Find out what your numbers are actually telling you

Committing to a monthly arrangement before anyone has looked at your business is a lot to ask. So start smaller. One piece of paid work, a fortnight, and a clear answer at the end of it.

You keep the written summary whatever you decide next.

The Finance Review

£499

one off, plus VAT

  • A proper look at your records, not a skim of your year-end accounts
  • Ninety minutes together, going through what we found
  • A short written summary you keep
  • Three things worth doing, in the order we would do them
  • Delivered within two weeks of you sending access

Credited in full against your first month if you go on to work with us, so it costs a continuing client nothing.

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What we are looking for

Most reviews start with ratios. We start further back, with whether the numbers those ratios are built on are right. In practice that is where the money usually is.

Whether the records say what you think they say

Transactions coded to the wrong account, VAT sitting in the wrong box, income recognised in the wrong period. These are quiet problems. They do not announce themselves, and every report you read afterwards inherits them.

Where the margin actually comes from

By client, project or product line, depending on how you work. Most owners can name their biggest customer. Fewer can name their most profitable one, and the two are often not the same.

What the next three months of cash looks like

Not a forecast built on wishes. What is committed, what is collectable and when, and where the pinch points fall.

Tax you are paying that you did not need to

Reliefs missed, extraction structured inefficiently, decisions made after the year end that would have cost less before it. We will tell you what is worth acting on and what is not.

How it runs

Two weeks from start to finish, and about two hours of your time in total.

You book and pay

Pick a slot for the session and pay at the same time. You will get a short list of what we need access to, usually your accounting software on read-only, your last filed accounts and your most recent VAT return.

We do the work

About a week, on our side, with no demands on your time beyond one or two clarifying questions. If your records are behind, send them as they are. The state of the books is part of what we are reviewing, so there is nothing to tidy up first.

Ninety minutes together

We take you through what we found, in plain language, and you ask whatever you want. Bring anyone else who should hear it.

You get it in writing

A short summary within two working days, with three prioritised actions. Yours to act on, take to your existing accountant, or sit on. No follow-up sales sequence.

If it is not useful, you do not pay for it

Tell us within 14 days of the session and we refund the fee in full, without asking why and without a conversation about it. You keep the written summary either way.

We can offer that because of how rarely it happens, not because the review is a formality. If we cannot tell you something you did not already know about your own business, we have not earned the fee.

The questions people actually ask

Could I not just ask AI to do this?

Partly, yes. Given a clean set of accounts, a good model will produce respectable analysis. We use AI heavily ourselves, and it runs through most of what we build.

The catch is that a model can only analyse what you hand it, and in most businesses the problem sits in what never reached the records in the first place. A model reads those confidently and tells you something reassuring. What you are paying for is someone qualified checking the numbers are right before drawing conclusions from them, and putting their name to the answer.

Do I have to become a client afterwards?

No, and the summary is written on that basis. Plenty of people take it to the accountant they already have. If you do go on to a monthly arrangement, the £499 comes off your first month.

Our books are in a state.

Then you are exactly who this is for. Nothing needs cleaning up before you send it. We would rather see the real position than a tidied one.

Is this just a sales meeting with an invoice attached?

It is paid work with a deliverable. We will tell you at the end whether we think you need ongoing support, and we will tell you if we think you do not.

Book the Finance Review

Pick a time for the session below. Payment is taken at booking, and we will email you the access list straight away.

Would rather talk first? A 15 minute call costs nothing and commits you to nothing.