Business Support

Rogerson & Goldie's business support services are mainly provided through our Merlin Business Services division.

Business Support

Rogerson & Goldie’s business support and outsourced services are aimed at owner managed small and medium sized businesses and our mission is to provide support and assist the growth of our clients’ businesses.

Outsourcing non-core business activities allows businesses to streamline their operations, resulting in reduced costs without having a negative effect on core operations. Rogerson & Goldie prides itself on personal service and each client will be allocated a specific member of staff to work with, supported by the partners who will also have an input into the day to day service provided to clients.

As all businesses are unique we do not offer a fixed cost for the services provided, instead we will discuss costs on an individual basis to ensure clients receive an added value service.

Our business support services include:

• Bookkeeping

• Payroll

• VAT

• IT Solutions

• Management Accounts

• Credit Control

Maintaining accurate accounting records is essential for monitoring the financial health and performance of your business, however, the cost of carrying out such a task can be high, either in terms of owner’s time or employee payroll and compliance costs.

Outsourcing your bookkeeping function to Rogerson & Goldie can free up valuable time which can be better served spent on your core business operations.

Rogerson & Goldie’s bookkeeping service, which will be provided by our own experienced staff, will be tailored to your individual needs and can include the following:

• Maintaining purchase ledger – entering purchase invoices and supplier payments to provide a timely and accurate listing of who the business owes money to.

• Maintaining sales ledger – entering sales invoices and customer receipts to provide a timely and accurate listing of who owes the business money.

• Bank reconciliation – entering bank transactions and preparing bank reconciliations to ensure completeness of accounting records.

All accounting records will be maintained on computer systems, which we will provide, and our staff are experienced in a number of software systems. The choice of software supplier will be chosen to best fit the business needs.

As an enhancement to the core bookkeeping functions, we can also take the accounting process several stages further to prepare management accounts and monitor credit control.

To discuss your business needs, please contact us to arrange a free no obligation meeting.

PAYE compliance continues to become more and more complex and it is both time consuming and difficult for business owners and unqualified staff to keep up to date with legislative changes.

Outsourcing your payroll function to Rogerson & Goldie can free up valuable time which can be better served spent on your core business operations whilst providing comfort that you are fully compliant with current legislation.

Our payroll service, which will be provided by our own experienced staff, will include the following:

• Weekly, fortnightly, four-weekly or monthly processing.

• Calculation of statutory payments and deductions, eg paye, nic, student loans, ssp, smp, spp.

• Providing payslips to employees.

• Reporting payroll information to keep you informed of staff costs.

• Maintaining holiday records.

• Completing in year forms, eg P46, P45

• Completing year end forms eg P35, P60 etc.

All payroll records will be maintained on IRIS Paye-Master software and our staff complete rigorous ongoing training on both the software and legislation.

To discuss your business needs, please contact us to arrange a free no obligation meeting.

VAT compliance continues to become more and more complex and it is both time consuming and difficult for business owners and inexperienced staff to keep up to date with legislative changes.

Outsourcing your VAT function to Rogerson & Goldie can free up valuable time which can be better served spent on your core business operations whilst providing comfort that you are fully compliant with current legislation.

Our VAT service, which will be provided by our own experienced staff, will include the following:

• Providing advice and assistance with registration.

• Providing advice on available VAT schemes.

• Advising on VAT treatment of individual transactions.

• VAT planning to mitigate liabilities.

• Completing monthly/quarterly/annual VAT returns

All VAT records will be maintained on computer systems which we will provide. The choice of software supplier will be chosen to best fit the business needs. Our staff are experienced in a number of software systems and complete rigorous ongoing training on both the software and legislation.

To discuss your business needs, please contact us to arrange a free no obligation meeting.

Whether or not you decide to outsource your accounting or payroll functions, we can provide advice on a wide range of software including but not restricted to Sage, IRIS, Quickbooks and Kashflow.

We can also provide installation, training and ongoing support depending on your business requirements. Through third party partners, we can provide advice on hardware and peripheral devices, network and website requirements. To discuss your business needs, please contact us to arrange a free no obligation meeting.

Many small and medium sized businesses only prepare management accounts if requested by a third party e.g. a bank. However, timely management information is key to business owners making informed business decisions.

Outsourcing your management accounts function to Rogerson & Goldie can free up valuable time which can be better served spent on your core business operations whilst giving you the key information required to efficiently run your business.

As well as providing a bookkeeping service, we can take this a stage further and provide a management accounts function which will include the following:

• Preparing monthly/quarterly profit and loss accounts.

• Preparing monthly/quarterly balance sheets.

• Preparing monthly variance reports (comparison of actual to budgets).

• Preparing monthly /quarterly ratios and KPI's (Key Performance Indicators).

• Preparing cash flow projections.

• Assisting with setting of budgets.

Even if we do not assist with your bookkeeping, we can still provide the management account services to include the above reports and also report on bookkeeping and internal control breakdowns.

To discuss your business needs, please contact us to arrange a free no obligation meeting.

Cash flow is paramount to running your business. Cash tied up in debtor balances can lead to insufficient cash available to pay staff, trade creditors, government taxes and of course yourself.

Outsourcing your credit control function to Rogerson & Goldie can free up valuable time which can be better served spent on your core business operations.

As well as maintaining your sales ledger as part of our bookkeeping service, we can take this a stage further and provide a credit control function which will include the following:

• Credit checking customers.

• Assisting with setting credit limits.

• Generating and issuing sales invoices.

• Generating and issuing statements.

• Phoning customers to chase up late payments.

• Instructing and liaising with debt recovery experts.

Kilmarnock Office

29 Portland Road, Kilmarnock, KA1 2BY

Call: 01563 524 381

Fax: 01563 527 426

Email: info@rogersonandgoldie.co.uk

Glasgow Office

20 Payne Street, Glasgow, G4 OLF

Call: 0844 855 2316

Fax: 01563 527 426

Email: info@rogersonandgoldie.co.uk

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