Accountants in Ballymena for company accounts
Accounting, tax, payroll and advisory for Ballymena businesses — run from our office in Ballymena. Fixed fees, plain English, and someone who picks up the phone.
- 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
The business base in Ballymena
Ballymena is where our office is, so this is the town we know best. It has a manufacturing and engineering backbone that most towns its size don't have, sitting alongside a large agri-food base drawing on the farms across mid-Antrim and a busy independent retail and trades economy through the town centre.
That mix produces a particular set of accounting problems. Engineering and manufacturing businesses carry stock and work in progress, which makes the difference between a management account and a guess quite stark. Agri-food businesses deal with seasonality and, increasingly, with goods moving across the Irish Sea. And the trades base runs on CIS, vans, and the domestic reverse charge. We see all three every week.
Our office is here: Unit 13:62 Fenaghy Road, Ballymena, Co. Antrim, BT42 1FL.
Visiting the Ballymena office
You're welcome to call in — we're on Fenaghy Road, a few minutes from the town centre, with parking outside. Clients further away work with us by phone and video, and for Ballymena businesses a face-to-face meeting is easy to arrange.
You'll deal with the person who does your work.
What we do for Ballymena businesses
Everything from a sole trader's first Self Assessment to a manufacturing company's monthly board pack — and because the office is here, more of it happens face to face than anywhere else on our list.
- Stock and work in progress — valued on a consistent basis you've agreed, so the monthly profit figure reflects trading.
- CIS and the reverse charge — verification, monthly returns and subcontractor statements handled as routine for the trades base around the town.
- Agri-food and farm work — herd basis, averaging and machinery allowances for the farms across mid-Antrim, plus the processing businesses they supply.
- Payroll and pensions — shift patterns, overtime and holiday pay on variable earnings — priced per employee with pensions quoted alongside.
- Management accounts — monthly numbers that tell you something, delivered in person if you'd rather talk them through than read them.
Company accounts for Ballymena companies
A company registered in Northern Ireland files with Companies House in the same way as one in Great Britain: accounts nine months after the year end, a confirmation statement every year, and a Company Tax Return with HMRC within twelve months. The Corporation Tax is due nine months and one day after the year end.
We prepare the accounts and the tax return together from your bookkeeping, and go through them with you before anything is filed, at the Fenaghy Road office if you would rather sit down. Directors' salaries and dividends are planned before the year end, while they can still change the tax.
A company's first accounts are due 21 months after it was incorporated. Year-end accounts sets out what the service includes.
Corporation Tax on £80,000 of profit
A Ballymena company with £80,000 of taxable profit for a twelve-month period and no associated companies.
- Corporation Tax at the main rate of 25%
- £20,000
- Marginal relief: (£250,000 − £80,000) × 3/200
- −£2,550
- Corporation Tax due
- £17,450
Profits up to £50,000 are taxed at 19%, and the full 25% applies above £250,000. Both limits are divided between associated companies, so a director with two companies has lower limits in each.
Worked through at 2026/27 rates from our own calculators, which follow gov.uk guidance. An example. Your figures will differ.
Questions we get asked
Is the Ballymena office a working office?
It's a working office and Northern Ireland is our largest base. A good share of our client list is within twenty minutes of Fenaghy Road. You can come in and sit down with the person who does your work.
I run a small engineering firm — can you handle stock and work in progress?
Yes, and it's worth getting right. Stock and WIP are where small manufacturers most often mis-state profit: value them loosely and your monthly numbers swing for reasons that have nothing to do with trading. We set up a consistent basis, agree it with you, and then the monthly figures start meaning something.
Can you help if I'm moving goods to GB or the Republic?
Yes. Goods moving GB to NI, or NI to the Republic and on into the EU, sit under the Windsor Framework's dual arrangement, which changes invoicing, evidence and whether you need an EORI number. Services are treated differently again. We'll tell you which of it applies to you.
When are my company accounts due?
Nine months after your company's year end at Companies House. The Corporation Tax is due one day after that, and the tax return within twelve months. First accounts are due 21 months after incorporation. We track the dates for you and prepare the accounts ahead of them.
Looking for an accountant in Ballymena?
Tell us what you need and we'll come back to you, usually the same working day.
Prefer to talk first? Call the Ballymena office on 07476 989568, or:
We work right across the region
Northern Ireland is our largest base. Most work runs by phone, video and WhatsApp, so distance from Ballymena matters a lot less than it used to.
If you want the fuller picture first, our page for accountants in Northern Ireland covers the rules that work differently here, cross-border trade and what the service includes.