Accountants

[MarkP]

Until recently I haven pretty much taken care of all my own accounting as things have been quite simple. But as business has picked up considerably, and im currently in the process of buying 2 more businesses (1 restaurant and 1 small food dist company) things are going to get a whole lot complicated.

So how much should an accountant cost me? I would need services such as:

VAT returns
End of year limited company account submission
Corporation tax
Payroll

Im assuming that the fees are going to be related to turnover??

[globalart4u]

why not get yourself a book keeper or even hire someone part time to do the books for you. bookkeepers are about £20 an hour not sure, but if you hire someone to do the accounts will be cheaper for you in the long run. also then you just need an auditor to check them at the end of the year - depends on what you ask them to do etc on the costs.