Melanie Howe is a Chartered Accountant with over 15 years post qualification experience in various industries, including financial services (Private Equity/Hedge Funds), property and education. There is a need for quality financial reporting for decision making purposes in all entities. Many smaller entities do not have the need for a full time finance department and thus outsourcing their financial requirements is the sensible choice. Melanie’s past experience at running a finance department, both as a Financial Director and Financial Manager gives her the ability and skill to understand the financial needs of a business. She partners with her clients to provide the following services: 1. Accounting services: - Bookkeeping of financial transactions on accounting system - Monthly management account preparation and variance analysis - Finalisation and review of annual accounts - Annual financial statement preparation 2. Taxation services: - EMP201, VAT201 (and other statutory submissions) preparation and submission - Provisional tax calculations and submission - Annual tax return preparation and submission - Other statutory submissions as required eg CGT, Dividend Withholding Tax, etc 3. Payroll services: - Preparation of monthly payroll - Submission EMP501 - Generation of IRP5 and IT3A certificates 4. Financial management consulting services - Cash and liquidity management analysis and advice - Annual budget preparation - 5/10 year forecasting - Expense rationalisation - Revenue analysis – profitability of revenue stream - Scenario planning - Company valuations - Due diligence