A named accountant
You deal with the same accountant every time.
Accountants in Trafford
We provide accounting, tax, payroll and advisory for Trafford businesses — Altrincham and Sale through to Stretford, Urmston and Trafford Park. You get a named accountant on a fixed monthly fee.
Included
- 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 Trafford
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, 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 with Trafford businesses
Everything runs by phone, video call and WhatsApp.
Fixed monthly fee
You agree a fixed monthly fee in writing before any work starts, and phone calls are included.
Answers within the week
We answer your questions within the week.
Our services in Trafford
Trafford clients can use all of our accounts, tax, payroll, bookkeeping and advisory services.
Accounts and tax
We prepare and file your year-end accounts, Corporation Tax and Self Assessment returns.
Bookkeeping
We keep your Xero or FreeAgent books up to date through the year.
Payroll and pensions
We run payroll for anything from one director to a full site team, including auto-enrolment.
Buzz Business Pulse
You get monthly management accounts and a rolling cashflow forecast.
Virtual finance team
We act as your finance function, from processing through to board-level reporting.
Tax planning
We plan tax decisions with you before the year end, while they can still change the bill.
Towns and areas we cover in Trafford
- Altrincham
- Sale
- Stretford
- Urmston
- Old Trafford
- Partington
- Timperley
- Bowdon
Other Greater Manchester boroughs
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 in each. See accountants across Greater Manchester.
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, with one named accountant and no hourly charge for questions.
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. What the contract says does not settle it.
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.