Company accounts filed early enough to still be useful.
Every limited company files accounts at Companies House and a corporation tax return with HMRC each year. Left until the deadline, the numbers are months old and there's nothing left to change. We prepare yours soon after the year end, walk you through what they say, and file once you're happy with them.
Who it's for
Limited companies
Trading companies of any size that need statutory accounts and a CT600 every year.
+ + + +Contractors & consultants
Trading through your own company, where the split between salary and dividends matters as much as the filing.
+ + + +First year end
Founders filing for the first time, when the dates and the rules are least familiar.
+ + + +What's included
Covers the annual accounts, the CT600, Companies House filing and the confirmation statement. Fixed monthly, agreed in writing before any work starts.
Why I push for early.
Accounts filed in the last week are a record. Accounts finished a few months after the year end are still a tool: there's time to decide on dividends, plan for the tax bill, and change something before the next year closes. That is the whole reason, it isn't tidiness.
How the year runs
Every deadline for a limited company counts from the end of its accounting period, except the confirmation statement, which follows the date the company was formed.
Pre-year-end review
A look at the numbers while there's still time to act on them: dividends, pension contributions, planned purchases.
Period closes
Records collected, bank reconciled, questions asked while the answers are still fresh.
Accounts to Companies House
The legal deadline. Yours are filed well before it, after a walkthrough call.
Corporation tax paid
The tax is due before the return is. You'll know the figure as soon as the accounts are agreed.
CT600 filed with HMRC
The return itself. Ours go in alongside the accounts, not months later.
Confirmation statement
Officers, shareholders and registered details confirmed at Companies House. Diarised separately, because its date follows incorporation.
The first year runs differently. First accounts are due 21 months after the company was incorporated, and if the first period is longer than 12 months it needs two corporation tax returns. We map out your dates on day one.
Questions,
answered plainly
Anything not here, just ask. We don't charge for questions.
The accounts are the company's financial statements for the year: profit and loss, balance sheet and notes. They go to Companies House and become public. The CT600 is the corporation tax return. It takes the accounting profit, adjusts it for the tax rules, and works out what the company owes. It goes to HMRC with a copy of the accounts. Same numbers, two audiences.
Let's talk about your business.
No obligation, no pitch. Just where you are and where you're heading.
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