Limited Companies

A limited company is a compliance machine that must be fed on schedule: accounts to Companies House, corporation tax returns to HMRC on a different timetable, confirmation statements, VAT, PAYE, registers, and the directors' personal returns orbiting the whole thing. Run separately, these leak — the company's accountant does not see the director's position, dividends outrun reserves, deadlines live in nobody's calendar.

Acumon runs it as a single system: every filing owned and diarised, the company and its directors planned together — because owner-managed company tax happens at the seam between the two — and a named accountant who knows the business well enough to advise, not just file.

The Compliance Machine, Fed on Time

Statutory accounts prepared under the right framework and filed at Companies House; corporation tax computations and returns with reliefs actually claimed — capital allowances, loss choices made deliberately; VAT under MTD; payroll and RTI through our CIPP-qualified team; confirmation statements and statutory registers maintained. Every deadline in our calendar with margin, not yours at midnight.

The Company and Its Directors, Planned Together

Most limited company tax value sits in the seam: salary-dividend-pension mix reviewed annually as rules move, dividends paid lawfully from evidenced reserves with proper paperwork, directors' loan accounts kept out of the s455 trap, family shareholdings structured properly, and the timing games between company year-end and personal tax year played deliberately. We prepare the directors' self assessments alongside the company's return, so the two positions are one plan.

Numbers That Run the Business

Beyond compliance, the books should tell you things: management accounts when decisions need more than instinct, margin and cash visibility from cloud bookkeeping kept current, and an accountant who reviews what the numbers say — before you commit to the hire, the premises, the price change. Companies that only hear from their accountant at year-end are buying filing, not accounting.

Events a Company Grows Into

Limited companies accumulate events: crossing the audit thresholds, taking investment, adding subsidiaries or a holding company, share reorganisations, acquisitions, and eventually sale or succession. Each is a specialism, and each is in the building — audit, due diligence, valuations, demergers, employee ownership. The company that starts with our small-business service and ends at a sale never changes firm; the file, and the institutional memory, travel intact.

What You Get With Acumon

• Statutory accounts, corporation tax, VAT, payroll and registers — one owned calendar
• Directors' self assessment prepared with the company's return, as one plan
• Annual profit-extraction review: salary, dividends, pensions
• Dividend paperwork done lawfully from evidenced reserves
• Directors' loan accounts monitored clear of the s455 charge
• Cloud bookkeeping with management reporting when you need it
• Audit, due diligence and exit specialists in the same firm
• A named accountant who advises, not just files

Why Acumon for Limited Companies?

• ICAEW Chartered Accountants — company and director tax planned by one team
• All 90 of the firm's professionals are based in the UK
• CIPP-qualified payroll and ex-HMRC tax specialists in-house
• Registered audit firm for the day your company grows into needing one

Get a Fixed-Fee Quote

Tell us what you need and we'll come back within one business day with a clear scope and a fixed price — no hourly-rate surprises. Call 020 8567 3451 or use the form and we'll be in touch.