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The practice that took back January.

Manage client compliance and billable hours faster, with systems built for the bench. Risk, audit, and the year-end run, on rails.

Compliance load
Billable utilisation
Year-end throughput
KYC pass rate
Practices Accounting · audit · planning · wealth−40% Year-end admin, typical+22% Bench utilisation lift100% MTD-ready, HMRC & FCA
By practice type

Four flavours of the same instrument.

Same method, different shape. Pick the practice type closest to yours — each has a deep page with the sector-specific stack, proof, and how we measure.

The firm stack

Six instruments, calibrated to the practice.

Built for the firms where compliance is non-negotiable, the bench is the unit of revenue, and every January the year-end run swallows the team. The instrument behind the filings.

01 · Compliance

Stay current with HMRC and FCA changes.

Filings tracked, reviews scheduled, regime updates surfaced before the deadline. The compliance calendar that the partner can read on a Sunday night.

  • Companies House filings tracker
  • MTD VAT submission & review
  • AML annual review workflow
  • FCA permission & reporting alerts
02 · Billable hours

Track utilisation across the bench.

Time capture inside the practice tools you already use. Live utilisation per fee-earner, per partner, per service line — not the spreadsheet that arrives in March.

  • Xero Practice Manager integration
  • Iris & BTC time-capture sync
  • Per-partner WIP & recovery
  • Underwater-job flagging
03 · Year-end automation

Run accounts in days, not weeks.

Trial balance pulled, schedules generated, review queue routed. Same accuracy, a fraction of the manual ledger-tracing.

  • Xero, FreeAgent, Sage data pulls
  • IRIS Elements / BTCSoftware by Bright accounts production
  • Auto-schedule & tax comp prep
  • Partner-review queue dashboard
04 · Client portal

One door for documents, signatures, fees.

Branded portal. Records uploaded, engagement letters signed, invoices paid by Direct Debit. The chase emails stop.

  • DocuSign engagement letters
  • GoCardless fee collection
  • Document request & tracking
  • Per-client fee & status view
05 · KYC / AML

Verify on intake, monitor on-going.

Automated ID verification at onboarding, sanctions and PEP screening on a schedule. Audit trail ready for the supervisor visit.

  • Onfido / Thirdfort ID checks
  • SmartSearch sanctions screening
  • Risk rating & review schedule
  • Audit-ready evidence pack
06 · BrainBase

The firm's IP, indexed.

Procedures, templates, advisory tone, technical memos — searchable from the file, the email draft, the client call. Trainees up to speed without shadowing for a year.

  • Procedure & template library
  • Past-engagement memo search
  • Tone & advisory style guide
  • AI-assisted retrieval in tools
Sample engagement

The practice that took back its January.

Six partners. 320 limited-company clients. Year-end ran from October to April.

A six-partner accountancy practice ran year-end on a mix of Xero, BTCSoftware by Bright, and a shared Excel tracker the senior partner refreshed by hand. Three-week build: Xero Practice Manager wired into BTC accounts production, partner-review queue surfaced as a dashboard, client document-chase moved into a portal. Following season: year-end admin cut by 38%, partner Sundays returned, and two new advisory clients absorbed without a hire.

How we measure: year-end admin time = total fee-earner hours logged to compliance jobs across n = 287 limited-company clients, prior season vs post-build, sourced from Xero PM time entries; partner-review queue latency tracked weekly Oct–Mar.

−38%year-end admin time
+£62kadvisory revenue, no hire
1 dashboardreplaces the partner's Excel
Adjacent industries

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Run the bench.

Bring the WIP report and a recent year-end timeline. We diagnose from the numbers.