155 - 157 High Street Aldershot
Hampshire
GU11 1TT
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Phone: 01252 311433
Fax: 01252 317280

Whiteleys has been in business for nearly 20 years. From our offices in the heart of Aldershot in Hampshire, we are proud to employ our motivated team of people, each with valuable experience and a wide range of skills.

At Whiteleys we serve the local, and in many cases not so local! business community providing a range of services that small and medium businesses and individuals need. Often this will include our consulting and planning skills which complement our routine accountancy, taxation and financial services.

As an employer, we offer exciting career opportunities with full training support provided. Our commitment to the quality of our training is evidenced by our Investors In People accreditation, an award that we have held since 2001.

We set out to be forward thinking accountants, to provide unrivalled quality with services that add value to our clients businesses and to encourage our clients to have regular contact with us and treat us as one of their team. Our commitment to this is evident from the range of services we provide and the training we provide to our team to ensure that the services are consistently delivered to the highest standards.

Every business owner needs a team of professionals in the background who provide continuous support and advice. That's what we are here to do.

Through years of commitment to our business clients we have developed a wide range of skills and services designed to improve business performance and profitability.

Background support - When you are running a business, time is money. With our business support services we take care of many of your routine financial and accounting operations, leaving you free to do what you do best - growing your business.

Proactive advice - But we don't stop there. Many business owners find they cannot make enough time to analyse their performance and plan ahead to improve things in the future. With our business advisory services we use our skills to monitor your business and give proactive advice on how you can improve your bottom line - and we work with you to implement any suggestions you take up.

We give you:

• More time to run your business
• The peace of mind that someone is keeping an eye on the essentials
• Help and support when things go wrong

Whatever your type of business, from start-up to PLC, and whatever your needs, from audit and accounting to international structuring, from financing to exit strategies, our specialist services are designed to add value to your business. See our list of services, right, to find out how we can help you.

Audit services - Adding value to the audit

Though business owners traditionally regard the annual audit and preparation of annual accounts as a cost centre - a necessary evil that adds no value to the business - we strive to transform it into a profit centre.

Besides helping you meet the statutory requirements, we also take the opportunity to conduct a review of your financial and management systems. This can often result in our identifying potential problem areas and recommending opportunities to improve your business performance. We discuss the problems and opportunities with you and help you implement any agreed solutions.

We see the preparation of your annual report as an opportunity to enhance your external image. A well-prepared report can have a considerable positive impact on the perceptions of investors, potential finance sources, customers, prospect, referral sources, and even your own staff - all of which greatly improves your business prospects for the future.

Company secretarial - Assuring compliance with the Companies Act

The Companies Act requires companies to submit various documents within strict time limits. Not only is this a considerable administrative burden, failure to comply can result in potentially severe penalties for directors.

We can relieve you of both the burden and the worry by helping with your Company Secretarial duties. Our service includes:

• Preparing and filing accounts and annual returns
• Maintaining statutory registers:
  • Register of Allotments
  • Register of Transfers
  • Register of Members
  • Register of Directors
  • Register of Secretaries
  • Register of Directors' Interests
  • Register of Mortgages and Charges
• Preparing and filing Companies House forms recording:
  • Changes of officers
  • Changes of registered office
  • Increases in share capital
  • Allotments of shares
  • Changes of accounting reference date
• Preparing documentation for annual general meetings
• If required, acting as company secretary of your company
• If required, providing your company with a registered office address

VAT - Relieving you of the burden

VAT can be the bane of everyone affected by it.

The complex regime of regulations imposes a tremendous administrative burden on businesses.

With the rate being so high, mistakes in calculating VAT can be costly - and the rigid system of penalties and interest charges for mistakes and the late submission of returns adds to that burden.

Our cost-effective VAT compliance and planning services can relieve you of this burden.

Our team of VAT professionals will help to keep your VAT affairs in order, make sure you are collecting the right amounts for each transaction, and ensure that you make payments and file returns correctly and on time.

In addition to providing a comprehensive bookkeeping and VAT accounting service, we can also advise on and help with:

• The pros and cons of voluntary registration
• The timing of compulsory registration
• Extracting maximum benefit from the rules on de-registration
• Partial exemption
• Timing and delaying VAT payments
• Flat rate VAT schemes
• VAT on imports and exports
• VAT control visits by Customs and Excise