever too small and they do a great job. We have recommended Dean Howard & Co to some of our own clients who are as equally as happy as we are”.
“We are very pleased with the services that Dean Howard and Co has provided us over the years. They are friendly, professional and offer all the support a business could need”.