• Sales/Purchase Ledger processing
• Experience with processing data from online retail and payment channels (e.g. Amazon, Ebay, PayPal)
• Account reconciliations
• Bookkeeping to Trial Balance
• Customer Invoicing
• Year End accounts, including Profit & Loss and Balance Sheets for your accountant/Corporation Tax Return
• Management Reports
• VAT Returns (including EC Sales Lists) - preparation and submission
• Liaison with HMRC on your behalf both online and via telephone
• Work on your premises, or free local collection service for work on our premises
• Set up/migrations of accounting systems
• Construction Industry Scheme
• Administration tasks - filing of paper records/scanning and uploading/backups of data
• SAGE trained to advanced level
• Experience of Quickbooks and Xero
• Self Assessment Tax Returns for Landlords/Self Employed/Directors
• Payroll Management Solutions - outsourced/on site (including workplace pensions)

We are very pleased to work with/for:

• Sole Traders
• Partnerships
• Not-for-profit organisations (e.g. Registered Charities).
• Limited Companies
• Outsourced bookkeeping support for Accountancy/Bookkeeping firms

We are able to work with both VAT registered and non-VAT registered businesses. Blue Cat Books is a HMRC registered agent for PAYE, Self Assessment Tax Returns and VAT services.

Blue Cat Books (Charlotte Cousins) holds a Practice Licence with the Institute of Certified Bookkeepers, which provides regulation and includes inspection under Money Laundering Legislation. As a Certified Bookkeeper Charlotte is also a Full Member of the ICB. All members of the ICB are bound by the Professional Conduct Regulations and Code of Ethics. All clients will need to provide identification, and will be issued a Letter of Engagement.

Professional Indemnity Insurance is held with Qdos Consulting, ICB's preferred insurer.

Blue Cat Books (as Charlotte Cousins) is registered with the Information Commissioner's Office as a Data Controller to comply with UK Data Protection and new GDPR legislation. Registration reference: ZA158771

We recognise that every business is unique - and that includes bookkeeping needs. 

After your free, no obligation consultation, and an assessment of your bookkeeping requirements, we will be happy to provide a bespoke quotation. This will be a price based on exactly what YOUR bookkeeping needs are - we do not require a monthly retainer.

To assist with your business cashflow and planning, we are happy to provide a quote for whichever suits you best:

• Hourly rate of work (on or off premises)
• Monthly fixed fee for an agreed amount of work
• One-off fixed price for a particular task.

If you wish to include further tasks on a regular or sporadic basis, you have the flexibility to add these on to your package as a 'bolt on', providing we have the capacity to carry these out for you.

As we are not affiliated to any accounting software provider, if you wish us to source desktop/cloud based software for your business we are happy to do so and invoice you at cost, or assist you with setting up your own software. We are happy to work with whatever accounts software you prefer.

We will provide a free service of collection/drop off where needed for local clients (within 15 miles). Outside this area, a small mileage charge may be added to cover expenses.