Braant Accounting

Offices across London and one in Manchester serve this chartered accountancy firm, which is built around a simple idea: each client gets one dedicated accountant who learns the business and stays with it all year. The firm describes its team as trained at the largest UK accounting firms, and says its aim is to make a "big company" accounting service reachable for businesses of any size, without the fees that go with it. It reports more than 1,000 business clients, a very high retention rate and awards from the accountancy sector.

Everything from bookkeeping to the finance director

The firm lists its services as one set under a single point of contact. They include bookkeeping, which it treats as the foundation of a good accounts function, annual accounts, corporation tax, capital gains tax, VAT, payroll, pension auto-enrolment and re-enrolment, Self Assessment tax returns, and UK company formation with a registered address. Specialist work covers R&D tax relief, the Enterprise Investment Scheme and cryptocurrency. Businesses that need senior guidance without a full-time salary can take on a part-time finance director or CFO, who provides strategic planning when it is wanted.

On site or from its offices

Accountants, bookkeepers or an interim finance director can work alongside a client at its premises when needed, which spares the cost of recruiting. Otherwise the services are delivered from the firm's UK offices, which in London include Belgravia, the City, Fitzrovia, Hoxton, Paddington, Shoreditch and White City. Clients keep direct access to their own accountant either way, and the firm says its terms are flexible and can be ended at any time.

Who it supports

The firm names a wide range of sectors and client types: advertising and marketing, construction, financial services, hospitality, legal firms, property, recruitment agencies, the technology sector, charities and not-for-profits, freelancers, sole traders, start-ups, and small and medium-sized businesses. It also supports European and overseas businesses with UK obligations, and fellow accountants. Experience across so many industries, it says, means it understands what makes accounting in each sector hard.

The firm also makes a point of helping clients avoid paying too much or too little tax, and of keeping them compliant with HMRC and Companies House.

Braant Accounting is an accountancy firm with offices across London and one in Manchester. It provides a full range of accounting services, starting with bookkeeping, and pairs each client with a single accountant who follows the business through the year.

Services

• Annual accounts: statutory accounts kept in line with HMRC and Companies House rules.
• Bookkeeping: day-to-day records as the base of the accounts function.
• Tax services: VAT, self assessment returns and research and development tax relief.
• Payroll: payroll and pension auto-enrolment.
• Part-time finance director or CFO: senior finance leadership when needed.
• Company formation: setting up UK companies and providing a registered address.

Who it works with

Start-ups, freelancers, sole traders, charities, recruitment agencies, property accountants, legal firms, construction and technology businesses, and overseas firms.

Key facts

• Based in: London, United Kingdom
• Regional office: Manchester
• Contracts: no lock-in period