A named accountant
The same person every time, who knows your business without needing the background explained again.
Greater Manchester · Trafford
Accountants in Trafford who do more than the basics
Accounting, tax, payroll and advisory for Trafford businesses — Altrincham and Sale through to Stretford, Urmston and Trafford Park. Fixed fees, a named accountant, and someone who answers the phone.
Working with Trafford businesses
What Trafford actually runs on
Trafford Park is still one of the largest industrial estates in Europe, and the borough's business base runs from that all the way to Altrincham, where the market revival pulled independents and hospitality back into a town centre that had been struggling.
Sale, Urmston and Timperley fill in the middle with owner-managed services businesses and a lot of people contracting through their own company. It is probably the widest spread of business types in Greater Manchester inside one boundary.
The borough also has one of the highest concentrations in Greater Manchester of people running a limited company for a single professional income — contractors, consultants and specialists working through their own company for one or two clients at a time. That makes IR35 a live question here rather than a theoretical one, and it is decided engagement by engagement rather than once.
Sectors we see most in Trafford
- Manufacturing and distribution on Trafford Park
- Hospitality and independent retail in Altrincham and Sale
- Contractors and consultants through their own companies
- Professional services and agencies
- Health, dental and wellbeing practices
- Landlords and property investors
How we work
What working with us in Trafford looks like
Everything runs by phone, video call and WhatsApp, which is how nearly every Trafford 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 Trafford business needs, in one place
Accounts, tax, payroll, bookkeeping and advisory all run across the group, and Trafford 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 Trafford
- Altrincham
- Sale
- Stretford
- Urmston
- Old Trafford
- Partington
- Timperley
- Bowdon
Across the county
And the rest of Greater Manchester
Trafford 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 Trafford business owners
Do you work with hospitality?
Yes — the Altrincham and Sale independents especially. Takings, staff costs, tips and troncs, and the VAT position on mixed-rate sales.
Do you work with businesses on Trafford Park?
Yes. Manufacturing and distribution, with the stock, capital allowances and payroll that come with them.
How would we work together?
By phone, video call and WhatsApp, which is how nearly every Trafford client does it. One named accountant, and no hourly charge for asking a question.
I contract through my own company. Does IR35 affect me?
It depends on the engagement and who the client is. For public sector clients and medium or large private ones, the client decides and must give you a Status Determination Statement. Where the client is small, the decision stays with your company. Either way it turns on how the work is actually done, not on what the contract says.
We run a restaurant. What do we need to watch?
The VAT position on mixed-rate sales, tips and troncs handled properly so they are not treated as ordinary pay, and takings records that reconcile to banking. Staff cost and food cost as a percentage of sales, watched monthly, tell you more about the year than the accounts will.