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

Accounting for sole traders and small firms

Documents and banking on us, the calculations and the signature on the partner accountant. What is left for you is the business, not a thread with three contractors.

What you get
  • →Source documentssorted by us
  • →Calculation and signaturethe partner accountant
  • →Your tax regimenamed before the contract
The exact scope and timing are fixed after the diagnostic — before that nobody has an honest picture.
Outcome

What stays with you afterwards

One door instead of three

You do not have to find an accountant separately, someone to sort the documents separately, and someone to remind you of a date separately. There is one door, and it is ours.

It is clear who answers for what

Before the contract, not after: this part is ours, this part is the partner accountant's, and this person signs. The boundary is visible from the start.

A summary people actually read

Once a period, a short text in plain words: what was done, what is coming, what looks odd. Not a forty-page spreadsheet.

Who it fits

When people come to us with this

This conversation usually starts in one of four ways.

A sole trader who outgrew the banking app

While there are few deals the app copes. Then come counterparties, contracts and documents it does not see — and this tends to surface close to a deadline.

A small company on a simplified regime

The books exist, but they rest on one person and their memory. We make them rest on an order of work instead.

One accountant doing everything

The same person calculates the tax, hunts for documents and answers letters. We take the routine away, and they get back the work they were hired for.

Several entities or regimes

Where one owner has both a sole trade and a company, confusion appears by itself. We separate them and keep a calendar for each.

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.

Straight talk

What we do ourselves and what we do with partners

We do this ourselves

Receiving and sorting source documents, working through the bank statement, a calendar of payments and deadlines, draft payment orders and the regular summary — our own working setup. It runs our own business too.

Order in the paperwork: what is missing, what got duplicated, what does not reconcile with the statement. A machine looks for it; anything doubtful goes to a person.

We build this out for you

The general regime, VAT, cross-border trade and several entities we build out for the task together with the partner. If the case is not for us we say so at the first conversation, not after signing.

We run this with a partner

Bookkeeping, tax calculation and filing go through the partner accountant. A person with an electronic signature signs and files.

Payroll and HR records go to a specialist partner under our watch: demand for it as a standalone service is thin, a mistake there is expensive, and we do not pretend it is our patch.

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

What if I am not on a simplified regime?
We will say so straight away. The general regime, VAT and cross-border trade are a patch we run together with the partner, and the volume there is different. An honest answer at the first conversation costs both sides less than a flattering one.
Who talks to the tax office?
Preparation is ours and the partner accountant's; the conversation and the signature belong to the person entitled to sign. We say in advance who exactly and on what basis, and it is written into the contract.
How are you different from the bank's bookkeeping?
In where we end. A bank package covers simple cases well — and ends where non-standard transactions, several entities or neglected books begin. That is the zone we work in, and we say plainly when the bank is enough for you.
Do we have to change accounting software?
Not necessarily. First we look at what you have and try to work with it. Moving is a separate decision and it has to pay for itself.
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.