Accountants in Craigavon for company accounts
Accounting, tax, payroll and advisory for Craigavon 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 Craigavon
Craigavon sits on the M1 between Belfast and the border and is one of Northern Ireland's real industrial centres — pharmaceutical and life sciences, food processing at scale, engineering, and the logistics that the motorway position makes obvious.
It is also where you find the most R&D activity outside Belfast. A lot of it goes unclaimed, because businesses assume research and development means laboratory work. Solving a production problem that had no off-the-shelf answer can also qualify.
Getting to Craigavon from Ballymena
Around fifty minutes from Ballymena, straight down the M1.
An easy run when a site visit makes sense, and with process manufacturing it often does.
What we do for Craigavon businesses
Manufacturing at scale, plus the reliefs that manufacturers most often leave on the table.
- R&D tax relief — assessed honestly — including telling you when a claim would not stand up.
- Stock, yield and waste — valued on a basis that holds month to month, so margin reflects production.
- Shift payroll — premiums, overtime and holiday pay on variable earnings, where payroll errors in process manufacturing cluster.
- Capital allowances — plant and machinery claims, including full expensing.
- Cross-border trade — movements to the Republic on the NI basis, which is generally simpler than a GB business faces for the same goods.
Company accounts for Craigavon manufacturers
For a manufacturing company, four areas decide the year-end profit and the tax on it.
- Stock and work in progress
- Counted on the year-end date and valued at the lower of cost and what it will sell for. For goods you make, cost includes the production overheads as well as the materials.
- Capital allowances
- Plant and machinery bought in the year is claimed in that year's Company Tax Return. Companies can deduct the full cost of new main-rate plant under full expensing.
- R&D relief
- A company claiming for the first time, or for the first time in three years, must notify HMRC within six months of the end of the accounting period. The claim itself goes in the Company Tax Return, within two years of the period end.
- Filing dates
- Accounts at Companies House nine months after the year end, Corporation Tax paid nine months and one day after it, and the Company Tax Return within twelve months.
Questions we get asked
Do we qualify for R&D relief?
More manufacturers do than claim. The test is whether you were resolving genuine technical uncertainty — not whether you bought new equipment. We will tell you plainly if the answer is no, because HMRC's scrutiny of these claims has tightened considerably.
We supply into the Republic. What changes after the Windsor Framework?
For goods, less than you might fear and generally in your favour. Northern Ireland's position means movements into the Republic and onward into the EU are treated more simply than the same movement from GB. The advantage only holds if your invoicing and evidence are set up to match it.
Our margins move month to month and we cannot explain it. Why?
Nine times out of ten the cause is how stock has been counted. If work in progress is counted or valued differently between months, the margin swings for reasons that have nothing to do with how well you sold.
Can you prepare our company accounts from Ballymena?
Yes. Your records come to us through the client portal, and we go through the accounts with you by video call or at your premises. Craigavon is about fifty minutes from the Ballymena office down the M1.
Looking for an accountant in Craigavon?
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.