Trades, not slogans

Nine trades.
Nine charts of accounts.

A café, a pharmacy and a contractor do not share a paragraph. These pages do not either.

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The floor

The tell

Trades with their own chart of accounts

CIS · tronc · SORP

The words generic firms skip

UK-wide

From Nelson and Warrington

The chart of accounts is the trade

A café, a pharmacy, a contractor and a landlord do not share a chart of accounts. These nine pages do not share a paragraph.

Sector work is how a small firm stays useful: CIS and reverse charge for construction, tronc for hospitality, SORP for charities, margin scheme for motor, R&D for product companies. Countplus acts for those trades across Lancashire, Cheshire and the rest of the UK, same software stack as the national apps, with a person who already knows the quirks of the trade.

Trades & contractorsConstruction IndustrySubcontractor tax, reverse charge VAT, and books that survive a site manager’s inbox.CIS · reverse charge · retentions Landlords & SPVsProperty InvestmentBuy-to-let, SPVs, mixed-use and the CGT clock on a sale. Finance costs, not folklore.Finance-cost restriction · SPV · 60-day CGT HospitalityRestaurants & HotelsTips, tronc, food margin, VAT and payroll that does not miss a shift pattern.Tronc · covers · food margin Clinics, pharmacies, practitionersHealthcare ProfessionalsLocum vs limited, pharmacy cash, practice expenses and a tax bill that does not land in clinic.Locum · limited · pension SaaS, product, studiosTechnologySEIS/EIS, R&D, contractor vs employee, and a board pack a seed investor will recognise.R&D · EIS/SEIS · burn E-commerce & creatorsOnline BusinessMarketplace fees, stock, digital services and the threshold that sneaks up on a good year.Marketplace VAT · MTD · stock Garages & dealersMotor IndustryUsed cars, service bays, parts and VAT on the bit that is not a car.Margin scheme · stock · workshop Year zeroBusiness Start-upsSole trader or limited, a bank that will have you, and no folklore from a Facebook group.First 90 days · vehicle · UTR Charities & CICsNot for ProfitCharity SORP, restricted funds and a treasurer who is not doing this at midnight.SORP · restricted funds · Gift Aid

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The chart of accounts is the trade

Most SMEs still fit.

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Nine trades.
Nine charts of accounts.