Fictional practice · a design demonstration
For sole traders and small limited companies: a fixed fee, quoted from a schedule published on this page, before you speak to anyone.
Every fee on this page is the fee. If the work turns out to be something else, we say so before we start it, and we re-quote from the same schedule.
§ Fee schedule · effective TBD
Switch the basis to see the same work billed yearly or by monthly standing order. Nothing is hidden behind a call, and no row reads “contact us”.
| Service | Per year |
|---|---|
| Self assessment returnOne sole trader or partner, one trade, accounts to tax return.Included: Filing with HMRCIncluded: One round of queries | £480 |
| Limited company year endStatutory accounts and the corporation tax return, filed for you.Included: Companies House filingIncluded: CT600Included: Director's return | £1,140 |
| Monthly bookkeepingUp to 100 transactions a month, reconciled and closed off.Included: Bank reconciliationIncluded: Monthly summary | £900 |
| VAT returnsQuarterly, prepared and submitted under Making Tax Digital.Included: Four returns a yearIncluded: Digital links checked | £600 |
| PayrollUp to three employees, monthly cycle with RTI submissions.Included: PayslipsIncluded: RTI to HMRCIncluded: Year-end P60s | £420 |
| Landlord property pagesPer property, added to a self assessment return.Included: Income and expensesIncluded: Finance cost relief | £240 |
| Confirmation statementFiled annually, with the registered office kept current.Included: Companies House fee included | £180 |
| Advisory sessionNinety minutes on one question, with a written note afterwards.Included: Written follow-up note | £150 |
Illustrative fee schedule for a fictional practice. Figures are specimen content, not a quotation.
§ Engagements · three ways to work
Statutory accounts, the corporation tax return and the director's own return, prepared once a year and filed for you. You send the records, we send back a draft with the questions marked, and nothing is submitted until you have read it.
Bank feeds reconciled and the month closed off by the tenth, with a one-page summary of what came in and what went out. VAT returns and payroll sit alongside it on the same schedule, priced separately and published in the same table.
Ninety minutes on one question — incorporating, taking a dividend, buying a van, hiring a first employee — with a written note afterwards setting out what was said. Booked one at a time. There is no retainer to sign.
§ Switching · what actually happens
Everything we do is in the table above, priced. Pick the rows that describe your year. Nothing is quoted by phone that is not quoted on this page.
Professional clearance is our job, not yours. We ask for the handover file and chase it, and we tell you plainly if anything is missing from it.
It lists the rows you picked, at the fees shown, on the basis you chose. If the work turns out to be larger, we re-quote from the same schedule before starting it.
Filing dates, VAT quarters and payroll cut-offs are set out at the start of the engagement, and you get a reminder before each one rather than after it.
§ The practice · how it is run
A small client list, deliberately. One person handles your file from the clearance letter to the filing receipt, so there is nobody to be passed to and no ticket number. If that person is away, you are told who is covering and for how long.
Fees are fixed from the published schedule before the work starts, and the schedule is the same one you can read on this page. There is no hourly rate running quietly in the background, and no bill at the end for the phone calls in between.
Practice details
Frontage · not photographed
§ Who it suits · find your row
Sole traders
One trade, one return, filed on time.
Limited companies (micro)
Accounts, CT600 and the director's return together.
Landlords
Property pages, priced per property.
Partnerships
A partnership return plus a return for each partner.
§ Disclosure · stated in full
LEDGER AND OAK is a fictional accountancy practice, built as a design demonstration. It has no clients, holds no appointment, and offers no regulated service. Nothing on this page is accountancy, tax or financial advice.
The fee schedule above is specimen content written to demonstrate a layout — it is not a quotation and no work is being offered at those figures. Each field opposite is one a real practice would have to complete before trading. They read TBD because inventing plausible values for them is exactly the thing this page is built to avoid.
Practice details
§ Questions · asked before the first call
They are the prices this demonstration publishes, and they behave like real ones: the fee you see is the fee quoted in the engagement letter, on the basis you pick. Because LEDGER AND OAK is a fictional practice, they are specimen figures rather than an offer — a real practice would put its own numbers in the same table.
You are told before the work starts, not after it. Where the records need rebuilding, that is a separate row on the schedule and it is quoted from the same published figures. Nothing is added to an invoice that was not agreed first.
The clearance letter is our job. We write to the outgoing firm, ask for the handover file, and chase it. You are told what has arrived and what has not — see the four steps above.
No. Monthly work runs by standing order and is priced per month; year-end work is priced per year. An advisory session is bought one at a time and there is no retainer attached to it.
TBD. A real practice would name the packages it supports here, and would say plainly whether a licence is included in the fee or billed separately. Naming a specific product for a fictional practice would be a partnership claim it has no right to make.
Anything not printed in the table above. Investigations, valuations, and work for a period before the engagement starts are all quoted separately, from the same schedule, before they begin.
Anything still unanswered belongs in a call rather than a page — take the schedule with you.
Enquiries TBD
There is no form on this page and no address list to join. When this practice exists, the way to reach it will be printed here in the same plain type as everything else.
