Chartered Accountants
Barker Barnes & Co
Services
We want to help your business grow and achieve its potential. We can help provide advice and sound financial information that business owners need to maximise the performance of their business.
Our services are tailored to your needs. For example we can provide simple ad-hoc bookkeeping advice and support as necessary, or we can take your bookkeeping fully in-house and provide you with live on-line access to your records, and provide you with good financial management information.
Welcome to Barker Barnes & Co
We are an experienced firm of Chartered Accountants based in Romsey. We have been serving our clients throughout the South of England for over ten years.
We are a friendly, welcoming and professional firm with a small business focus. Whether you are a start-up or an established business we are here to help and advise you about your business, so that it can grow to acheive its full potential.
We tailor our services to suit your needs. We can help you navigate the tricky areas of preparing your annual accounts and making sure you pay the right amount of tax. Or we can free up your time to focus on the busines, by taking all of your accounting needs in-house with our full bookkeeping service.
Whatever level of service you choose we will always be available on the end of the phone to answer your questions. We understand the pressures of running a business and so we are flexible with our time, with a number of our clients choose to speak/meet with us in the evenings or at weekends.
If you have any questions just give us a call, or send us an email.
We specialise in..
Sole Traders
We can help sole traders with:
Companies
While the directors get on with running the business, we can make sure your company complies with requirements and meets its deadlines:
- Annual Company Accounts
- Corporation Tax
- Companies House Annual Confirmation Statement
- Payroll
- VAT
- Bookkeeping
- Filing documents at HMRC and Companies House
Partnerships and LLPs
We can help your partnership or LLP with:
- Annual Partnership or LLP accounts
- Partnership Tax Return
- Personal Tax Returns for the partners / LLP members
- Payroll
- VAT
- Bookkeeping
We can also LLPs to comply with their particular requirements, including filing accounts and confirmation statements at Companies House.
Charities
We can help small unincorporated charities, charitable companies and charity incorporated organisations.
The requirements can be difficult to navigate with different options available for the format of accounts for smaller charities. The accounts need to be submitted to the Charities Commission and we can help ensure you comply with the Charities SORP, where necessary. Some charity accounts also need to comply with Companies Act requirements.
Your charity may also need an ‘independent examination’ depending on its size, which we can do.
Sub-Contractors
We can help you prepare your accounts and make sure you get your tax right, including claiming any tax refunds that may be due to you.
If you are working through your own company we can help with your responsibilities as a company director, including preparing and filing your accounts, corporation tax returns and filing the right documents at Companies House.
Individuals
If you have income from sources other than your employment we can prepare your personal tax return. Other income could include:
- Savings and investment income
– Interest
– Dividends - Property Rental Income
- Pension Income
- Capital Gains
New Start-Up Businesses
If you are starting a new business we can give you an hour of free advice.
We can talk to you about the pros and cons of different business structures so that you can decide what structure is right for you, whether that may be sole-trader, partnership or a company.
We can advise on what you the various things you need to do get your business set up properly with Companies House and HMRC. We can explain the requirements around preparing and filing annual accounts, tax returns, and what you need to do about VAT and payroll.
We can help you make sure you get your systems for record keeping and bookkeeping right from the start, also ensuring you comply with the ‘Making Tax Digital’ requirements.
We can also provide support with raising finance, opening bank accounts and developing your business plans.
We are available to talk on the phone whenever you have questions and we can meet in person. We can arrange this at a time to suit you, we do not stick to traditional office hours. We will tailor our services to meet your business need with as little or as much support as you require to get your business running successfully.