Outsourced Professional Services Accounting for UK Firms

Yes. Professional services firms are one of our strongest use cases - the work is recurring, deadline-driven, and process-led. We handle bookkeeping, VAT, management accounts, payroll, and year-end support across consultancies, marketing agencies, recruitment firms, and law practices. In practice that means consultancy accounting services UK partners can sign off without reworking, marketing agency accounting across project and retainer billing, and recruitment agency accounting covering placement fees and contractor payroll.

Yes. We prepare year-end accounts and supporting working papers for both LLPs and limited companies. LLP accounts include the partnership statement, members' capital accounts, and profit allocation schedules formatted for your review and submission, with the accounts due at Companies House nine months after the period end and the SA800 partnership return by 31 January.

Yes. We regularly run both corporate compliance and personal tax workflows within the same engagement. Director self assessment, dividend reconciliations, and the company CT600 are handled together, which reduces duplication and keeps the numbers consistent.

We prepare management accounts with metrics relevant to professional services businesses - utilisation rates, revenue per fee-earner, debtor days, and work in progress movements. Law firm management accounts add matter-level profitability and client account balances alongside the standard pack. The format follows your template or we can propose one during onboarding.

Moving professional services accounting work across to us is straightforward, and most engagements are fully operational within two weeks of the first conversation. We start with a call to understand the client, agree on access and workflows, and confirm turnaround expectations. From there, delivery begins. We don't have long implementation timelines.

Yes. Recruitment agency accounting has its own rhythm - placement fee revenue recognition, rebate and clawback provisions, weekly contractor payroll runs, and self-billing reconciliations against client purchase orders. We provide the accounting recruiting firms need across all of it. From 6 April 2026 we also track the umbrella company position, where joint and several liability for PAYE and Class 1 National Insurance on umbrella workers sits with the recruitment agency in the supply chain, or with the end client where there is no agency. Mapping that chain is now monthly work, not an annual review.

For a consultancy the monthly cycle is lower in volume than retail but heavier in judgement. Consulting business bookkeeping means tracking unbilled time and WIP, recognising fixed-fee and milestone revenue in the right period, keeping expense recharges separate from billable fees, and reconciling multi-currency receipts where clients pay from overseas. We deliver consultancy bookkeeping services UK practices can review in an hour rather than rebuild, with the same ledger discipline every month and working papers referenced back to source.

Pricing is per client, per workflow, based on transaction volume, headcount on payroll, whether the client is an LLP or a limited company, and whether a client account sits in scope. There is no retainer, no minimum volume, and no separate charge for the senior review. Send us one real client and we will price it properly rather than quote a headline rate that changes at month three.