If you have a company we will need the following:

a) Companies House authentication code for your company  whats that?

b) HMRC Unique Tax Reference (UTR) for your company. whats that?
 

c) A bank statement, ideally in a .csv format whats that? (we can accept a pdf file but the price is higher) which covers the whole of your accounting period whats that? and includes the balances (at very least the opening and closing balances).

d) a simple list of who you owed money to at the end of your accounting period  and how much.

e) a similar simple list of who owed you money at the end of your accounting period and how much.

f) If the company has filed accounts before then we also need the last set of accounts, the trial balance whats that? for those accounts and the last corporation tax return along with the tax computations for that year.
 

g) If the company is running payroll (and we're not running it) we need the Gross Pay and Employers National Insurance figures for the accounting period - NOTE - unless your accounting period ends at the end of March, these figures will not necessarily be the same as the tax year figures (which does run from April - March each year). Payroll software will normally allow you to change the dates you're analysing and give us figures which coincide with your accounting period.

h) Lists of any income or expenditure which didn't go through your bank (e.g. if you paid cash or spent the money through a personal credit card). We need to know how much it was, what it was for and the date you received it or spent it.

i) Copy of passport or driving license – sorry but we have to comply with UK money laundering regulations.

What about if I'm VAT registered

If you're VAT registered (and we're not doing the VAT returns for you) then we will also need your detailed VAT workings covering the whole of the accounting period.

What if I'm a Sole Trader?

That's much simpler. In that case you can either:

a)  send us your business bank statements for the year (for Sole Traders the year runs from 6th April to the following 5th April each year) 

 or

b) Send us the transaction details of what money came in (sales), what money went out (costs), what was it for (e.g. stock, tools, rent, computers etc), how much it was for  the date.  

If you're VAT registered and we're not doing the VAT will also need your detailed VAT workings.

We will also need a copy of your passport or driving licence in order to comply with UK money laundering regulations.