Accounts (private companies)
9 months after year end
Year-end, done properly
Full accounts filed on time, without the year-end panic.
Statutory accounts, Corporation Tax and a named accountant who has already seen the numbers before you ask.
Accounts · Countplus file
Full Accounts
- Fee
- From £99/month
- The date
- 9 months after year end (private companies)
- Reply
- Same day before 4pm
In the package
- Statutory accounts
- Corporation Tax return
- Director tax
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What full accounts actually are.
Full accounts are the official picture of your year: profit, tax, and what Companies House and HMRC need to see. We prepare them for contractors, limited companies, start-ups and sole traders across Lancashire and Cheshire, then walk you through them in plain English.
From, per month
£99/month
Typical limited-company package, confirmed before you start.
9 months after year end (private companies)
In the number
- Statutory accounts
- Corporation Tax return
- Director tax
- A review meeting
Quoted separately
- First-year catch-up
- One-off relief claims
- Valuations, exits, restorations
What is in the package.
Everything below is included from £99/month. Nothing here is billed twice.
4 lines, all included
- Statutory accounts
- Companies House-ready accounts prepared to UK GAAP, not a spreadsheet dump.
- Corporation Tax return
- CT600 filed with the computations behind it, and a one-page summary of what you actually owe.
- Director tax
- Salary, dividends and Self Assessment lined up so you are not taxed twice on the same pound.
- A review meeting
- We do not email a PDF and vanish. You get a call that explains profit, tax and what to change next year.
You probably need this if
Signs you need full accounts
- Your year end is inside six months and the books are not closed
- Companies House or HMRC dates are in a spreadsheet nobody owns
- Last year’s accountant emailed a PDF and disappeared
- You are switching firms and the last set has not been filed
The desk
Accounts
Reply
Same day before 4pm
Stack
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Switch
We write the letter
Nine months is not a vibe. It is a date.
Companies House, Corporation Tax and the confirmation statement do not share a clock. We diary all three.
Companies House
9 mo
after year end
Us. The app. The other option.
Switchers are not choosing ‘an accountant’. They are leaving a queue, a spreadsheet, or a fee that grew after the call.
| The actual decision | Countplus | National app | DIY / high street |
|---|---|---|---|
| A named person on the file | No | Sometimes | |
| Year-end and tax that match | Sometimes | Sometimes | |
| Same-day reply before 4pm | No | Sometimes | |
| A fee written before we start | Yes | No |
Full Accounts
Who it is usually for
Limited companies
Statutory accounts, CT600 and a confirmation statement that match each other.
Directors
Salary, dividends and your own Self Assessment lined up with the company year.
Growing SMEs
A year-end that already agrees with the monthly pack, so the board is not surprised.
Three steps. Then it is just a calendar.
No onboarding theatre. We take the file, put a named accountant on it, and the deadlines go in the diary.
- 01
We collect the year
Bank feeds, software access or a box of invoices. We work with what you have.
- 02
We draft, you check
You see a draft pack before anything is filed. Questions are expected.
- 03
We file and close
Companies House and HMRC get what they need. You get dates for next year in writing.
The calendar we take off you
9 months
Companies House accounts after year end (private companies)
9 months + 1 day
Corporation Tax payment after the accounting period ends (usually)
12 months
CT600 return after the accounting period ends
Anniversary
Confirmation statement. Its own clock
In plain English
Full Accounts, written properly
What goes into a set of full accounts
Full accounts are the official story of the year: profit, tax, what you owe, and what Companies House will publish. For a limited company that usually means statutory accounts under UK GAAP, a Corporation Tax return, and a short conversation that translates the pack into what you can take out next year. For a sole trader it is the year-end figures that sit behind Self Assessment, one set of numbers, not two versions of the truth.
Why Lancashire and Cheshire firms come to us
Most clients are not first-timers. They are tired of a ticket queue, a junior who does not know the file, or a fee that grew after the call. Countplus prepares full accounts from Nelson and Warrington (and remotely for the rest of the UK) with a named accountant who has already seen the draft before you ask. Xero, FreeAgent, Sage or QuickBooks; we join the file you have.
Deadlines we diary so you do not
Private companies usually file accounts at Companies House nine months after year end. Corporation Tax payment is usually due nine months and one day after the accounting period ends; the CT600 return is due twelve months after the period ends. Confirmation statements have their own anniversary. We put each deadline on a calendar in week one, then work backwards from the first date.
Full Accounts FAQs
You need a set of year-end figures to complete Self Assessment accurately. We prepare those accounts and the tax return together, so the numbers match.
Private companies usually file Companies House accounts nine months after year end. Corporation Tax payment is usually due nine months and one day after the accounting period ends. The CT600 return is due twelve months after the accounting period ends. We diary these separately.
Yes. We request the handover from your current accountant and pick up from the last filed set. Switching is the part we handle.
You get a review call as standard. If the board needs a walkthrough, we do that too, in English, with the three numbers that matter circled.
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