Year-end accounts, corporation tax, the confirmation statement, VAT returns, bookkeeping, payroll and pensions and the director’s self assessment. Planning is included on a fair-use basis: VAT scheme review, salary and dividend planning, and a corporation tax forecast a month before the bill. Fees are scoped after Nasir has reviewed your set-up, so you know what you are paying for.

Plenty of accountants file correctly and never advise. If nobody has compared your VAT scheme against your materials and plant costs, or reset your salary and dividends since incorporation, you are paying tax that a review would have caught. If your current accountant can answer all three questions on this page, stay where you are.

Not automatically. Nasir reviews the software you already use as part of the set-up review and tells you whether it is right for a business with staff, vans and material purchases. If it is working, it stays. A change is only suggested when the current set-up is costing you time or producing numbers you cannot rely on.

You do not chase them yourself. Nexus handles professional clearance, requests your records and deals with the handover, then runs the set-up review and sets out the first-year timetable. There is no separate charge for the handover. Most moves are done between filing deadlines so nothing is left hanging.

It depends on how much VAT you actually reclaim. A business buying materials, plant and subcontracted labour often does better on the standard scheme, while one with few input costs can do better on flat rate. Cash accounting helps when customers pay late. The only way to know is to run your own last four quarters through both.

No. Nexus is based in Milton Keynes and works with clients across the UK remotely, so meetings in person are rarely needed. Local work covers Bletchley, Newport Pagnell, Wolverton, Stony Stratford, Bedford, Northampton, Leighton Buzzard and Aylesbury. What matters more than the postcode is that the same accountant answers when you call.