Burn without a runway number
Founders feel busy. The current account is the only forecast.
SaaS, product, studios
Tech-company accounts that understand burn, R&D and the next raise.
SEIS/EIS, R&D, contractor vs employee, and a board pack a seed investor will recognise.
SaaS, product, studios
Technology
- The tell
- R&D · EIS/SEIS · burn
- Software
- Xero · Sage · QB · FreeAgent
- Reply
- Same day before 4pm
What we usually fix
- Burn without a runway number
- R&D that would not survive a question
- Contractors and IR35
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What this sector actually gets wrong
Technology businesses do not look like a shop. Revenue is deferred, people are the cost, and the tax reliefs only work if the story is true. We look after software studios, SaaS and product companies from pre-revenue through the first institutional round.
R&D that would not survive a question
A claims mill wrote 12 pages. Nobody on the team recognises the project.
Contractors and IR35
The same person, three years running, invoicing from a personal company.
You probably need this if
The software and product companies who call us
- The current account is the only forecast
- A claims mill wrote an R&D story nobody on the team recognises
- A round is coming and the cap table is a slide
- Contractors and employees are mixed without a status conversation
Technology
Who we act for
SaaS and product
Burn, runway, deferred revenue, a pack a seed investor will not rewrite.
Studios and agencies
Project margin and contractors who have been ‘just IR35’ for three years.
Companies raising
SEIS/EIS and an R&D file that matches the engineering.
What sits in the monthly fee.
4 lines, all included
- Monthly board pack
- Burn, runway, ARR or project margin, whichever is true for you.
- R&D that is yours
- We interview engineers. We do not invent uncertainty.
- SEIS / EIS
- Eligibility checked. Certificates investors can use.
- Share and option admin
- Cap table, EMI notifications, allotments.
Then the calendar takes over.
- 01
Stack
Usually Xero plus the tools you already live in.
- 02
Cadence
Month close that a founder can read on a phone.
- 03
Raise or relief
We time the tax work to the commercial calendar.
From the files
The round closed. The R&D claim the following year used the same project file.
What actually happened
A Manchester-and-Lancashire product studio raising a seed round
We cleaned 18 months of contractor costs, filed SEIS assurance, and produced a pack the lead investor did not rewrite.
In plain English
Technology accounting, written properly
Tech books are not shop books
Revenue may be deferred, people are the cost, and the reliefs only work if the story is true. We look after software studios, SaaS and product companies from pre-revenue through a first institutional round, monthly board packs, R&D we will defend, SEIS/EIS timed to the raise, EMI notifications when options are real.
We will not inflate a claim to win the work
That is how you buy an enquiry. If the uncertainty is not technological, we say no. If the contractor is inside IR35 in all but name, we say that too. Founders in Manchester, Lancashire and remote-first teams get the same named accountant, not a rotating CSM.
Technology questions
No. Bootstrapped studios and agencies are most of the work.
Yes, valuation support, scheme design with your lawyer, and the HMRC notifications.
No. That is how you buy an enquiry.
Both offices
One number. Whichever desk you land on.
01925 670289Or message us on WhatsApp- Warrington
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info@countplus.co.uk
Monday–Friday, 9:00–17:00. Same-day response before 4pm.
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Countplus Accounting, since 2019
Talk to an accountant who already works with software and product companies.
A monthly number in a minute, or a conversation with the person who would do the work.
Get a quote, or call the desk on 01925 670289, Monday to Friday, 9 to 5. Write before 4pm and a named person answers the same day.