Accountants in Portadown
Accounting, tax, payroll and advisory for Portadown businesses — run from our office in Ballymena, not a call centre across the water. Fixed fees, plain English, and someone who picks up the phone.
The business base in Portadown
Portadown is a working town with a long industrial history — food processing, engineering and manufacturing, with a busy retail centre and the trades that support both.
Food production is the part that shapes the accounting. Stock, yield and waste decide the margin, and shift payroll is usually a bigger share of the cost base than owners expect until it is set out properly.
Getting to us, and us getting to you
Just under an hour from Ballymena.
Most of it runs remotely, and a site visit is straightforward when there is a reason for one.
What we do for Portadown businesses
Food and engineering share a cost base that is easy to let drift: what you are holding, and what your people cost.
- Stock, yield and waste — valued consistently, so your margin reflects production rather than the count.
- Shift and seasonal payroll — premiums, overtime and holiday pay on variable earnings, run correctly.
- Job costing — what an engineering job actually costs once labour, materials and overhead are in.
- Cross-border VAT — movements to the Republic treated on the NI basis.
- Compliance — accounts, Corporation Tax, VAT and payroll, filed on time.
Questions we get asked
Do you work with food processing businesses?
Yes, and the two questions that matter are stock and yield — how you value work in progress and account for waste — and shift payroll. Get those right and the monthly numbers become useful rather than decorative.
Can you handle payroll for seasonal and shift workers?
Yes, including premiums, overtime and holiday pay on variable earnings, which is where most payroll errors in food production actually occur. It is charged per employee per pay run, with pension administration quoted alongside rather than bundled in.
We are quoting jobs but not making money. Where do we look?
At what a job costs before overhead, then at how much overhead each job is really carrying. Most engineering firms that quote badly are recovering their fixed costs across too few jobs and do not know it until the year end.
Looking for an accountant in Portadown?
Tell us what you need and we'll come back to you, usually the same working day. No call centre, no script.
Prefer to talk first? Call the Ballymena office on 028 2522 0100, 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.