Accountants in Antrim
We provide accounting, tax, payroll and advisory for Antrim businesses from our office in Ballymena, on a fixed monthly fee.
Call 07476 989568
15 minfrom the Ballymena office
Getting to the Ballymena office
Fifteen minutes down the road from Ballymena. Antrim is comfortably inside the area where calling into the office for an hour is no imposition.
Close enough that Antrim clients treat calling in as normal rather than an event, and we know the manufacturing and transport base around the town well enough to skip the explanations.
The business base in Antrim
Antrim's business base leans towards manufacturing, distribution and healthcare, helped by its position on the motorway network and its proximity to Belfast International Airport. There's a steady base of trades and small professional firms serving the town and the surrounding area.
Being close to the airport matters more than people assume. It supports a cluster of logistics, freight handling, aviation-adjacent engineering and transport businesses, all of which have accounting characteristics of their own — vehicle and plant finance, fuel and duty, driver payroll, and margins thin enough that the costing has to be right.
- Manufacturing
- Logistics & distribution
- Healthcare
- Trades
- Professional services
What we do for Antrim businesses
Antrim's mix of manufacturing, distribution and transport businesses shares one thing: thin margins that only stay positive if the costing underneath them is right.
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Job and contract costing
Knowing what a job actually cost you rather than what you hoped.
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Vehicle and plant finance
Hire purchase, lease or outright — modelled on your numbers, because it changes both the tax relief and how your balance sheet reads to a lender.
- 03
Freight and transport VAT
International freight and services connected with moving goods have their own treatment, and the default assumption is often wrong.
- 04
Shift payroll
Premiums, overtime and night rates calculated properly, which is what your staff notice and what most payroll errors come from.
- 05
Annual accounts and Corporation Tax
Filed on time without you chasing, with the tax position explained before it's due rather than after.
Questions we get asked
I run a haulage business — what do you need to see?
Vehicle finance agreements, fuel records, driver payroll and your operating licence costs, plus how you price a job. Haulage margins are thin enough that a costing error of a few percent decides whether a contract is worth having, so we spend most of the time there rather than on the compliance.
Does being near the airport change anything for VAT?
It can. International freight and certain services connected with the movement of goods have their own VAT treatment, and getting it wrong tends to mean you've charged VAT you didn't need to or failed to charge VAT you did. It's worth twenty minutes to check rather than assuming the standard rate applies.
Can you do payroll for a business with shift patterns?
Yes. Shift premiums, overtime, night rates and holiday pay calculated on variable earnings are where payroll errors cluster, and they're also what staff notice. It's charged per employee per pay run, with workplace pension administration quoted alongside rather than bundled in, so opt-outs don't cost you.
Looking for an accountant in Antrim?
Tell us what you need and we'll come back to you, usually the same working day.
Included
- A named accountant who knows your business
- Books kept up to date all year
- Fixed monthly fee, agreed up front
- Your deadlines tracked and filed
- Portal and app included
- Switching handled for you
Prefer to talk first? Call the Ballymena office on 07476 989568, or:
Towns we cover in Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland is our largest base. Most work runs by phone, video and WhatsApp.
Our page for accountants in Northern Ireland covers the rules that differ here, cross-border trade and what the service includes.
Within 40 minutes
- BallymenaOur office
- Ballyclare20 min
- Ballymoney25 min
- Larne30 min
- Magherafelt30 min
- Newtownabbey30 min
- Belfast40 min
- Coleraine40 min
- Cookstown40 min
- Carrickfergus40 min
45 minutes to an hour
Over an hour
- Banbridge1 hr 10
- Omagh1 hr 15
- Derry / Londonderry1 hr 15
- Downpatrick1 hr 15
- Warrenpoint1 hr 20
- Newry1 hr 30
- Strabane1 hr 30
- Kilkeel1 hr 30
- Enniskillen1 hr 45
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