Forward Analysis Bookkeeping Ltd

Small business owners spend about 10 hours per month doing their own bookkeeping – 10 hours that could be used more profitably on spending on growing their business or spending precious time with family and friends.

Bookkeepers offer a vital business service. They save you time by handling all the daily financial work for you and allow you to concentrate on the running of your business. The real-time information they collect can help them offer you new insight into your business.

We will take the time to understand your business, why you do what you do, and we will try and establish better of ways of doing what you're currently doing as well as help you understand the things that you're not doing and perhaps should be doing.

And, most of all, we'll help to make sure that your statutory business compliances are adhered to

Having worked for many years in IT, ranging all the way from mainframe operations to senior global management of a global bank, when the crash happened in 2007 (caused by the company for which I was working, by the way), they eventually told him to pick a window and leave...

He contracted for a couple of years but it became a sad fact of commercial life that, because his technical IT skills had become rusty due to the management positions held the previous fifteen years, to the point where his technical address was Number One, Jurassic Park, he decided that he needed to refocus his attentions on an alternative career.

I love numbers - they never lie, they're finite.

I was a weird kid - for a hobby, I used to draw graphs and work out the equations under them (don't ask me to do that now, though!), so as I was into numbers, the logical choice for retraining was a career which involved them.

I spent a couple of years qualifying as a bookkeeper with an internationally recognised chartered institution (the Institute of Certified Bookkeepers) and was elected to MICB PMDip status, which enables me to provide professionally backed bookkeeping services.

I love helping people get the best of themselves, helping them to grow their businesses while I do the work that they don't really like to do.

After a few years working for an accountant to gain some real-world experience, I set up my own practice, authorised and monitored by the ICB, which means we have compliance and money laundering supervision, we are GDPR registered and DBS checked and can act for companies, partnerships, sole traders and individuals as your agent for the dreaded HMRC.

Fully insured, fully qualified and attentive to detail - and I have HMRC on speed-dial

We offer on-site, off-site and remote working - either on your systems (using SECURE remote control software), or online through the cloud.

Basically, with a background in IT, I don't really have an excuse NOT to be adaptable!