1) Accountancy and Tax Services with Added Value included within your fixed fee.
A set of accounts or a tax return are no different if we prepare them or any number of our competitors. So why would you want to use us instead of another firm? We have a number of unique benefits that make a none value adding service fantastic value:
- Legal advice - you can call our qualified lawyers during work hours and receive free advice on any aspect of law, personal or business, contracts, terms and conditions, health and safety, employment law etc. etc. etc.
- No professional fees in the event of an investigation into your affairs by the Inland Revenue.
- Free telephone contact 24/7
- Free Meetings
- Guaranteed weekly essential commercial advice. You no longer need to feel that you should be making more effort to keep up to date with local and national matters affecting your business. Our specialist team trawl through the FT, DTI reports, what’s happening in parliament, the internet, and bring you reports that matter.
- Guaranteed monthly proactive tax saving ideas and tips on avoiding fines and penalties.
- Your accounts presented using our Highlights Memorandum, converting your complex statutory accounts into a report containing language for the none accountant.
- Pre year end tax planning meeting to establish your tax minimisation strategy.
2) It’s easy being a client of ours!
Our continual investment in the most sophisticated IT sets us apart from our traditional counterparts, whose internal controls rely on informal systems at best and peoples memories and diaries at worst. The benefits for you are tremendous:
You never have to:
- remind us that your year end has passed and your books are ready
- ask when your tax is due
- inform us that your tax return is still not done
- complain that calls haven’t been returned
- remind us that we haven’t responded to letters
They look like obvious things that you should never have to do, but research shows that a basic lack of PROACTIVITY is the profession’s biggest complaint. We have been assessed by CCH (ICAEW’s software partner) as being in the top 2% of all accountants in the UK in terms of our client service systems. Other firms can make the administration of your accounts and tax really hard work. We can make it easy.
We are a paperless office, we have no paper files. So what’s the benefit to you? We are RESPONSIVE at a rate our competitors simply cannot match. No matter what time of day, or where your contact is, in the office, at home, or half way down the M1, if we have internet access, we’ve got your files to hand:
- accounts
- tax records
- letters
- emails
- telephone call notes
- Inland Revenue, Companies House etc correspondence
The comment … “I don’t have that information with me at the moment so I’ll have to come back to you when I’m in the office next week” … is never something that you will hear from us.
It’s a fast moving world that we all live in now, and we know that you sometimes need information from your support network at “the drop of a hat.” We can do that for you.
We can also provide you with free secure software enabling us to access your accounting system remotely. So if you have any problems that need sorting out quickly, we can resolve them for you immediately from our office in Leeds.
Remember as a client of Oddy Tomlinson you receive free telephone contact and free meetings.
We only recruit the very best people, who are either qualified chartered accountants or chartered tax advisers, or training to be so. They then enjoy the very best continuous training. The benefits for you are:
- highest levels of professionalism and integrity
- first class advice on accounting solutions, tax saving ideas, time saving methods, and so on.
- in-depth knowledge of MIS and accounting systems (Sage being a particular speciality).
You will be given 2 points of contact, email and mobile numbers included, who you can contact directly anytime.
5) Proactive Commercial Advice
We are not just here to “keep score”. We can provide you with a virtual finance director. You’ll have a weekly reminder that we are here to help you. We want to be your first port of call for advice you need on any business issue. Just pick up the phone, remember we do not charge separately for phone calls.
You have access to superb profit improvement schemes, assistance with strategic business planning to grow your business ready for exit or retirement, and ultimately realise a sale price for your business you have worked so hard for. We can help set you free from your business, making it run without you and giving you more control. Other advisory services include staff recruitment and training, commercial finance, corporate finance, capital gains and inheritance tax planning, and management accounting software installation and training. Please feel free to ask for client testimonials.
