Do you know what is the difference between a Bookkeeper and an Accountant?

A bookkeeper is primarily concerned with accurately recording financial data while an accountant is involved with interpreting and reporting that data.

You will find most accountants will affiliate themselves with a good bookkeeper, either in house or an external source, and visa versa

We are a team of bookkeepers who have a passion for accounting and bookkeeping and a desire to provide a service that can help business owners save their precious time and gives great value. Each business needs are different and we like to tailor our services to suit your requirements.

The business was originally formed by Teresa and Charmian.

Teresa is a successful Tax Accountant with her own business and if she had a pound for every time she was asked if she does Bookkeeping she would be very rich!

Charmian is an Association of Accounting Technicians (AAT) Level 4 and Institute of Certified Bookkeepers (ICB) Level IV qualified individual who has a wide range of skills and a particular fondness for bookkeeping.

Charmian reached a career cross roads and Teresa approached her with the idea of creating a bookkeeping business. Now Accounting was born.

In 2019, Laura joined the management team. Laura is a AAT level 3 qualified, with a specialist interest in sole traders and self-assessment tax returns, qualified to ICB level IV for self-assessment tax returns.

The team has grown and developed over the years, as most businesses do – with the management team now made up of Teresa and Laura.

There are now an amazingly skilled team of bookkeepers comprised of Charmian, Jennie, Julie, Charlotte and Emma.

If you are looking for a professional, skilled, qualified, ICB certified and licenced and insured bookkeepers, then please do feel free to drop us a line at hello@nowaccounting.co.uk where we would be delighted to hear from you.

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Services Offered

Now Accounting Services Ltd offers a wider range of bookkeeping and accountancy services, as follows:

  • Bookkeeping
  • Making Tax Digital (MTD) VAT returns
  • Payroll services
  • CIS Returns
  • Self-assessment Tax Returns (SATR) for sole traders
    • We offer a range of non VAT-registered sole trader packages to include both your bookkeeping and self-assessment tax return – see here for more details
  • Cloud based software packages
    • Xero Certified Advisor
    • Quickbooks Certified ProAdvisor
  • Preparation for Making Tax Digital (MTD) Income Tax for Self-Assessment (ITSA)

As On the Spot Accountants (OTS), Teresa specialises in the following:

Click here to access OTS webpage:

  •  Preparation and submission of financial and tax accounts
  • Tax advice and tax planning
  • Production and evaluation of business plans and funding applications
  • Cost control, cash flow forecasting and margin improvement
  • Financial processes, issue identification and resolution
  • Management accounting and reporting
  • Internal controls and audit of finance/business processes

About Us

Find out more about our company values: Mission Statement

Meet our team

Teresa Rogers

Managing Director
Tee Accounts Limited

Mobile: 07746 107605
Email: teresa@onthespottax.co.uk
Address: Winchester

Teresa is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales (FCA) with 15 years experience working in industry and practice.

She trained and first time qualified with Deloitte, moving into industry three years later to hold senior and director level finance roles. In addition to working for a large Plc, Teresa has also been fortunate enough to work with entrepreneurial start-ups, small owner-managed and medium-sized organisations. The extent of her experience enables her to provide more than a basic accountancy and tax service.

Teresa’s focus has always been on adding value and listening to what her customer needs, whilst looking for suitable, cost effective solutions to accounting and business issues. With her bubbly, yet practical, results-driven approach, you’ll receive the service YOU want.

 

 

Laura Macarthy

Director
Now Accounting Services

Mobile: 07927 416043
Email: laura@nowaccounting.co.uk

Laura is a member of the Institute of Certified Bookkeepers (ICB), with 13 years’ experience in hands on bookkeeping.

Her first endeavour into bookkeeping came about when there was a sudden vacancy in her ex-husband’s small family business. Deciding to give it a go, without any training or experience, she thought it was an easy case of ‘How hard can this be?’… She soon found out that it was a very real case of ‘Actually, quite hard!’

She soon became hooked by the numbers, working out customer and supplier accounts, chasing payments, having a realisation that profit doesn’t always equal positive cash flow, and guiding a small company through a recession to ensure survival at the end.

Since then, Laura has worked in several hands on bookkeeping roles, alongside working on her own freelance bookkeeping clients. She has also gained qualifications within both the ICB and the Association of Accounting Technicians (AAT).

Laura has recently spent 4 years teaching accounting, teaching AAT up to level 3, having become a fully qualified teacher to PGCE level, whilst still maintaining her core bookkeeping skills with freelance bookkeeping clients.

Laura’s key strength is that she has been the business owner juggling financial pressures on a day to day basis. She has been the business owner pulling their hair out at ‘just how do these accounts work?’ Now she can sit on the same side as you, as your bookkeeper, to take away these stresses, and help you focus on what is important, growing your business.

 

 

Charmian Heys

Bookkeeper
Now Accounting Services

Mobile: 07511 986348
Email: hello@nowaccounting.co.uk
Address: Eastleigh

Charmian is a member of the Institute of Certified Bookkeepers. She holds Level IV bookkeeping qualification and the Association of Accounting Technicians Qualification Level 4.

Her accounting journey started when she worked her way up from the factory shop floor to become the Assistant Management Accountant within 10 years in a factory in Hilsea, Portsmouth. She left to join Stubbington Green Dental Practice as a Dental Practice Manager, this gave her an opportunity to complete the bookkeeping for the practice while expanding her skills base working with different types of people from her colleagues to the patients. In this time, she obtained her Diploma in Dental Practice Management and her Dental Nursing Diploma.

Charmian felt the time was right to return to the accounting industry in 2014 and has since been very fortunate to work for a number of different companies within their accounts departments to help bring her accounting knowledge up to date.

Charmian knows how important it is to give value for the services she offers, she knows if she can do the fundamental processes of adding invoices or receipts to a business accounting software she can help the business owner focus on fulfilling orders or growing their sales.

 

 

Jennie Bushrod

Bookkeeper
Now Accounting Services

Email: hello@nowaccounting.co.uk

Jennie is qualified to Level 3 with the Association of Accounting Technicians, she is a dedicated person who is thorough and believes in GREAT customer service. She has been helping us out with some jobs and we feel she is a perfect fit to help us expand our business.

 

Blog

Bookkeeping Bites – The Blog…..

Here we are, come and meet us in our regular blog ‘Bookkeeping Bites’ – we would love to hear from you if you have any questions… You can email either:

  • Charmian – charmian@nowbookkeeping.co.uk
  • Laura – laura@nowbookkeeping.co.uk

Bookkeeping Bites – Payroll Gives Us the Spooks!

PAYROLL Would you know what to do As I like to say “Payroll is fine. Until, well, it isn’t” October payroll was.. FUN? CRAZY? BONKERS? Nope It was just PURE COMPLEX. Why pension compliance notice to action including setting up the pension scheme, backdating pension contributions and pension declaration for The Pension Regulator missed pension …

Bookkeeping Bites – Now Director takes part in Leaders Council roundtable discussion!

Now Director, Laura Macarthy, takes part in Leaders Council roundtable discussion. On 22nd November, a group of accountants and bookkeepers gathered at the Caledonian Club in West London to discuss whether the term ‘accountant’ should be protected. At present, anyone can call themselves an account; a fact that is not widely known among the public.  …