Sole Traders and Partnerships

At Lamont Pridmore, we are able to offer a huge range of business support services to help our sole trader and partnership clients run their businesses smoothly and avoid many of the common problems that businesses experience.

Our services include:

  • Business start-up service
  • Bookkeeping and online accounting training and installation
  • VAT returns
  • Payroll bureau
  • Assessing the viability of your project
  • Helping to develop your vision, aims, hopes and aspirations of your business
  • Creating your work-life balance
  • Strategic planning review: business development plans over the next 5 years
  • Business plan and financial forecasts for the coming year
  • Financial information systems
  • Regular management accounts compared to budget
  • Financial accounts preparation
  • Tax planning and tax saving service
  • Tax compliance service
  • Tax efficient salary and benefit packages
  • HMRC tax investigations and investigation protection services
  • Advising on the correct tax payments and repayments due
  • Raising finance for your business and financial restructuring
  • Asset finance
  • Credit control and working capital management
  • 57 Ways to Grow Your Business
  • Profit and performance improvement to create a winning company
  • Pricing review, profit margins and competitor analysis
  • Benchmarking report on the performance of your business
  • Cost reduction service
  • Marketing strategy and marketing plans
  • Increasing your sales
  • Systems and procedures including organisational restructuring
  • IT and computer services
  • Training and skill development
  • Protection for you and your business
  • Savings and investments
  • Pensions
  • Mergers and acquisitions
  • Retirement planning
  • Succession planning
  • Grooming your business for sale
  • Wills, inheritance tax and estate planning

For further information on how Lamont Pridmore can help your business, please contact us.

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