1. ACADEMIES AND INDEPENDENT SCHOOLS

How can Accmak Global help?

• Training for the finance department
• Assessment and valuation of assets and liabilities to be transferred
• Calculation of the surplus or deficit on transfer and assistance with negotiations with the Local Authority
• Formulation of appropriate accounting procedures and policies which meet approved thresholds
• Selection of accounting software
• Set up of outsourced payroll services
• Advice to governors and appointed officers

Ongoing accountancy and business advisory services:

For established schools, we offer business advisory, tax, and compliance services, including:

• Preparation of budgets, cashflow forecasts, and management accounts
• Provision of outsourced payroll services
• Advice on VAT and Corporation Tax, including treatment of property transactions and trading activities
• Accounts preparation to specification
• Annual audit

2. AGRICULTURE SERVICES

Many of our agriculture specialists within the team have roots in farming, giving us an innate understanding of agricultural language and the challenges faced by farmers and food producers. 

Proud of our attentive approach, we prioritise understanding your business, growth goals, and unique challenges. Employing creative and strategic thinking, we offer comprehensive, pragmatic, and actionable advice.  

Clients also benefit from the close working relationships we’ve developed with other professionals in the industry, including solicitors, land agents, chartered surveyors, and financiers. This means we’re able to provide truly holistic advice and solutions. 

Our accountancy and business advisory services include: 

• Audit, Accounting and Tax Compliance 
• Tax Advisory 
• VAT Advisory 
• Structuring and restructuring 
• IT solutions 
• Exit and succession planning 
• Bookkeeping and management accounts for farms and estates 
• Business management and advisory 
• Cashflow and financing 

We offer a free, no obligation consultation to all agricultural businesses. We’re confident that our fresh perspective along with innovative ideas that can positively impact your business. 

If you’d like to know more, please get in touch.

3. HOTEL AND LEISURE 

Our advice in the Hotel and Leisure sector is admired across the industry for its timeliness, insight, and specificity.  

At Accmak Global, ‘advice’ means more than just providing a list of options with their various merits. As your trusted financial partner, we’ll dive into the intricacies of your business to identify the best way forward.  

Our aim is to collaborate with you in consolidating and advancing your business, ensuring compliance, exploring opportunities, as well as fostering stability, and growth. 

Speaking with our clients, the challenges of operating in the Hotel and Leisure market are clear.  

Consider the following questions: 

• How can you best handle the substantial seasonal variances in sales and cash flow?
• What strategies can you employ to ensure a year-round availability of the right staff? 
• How can you adapt to new trends? 
• What measure can you proactively take to head-off emerging competition… before it takes a bite out of your business?

One effective way to navigate these challenges is by having Accmak Global at your side.

Our accountancy and business advisory services include: 

• Specialist tax advice  
• Cash flow management  
• Strategic sector and business-specific advice  
• Tenancy arrangement negotiations  
• Meeting your green agenda  
• Accounting & Internal audit  
• Bank guarantees and letters of credit  
• Negotiating contracts 
• Handling Revenue authorities enquiries
• Royalties and personal tax advice 

Regardless of the size of your operation or the scale of your future plans, we are committed to offering dependable support and strategic guidance.  

Many businesses within the Hotel and Leisure sector are already leveraging our experience to their commercial advantage. So, why not do the same for your own business?

4. MANUFACTURING AND ENGINEERING  

Owning a manufacturing or engineering business can be challenging, but we’ll help you face the future with confidence.  

At Accmak Global, ‘advice’ means more than just providing a list of options with their various merits. As your trusted financial partner, we’ll dive into the intricacies of your business to identify the best way forward.  

We’ll provide you with insightful and practical support, advice on improving stock control and project costing systems, along with guidance to reduce risks throughout your supply chain.  

Our accountancy and business advisory services include: 

• Tax and tax accounting services 
• Protecting your assets, including buildings and machinery 
• Trading across jurisdictions 
• Intellectual Property (IP) protection 
• Maintaining a healthy cash flow 
• HR advisory and recruitment support 
• Managing global tax requirements  
• Succession planning 
• Site acquisition and disposal  
• Internal Audit and accounting

Our team’s knowledge and experience guarantees that you have the right people on your side. We thrive in supporting you in preparing for all scenarios, while capitalizing on emerging opportunities. 

5. MARINE INDUSTRY AND FISHERIES

Businesses within the marine industry and fishing can regularly face challenges of licensing, seasonality and regulations.

Our team of marine and fisheries accountants specialize in understanding not only the issues and compliance requirements, but the strengths and opportunities of the industry.

At Accmak Global, ‘advice’ means more than just providing a list of options with their various merits. In our role as your trusted financial partner, we’ll support you to achieve growth and stability by getting to know you and your business.

Why do you need a specialist marine and fisheries accountant?

We work with clients from naval architects to offshore contractors, through to divers and consulting engineers, along with wild fisheries and fish farms.

It means we understand the compliance surrounding issues like the purchase and sale of quota, licensing, marine mortgages, fuel duty claims, shared fishing arrangements and regulations.

Our accountancy and business advisory services include:

• Tax residency and Double Tax Relief Claims
• Marine Deductions Claims
• Grant and investment support
• Research & Development Tax Reliefs
• Insurance
• Succession planning
• Employment and HR support
• VAT
• Raising capital and corporate finance solutions

6. MEDIA AND ENTERTAINMENT 

Media and Entertainment companies face unique challenges specific to their industry. We thrive on building relationships with businesses and individuals working within film, television, music, and sport.  

But why chose Accmak Global? We’re positioned as a valuable one-stop solution. Our dedicated media team bring together their knowledge and experience in the creative, entertainment, and media sectors to collaborate with services across the Group. This means we can provide a comprehensive range of services accountancy, compliance, creative tax reliefs, investment management, and business advisory. 

Moreover, we extend our support to individuals within your business by addressing their personal financial needs. 

Our accountancy and business advisory services include: 

• Financial planning and forecasting 
• Audit and assurance  
• Internal, external, and royalty audits 
• Business risk services and corporate governance 
• Tax services including Corporation Tax and VAT
• Creative Tax Reliefs
• HR advisory and recruitment support 
• Corporate Finance including sales, Mergers and Acquisitions (M&As), raising finance, and succession planning 
• Payroll 
• Services for individuals including tax compliance, IHT, and pension planning

7. MEDICAL ACCOUNTING

Our specialist medical accountants and advisors have developed an in-depth knowledge of the financial intricacies of the medical sector over years of active involvement operating in the field.

They’re committed to keeping up-to-date with current, topical issues affecting all areas of the medical profession, so we can best support GPs, locums, specialists and consultants.

We recognise the weight of tax obligations associated with medical income, and we’ll work with you to implement strategies to maximise your tax efficiency and support your ambitions, whether that’s financial forecasting, business growth, or succession and exit planning.

With our insight and expertise to guide you, we aim to empower you to maximise income and improve the efficiency of your surgery/practice.

What sets ACCMAK GLOBAL apart? 

• Personal Approach: We take pride in our personal, face-to-face approach with clients to understand your business.
   
• Integrated Practice Team: We seamlessly integrate into your practice team, providing high-quality work within agreed timelines. This collaborative approach ensures a close partnership and effective delivery of services.
   
• Tailored Unique Solutions: We’re committed to offering our clients strategic solutions tailored to your distinct requirements
   
• Objective Identification: Our dedication’s centered around helping you reach your goals.
   
• Transparent Fixed Fees: To provide clarity and financial certainty, we offer fixed fees, so you’ll always know where you stand financially.

At Accmak we deal with the matters that you care about:

• Practice/surgery accounts, tax returns, and self-assessment 
• Practice/surgery set up and assistance with all aspects of practice/surgery management 
• Staff training and development 
• Opportunities for tax relief 
• Keeping up to date with changes within the tax regulations around the private practice 
• Evaluation of superannuation versus other pension contributions 
• Retirement and succession planning 

For more information on how Accmak Global specialist medical sector team can support you, please get in touch.

8. TRAVEL AND TRANSPORT

In the shifting transportation landscape, our team of dedicated travel and transport accountants recognise the challenges our clients face with changing regulations, increasing competition, and technological advances including the ever-changing requirements in the tourism sector.

Across shipping, rail, and bus networks at a local and national level, our clients benefit from tailored, timely advice to safeguard their interests, remain compliant, advice on strategic cashflow management, and boosted profitability.

Our accountancy and business advisory services include: 

• Tax advisory
• Financial planning
• Cash flow management
• Dividends and salary options
• Risk management
• Financial audits
• VAT advisory
• International operations
• Succession planning and exit strategies
• Business recovery and insolvency

9. PROPERTY AND CONSTRUCTION 

Our advice in the Property and Construction sector’s respected across the industry for its timeliness and specificity.  

To us at Accmak Global, ‘advice’ means more than just providing a list of options with their various merits. In our role as your trusted financial partner, we’ll drill down to the detail of your business and identify the best way forward.

Why do you need a specialist accountant? 

The construction industry and built environment’s complex. Disputes are common, uncertainties and risks are inevitable, individual interests of parties are natural, and delays are frequent. 

In short, construction projects are high risk, cause huge losses of resource, and demand significant financial attention and pose unique obstacles.

Our accountancy and business advisory services include: 

As a firm of experienced Tax Advisors and Property Surveyors, we support Property and Construction businesses with: 

• Project and taxation appraisals 
• Corporate finance opportunities and joint ventures 
• Profit and loss forecasts, balance sheets, and cash flow management 
• Ongoing measurement and re-appraisal against budget 
• Advice on taxation implications of employed versus self-employed issues with contractors 
• Outsourcing of facilities for Construction Industry
• Advice on VAT options and Stamp Duty
• Separating company assets from any trading risk 
• Managing investment property portfolios 
• Property valuations 
• Property asset and portfolio management 
• Lease event management  
• Site acquisition and disposals 
• Property tax advisory

Working with an industry specialist accountancy firm like us ensures your construction business is set up to be as tax and operationally efficient as possible.

Our expertise enables you to maintain operational efficiency, regulatory compliance, and minimise tax liabilities, and in turn, maximise your business’s potential.

10. TECHNOLOGY AND TELECOMS 

Clients in the Technology and Telecoms sector depend on our expertise in this dynamic industry to safeguard their interests, expand their market share, and boost profitability. 

Achieving such ambitious objectives requires an in-depth understanding of the sector across various key jurisdictions worldwide, a feat we accomplish with proficiency. 

Our accountancy and business advisory services include: 

• Staying ahead of technical advancements  
• Providing strategic sector-focused advice  
• Tax advisory 
• Intellectual Property (IP) Protection 
• Software licensing  
• Research and Development (R&D) Tax Reliefs 
• Facilitating joint ventures 
• Cashflow and financing 

Whether you represent a new start-up, or are a sizeable existing player, our flexible approach to your financial management means we can support you from launch to exit.  

Benefit from the expertise of our sector specialists, who offer innovative and proactive advice, tailored specifically for your business. 

11. OWNER MANAGED BUSINESSES (OMBS) 

Our history of success is engrained in the provision and implementation of high-quality financial solutions to Owner Managed Businesses (OMBs). We understand that no one business is the same, and so the services we provide our clients reflect these unique needs. 

What makes us different is that our financial solutions are tailored to support those businesses now but with the future in mind, enabling them to reach their growth goals. 

From launch to exit, we’ll help you meet your commercial and financial goals, because we take pride in ensuring that our clients’ needs are met and their expectations are exceeded.

Our accountancy and business advisory services include: 

• Specialist tax advice 
• Outsourced accounts, including bookkeeping and payroll services  
• Strategic guidance and future planning 
• Investments, pensions, and employee benefits 
• HR advisory and recruitment support  
• VAT advisory 
• Corporate finance  
• Succession and exit planning  
• Wealth management  

OMBs can be exposed to a large range of issues. Problems can develop quickly but by helping you plan and manage growth carefully through tailored business advice, we can take your business to the next level. 

Our proactive approach and ability to help businesses achieve their goals have enabled our clients to gain the rewards and benefits of working with a well-established expert accountancy firm.