Engineering, trades and a fast-growing services sector — Essex businesses that have outgrown a shoebox of receipts and want the numbers to start earning their keep.
CM1, CM2, CM3 and the wider mid-Essex area.
Chelmsford has an engineering and manufacturing heritage that still shows in its business base — precision engineering, electronics, specialist fabrication — alongside a large trades population and a growing cluster of professional and technology services around the city centre and the business parks.
Manufacturing and engineering businesses need something most small practices never provide: a reliable cost of production. Without it, quoting is guesswork and a busy year can end in a loss. Trades businesses need CIS handled properly and a straight answer on vehicles, tools and the van sitting on the drive.
We are London-based and work with Essex clients remotely as standard, travelling out for onboarding and year-end. Liverpool Street to Chelmsford is thirty-five minutes, which makes the in-person meetings easy when they are worth having.
Everything runs in Xero, so the distance between us makes no difference to how current your books are.
Cost of production per unit or job, stock and work in progress, capital allowances on machinery, and R&D relief where the development work genuinely qualifies.
Learn more →CIS, reverse charge VAT, materials versus labour and a clear read on which jobs make money once everything is counted.
Learn more →Recurring revenue, staff costs and the point at which the owner should stop doing the invoicing themselves.
Learn more →Fixed monthly fee, named people, and no invoice for asking a question.