A named accountant
The same person every time, who knows your business without needing the background explained again.
Greater Manchester · Stockport
Accountants in Stockport who do more than the basics
Accounting, tax, payroll and advisory for Stockport businesses — the town centre, Cheadle, Bramhall, Marple and Hazel Grove. Fixed fees, a named accountant, and someone who answers the phone.
Working with Stockport businesses
What Stockport actually runs on
Stockport town centre has had serious money spent on it and the business base has shifted with it — more professional services, more offices, more of the kind of firm that used to default to central Manchester. Around it, Bramhall, Cheadle and Marple carry a high concentration of owner-managed businesses and people running consultancies from home.
That mix produces a particular set of questions: how to draw income from a company that is finally making decent money, when a growing practice needs management accounts, and what happens to the tax when a good year follows an average one.
What comes with that profile is people whose business finances and personal finances have stopped being separate questions. Pensions, property, school fees, drawing income from a company that is finally doing well, and eventually selling it — these are one conversation, not several, and treating them separately is how people end up paying tax twice for no reason.
Sectors we see most in Stockport
- Professional services and consultancies
- Technology, IT and software contractors
- Independent retail and hospitality in the town centre and Marple
- Health, dental and wellbeing practices
- Construction and the trades across Hazel Grove and Romiley
- Landlords and property investors
How we work
What working with us in Stockport looks like
Everything runs by phone, video call and WhatsApp, which is how nearly every Stockport client works with us. What matters is not where the desk is — it is who picks up and how fast you get an answer.
A price agreed up front
Fixed monthly fee, agreed in writing 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 Stockport business needs, in one place
Accounts, tax, payroll, bookkeeping and advisory all run across the group, and Stockport clients get the lot rather than a cut-down version of it.
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, from processing through to board-level reporting.
Tax planning
Decisions taken before the year end, when they can still change the number.
Across the borough
Towns and areas we cover in Stockport
- Stockport
- Cheadle
- Bramhall
- Marple
- Hazel Grove
- Romiley
- Reddish
Across the county
And the rest of Greater Manchester
Stockport is one of the ten boroughs we work across. We also act for businesses in Bolton, Bury, Manchester and Oldham, and the work runs the same way wherever you are — see accountants across Greater Manchester for the full picture.
Frequently asked questions
Common questions from Stockport business owners
Do you work with professional practices?
Yes — consultancies, therapists, surveyors, IT people. Mostly limited companies, and mostly the same three questions about salary, dividends and what to leave in the business.
Can you help me decide on salary versus dividends?
Yes, and it is worth doing properly each year rather than defaulting to the same split. Corporation Tax, dividend rates and your own position all move.
Do you need to see me in person?
No. Stockport clients work with us by phone, video call and WhatsApp, and it changes nothing about the work or the fee.
I am thinking about selling my business. What should I do first?
Find out what it is actually worth and what you would keep after tax, before you talk to anybody. Business Asset Disposal Relief is now 18% rather than the 10% most people still have in their heads, which changes the number materially on a decent sale. The preparation that improves the price takes two to three years, so early is the whole game.
Can you work with my financial adviser?
Yes, and it usually works better. Buzz is an accountancy practice and is not FCA-authorised, so regulated pension and investment advice comes from an authorised firm — we introduce clients to Equity & General, FCA number 474163. The tax side and the advice side need to agree with each other, which is easier when they are talking.