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Starting a Business?

You want to get on with running your business profitably, not spending a time dealing with tax and VAT issues or preparing the accounts. We can help navigate through the maze of legislation and paperwork in order to let you get on with running your own business.

Here are some ways in which HfM can help you …

Starting a business
You have a dream? You want independence? A part-time interest is growing?

You are welcome to discuss with us the best way to turn an idea into a reality, and how to do it in the most financially rewarding way. We can provide:

  • Advice on whether to be self-employed, or set up a limited company or LLP
  • Help with producing a business plan
  • Assistance in completing the relevant paperwork
  • Advice on how to organize your business to ensure you keep as much of the profit as possible



Running a business
If your business is established, we can help by



Advising on the best and most economical way to keep your financial records
Producing your annual accounts and quarterly VAT returns
Giving advice on tax, accounting and busines issues… and much more


Business growth
Growing businesses often need assistance with coping with the pressures of growth and planning expansion. With years of experience, we are well qualified to help ensure that your business continues to grow profitably.


Save yourself time and money by viewing the seminar below on Tax & Accounting for Small Businesses.


Starting a business is both exciting and frightening … and it is a time when you need good advice if you are not to waste time and money on the wrong structures.
Here are ways in which we can help:

The legal structure
Choosing whether to be self-employed or through a limited company or LLP depends on the type and size of business. There are business, tax and cost reasons for making the choice and it is important that you know the issues from the beginning. And we will tell you the cost of each route as clearly as we can.


Business Plans
Having a plan is important but many people get stuck at some stage, particularly on the financials. We can help you to produce these on a level that is appropriate to you – whether for your own planning or in order to obtain initial funding.


Accounting systems
Setting up a proper accounting system is vital. And it needs to be appropriate to the size and potential growth of your business … and that can mean everything from a simple A4 file to a sophisticated computer system. Don’t worry; we cope with plastic bags full of receipts to on-line bookkeeping systems. We will be glad to sort out something that makes sense for you.


Employing staff
Once you get started you will have to work out how to pay yourself (if you trade through a limited company) as well as any staff you employ. We can help clients in running their payroll each month, producing payslips and telling you exactly how much tax and national insurance needs to be paid over.


Managing growth
Among our directors we have an accredited business advisor as well as a Fellow of the Charted Management Institute who also has an MBA in small business management, so we are in a unique position to assist you in your business planning. Get in touch and see how we can help.