Outsourced accounting for UK practices

Accounts, tax and bookkeeping for UK accountancy practices

We prepare your clients' accounts in your own Xero or QuickBooks, under your name, and you review before filing. Your client data stays in your systems.

  • GDPR-compliant, encrypted data handling
  • Experience across Xero, QuickBooks, IRIS, CCH and TaxCalc
  • Full client lifecycle: onboarding, AML/CDD, bookkeeping through to UK statutory filing
120–130 clientssupported by our team
UK · US · UAEwhere our clients are based
Since 2025trading as SM Global

For our main client practice we handle the whole client lifecycle: onboarding, AML screening, bookkeeping, and UK statutory accounts and filing.

Why practices outsource to us

Four reasons practices hand work to us

What changes for your practice when part of the workload is with us.

More capacity, no new hire

We take on the Self Assessment and year-end peaks, so you don't recruit and train for them or pay for idle time the rest of the year.

Your data stays in your systems

We log in securely to your existing software. Nothing is copied, downloaded or moved to a third-party platform. How we protect your data.

The same team on your files

A dedicated team works on your files, not a rotating pool, so they get to know your practice, your clients and the way you work.

Built around UK rules

Our processes follow FRS 102 (Section 1A), FRS 105, Making Tax Digital, and current HMRC and Companies House filing requirements. They are not adapted from a generic offshore template.

What we do

Accounts, personal tax and bookkeeping

These three are what we are built around. We also handle the wider compliance work UK practices hand off to us.

Year-end statutory accounts

Prepared under FRS 102 (Section 1A) or FRS 105, ready for your review and Companies House filing.

Self Assessment and personal tax

Personal tax returns for sole traders, partners and directors, ahead of the Self Assessment deadline.

Bookkeeping and VAT

Ongoing transaction processing, bank reconciliation and Making Tax Digital VAT returns.

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Our track record

We built one UK practice's back office from scratch, and we still run it.

Where it started

A newly incorporated UK accountancy practice had no back office: no processes, no software, nothing built.

What we did

We built it and then ran it: company secretarial and admin work, tax and bookkeeping software setup, AML screening, client onboarding, bookkeeping, and UK statutory accounts and filing.

Where it is now

That relationship is still the core of our work. We have full ownership of client work under their own brand, across around 120–130 clients, with bookkeeping support across the UK, US, UAE and beyond.

How we work

How an engagement starts

  1. A conversation

    We start with a free consultation about your workload and where extra capacity would help most.

  2. A look at how you work

    We review your workflow, templates and tools. If your current way is already the most efficient, we keep it as it is. If we see a better way, we say so, and you decide.

  3. You choose how we work together

    A dedicated full-time team member, pay as you go, or full portfolio management. You can mix them as your needs change.

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Free first file

Your first client file is free

Judge our work on a real file before you pay us anything.

Claim Your Free First File

Pick one client from your existing portfolio. We'll complete one of these for that client, start to finish, free of charge and with no obligation to continue:

  • A month of bookkeeping
  • A quarter's VAT return
  • A set of statutory accounts

One complimentary client file per new practice, after a short onboarding call to set up secure access to that client's records. If it isn't the right fit, there is nothing to pay and nothing further to do.

Tell us where your team is stretched

Book a free, no-obligation consultation and we'll talk through where extra capacity would help most.

Book a Free Consultation