Accountants for Architects Croydon
Architecture is a profession of long projects, staged payments and clients who do not always pay on the day you would like them to. Between RIBA work stages, sub-consultant fees and the gap between a design signed off in March and an invoice settled in July, the money side of an architectural practice rarely behaves neatly.
Bryden Johnson has been looking after professional practices in Croydon and across South London since 1897. We act for architects, architectural technologists and design studios of every size, from sole practitioners working from home to multi-director partnerships running teams of twenty. We know how your income arrives, when it arrives, and what that means for your tax position and your cash flow.
Whether you operate a luxury day spa, wellness centre, beauty spa, or a business offering a combination of treatments, our experienced accountants provide practical advice tailored to the needs of the health and wellness sector.
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Accountancy Built Around How Architects Actually Bill
Most accountants will prepare your year-end accounts and leave it there. We would rather help you understand the numbers while there is still time to do something with them.
Our work with architectural practices covers:
- Annual and periodic accounts, prepared and filed on an agreed timetable
- Corporation tax, personal tax and self-assessment returns
- Work in progress and revenue recognition across staged RIBA appointments
- Management accounts showing fee income, recoverability and utilisation by project
- Cash flow forecasting around retentions and late-settling commercial clients
- Payroll for salaried staff, Part II assistants and Part III candidates
- VAT registration, returns and advice on disbursements versus recharges
- Company secretarial support, including formation and share structure changes
Getting Your Practice Structure Right
Whether you trade as a sole trader, a limited company or an LLP makes a real difference to what you keep. Many architects set up one way in their first year and never revisit the decision, even after the practice has doubled in size.
We look at your profit levels, your plans for bringing in associates and your appetite for drawing income versus reinvesting it. Then we tell you plainly whether your current structure still works, and what changing it would cost and save.
We also advise on bringing associates into ownership, share option schemes for senior staff, and succession planning when a founding director starts thinking about stepping back.
Fixed Fees, Agreed Before We Start
We do not send surprise invoices. After a free initial meeting we set out exactly what we will do and what it will cost, in writing, for the year ahead. That covers phone calls and quick questions too, because charging you for a five-minute conversation helps nobody.
We are Xero Gold Partners and can move your bookkeeping onto cloud software, linked to your bank, so you can see where the practice stands at any point in the month rather than waiting until the end of the year.
Talk to Us
Changing accountants is simpler than most people expect, and we handle the handover with your current firm ourselves.
Call 020 8686 0255 or email info@bryden-johnson.co.uk to arrange a free consultation at our Croydon office.
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