Small Ltd needs experienced UK accountant for checking preparation of VAT returns and end-of-year accounts.

Small limited company involved in creating software products needs an experienced UK accountant to provide advice regarding VAT returns (we just recently applied for VAT registration) and then later check the end-of-the-year company accounts at the end of the year (Nov 2010).

Because, at the moment money is an issue, we would like to do as much as possible ourselves to reduce cost. The main role of the accountant ought to be to check the correctness of the accounts before their submission and give advice on new accounting matters appearing in the process. This is our second year of trading. We have already completed our first year accounts and got them verified by a professional accountant. The company consists of only 2 directors (no employees yet). The company works with only a few contractors and there were on average only 3 transactions a month last year. In the second year the structure of our trade is still the same, but as most of ambitious IT start-ups we do hope to grow significantly in the future.

We are looking forward to establishing a long term relationship and somebody who could advise us on arising accounting questions and supervise our accounts for the upcoming years.

Please include in your proposal:
1. Cost of checking VAT returns & submission
2. Cost of checking end-of-year accounts and Corporation Tax Return & submission
3. If giving advice on new accounting matters appearing during the fiscal year is charged separately please provide details of how it is done
4. Your availability