A.L.E.X.
Area · accounting and bookkeeping

Accounting that stops eating your week

We take on the routine around the books — documents, deadlines, reminders, summaries. The bookkeeping itself we do together with our partner accountant, and we say so plainly.

What is in this section
  • →Documentssent however suits you
  • →Deadlinesflagged in advance
  • →The signaturea person, not a machine
The exact scope and timing are fixed after the diagnostic — before that nobody has an honest picture.
Who it fits

When people come to us with this

The four conversations people most often arrive with.

The books exist "somewhere"

Somebody keeps them, something gets filed, and questions arrive once a quarter and always at a bad moment. We start by looking at how it actually works.

You do it yourself between other things

The banking app copes while the business is small. Then come the documents it does not see and the dates it does not remind you about.

You are parting with your accountant

The person leaves, and the knowledge of where everything is leaves with them. Taking over the books is a separate job, best done before they go.

You need numbers to decide with

Statutory accounts answer to the state, and you cannot steer a business by them. That takes a different set of books — and it is here too.

Outcome

What stays with you afterwards

Nobody chases paperwork

A document enters the books from a photo or an inbox, not from a folder marked "I will bring it next week". What is missing, we say — you do not have to remember.

Deadlines stop creeping up

Your dates are kept in a calendar and the reminder comes with room to spare, not on the last evening. We do not sell this as a "we will file it for you" service.

Every part has a name against it

It is clear what we do, what the partner accountant does and who signs. That is the difference between a commitment and a promise.

How the work goes

A clear order, no surprises

1 · A conversation

Half an hour about your business: what you do, which tax regime you are on, who keeps the books today and where exactly it hurts. Without this any review turns into a form.

2 · The review

We look at what is actually there: documents, the ledger, the deadlines, the loose ends. You get the picture and an order of work — what we take on at once, what gets fixed along the way, what the partner accountant handles.

3 · The work and a short summary

We work through the order, and once a period you get a short summary in plain words: what was done, what is coming, what looks odd. Not "all fine" but a list.

The figure is named in a quote for your task, once it is clear how many documents come in per month, which tax regime you are on and what state the books are in. There is no price list here on purpose: a "from" figure without the scope behind it is bait rather than a price, and you cannot compare two offers by it.

Evidence

Look at the work, not at the words

These are the numbers of the agency as a whole, not of this area alone. Each carries its source and the period it was taken for: the code takes them from the work log live, not the author. Client numbers do not appear here and never will — somebody else's finances are private.

—tasks accepted: result checked and taken
—median task time: from brief to accepted
—business lines running at the same time

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Where the figures come from
  • tasks accepted: result checked and taken

    A task is accepted once the result has been read, checked and taken. There is no second word for this on the site: “accepted” and “completed” mean the same thing.

  • median task time: from brief to accepted

    A typical task: half of the tasks in this window went faster, half took longer. This is NOT an average: one long task cannot pull the number up, so the median describes an ordinary day more honestly.

  • business lines running at the same time

    How many different businesses the agency runs at once. A line counts if it has at least three tasks in the log; internal test runs do not count.

Straight talk

What we do ourselves and what we do with partners

We do this ourselves

The routine around the books is our own working setup: receiving and sorting source documents, a calendar of payments and deadlines, reminders, draft payment orders and a regular summary in plain words.

Management accounts are a working setup of ours too: profit by line of business, cash as of today, a regular report to the owner. We steer by these numbers ourselves.

We build this out for you

Connecting your data sources — bank, till, accounting software — depends on what they are: sometimes a day of work, sometimes a month. We name the time after the review, not before it.

We run this with a partner

Bookkeeping, tax calculation and the preparation and filing of returns are done together with our partner accountant. A person with an electronic signature signs and files — a machine does not sign for people.

Payroll and HR records, stocktaking, warehouse accounting and international standards go to specialist partners under our watch. We do not provide audit at all: it is licensed, and promising it would be a lie.

The bookkeeping itself is done by our partner accountant, and we say so plainly rather than hiding it in a footnote. We remain your single point of contact: we pick the person, set the task, watch the deadlines and answer to you for the result. The contract names the performer honestly — no "we do everything in-house".

Questions

What people usually ask

Who exactly keeps my books?
A partner accountant — a real specialist, named in the contract. Our part is everything around it: documents, deadlines, reminders, summaries and the overall picture. We do not hide that boundary, because it is exactly where things usually go wrong.
Will a machine file our returns?
No. A machine helps prepare the pack; a person with an electronic signature signs and files it. That is a hard rule, not caution.
Our books are in a mess. Would you take us on?
First we look at what has piled up and say honestly what fixes it and in which order. The sensible start is taking over the books: an inventory of the state is useful in itself, even if you stay with your own accountant afterwards.
Why are there no prices on the site?
Because a "from" figure without the scope behind it means nothing: the same number covers very different amounts of work at different firms. Instead we show the scope in words — you can compare offers with it, including other people's.
Enquiry

Let us look at your task

Tell us about the business: what you do, which tax regime you are on, who keeps the books today and what you want to change. We answer during working hours and say where it is honest to start in your case.

We call back during working hours. No figures, statements or documents are needed at this step — words are enough for the first conversation. The company field is optional; if you fill it in, we look up the public records beforehand and come prepared.