Annual Accounts
SCEPTRE prepares year-end accounts for sole traders, partnerships and limited companies — the foundation for your self-assessment return or company tax return, and, for limited companies, your statutory filing at Companies House.
Accounts are prepared to agreed timescales and filed on time, every time. Missing the deadlines is expensive: Companies House penalties for late accounts start at £150 and escalate to £1,500 for a private company — and they double if you file late two years running.
Key deadlines
- Companies House: annual accounts are due 9 months after your company’s year end
- HMRC: the company tax return (CT600) is due 12 months after year end, and corporation tax is payable 9 months and 1 day after year end
- Sole traders and partnerships: accounts feed into your self-assessment return, due 31 January online
More than compliance
We aim to go further than preparing the accounts. Your year-end figures are a tool for advising the direction of your organisation — we will highlight the issues they reveal and, by working closely with you, help ensure your business’s potential is fully realised.
Frequently asked questions
What do you need from me? Your bookkeeping records — or, if we do your bookkeeping, nothing at all. We will tell you exactly what is missing and chase the gaps.
My year end has passed and I have not done anything. Am I too late? Almost certainly not — but the sooner you act the more options you have. Contact us and we will map out the deadlines that apply to you.
Year end approaching? Contact SCEPTRE for a free consultation, or call 07886 901535.