A named accountant
The same person every time, who knows your business without needing the background explained again.
Aspull
Accountants in Aspull who do more than the basics
Accounting, tax, payroll and advisory for Aspull businesses — from our Hope Street office in Leigh, five miles away. Fixed fees agreed up front and a named accountant who picks up.
Find us
Our Leigh office
- AddressHope Street, Leigh, Greater Manchester, WN7 1NS
- WhatsApp+44 7457 428643
- Emailhello@buzzaccounting.co.uk
- MeetingsIn person by appointment, or by phone, video call and WhatsApp
Working with Aspull businesses
A village of small firms, run by the people who own them
Aspull sits high on the ridge between Wigan and Bolton, the coal long gone and the business base now almost entirely small and owner-managed: trades and contractors, a few light engineering outfits, vehicle and repair businesses, and local services.
What most of them have in common is that the owner is also the bookkeeper. Evenings and Sunday mornings go on entering things that could have arrived on their own, and the year end becomes an act of reconstruction rather than a review. Bank feeds, receipt capture and a handful of rules usually give somebody back the best part of a day a month, and make the accounts cheaper to produce as a side effect.
Making Tax Digital sharpens that. For the self-employed and for landlords above the income threshold it means quarterly updates and records kept digitally rather than one annual scramble. When it applies to you depends on your income, so the useful thing is to know where you sit rather than assume it is somebody else's problem.
What local clients ask us most
- Is my CIS being offset monthly or sitting with HMRC?
- Which way round does the VAT reverse charge go?
- Are my subcontractors genuinely self-employed?
- What can I claim on the vans?
- When do I need to register for VAT?
- How do I pay myself now we are a limited company?
How we work
A local office, and none of the things people hate
Being on Hope Street means you can come in if you want to. Most clients do not — everything works by phone, video and WhatsApp — but the option matters, and so does knowing who you are dealing with.
A price agreed up front
Fixed monthly fee, agreed before any work starts. No hourly billing, and no invoice for picking up the phone.
Answers the same week
Not a set of accounts nine months after your year end, once every decision has already been taken.
The full service
Everything a Aspull business needs, in one place
A small village does not mean a small service. Accounts, tax, payroll, bookkeeping and advisory all run across the group, and Aspull clients get the lot.
Accounts and tax
Year-end accounts, corporation tax, self assessment and all the filing that goes with them.
Bookkeeping
Xero and FreeAgent, kept current through the year rather than rebuilt in a panic each spring.
Payroll and pensions
From one director to a full site team, auto-enrolment handled and deadlines met.
Buzz Business Pulse
Monthly management numbers and a rolling cashflow, so you see the year coming instead of reading about it afterwards.
Virtual Finance Team
A whole finance function without hiring one — bookkeeper, management accountant and financial director between us.
Tax planning
Done before the year end, while there is still something to be done about it.
Across the borough
Serving businesses around Aspull
Five miles from the Hope Street office in Leigh, up through Hindley. We also work with businesses in Wigan, Blackrod, Westhoughton and Hindley, and the work runs digitally so the drive rarely comes into it.
Questions
Common questions from Aspull business owners
My books take me a whole weekend a month. Is there a better way?
Almost certainly. Most of that time goes on re-entering things that could arrive automatically — bank feeds, photographed receipts, and rules that categorise the repeating items. Setting it up once usually gives you back the best part of a day a month, and it makes the year end quicker and cheaper too.
When does Making Tax Digital hit me?
It depends on your income, and the thresholds have moved more than once. If you are self-employed or letting property it is worth checking which phase you fall into rather than waiting to be told, because the change is to how you keep records all year, not just how you file.
What does it cost?
A fixed monthly fee agreed before we start, so you know the number and it does not move. For a small owner-managed business that is usually less than people expect, and it includes the questions during the year rather than billing for them.
How hard is it to switch?
Easier than it sounds. We write to your current accountant, collect the records and handle the handover. You approve one letter and that is largely it.