AGN SHIPLEYS

We provide a range of services to help businesses comply with their statutory requirements. Every business is required to keep proper records. We can help set up the right system to enable you to keep financial records of your business that give you accurate and useful management information, as well as allowing the statutory accounts to be produced in a timely and cost-effective way. The right system will vary, according to the needs of your business, from a simple handwritten cashbook or a spreadsheet to a fully integrated off-the-peg software package. We can assist you in the preparation of your financial statements to comply with specific legal requirements applicable to your industry or sector.

We audit financial statements to comply with the Companies Act, Charities Act and requirements of regulatory bodies such as the Financial Services Authority and Law Society. Constitutional documents or stakeholders may also require an audit to be performed, as may third parties such as potential providers of finance. Our corporate compliance staff can arrange incorporation of new companies and limited liability partnerships (LLPs). All public limited companies must appoint a suitably qualified company secretary to oversee the corporate compliance function.

Although no longer obliged to have one by the Companies Act, many private companies also appoint a company secretary. All employers must register a PAYE scheme with HMRC and deduct tax and National Insurance Contributions from employees' salaries. Our payroll bureau can work out these deductions and advise on the amounts and dates of payments due to the Collector of Taxes. We can also help with calculations of sick pay, maternity and paternity pay and student loan repayments, as well as providing employees' payslips and dealing with the annual return forms at the end of the tax year.