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Whether at the very start of your business, through its first few years of development or looking towards retirement, Cottons can offer a comprehensive service throughout the lifespan of your business, gained from many years’ experience across a wide variety of businesses and industries. 

Assistance can be provided in numerous areas to include the following:-

Company Formations & Secretarial Services
We can form your company for you, checking the availability of your desired name and providing a same day formation service.  We can act as your Registered Office and as your Company Secretary if required, preparing statutory returns, assisting with the opening of bank facilities, preparing minutes and resolutions and providing company law advice

Management Consultancy
Our years of experience with businesses of all types and sizes leaves us ideally placed to provide an independent view of your business and provide advice on appropriate strategies for its’ profitability and growth. 

Management Accounts
We can provide monthly or quarterly computerised record keeping.  This can prove cost effective when your book-keeping requirements are not sufficient to actually warrant employing somebody.  The comprehensive service provides profit and loss account, balance sheet, ledger reports and aged debtor and creditor reports.  Having this information regularly available is crucial to the management and development of your business. 

Budgets & Cashflows
Lack of cashflow is the biggest reason for business failure in the UK.  We can provide detailed budgeting to assist you in cashflow management.  This can include breakeven analysis and “what if” scenarios.  Budgets and cashflow projections are often an essential criteria of financing decisions. 

Bank Loans & Financing
With our detailed understanding of raising capital and the alternatives available, we can assist you not only with the detailed plans that will need to be put together, but also with sourcing lenders with whom we have built up business relationships over the years and the variety of packages available in the marketplace. 

Acquisitions & Mergers
Whether you are buying or selling a business, merging or being taken over, or looking at a management buy-out, we have extensive experience in these areas.  Our independent advice on investigating your target and providing due diligence reviews will be invaluable.  Please see our “Business for Sale” section using the online services key above. 

Succession Planning
We will ensure your hard work and time spent developing your business is rewarded when you are looking to retire or sell your business.  Our experienced partners and tax department will ensure you maximise your benefits whilst minimising your liabilities, highlighting the best strategy to suit your circumstances.

Employment Law & Payroll
We can ease the ever increasing burden to business in these areas.  With our payroll bureau, we will meet all of your legal obligations for your employees, calculating net pay, tax and NIC liabilities, providing payslips and even sorting BACS payments through your bank if necessary.  All of your end of year filing requirements will be met, with the online filing of these through our fully computerised system. 

We can also provide employment law advice in this very complicated and burdensome area.

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