We offer a host of accounting services specifically for restaurants, hotels, pubs, bars and the hospitality industry generally. For general questions about accountants and costs, see here.
There are few tougher business sectors, if any, than restaurants, pubs, hotels, bars and the leisure sector generally. Competition is fierce and we know that restaurant or leisure entrepreneurs are amongst the most commited and determined business owners.
Typical difficult issues can include :-
We understand all of the above issues and the ways in which we can help.
We know how tricky it can be to deal with tips, VAT and payroll in the hospitality industry. We can help you navigate the tax complexities of troncs and cash payments and help you put practical systems in place to make sure that you comply with the tax rules whilst keeping admin to a minimum. If that sounds complicated, we make compliance easy with a full range of online accountancy services. We're also a certified Xero accountant and can help you automate a lot of your bookkeeping, invoice processing and supplier payments. We can also help you to migrate to Xero from another software package and help you train your team to use it.
We also regularly commission bespoke research into the industry, and have helped our clients analyse their business to help maximise capacity utilisation and margins. Our Business Consultants are industry specialists, so you can expect accounting expertise and commercial advice all under one roof.
Get in touch to find out about our track record in helping restaurants, bars and leisure sector businesses with accounts, tax, legal issues and strategy.
Originally graduating with a degree in geography from Edinburgh University, Keir claims that he was then tricked into becoming an accountant by one of the UK's top 5 accountancy practices.The deception extended to the usual training in audit and associated activities.
Keir subsequently worked in a number of advisory roles with clients including in the energy trading, pharmaceuticals and financial services sectors.
He loves working at Accounts & Legal because of the variety of work and clients, the excellent team ethos and morale, the importance placed on genuinely helping and being useful for clients and because he believes what he does matters to clients and helps the firm.
Keir's primary role is to ensure that new clients with complex businesses or needs are on-boarded in the best way and he is a "trouble shooter" both for clients and where complex issues arise internally. He also helps the accounting teams strive to improve what we do for clients, whether processes or services.
When not debiting or crediting, Keir has a penchant for fixing old buildings, skiing, surfing and cycling.