Welcome to Meadows and Co

With more than 100 years of history, Meadows is experienced. We have a culture of trust and dependability. We help cultivate client success, nurture new businesses, and tend to the tax.

But being long established doesn’t mean being old fashioned. In fact, quite the opposite. From the outside our offices look modern and contemporary. Step inside and the thinking is exactly the same. Our dynamic, innovative and progressive team of specialists have one goal in mind. To provide you with the very best advice and support. Advice and support to help your business be more successful, to reduce the tax you have to pay, and to help you increase your wealth.

Most practices of qualified accountants can provide an accounts and tax return production service to enable you to meet deadlines and advise you of the tax to pay. Meadows does that as well, it’s called compliance, it’s historical information, and it’s generally of little value in helping you to improve the future performance of your business. Skip to the end if you want to know more about this service.

Now, this is where Meadows is different. We help you achieve the business success you want and deserve, by looking at what is happening now, and by planning for the future.

Management Information. Turn your data into information and use it to make better informed management decisions. Decisions that will improve efficiencies, reduce waste, manage cash flow, optimise resources, and increase profitability.
Business Review. Working with you to ensure the management information and reporting systems you use are measuring the right things and producing the right data, so that you can make timely and objective decisions.
Benchmarking. Compare and contrast your business with others in the market to identify areas of competitive advantage and opportunities for improvement.
Accounting Systems. Training on, or installing and upgrading computer systems to capture and deliver relevant and timely information in a cost effective way.
Payroll and VAT. Our experts are trained and up to date with all the latest changes in legislation. That means you can be confident that your returns are fully correct, and it frees up your experts to concentrate on what they do best – generating more profit by producing and selling the products or services you offer.
Business Structure. Reviewing the legal structure (limited, partnership or sole trader) to make sure you are maximising your tax advantages whilst minimising your personal risk.
Start-up. From basic information on how you can organise, register and start out in business, through to a turnkey solution where we do everything for you. We want you as a long term client so our interest is your success.

For the majority of business owners success isn’t an accident. Like the gardener working in the field it’s the result of hard work, sweat and tears. But it’s supposed to get easier as the garden matures.

So think of Meadows as your garden landscaper; based on your vision and the long range forecasts we help you choose the most practical design, decide the best time to plant and harvest, whether to prune or fertilise, expand or leave fallow. Our objective is to help you succeed, to create the opportunity for you to take time, to sit back and enjoy the fruits of your labours. Together we’ll help to cultivate your business success.

So how do we do this …..

Review your objectives. Looking ahead to plan how these will be achieved; balancing business and professional goals with family and social commitments to achieve the work-life balance. Such a review may include pension and exit planning.
Turn goals into actions. The conclusions from the objectives review become a short or medium term business plan, supported by budgets and cash flow projections. This will guide you to make the right decisions at the right times.
Measure progress. Monitoring actual business performance against the objectives you have set allows you to judge the results of your efforts and, if it’s not working out, to take corrective action quickly and decisively.
Tax planning. You know your objectives, know where you are and know where your going. With that information together we can start to look at ways of saving you thousands of pounds through clever tax planning, for your business and for you personally.
And that’s not all. Concerned about life cover, pensions, mortgages and loans advice? Care for elderly relatives, your Wills or Powers of Attorney? Working with a selected group of insurance brokers, hardware and software suppliers, debt collectors and specialist data storage providers we make sure you are referred to the most appropriate person for your challenge. Whatever the question we make sure you are correctly advised in all these areas.

And last, but certainly not least. The core compliance services are the foundation of our business, and an area we take great pride in. In the last year we have invested significantly in systems to make sure that we can process your data as efficiently as possible to provide you with a fast turnaround:

Limited Company Statutory Audits.
Preparation of Statutory and UK regulated and compliant accounts for limited companies, partnerships and sole traders.
Preparation of annual HM Revenue and Customs tax return forms and advice on tax to pay.
Maintenance of limited companies statutory records.
Limited company alert services so that we can monitor your company at Companies House.
Company Secretarial services.

With our modern systems we can more quickly and efficiently help you understand your business or tax position, ensure you are compliant and compare your business’s performance with your competitors to create competitive advantage.

With our modern thinking we offer you regular, practical, proactive advice to help you make the most of that competitive advantage. If you are looking to work with a partner who can really add value to the basic accountancy and tax services, who can help you grow your business, who wants to cultivate your success then call us now and arrange to speak with one of our “landscapers”. There’s no obligation, it’s free, and we’ll even give you some tips that you’ll be able to use in your business immediately.

Meadows – in a field of our own.