Know How Your Business Is Really Doing, Every Month
Send us your figures. Within three working days you get a clear report on profit, cash and whether you are on track — and, if you want it, advice on what to do next.
What it costs
From £50
a month
How fast
3 working days
from receiving your figures
Running a Business Is Two Jobs
The first is doing the work you are good at: cutting hair, fixing cars, serving customers, looking after clients. The second is managing the business: knowing whether you made money this month, whether there is enough cash for next month, and what to change before a small problem becomes a big one.
Most owners do the first job well, and the second when there is time. There usually isn't.
Doing the work
The job you started the business to do. You already do this well.
- – Serving customers
- – Delivering the product or service
- – Managing the team and the day
- – Keeping the standard up
Running the numbers
The job that gets done when there is time. The questions it answers:
- – Did we make money this month?
- – Is there enough cash for next month?
- – Are we where we planned to be?
- – What is coming that could knock us off course?
- – What should we change?
When job two gets missed
Problems show up late, usually in the bank balance.
Decisions get made on gut feel, because the figures are six months old.
The year-end accounts are the first time you find out how the year went.
How It Works
You keep recording your transactions the way you do now. We do the rest.
- 1
You send your figures
Your month's transactions, in a format we agree at the start: a bookkeeping export, a spreadsheet, or statements and invoices. You do not need to be on any particular software.
- 2
We build your report
A chartered accountant organises the figures, works out what they mean, and writes them up at the level you have chosen.
- 3
You get it within three working days
Emailed to you, ready to read in ten minutes. On the Advise level, we also talk it through with you on a call.
Monthly report
Example Café Ltd · August
Profit this month
£4,820
▲ £620 vs budget
Profit year to date
£31,400
On plan
Cash available
£18,250
▼ Falls in Oct
Sales against budget, last six months
What to watch
Sales are ahead of budget, but the quarterly VAT payment and the new lease deposit both fall in October. Cash will dip below £8,000 that month unless the September takings hold. Worth holding off the equipment purchase until November.
Illustrative figures.
A Report You Can Read in Ten Minutes
Not a forty-page pack. Each month's report answers the questions that matter for your level, in plain English, and flags anything you need to act on.
- The headline numbers first: profit, year to date, cash
- Where you are against plan, and why it is different
- What is coming up that you need to plan for
- The full profit and loss and balance sheet behind it, if you want the detail
Three Levels. Pick the Question You Need Answered.
Each level includes everything in the one before. Start where you are, and move up whenever you want more.
Report
How is my business doing?
A clear monthly picture of profit, year-to-date performance and the cash you have available.
- One-page dashboard
- Profit and loss: this month and year to date
- Balance sheet
- Weekly newsletter for your sector
Track
Am I on track for the year?
Everything in Report, plus how you compare with your budget and where the year is heading.
- Everything in Report
- Actual figures against budget
- What is off plan, by how much, and why
- Projected profit and loss for the full year
- Projected year-end balance sheet
Advise
What should I do next?
Everything in Track, plus the decisions coming up, the options, a recommendation, and a call to talk it through.
- Everything in Track
- Outside changes that could affect you, assessed
- Decisions you need to make, flagged early
- Options for each decision, weighed up
- Written summary with recommendations
- Phone or video call to discuss them
Three-month minimum, because the first month is set-up. After that, cancel or change level before any month begins. Upgrade at any time.
Compare everything in each level
| Included | Report £50/mo | Track £150/mo | Advise £250/mo |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dashboard | |||
| Profit and loss: this month and year to date | |||
| Balance sheet | |||
| Weekly newsletter for your sector | |||
| Comparison with budget | – | ||
| Variance analysis: what is off plan and why | – | ||
| Projected profit and loss for the year | – | ||
| Projected balance sheet for the year | – | ||
| Assessment of outside changes affecting you | – | – | |
| Decisions you need to make, identified | – | – | |
| Options for each decision, evaluated | – | – | |
| Written summary and recommendations | – | – | |
| Call to discuss the recommendations | – | – |
Need More Than the Monthly Report?
Some things come up once a year, or once. These are quoted separately. Subscribers get 20% off the standard rate and can spread the cost across their monthly subscription.
- Business systems review
- A look at how your business records and runs things, and how to make it quicker and more reliable.
- Help with a specific decision
- Included at the Advise level. Available to everyone else for a one-off fee when a big decision comes up.
- Planning and budgets
- Business planning, strategy, and setting your annual budget.
- Year-end and compliance
- Annual accounts, Corporation Tax, VAT returns, Confirmation Statements, statutory records and company secretarial work.
Who It Is For
We offer this service to every type of business: self-employed, sole traders, partnerships, limited companies, charities and community interest companies. Hairdressers, garages, cafés, trades, consultancies, care providers — the sector does not matter. If you run a business and want to know each month how it is doing, it is for you.
You do not need to be keeping books already. We agree at the start what you will send us and in what form, and work from there.
Clive Unitt FCA
Founder & Chartered Accountant
Every report is prepared by Clive, a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales with more than thirty years' experience running and advising businesses across manufacturing, retail, hospitality, healthcare and charities. The same person reads your figures every month.
What Our Clients Say
Based on 29 reviews
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Questions People Ask
What do I need to send you each month?
Do I need to use particular bookkeeping software?
What is the difference between this and bookkeeping?
Is this instead of my year-end accountant?
What if I do not have a budget?
Can I cancel?
Who does the work?
Get Started
Tell us a little about your business and which level you are thinking of. We will come back to you within one working day to agree the format for your figures and get your first month set up.